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Organizations
Material prepared and annotated by Carole J. Wills
NAMI (Indianapolis)
Faith Communties Education Project
Posted with permission of Carole Wills
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Printed, Audio-Visual, and Web-Based Media in the Area of Mental Health
Annotated by Carole J. Wills, NAMI (Indianapolis), Faith Communities Education Project
Posted with permission of the author.
For Faith Communities (Congregations and Clergy)
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Margaret (Peg) Vigars Wilke died peacefully at her home in Claremont, California on Saturday, October 17. A resident of Pilgrim Place community in Claremont since 1989, she enjoyed a music concert on campus the day before her passing. Matriarch of a large family, artist, therapist and early fighter for civil rights, economic justice and women’s rights, she was wife and helpmate of the late Reverend Harold Wilke, himself a disability rights pioneer and activist involved in the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Peg was 93.
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Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live(Isaiah 55:3a)
This mandate is to hear. I want to live.
What if my ears cannot hear?
My child, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings (Proverbs 4:20.)
I can lean toward you with full attention; but if I cannot hear you –.
Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak (Deuteronomy 32:1a.)
Will you avoid speaking should you think I am not listening?
The hearing ear and the seeing eye — the Lord has made them both (Proverbs 20:12.)
Who made the unseeing eye and the non-hearing ear?
My ear has heard and understood it (Job 13:1b.)
I wish.
Such is a conceivable litany of the hearing-challenged. Communication is what a church is about. Read the rest of this entry…
An article in the New York Times by Iraq war veteran Michael Jernigan offers a significant educational tool for understanding the transition into society that returning veterans face. [Website Ed.]
October 25, 2009, 9:00 pm
The Minefield at Home
By Michael Jernigan
Katherine Streeter
In August 2004, while on patrol with my Marine unit in Mahmudiya, Iraq, I was severely wounded by a roadside bomb. My wounds included a crushed skull and right hand, traumatic brain injury and the loss of both my eyes.
I am not alone. In the past eight years, many of the 35,000 American soldiers wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have returned home. But many of us have also returned with deep emotional wounds, and those are harder to see.
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United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries, www.uccdm.org - Great site for downloading useful resources, networking, posting questions, reflections, conversations.
Thanks to the work of UCC’s Daniel Hazard, the ministry and websites of the United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries are more visible on the denomination’s website.
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Following Mental Illness Awareness Week, Access Sunday, October 10, marks the opening of Disabilities Awareness Week. For worship resources, search ACCESS SUNDAY.
See also ACCESSIBILITY/INCLUSION.
A Joyful Summary of the
Newly Reconstituted United Church of Christ Mental Illness Network (UCC-MIN)
October 2, 2009
At the recent Pathways to Promise Interfaith Summit Conference on Mental Illness from Sept. 29-October 1, 2009 in Belleville, IL, the UCC MIN has been renewed. A new Steering Committee was formed and the new Chair of the Network is Alan Johnson.
Suggested Use:
1. Multiple readings throughout the service.
2. Select several Leader/People/ALL segments to use once in the service.
3. Read the entire litany as a prayer with a pause between segments for silent reflection followed by an Amen before reading the next segment.
From Genesis 1, 12 and 21; Psalms 8 and 139
ALL: God created us, reflecting God’s nature.
Our Creator blessed us; God saw that all God made
Indeed, was very good.
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Strategies for balanced living for parents of children with special needs: www.specialneedsparentcoach.com
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