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People-Based Ministry
People-Based Ministry

If a gingerbread house can be accessible, why can’t the Church? Learn how the church can take practical steps towards disability inclusion and how The Banquet Network can help!

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The Accessible Gingerbread House
The Accessible Gingerbread House

If a gingerbread house can be accessible, why can’t the Church? Learn how the church can take practical steps towards disability inclusion and how The Banquet Network can help!

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Opening our Eyes to Invisible Disabilities
Opening our Eyes to Invisible Disabilities

We believe the Church is disabled when it doesn’t include people with disabilities, including the disabilities that we cannot see. Katie Matthews, Executive Director of The Banquet Network, was selected to give a QuickTake at Key Ministry’s Inclusion Fusion Live Conference. Learn about Matthew’s discussion on, “Opening our Eyes to Invisible Disabilities.”

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3 Barriers Keeping the Disabled from Church
3 Barriers Keeping the Disabled from Church

Life is full of obstacles and road blocks, and unfortunately, individuals and families affected by disability face many barriers when it comes to the Church. Chris Hulshof talks about three barriers we see when considering the accessibility of our churches. In this blog, you’ll learn about the theological, body-life, and leadership barriers individuals whose lives are affected by disability experience in the Church.

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The Mirror & The Billboard
The Mirror & The Billboard

For many of us, there is an unspoken discomfort that arises in us when we enter a room and there facing us is a person with a visible disability. It might be a child in a wheelchair or an adult with Tourette’s syndrome, but regardless of the disability, the feeling is the same. We feel a sudden need to avoid the individual completely to ease our discomfort, or we fearfully fumble over what we should do or what we should say.

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Taking Responsibility: An Idea for How to Reach, Serve, and Include
Taking Responsibility: An Idea for How to Reach, Serve, and Include

In the days of the early Church there was a certain population that was being neglected: the Greek widows weren’t receiving their distribution of food. We don’t know exactly how or why this was happening, but we do know that this is nothing new: humanity has a tendency to neglect/oppress certain populations. And as much as we wish this wasn’t the case, that even happens in the Church.

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