This webinar workshop will be packed with information, ideas for action, and resources.
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You’ll receive a FREE digital copy of Preach magazine ‘Disability’ when you book your ticket!
We hope to have BSL interpreters and live captions but if that’s not possible, there will be a transcript and the YouTube recording will have captions enabled.
Webinar workshop contents:
- Session 1: how to lead and preach about disability, with Q&A, led by Rev Katie Tupling, an author and Anglican priest, who has cerebral palsy. She is the Oxford Diocesan Disability Adviser and co-founder of user-led group Disability and Jesus.
- Session 2: putting disability into the current UK context, with Q&A. Led by Rev John Naudé, an Anglican priest since 1997. He is Associate Vicar at The Point Church in Burgess Hill and an adviser on disability issues for the New Wine Disability Adviser, the Anglican Church and the World Council of Churches. He leads training and writes on disability.
- Session 3: the practical application of disabled churches and communities, with Q&A. Led by Bernice Hardie, Co-Founder of WAVE for Change, an award-winning charity that enables the creation of places where people with and without learning disabilities can actively participate in worship and social activities together. See www.wave-for-change.org.uk Facebook @wavewithnotfor Twitter @WaveForChange
Disability webinar workshop aims to be:
- informative with scripture insights
- enabling in stimulating ideas and follow-up actions
- equipping in relating the Bible to how churches, preachers, worship leaders, small groups and individuals can grow in confidence in Disability justice issues
Actions to prepare for the webinar:
PRAY: ask the Lord if this is the right time for you, your church, your small group to engage with disability
READ: you’ll receive an email with a link to a free copy of Preach magazine (Issue 32) Disability, when you book your ticket here
RESOURCES: find other ideas and resources about Disability on the Preach website https://www.preachweb.org/disability-resources
JOINING THE WEBINAR ON THE DAY: when you book your ticket here, you will be sent an email with a link to the Zoom meeting. If you have trouble accessing the webinar at 1pm on the day of the event, please email lwptoffice@lwpt.org.uk and we will be able to send you a link.
We give you three focused sessions in 60 minutes of discussion, engagement and interaction. Learn how you and your church can welcome and include disabled people in equal fellowship and ministry.
And gain new ideas on inclusion and accessibility. We unearth the potential pitfalls and sensitivities around church experiences, language, images and culture and explore the viewpoint of people with disabilities.
Plus, you’ll be able to put your questions to our panel.