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- Moving Beyond Values: Cultivating the Virtue of Compassion January 8, 2026
- Nurturing Care 2025 Retrospective January 1, 2026
- Calling 100 Lead Pastors December 20, 2025
- Go Tell it on the Mountain: Trust and Compassion on Display December 16, 2025
- Changing the “Voice” of Worship December 4, 2025
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Category Archives: KC Nurturing Care
Nurturing Care at M25 Conference
M25, a national gathering for the Church of the Nazarene provided a platform for the Nurturing Care Initiative. Our engagement with attendees at our information booth provided an opportunity to discuss both our West Coast/Virtue Formation initiative but also our … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, Clergy, disability, KC Nurturing Care, Nurturing Care, Virtue, West Coast
Tagged #NurturingCare, #PLNU, #WestCoast, Autism, Children, disability, ministry, NTS, Nurturing Care
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A final reminder
A reminder of our next Day of Learning. Registration ends soon! Lectures end at 12:00 Lunch is free for those wanting to stay.
Posted in Autism, Children, KC Nurturing Care, Nurturing Care
Tagged #NurturingCare, Autism, Children, disability, NTS, Nurturing Care
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Spelling 2 Communicate Update
An update from Stephanie Answer at New Community Church, one of Nurturing Care’s grant participants.
Posted in Autism, Children, disability, Intergenerational, KC Nurturing Care, Nurturing Care, Pedagogy
Tagged #NurturingCare, Autism, Children, disability, mental-health, ministry, NTS, Nurturing Care
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A Christmas Story Worth Re-Telling
The New Year rang in another gathering of Nurturing Care grant participants from our Kansas City initiative. The zoom gathering, masterfully led by Dr. Dana Preusch, included several upcoming events (see below), and an intriguing conversation around our attentiveness to … Continue reading
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Tagged #NurturingCare, Autism, Children, disability, faith, ministry, NTS, Nurturing Care, parenting
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Ongoing Partnership with New Community Church continues on Jan. 18th
Posted in Autism, Family, KC Nurturing Care, Nurturing Care
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A New Year of Ministry to Autistic Children.
A recent release of a podcast interview with Stephanie Barton highlights one of the current themes active in our ministry prototypes in our Nuturing Care KC/Autism initiative: selective mutism, sometimes associated with minimally verbal autism, and the the role of … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, Children, Clergy, Family, KC Nurturing Care, Nurturing Care, Uncategorized
Tagged #NurturingCare, #special needs, adhd, asd, Autism, autism-spectrum-disorder, autistic, care, Children, church, Discipleship, diversity, NTS, worship
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Merry Christmas and a New Year of Ministry Initiatives
Merry Christmas from Nurturing Care! We pray your final Advent service, Christmas Eve and celebration of the birth of Jesus provides a time of blessing and celebration. In keeping with our KC initiative, we do ask you to be mindful … Continue reading
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Tagged #NurturingCare, Autism, Children, disability, education, mental-health, ministry, neurodiversity, NTS, Nurturing Care
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