DATC#2024 Sessions resume including Masterpiece Alliance

#DATC2024 breakout sessions continue including the story of Masterpiece Alliance, a local ministry which partners with Young Life’s Capernum ministry, designed to create community for disability ministry after age 18 so that no person with a disability or family of a person with a disability lives life in the margins or in isolation. The ministry begins by asking, Who are we? God’s Masterpiece! Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s masterpiece: We are created by God. More specifically all of us are God’s special creations, His masterpieces. Each person is uniquely and beautifully created and loved by God just as they are.

God has created us anew in Christ Jesus: We are fully alive when we allow Jesus to do something new in and with our lives. All of us are made whole and complete only in Jesus.

So we can do the good things: Every person is created for a purpose. We are made whole in Jesus SO we can live into our purpose. This applies to every single one of God’s masterpieces.

God planned for us long ago: Not only do we have a purpose, but our purpose is uniquely planned for each of us by God.

Masterpiece included a narrative around a local ministry effort, while other sessions focused on everything from teaching, to behavioral guidance, to small group interaction. Quite a range of resource development at the conference.

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About Dean G. Blevins

Dr. Dean G. Blevins currently serves as Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship at Nazarene Theological Seminary as well as Director of Nurturing Care with Children through Worship and Prayer. An ordained elder, Dean has ministered in diverse settings and currently also serves at the USA Regional Education Coordinator for the Church of the Nazarene. A prolific author, Dr. Blevins recently co-wrote the textbook Discovering Discipleship and edits Didache: Faithful Teaching, a journal for Wesleyan Education.
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