News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC - 13 October 2023

Triskaidekaphobia, anyone?

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.

-
GBCS

• A Call for United Methodists to Combat Life Threatening Ableism in Healthcare
• Expand structures for mental and behavioral health
  

-

AMD

•   Member ballot note

-

DHM/UMCD

• Deafinitely Communicating: Sound and language
• Eastern Pennsylvania Conference: Healing from the Trauma of Domestic Violence
• Religion Unplugged: Reaching out to the Deaf
• Yatosha Deaf Ministry: Deaf in Africa
• Life UMC, Fairmont WV captioned Facebook livestream
• DHM list of ASL or captioned services: https://www.umdeaf.org/link.html
• Brightadventurere (E. Choi): Worship
  

-
DMC

• Church of the Village: Ageism Awareness
• Presbyterians for Disability Concerns: Special Closing Thoughts
• Sapiens: Raising my children in an ableist world
  

-

Events

• October 14: St. Martin-in-the-Fields: Rolling Down Justice: Disability, Intersectionality & God
• October 16: UWF, Tools to protect Black neurodivergent students
  
• October 17: Crisis Care Ministries, Communications
• October 18, 19, 25, 26: GBCS Holding Sacred Space: Mental Health and Faith
• October 20: Registration for UMCD Leadership Conference closes
• October 20-21: Eastern Pennsylvania & Greater New Jersey Conference: Deaf Domestic Violence sessions
  
• October 23 (start): BeADisciple, Severe Mental Illness and the Church
• October 24: Century Foundation: From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change
  
• 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: When Inclusion Should Be the Conclusion
  
• 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
  

 

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.