Churches
Our comprehensive suite of resources is built to help your church gain the knowledge, strategies, and faith-driven skills to build and maintain a disability-inclusive environment. No matter what stage your church is at—from seeking the latest materials for a long-standing program to learning more about disability in general—you’ll find countless resources to fit your needs.
Resources for churches
Videos
Learn how to consider our friends with autism in this brief overview.
People of all abilities need a church where they can fully belong. Joni and Friends works to equip and mobilize churches to welcome and embrace people of all abilities by removing barriers and creating a church culture that…
RLR is a ministry of the Tim Tebow Foundation where everyone can find a place of belonging and be celebrated as God’s image-bearers.
What does it look like to mature and grow in disability ministry with churches that have different styles, sizes and budgets?
Learn how to consider our friends with emotional behavioral disorders (EBD) in this brief overview.
Now it's time to get to work! Recap Units 1-4 and review key prinicples and strategies of trauma-informed ministry.
Learn how to consider our friends with Down Syndrome and intellectual disabilities in this brief overview.
Creating structure in how you serve those with special needs is very helpful, but what works for one person may not work for all. Learn more. This is Part 2.
Tebow Down Guatemala, a ministry of the Tim Tebow Foundation, provides holistic education and resources to children with developmental disabilities in Guatemala and their families.
Jesus models so much for us, see how he modeled hospitality as it pertained to those with disabilites and those marginalized.
Matt & Ginny Mooney share the mission and vision of 99 Balloons and how it all started because of the life of their son, Eliot.
Experience the benefits of weighted items in your church, such as to calm, reduce the wiggles and even prevent a meltdown. Discover how to safely and effectively use weighted items at church. Training Video 6 of 8
Without a fundamental culture of inclusivity, “disability ministry” can actually cause even more isolation and distance people with special needs. So, how does a church culture go from excluding people with disabilities to…
We believe that when properly equipped, local churches can be the greatest catalyst for change in dramatically helping to end the social, physical, and spiritual isolation that often impacts the 1.3 billion people and their…
Implementing routines into our plans to serve those with special needs is a great way to make them feel safe and engage their interests.
