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
Training
This resources includes an easy way to help ministry leaders and volunteers at your church know how to better serve your child with disabilities. This "About Me" worksheet is an editable Canva template and has space for you…
Finding a church that is welcoming to people with disabilities can be very difficult. Joni & Friends hopes to equip churches around the world to disciple people affected by disabilities!
Let’s prioritize making Scripture available and accessible to all, including those in your children’s ministry and disability ministry settings.
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…
We are all designed to worship our Creator — through prayer and service and praise — both as individuals and as the church family. But sometimes corporate worship services can be challenging for those with sensory-processing…
What does it look like to mature and grow in disability ministry with churches that have different styles, sizes and budgets?
Discussing the right mindset to have when ministering to people with disabilities as well as an informational sheet to be filled out during or after the training video.
The strengths, needs, and other important information about Emotional-Behavior Disorders as well as an informational sheet to be filled out during or after the training video.
Clear steps to removing seen and unseen barriers within your church.
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…
Take a look at the best ways to meet an array of communication needs. Also included is an informational sheet to be filled out during or after the video.
This is video number three in our series. As always, learning more basic sign language will allow you to engage with Deaf people in your community and church.
The church is a community where all are welcome and all are needed.
The strengths, needs, and other important information about autism as well as an informational sheet to be filled out during or after the training video.
Take a look at the best ways to meet an array of communication needs. Also included is an informational sheet to be filled out during or after the video.
