Autism & Alleluias EB

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<a href="/Content/Site189/FileSamples/E063-Sample1.pdf" target="_blank">Read the Foreword by Bill Gaventa</a> <a href="/Content/Site189/FileSamples/E063-Sample2.pdf" target="_blank">Read Kathy's award-winning essay "The Cincinnati Zoo: My Family's Life with Autistm"</a>

A national report released in October 2009 in the journal Pediatrics reveals that one in every 91 children has an autism spectrum disorder. Most everyone knows a family that has been affected. What is the role that faith plays in helping families cope? In this series of slice-of-life vignettes, God' grace glimmers through as Joel, an intellectually challenged young adult with autism, teaches those who love him that life requires:

• childlike faith
• humility
• trust
• compassion
• forgiveness
• openness to all of God' gifts

 

For more information about disability ministries and disability resources, visit the American Baptist Home Mission Societies' website. You can also listen to a podcast with Ginny Thornburgh, Director of the Interfaith Initiative, discussing the importance of the 'Statement of Solidarity' for people with disabilities.