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Full Inclusion Ministry Outline

Illusion refers to including disabled children in the same events with children who are not disabled. People often tend to ask themselves why Christian churches fellowships offers isolated or dissimilar children tender and Sunday school lessons, for children’s who have some disabilities. People are now living as in the early 90s where illusion was a politically right. This paper will review the Gods view of it, the current world illusion, and finally look how to biblical inclusion in the ministry for persons disabilities.

Children’s ministry

The children’s ministry was formed in 2000 to help young worshipers to know Christ mare and better since it is the best time for them to know Christ, to learn how to love others and to understand how God works. Presently, the children’s ministry has a secluded place or services for the young aged persons where they meet and join hands in praying and other Godly deeds. The children’s ministry needs a program that includes that of special needs children. The most loving and God-fearing child currently showing so much love for the others needs better facilities and care from the church to serve the Lord.

Special needy Children

Enlist people to help and volunteer in planning meetings for this project to help Gods’ children. Francis is an eleven-year-old child who now uses a wheelchair after losing all sensation in his legs after a terrible car accident with his family. His family supports him and loves him as much as the church does. The church was moved by his undying love for Christ. Francis suffered an unfortunate car accident one year ago in May 2013 and after the treatment at hospital, he ended up in a wheelchair possibly for the rest of his life. This is just one of the special needy children at the church and a situation such as Francis’ could happen to any of the kids. This special ministry could help in rehabilitating children like him get back to the social lives they know and feel the love of the Lord. The children need the support from the church as well as relevant stakeholders who will advise the church on how to rehabilitate the likes of Francis.

Potential Church project partners and Church targets

The church will work will specialists who have handled such complex medical situations in the field of specialized care and rehabilitation center experts. The church aims to help with rehabilitation of the special needy children and offer support with extra services for those who need them at their homes. Church wishes to educate the children in the church grounds, organize travels get-away to encourage the children since the church feels it is strongest to motivate their souls through the word of God. It also has to organize seminars to raise awareness among parents who may be tempted to isolate their children in fear of non-acceptance from the community (Davis, Special Needs Ministry). Having interpreters who can do signal language to transmit the word of God to the crowd is also a church mission and duty. Furthermore the church have some experts capable of handling children with special needs, especially at times when their friends are unable to react when their friends with disabilities run into problems. This will be an important development since children can hear the word of God, and remain safe even if they are in a church compound for one or two sermons. The church needs to identify leaders for this ministry, because the body of Christ needs to be complete and this is the way to show how the children with disabilities are welcome to Christ (Stetzer, 2013). The church targets to have 1000 children in the Special Needs Ministry in the next 5 years with more ambition to have a local and global connections and interconnections with the greater body of churches.

In order to succeed in the inclusion you must be an understanding person. Some parent who have disabled children, come with their story a demanding approach and with high expectation but that not a reason of you not trying not to get personal. It is also good to take their stories with appreciation and understanding too. It`s better to give parent a good room for them to share their issues. This can result to a good opportunity to work through any grief that the parents could be going through.

Take time to do your research with promising options such as a friend assignment or small group situation. It is of significant to go into a second discussion prepared to exchange tom go through solutions. This meeting is also the opportunity to reset parent expectations for what the church can do and cannot do this if possible it is a good chance to do so. Be sure to schedule this meeting with some sense of urgency. Failing to follow up in a timely manner after the first conversation will be interpreted as avoidance and ultimately rejection

Biblical view

God introduced illusion; he created as to be in relation with him to include humans in this world, we love because he first loved us (1 john 4:19). God`s eyes are able to see sins, sin have spiritually incapacitated people. The concept of inclusion is truly God's heart. The Old Testament gives out a good example, King David grandson of Saul, son of Jonathan after an accident he became disabled at an age of five (2 Sam 4:4)Jonathan got favor with his son David, Jonathan and the king made an agreement that forever David should not cut his loving kindness off from house of Jonathan. (1 Sam 20:15).David invited Mephibosheth together with his son Micah to live in Jerusalem and shared a loyal table with them. This is the reason why mephibosheth had a chance to sit at the king`s table despite having disability. God has made similar promise to all his children not all are physically healed and they share the table. In Matthew 19:14, Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”. Gospel Revival Church would like to show all our love to Francis, and with the hope of establishing a new special needs ministry under the banner of the children’s ministry with a mission statement of “A beautiful world with love enabled”.

Worldview

This started in early 1970s. Handicapped people had few supporters to speak on behave them, but in 1973 to 1775, important bill to make previous injustices right was passed (Ainscow, Farrell, Gallannough, Howes, and Smith 2006). The bill prohibited discrimination to the handicapped individuals, and protected the right of these individuals to engage to community life and education, unlikely when leaders and normal people used to be apart from disabled individuals due to their disability. Before this bill, disabled persons were neglected by not given a chance to get involved in community in education, religion and in politics as they were considered not to be like normal peoples due to their disabilities. (Donald and Thomas 2003).The worldview is sometimes guided by some biblical values as fairness to all and concentrating on their comparisons. Unlikely, nonspiritual situations and ideas that are not stranded in biblical facts. This illusion, which is now, practiced lack heart of God. Some parent differentiates biblical and earthly inclusion as, One parent described the difference between Biblical inclusion and worldly inclusion this way, "Politically correct inclusion focuses on teaching disabled people to fit into a typical situation (basically, changing them). Biblical inclusion focuses on adapting the typical situation to include disabled persons just the way they are, whatever their disability (Ortega, Blasco & Elosegi, 2012).

References

Navarro-Ortega, A., Blasco, J., & Elosegi, A. (2012). Assessing and forecasting the impacts of global change on ministry illusion. The SCARCE Consolider project on Iberian basins. Springer Verlag.Davis, S. J. Special Needs Ministry Handbook. Retrieved from

http://www.specialneedsministry.com/handbook.pdf

McDonald, T. and Thomas, G. (2003) Parent’s reflection on their children being excluded, Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.108-119.

Nash, T. (2014, February 6). How to Start a Special Needs Ministry. Retrieved from

http://tonyanash.com/2014/02/how-to-start-a-special-needs-ministry.html

Stetzer, E. (2013, January 18). Special Needs Ministries and the Church: Research, Ministries, Links, Leaders, and More. Retrieved from http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2013/january/special-needs-ministries-and-church-research-ministries.html

Ainscow, M,, Booth, T., Dyson, A., Farrell, P., Frankham, J., Gallannough, F., Howes, A.

and Smith, R. (2006) Improving churches, Developing Inclusion. Oxford: Routledge.