Guidelines for Working with Persons with Disabilities
Written by Harold H. Wilke
Abingdon Press, 2000
Written by Pastor Steven Waterhouse
Westcliff Bible Church P.O. Box 1521
Amarillo TX 79105 806-359-6362
Written by the Pastor of Westcliff Bible Church in Amarillo, Texas, this book is a study guide addressing the needs of Christian families of those with severe mental illness. Topics discussed include the response of churches to mental illness, the medical basis of […]
Written by C. Walton Giddy
Westminster/John Knox Press
Wayne E. Oates has written an engaging foreword to this book. The author describes his recovery from depression, including a period of hospitalization. Sharing the understandings to
Which he came in the recovery process, he reflects on how we are all equal in God’s eyes.
Written by Lillian V. Grisham
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
255 Jefferson Avenue, S.E.
Grand Rapids MI 49503
This book presents a first person account of Lillian Grisham’s experience with a five-year period of depression. She portrays the complexity of severe depression and the complexity of its healing, giving full credit for the latter to her husband, Ray, her […]
An Annotated Bibliography
Compiled by the Health and Welfare Ministries Program Department, United Methodist Church
UCC Disabilities Ministries has published many excellent, but largely under-utilized, resources. The following is a brief description of these resources:
A History of Disability Advocacy in the United Church of Christ by Albert Herzog ($3.00). Available from the Office of UCC Disabilities Ministries.
The Local Church and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
is a comprehensive […]
A clergy person with several long-term and lifelong disabilities, Rev. Dr. Charles Bamforth, dreamed of a church that is multiracial, multicultural, open and affirming, and ACCESSIBLE TO ALL! In 1993 he spoke with the Rev. Virginia Kreyer, Consultant on Disability Issues, and Dr. Loretta Richardson, Minister for Health Programs, concerning the challenges faced by clergy […]
The U C C D M has designated a fund to honor the life and ministry of Harold H. Wilke, devoted minister, disability advocate and pioneer. His exemplary ministry within the UCC and the world forged a path for leaders with disabilities to emerge. Donations to the U.C.C.DM continue to support his legacy so that […]
Written by Harold H. Wilke
Publisher: Abingdon Press (February 2002)
ISBN:0687072840
Lively Memories of Embracing God’s World.
“No Steps to Heaven” begins:
The scene is upper Manhattan, Broadway at Reinhold Niebuhr Place, Union Theological Seminary. Union’s president, Donald Shriver, walks jauntily down the steps to the bustling street and sits down in a wheelchair brought for the experiment, thus putting himself in the place of a student with a handicap. Gazing up […]