By Lon Allison The work of mercy and justice may distinguish the Church more than anything else from every other institution. Read >> THEMED ARTICLES: Christ’s Compassion for “The Least” and People with Disabilities By Joni Eareckson Tada Ten to eleven percent of the world’s population has a disability. Here you will find ways to […]
September 2007 By Joni Eareckson Tada September 2007 Church Models There are many ways for a church to show the compassion of Jesus Christ to disabled people in their village or city. The following are a few models I would suggest: Build-a-Ramp Day. Make your church ready to welcome wheelchair users by asking skilled workers […]
September 2007 By Joni Eareckson Tada September 2007 The Church has the opportunity to lead the way in transforming the plight most disabled people face by serving and becoming a loving, healing community to this population. Christians in cities and villages around the world can truly demonstrate the same compassion of Jesus Christ that he […]
September 2007 By Joni Eareckson Tada September 2007 Disabled people in most parts of the world struggle to survive. Sadly, their needs are often overlooked or even ignored by the local church. In South America, a woman with cerebral palsy has been lying in bed for seven years in a back bedroom of a cinder-block […]
September 2007 By Joni Eareckson Tada September 2007 Disabled people in most parts of the world struggle to survive. Sadly, their needs are often overlooked or even ignored by the local church. Disabled people in most parts of the world live in crushing poverty and isolation. They lack simple mobility and are often hidden away […]
October 2006 Executive Summary From the time of the Gutenberg Bible, Christianity “has walked on literate feet” and has directly or indirectly required literacy of others. But, seventy percent of all people in the world are oral communicators; these are people who can’t, don’t or won’t learn through literate means. Four billion in our world […]
