Written by the Rev. Dallas Dee Brauninger
Prayer of Invocation
Leader: Mindful that from the genesis throughout the revelation of our lives, God creates, reveals, and renews God’s promise of hope for us,
All: Let us be faithful to our commitment to you, O God, and to one another. Amen.
Leader: As birth, disease, accident, or maturity brings special […]
Written by the Rev. Doris R. Powell
Invocation
Holy One, come among us. Walk this faith journey with us as we learn from our sisters and experience the stirring of our own deep yearning for you. Amen.
CORINTHIANS 4:7-11; EPHESIANS 3:16-21
I WAS THIRTY-TWO. I’d just been backpacking in Colorado and was painting my house when I began to […]
Written by Patricia Williams-Long Franklin
Invocation
Wonderful and generous God, you created us in your image. Thank you. Help us to live into your hopes and trust. Help us to be somebody in your image even when we are ordinary people going about our lives. Help us in the time of trial and in the times of […]
In God’s Image A Service of Installation
Material Needed
A space that is accessible to everyone, even if you are not aware that anyone needs accessible space.
A table, or smaller tables, that everyone can gather around.
Two white paper placemats should be at each place, if refreshments are to be served … just set the table with the […]
Introduction
Dear Sisters in Christ,
Welcome to the 2002 Women’s Mosaic Series, which was created for you by your sisters from the United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries (UCCDM). What a wonderful time we had preparing this packet. We gathered in the fall of 2001 for a writers’ conference where we had a chance for some of […]
Reflections from a Different Journey
Edited by Stanley D. Klein, Ph.D. and John D. Kemp
Reviewed by Linda Jean H. Larson, M. A. T. Coordinator, Committee on Disabilities, National Council of Churches USA
What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew, Reflections from a
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Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies
by Aries Arditi, PhD
This web page contains three basic guidelines for making effective color choices
that work for nearly everyone. Following the guidelines are explanations of the
three perceptual attributes of color — hue, lightness and saturation — as they
are used by vision scientists.
To read full article go to
http://www.lighthouse.org/accessibility/effective-color-contrast/
ACCESS SUNDAY, October 8, 2000
“Not everybody has a minister like Diana,” said 13-year-old Scott Pigsley of Lincoln, NE. “Things like this tell other wheelchair-users we won’t banish you from our church.”
“This” was Northeast UCC’s calling an interim minister with post-polio syndrome. “This” meant rearranging chancel space to accept a replacement ramp that honors the decade-old […]