Category Archives: Clergy

Leading With Disability

Posted on May 4, 2024 by Dean G. Blevins

#DATC2024 panel discussion with Lamar Hardwick, Kimberly Britt, and Tait Berg, on serving in ministry leadership with a disability includes a range of responses from personal challenges both in maintaining personal boundaries but also overcoming negative perceptions. The respondents encouraged … Continue reading →

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DATC#2024 Sessions resume including Masterpiece Alliance

Posted on May 3, 2024 by Dean G. Blevins

#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 … Continue reading →

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You are God’s Treasure

Posted on May 3, 2024 by Dean G. Blevins

#DATC2024 opens the second day with a sermon focused on “both” people with disability and those ministering in disability ministry by Ability Ministry Director Ryan Wolfe notes often we approach scripture thinking of Jesus as the treasure. However, what happens … Continue reading →

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Flourishing Together

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Dean G. Blevins

Final #DATC2024 presentation today comes from Dr. Erik Carter, Baylor Center for Developmental Disabilities, and collaborator with “With Ministries” addressing the topic Flourishing Together: moving from inclusion and embrace. Carter notes ministry has changed over the years from exclusion to … Continue reading →

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First Evening of NorCal Maker’s Space

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Dean G. Blevins
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Autism and Worship Videos now Available Through NTS Praxis

Posted on March 12, 2024 by Dean G. Blevins

The Nurturing Care with Children through Worship and Prayer/KC Initiative announces that the major addresses by Dr. Léon van Ommen are now available on the website supported by Praxis at Nazarene Theological Seminary. https://cpl.vhx.tv/nts-nurturing-care-dr-leon-van-ommen-on-autism-and-worship For a brief introduction of one … Continue reading →

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Nurturing Care KC Maker’s Space Projects Underway

Posted on February 28, 2024 by Dean G. Blevins

Over the last months we have been working to make sure our Maker’s Space projects (Ps 95:6-7) could take shape and launch to provide worship and prayer practices for children with autism. The effort began at the retreat at #NTS … Continue reading →

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