News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC, MHM - 30 April 2021

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf. Please note that many posts have additional comments and discussion which will not be reflected in these links.

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AMD

• Celebrating A Healing Homiletic
• Undark: For disabled parents, Covid's trials are amplified
  

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DHM/UMCD

• Uniting World: about Deaf Link
• Day in the life: Captioning
• Deaf Link: teacher's seminar
• Grace UMC: Farewell service for Rev. Estevez
• Smart Hearing: Zoom fatigue
• Daily Moth: Deaf Indianapolis FedEx employees describe shooting
• DOOR: The Bible in Ghanaian Sign Language
• Psyche: Let's use bold, beautiful hearing aids to celebrate Deafness
  

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DMC

• University of Aberdeen: Pastoral care of autistic adults
• CRCNA Network: Breaking Barriers, Spring 2021
• Kathie comments: I don't think of you as blind
• Forward: Jewish filmmaker with autism
• CRCNA Network: Becoming a trauma-informed church
• Today: Why I will no longer use the term "special needs"
• Psychology Today: The Psychology of Ableism and Communication
  

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MHM

• Stressed and blessed
• May is Mental Health Month
• Simply be there
  

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Events

• Covid-19 list of inclusion resources
• May 1: Making your theology accessible
  
• May 3: Grace UMC Deaf speaker Martise Colston
  
• May 4, 11, 18, 25: NAMI, It Starts With Us: Building Dynamic Congregational Mental Health Teams
  
• May 5: NCDJ: Book reading with K. Schneider
• May 6: NAMI/Harvard: Adolescent Mental Health in the time of Covid-19
  
• May 17-20: Centre for Public Justice (Canada): Seeking Justice Together
  
• DMC Grants, applications open until May 31
• Wesley Seminary is offering the summer course, "Introduction to Disability Ministries and Deaf Ministries" (CM-629-VT). This 2-week virtual course is 5/24-6/4/21. While exploring these justice-related ministries to consider for your ministry setting, graduate credits or CEUs may be earned. The course can be audited as well. Contact Rev. Leo Yates at leoyjr@gmail.com for more information.

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News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC, MHM - 23 April 2021

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf. Please note that many posts have additional comments and discussion which will not be reflected in these links.

• Bishop's Blog: Creation Care
• Bishop's Blog: Mass Murder Every Day
  

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AMD

• Celebrating A Healing Homiletic
  

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DHM/UMCD

• NY Times: On Tech, Hearing aids for the masses
• AP: Disabled nominees hope their moment becomes a movement
• Deaf Link: Kalmunai, Pottuvil, and Ampara
• NY Times: Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign
• Hearing Health & Technology: I love your hearing device
• Atomic Hands: Signing for STEM
• San Antonio Express-News: Let Texans with disabilities vote privately
  

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DMC

• Brookes Publishing: Inclusion
• Day in the Life: ADA, disability, civil rights movement
• Dakotas Conferece: Circle of Friends ministry
• Holston Conference: Vaccines reach more people through work of churches
• Nursing Clio: Eugenics
• Curb Free: Destinations and disability
• Christian Citizen: Mental health ministry--beginning with worship
  

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MHM

• Contemplative Monk: Fixing
  

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Events

• Covid-19 list of inclusion resources
• April 24 Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary: Social Justice, Deacons in ministry
  
• April 27: Georgetown Disability Alliance: Racism and Ableism, Exposing the Injustices of our healthcare systems
  
• May 5: NCDJ: Book reading with K. Schneider
  
• May 17-20: Centre for Public Justice (Canada): Seeking Justice Together
  
• DMC Grants, applications open until May 31
• Wesley Seminary is offering the summer course, "Introduction to Disability Ministries and Deaf Ministries" (CM-629-VT). This 2-week virtual course is 5/24-6/4/21. While exploring these justice-related ministries to consider for your ministry setting, graduate credits or CEUs may be earned. The course can be audited as well. Contact Rev. Leo Yates at leoyjr@gmail.com for more information.

Click here for a list of recurring events of interest to people in disability ministry.

This newsletter is generally issued weekly by the United Methodist Church's disability organizations.
This newsletter is published on the UM Disability Blog.
Visit a directory of our members.

News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC, MHM - 16 April 2021

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf. Please note that many posts have additional comments and discussion which will not be reflected in these links.
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DHM/UMCD

• Deaf Link: Ampara
• DOOR: Want to learn?
• TikTok: Introducing auto captions
• Deaf Link: products
• Salon: Why your brain loves closed captioning
• K. Bouton: Back to basics
• Hearing Like Me: History of hearing aids
• Inside Higher Ed: Advances in Deaf education
  

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DMC

• Montgomery Courier: Geezers get it done (including ramps)
• SAWS Virginia: newsletter
• KBOI: We need acceptance, not just awareness
• Flying Kitty Monster: Gospel Empowerment
• Spina Bifida Assn: If you can see it, you can be it
• BBC: The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use
• Time: Georgia law makes disabled voting harder
• AAPD webinar: Protecting the right to vote
  

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MHM

• Faith is...
• Be a rainbow
• Gardening
  

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Events

• Covid-19 list of inclusion resources
• April 17: AMD+MFSA, conversation with Kathy Black 
  
• April 18: Autism Faith Network, Disability and the Church with Lamar Hardwick
  
• April 20: NCPD, Thomas Aquinas and the Question of Disability
• April 22: Stone Belt Arc: Creative strategies for inclusive digital worship
• April 27: Georgetown Disability Alliance: Racism and Ableism, Exposing the Injustices of our healthcare systems
  
• May 17-20: Centre for Public Justice (Canada): Seeking Justice Together
  
• DMC Grants, applications open until May 31
• Wesley Seminary is offering the summer course, "Introduction to Disability Ministries and Deaf Ministries" (CM-629-VT). This 2-week virtual course is 5/24-6/4/21. While exploring these justice-related ministries to consider for your ministry setting, graduate credits or CEUs may be earned. The course can be audited as well. Contact Rev. Leo Yates at leoyjr@gmail.com for more information.

