Disability Awareness Service - Evangelical Covenant Church

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We encourage you to integrate disability awareness pieces into your services on a regular basis, whether or not you know of any persons with disabilities in your congregation. If you have any resources you have used in a Disability Awareness Service and would like to share them, please email jen.cardwell (at) covchurch.org

This is a sermon given by the chair of the Disability Ministries Committee in a chapel service which actively involved people with a variety of disabilities. It was woven into the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin from Luke 15.

"In that day, the Lord declares, I will gather up the crippled, and bring in the outcast and those whom I have afflicted. I will made the disabled the stock of the future. And a strong nation of those who are sick. And the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion. From this time onwards, and for ever!"

Micah 4:6, 7 J.B. Philips, Four Prophets, Macmillan, 1963.

Un-Disabling-the-Church.doc

Other Organizations with Awareness Service Resources:

Christian Reformed Church - sample messages, readings, other other resources for an Awareness Sunday
The Episcopal Disability Network - guidelines for planning and celebrating an accessibility service.
Reformed Church in America - sermon ideas, true stories, and other resources