The Worship For All blog chronicles the impact of worship, fellowship and the Gospel of Jesus Christ on children of Intellectual Disabilities. The worship services we lovingly design are unique, effective but all too rare!
Unfortunately, worship services for people of Autism, Down syndrome, Bi-polar disorders, Fragile X syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Asperger syndrome and other disabilities are almost non-existent at the more than 330,000 churches in the United States!
We are advocates for worship freedom. Our passion is to promote caring, comfortable and relevant worship services for children of disabilities. All people have a right to gather in worship services well-designed for their physical, mental and spiritual needs! By striving to serve this special community and their families, there is an "edge" to what we do.
Self Advocacy is important to us. In our Worship For All chapel services we encourage our friends to interact with each other, with their care givers and with their Lord and Savior, Jesus, the Christ (who is present through the power of the Holy Spirit). The songs, noises, words, body movements and "stims" (hand motions) of our friends are respected and welcome. Not one of the triumphant stories in this blog would have occurred if we were not Self Advocates.
I invite you to meet a group of people who have a triumphant story to share with you!
Song and Video - The Loud Hands Project
This is the "Worship For All" blog. It has a heavenly ending.
Next UP: "Ryan Pittman - Celebrating People of Down Syndrome."
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