News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC - 20 October 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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AMD

• Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: call for submissions, Space for Interpretation: Reclaiming Disabled Power in Narratives of Belief 
  

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DHM/UMCD

• Closes October 29: Rock UMC team to CCCD, April 13-20, 2024
• N. Nadarajah: Deaf Londoners in the 1660s
• Tanzania Conference: First Deaf UMC, Viwege
• Social Media Today: Captions will be default on TikTok
• First Deaf UMC, Dar Es Salaam: Awareness week
• ELDA: Fall newsletter
• It's Nice That: Cutting corners
• Nzeve Deaf School:  Deaf Awareness video
  

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DMC

• Invisible Disabilities Assn: Invisible Disabilities Week
• Presbyterians for Disability Concerns: Make you Hallowe'en and Fall event inclusive
• KSHB: UMC-operated cafe hires people with disabilities
• S. Blosser: The need for the church to repent of its actions toward the disability community
• Walking Spirit: Amputee support group
• Press-Enterprise: Temecula UMC meditation garden gets new (accessible) life
• ADN: Salford accessibility strides
  

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Events 

• 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 25, 26: GBCS Holding Sacred Space: Mental Health and Faith
• October 27: Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
• October 29: closing day to register Rock UMC team to CCCD, April 2024
  
• 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
• December 3: Proposals due, April 8-9, 2024: Ohio State University, Multiple Perspectives on Inclusion and Disability
  

 

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