This site is designed and maintained by the UCC DM web team to help members and friends of the UCC explore what it means for our churches (and our hearts) to be “accessible to all” (A2A Study Guide).
Some resources here are available to download. You can check on new developments or read about our 25+ year history of advocacy within our denomination and the wider world.
OR - you can tell a story, ask a question, respond to something already posted. We are aware that the work of creating accessibility in our buildings, in our programs and in our hearts is not easy. Our UCC DM believes that by building community and sharing our many varied gifts we make this work a little easier and less lonely!
For guidance in our journey towards full accessibility we turn to these words received by an early Christian Community in 1 Peter 4.8-11a (RSV):
Above all hold unfailing your love for one another. . . . Practice hospitality ungrudgingly to one another. As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who utters oracles of God; whoever renders service, as one who renders it by the strength which God supplies; in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.
- Why A2A? The mission of the United Church of Christ is to be Multiracial, Multicultural, Open and Affirming, and Accessible to All - A Church where everyone is welcome.
- What is the A2A mandate?
- How Do We Become A2A?
Current Discussions
- Talk with Disabilities Inclusion Associates and Teams ---
Follow Disabilities Inclusion Associates Jacky Schofield and Ann Marino and blog with the team as they develop the Connecticut Conference Disabilities Ministry Team.
Connecticut Conference Disabilities Ministries Team Report
First Quarter 2008
JANUARY
The first meeting of the Disabilities Ministry Team was held on January 29, 2008 at the office of the Connecticut Conference in Hartford.
In attendance […] - Request for Appropriate Confirmation Materials ---
A request has come to UCC Disabilities Ministries for resources for children with autism, aspergers and adhd. The inquiry is focused on confirmation material. Our experience has been to tailor a course in basic content to the individual as each youth has specific gifts of understanding. Much depth can come with simplicity. Meet your young […]
- What is Normal? ---
This article raises an important question. It is not designed to give “The” answer, but to encourage discussion around a very real and growing issue we as people with disabilities and society face today.
What is Normal?
Recently, while wandering through my local grocery, I turned the corner, heading up the cereal aisle. I had no more […]
Highlights
- Current List of UCC Position Openings
- UCC DM congratulates its Vice-Chair, Bob Molsberry
- Though Many, We are One
- There is something really special going on in our midst
- NEW MAGAZINE FOR DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY DISORDERS
- ASL commercial during super bowl
- MLK, Road To Freedom and the ADA Restoration Act
- Extending King’s Dream to Disability
- Does Your Child Have Epilepsy? So Do I!