News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC - 24 March 2023

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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• Bishop Peggy Johnson: Book, The Ever-expansive Spirit of God
  
• NPR Tiny Desk entry from Buffalo-area pastor Chris Wylie
  

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DHM/UMCD

• DOOR seeks HR manager
• UMCD History
• Magothy UMC: a signing shepherd
• Yatosha Deaf Ministry: Africa U board visit
• Lovers Lane UMC Deaf Ministry at Austin Street Center
• NDRN: Supreme Court Ruling Protects Deaf Student’s ADA Rights
• Deaf Link: Sri Lanka Central Federation of the Deaf (SLCFD), Deaf Driving license Trail
• Yatosha Deaf Ministry: meeting former missionary
  

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DMC

• Disability Awareness Month: Week 3, accommodations
• Scripture as I Understand It: The wounds remain
  
• Indiana UMC Disability Team: World Down Syndrome Day
• DSI: World Down Syndrome Day
• Stone Belt and Bloomington First UMC service project
• Meriah Nichols: The real story
  
• Univ. of Aberdeen Centre for Autism and Theology: "Christian mothers’ experiences of their child’s autism in their faith and community context"
  
• Disability Media Network
   
  

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Events

• through April 15: DMC grant applications open
• April 19: AAIDD, Building Relationships and Collaborating with Faith Communities
• May 2-4: Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry
  
• May 17: AAIDD,  Community Connectedness and Technology
  
• June 16: Arizona Center for Disability Law, African American Conference on Disabilities
  
• June 26-29: Institute on Theology & Disability, Waco TX
• September 23: Delaware Deaf Fest

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

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