News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC - 14 October 2022

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, 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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• Methodist Church of Sri Lanka: Persons with Disabilities Sunday
• Disability Ministries Committee and the Committee on Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Ministries are conducting sessions to consider any needed updates for 2024 General Conference legislative proposals related to disability. Anyone with suggestions or proposals is invited to send them to information@umcdmc.org
  

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DHM/UMCD

• Yatosha Deaf Ministry: Deaf School
• Deaf Bible Society at 2022 DeafNation World Expo & Conference
• Deaf Link: Anuradhapura consultation
• HLAA: Finger spelling sign
• ASL Bible devotion 34: time with God
• Yatosha Deaf Ministry: Farm training
• Ippliap Educacion, first Deaf school in Mexico City
  
  

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DMC

• UMNS: Program helps trauma survivors heal
• ADN: Fall 2022 newsletter
• The Banner: The rise of a lonely world
• Univ. of Maine: Including God in Person-centered planning
• Disability and Faith: Outside the Machine
• UCC MHN: Counting all the days
• Radical Wholeness: Birdability
• CBC: Saying they can't hire me because I have cerebral palsy broke me
  

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Events

• October 15: Wholly, Holey, Holy: Inclusive Church (UK) disability and church conference
  
• Cancelled: October 15: Deaf Ministries and Certified Deaf Lay Servant
• October 25: IU McNutt Lecture, Reimagining Disability, Reimagining History 
  
• October 25: Facing History, Teaching the History of Disability and Building Inclusive Learning Communities
  
• November 4: BWC Disability Conversations, Best practices
  
• December 2: BWC Disability Conversations,
• January 6, 2023: BWC Disability Conversations,
• February 3, 2023: BWC Disability Conversations,
• March 3, 2023: BWC Disability Conversations,
• April 7, 2023: BWC Disability Conversations,
• May 5, 2023: BWC Disability Conversations,
• June 26-29, 2023: Institute on Theology & Disability, Waco TX
• August 6-11, 2023: UMCD/ELM Red Bird Mission
  
• Covid-19 list of inclusion resources

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