News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC - 27 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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DHM/UMCD

• Kabwe UMC Deaf Ministry: prayer
• Hearing Health: Hearing loss and mental health
• Living with Hearing Loss: We hear you
• MPR: Deaf accessible camp
  

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DMC

• St. Paul's Cathedral, London: In service to the light
• People Magazine: Doctor prescribes "a new cat"
• Flying Kitty Monster: So compassionate it hurts
• Public Orthodoxy: The Unattainable Body
  
• CRC: Sometimes words wound
• A. Becker: They are human needs
• Thinking Person's Guide: Autism Checklist of Doom
• Dakotas Conference: Making St. Paul's more accessible
  

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Events 

• 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 2: Pyne Memorial Lecture
  
• 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 15: With, Universal Design for Congregations
  
• November 16: Indiana University, Creating Dementia-Friendly Congregations
• November 16: Great Lakes ADA Center, Accessible Word Documents
  
• 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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