News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC - 29 September 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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DHM/UMCD

• Nominations for the 2023 UMCD Excellence Awards are now open!
• Language Nerds: "cat"tions are "paws"itive
• Tanzania Conference: First Deaf UMC, Viwege
• Lovers Lane Deaf Ministry: October 1 gathering
  

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DMC

• DMC seeks photos for website: information@umcdmc.org
• UCC Health Ministries: Save me from ableism and ageism
• Alban Institute: Ministry and mental health
• Workers: Stop the Shock
• Current: St. Mark's UMC and SAWS ramps
• Susquehanna Conference: Prayers for Disability Awareness Sunday
• UCC Disabilities Ministries: Access Sunday
  

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Events

• October 3: Crisis Care Ministries, Trauma 101
• October 5: Cooper-Hewitt, Centering disability in design
  
• October 10: Crisis Care Ministries, Suicide Prevention
  
• October 11: CRC Nurturing Belonging: Exploring Hospitality, Disability, and Theology
• October 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26: GBCS Holding Sacred Space: Mental Health and Faith
• October 14: St. Martin-in-the-Fields: Rolling Down Justice: Disability, Intersectionality & God
  
• October 17: Crisis Care Ministries, Communications
• October 20: Registration for UMCD Leadership Conference closes
  
• October 24: Crisis Care Ministries, Legal Services for Disaster Survivors
• October 27: Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
• October 31: Crisis Care Ministries, Conflict Resolution
  
• November 3-5: UMCD Leadership Conference
• November 7: Crisis Care Ministries, Provider Resilience
• November 14: Crisis Care Ministries, Assisting Migrants and Refugees
• November 16: Indiana University, Creating Dementia-Friendly Congregations
  
• November 21: Crisis Care Ministries, Trauma in Indigenous Populations
• November 28: Crisis Care Ministries, Historic Trauma in the African-American Community
  

 

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