Click here for a list of recurring events of interest to people in disability ministry.

This newsletter is generally issued weekly by the United Methodist Church's disability organizations.
This newsletter is published on the UM Disability Blog.
Visit a directory of our members.

News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC, MHM - 9 April 2021

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf. Please note that many posts have additional comments and discussion which will not be reflected in these links.
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• Bishop's Blog: Spreading the aroma of Christ
  

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AMD

• The Accessible God Podcast
  

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DHM/UMCD

• Deaf Link: Chunnakam Easter
• ELDA: Newsletter
• Caption Mate: announcement
• Deaf Link: Colombo Deaf Church
• WISH: Indiana adds ASL to driver's test
• RNS: ASL Bible shows that God speaks in sign languages too
• Living with Hearing Loss: Representation matters
  

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DMC

• Sharon McCart: I once lived in a cemetery (corrected link)
  
• L'Arche Erie: Remember to love
• Lovers Lane UMC: Owen Lecture, pandemic and stress
• Wabash Center: Expanding the theological classroom
• kathiecomments: Encountering Silicon Valley
• NCR: I am a lifelong wheelchair user and I don't feel welcome
• South Carolina conference: St. John's hosts vaccine registration
• Rev. Rebecca Writes: The Christmas-Easter cactus
  

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MHM

• Forest Bathing
  

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Events

• Covid-19 list of inclusion resources
• April 11: Columbia Theological Seminary, The Church and People with Intellectual Disabilities
• April 12-May 3: Theology of John Wesley online course
• April 16: Austin Presbyterian Seminary, Online Worship: Is it accessible for all?
• April 17: AMD+MFSA, conversation with Kathy Black 
  
• April 18: Autism Faith Network, Disability and the Church with Lamar Hardwick
  
• April 20: NCPD, Thomas Aquinas and the Question of Disability
• April 22: Stone Belt Arc: Creative strategies for inclusive digital worship
• May 17-20: Centre for Public Justice (Canada): Seeking Justice Together
  
• DMC Grants, applications open until May 31
• Wesley Seminary is offering the summer course, "Introduction to Disability Ministries and Deaf Ministries" (CM-629-VT). This 2-week virtual course is 5/24-6/4/21. While exploring these justice-related ministries to consider for your ministry setting, graduate credits or CEUs may be earned. The course can be audited as well. Contact Rev. Leo Yates at leoyjr@gmail.com for more information.
  

Click here for a list of events of interest to people in disability ministry.

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United Methodist Association of Ministers with Disabilities,
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News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC, MHM - 2 April 2021

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf. Please note that many posts have additional comments and discussion which will not be reflected in these links.

Please note that many posts have additional comments and discussion which will not be reflected in these links.

• Covid-19 list of inclusion resources
• April 11: Columbia Theological Seminary, The Church and People with Intellectual Disabilities
• April 12-May 3: Theology of John Wesley online course
• April 16: Austin Presbyterian Seminary, Online Worship: Is it accessible for all?
• April 17: AMD+MFSA, conversation with Kathy Black 
  
• April 18: Autism Faith Network, Disability and the Church with Lamar Hardwick
  
• April 20: NCPD, Thomas Aquinas and the Question of Disability
• April 22: Stone Belt Arc: Creative strategies for inclusive digital worship
  
• Wesley Seminary is offering the summer course, "Introduction to Disability Ministries and Deaf Ministries" (CM-629-VT). This 2-week virtual course is 5/24-6/4/21. While exploring these justice-related ministries to consider for your ministry setting, graduate credits or CEUs may be earned. The course can be audited as well. Contact Rev. Leo Yates at leoyjr@gmail.com for more information.
  

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AMD

• Palsys with Palsies
  

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DHM/UMCD

• Deaf Link: Colombo City
• NJ.com: Deaf cafe in Newark
• Leo Yates: 4th edition of Deaf Ministries
  

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DMC
some links on the DMC website are not functioning as we send this

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Circle of Friends
• Day in the Life: Poverty and disability
• DMC Grants, applications open until May 31
• Sharon McCart: I once lived in a cemetery
• AU: Autism Acceptance Month
• Rev. Rebecca Writes: Failure and forgiveness
  

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MHM

• Passover and liberty
• Take the step
  

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Click here for a list of events of interest to people in disability ministry.

This newsletter is generally issued weekly by the
United Methodist Association of Ministers with Disabilities,
a caucus of the United Methodist Church.

Click here to join this e-mail list.
This newsletter is also published on the UM Disability Blog
Visit us on the web or Facebook.