2. We would like to, but how? Copy others? Read, find resources?
Talk to Erik and Courtney
Church community conversations
Get TASH to hold a conference.
Call in the experts!

3. But maybe they’re just…

4. Hidden in Plain Sight:
Strategies for Welcoming People with Disabilities and their Families into Congregations

5. We’ve gone.. “We don’t have ‘any’ here!” to “ ‘they’ are all around.”
Now what?

6. How you start anything new in your faith community
How you start anything new in your faith community? How do we do it already?

7. Our pot-luck is bigger than we think!

8. Practice hospitality: Who’s doing who a favor?

9. Name and share moments of revelation. In Baptist parlance: “Witness”

10. 85% of what you teach is not written down
85% of what you teach is not written down. Find your hidden curriculum and teach it.

11. Recognize and befriend your limits and boundaries

12. Tom Reynolds: “Learn how to see provocation as invocation.”

13. Invite everyone to act out??X

14. Recognize that the worship service lasts a week.

15. The greatest gift is being present for the journey and missed when you are not.

16. Journey with us and us with you:
National Collaborative on Faith and Disability, SITD Facebook: Editor: Gleanings, Bill Gaventa, M.Div. Summer Institute on Theology and Disability, Telephone:

17. To a new “We don’t have any here”
That’s
Sue our deacon
That’s Yousef, aide to the Iman
That’s Jason our greeter