April 2019
Pastors: Next Steps in Embracing Disability Ministry in Your Church
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 11 am ET | 10 am CT | 9 am MT | 8 am PT Teacher: Ashley Belknap, Director of Engaging Disability With The Gospel As a PCA pastor, are you considering how to more effectively love and enfold members and visitors living with disability into your congregation? Do you wonder whether the next step is a more organized disability ministry? Then, this online training is for you! We will start by discussing the scope of…
Find out more »Children’s Ministry Leadership Training 2019
Engaging Disability Director, Ashley Belknap, will be part of this conference. For information on attending, visit the conference website or register now. Join Ashley as she presents the following workshop: Catechism Class, Communicants Class, and Children’s Choir: Ways to Teach and Enfold Every Child. Many of the challenges that special-needs children encounter in church are intricately connected to their language abilities. We may see children demonstrating behavior problems when the real issues are lack of skills. They may simply not be…
Find out more »Children’s Ministry Training: Cookeville, Tennessee
For Children's Ministry Leaders, Volunteers, and Parents SPEAKER: Ashley Belknap, Director of Engaging Disability LUNCH AND LEARN Friday, April 12 11:30 AM Developing an Accessible and Gospel-Centered Children’s Ministry That Reaches Every Child TRAINING Saturday, April 13 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM All Together: Discipleship, the Gospel, and Special Needs Children This event is free. Registration opens in 2019.
Find out more »Starting a Disability Ministry in the Children’s Ministry Context
Thursday, April 18, 2019 11 am ET | 10 am CT | 9 am MT | 8 am PT Teacher: Ashley Belknap, Director of Engaging Disability With The Gospel Children’s ministries are often on the front lines of ministry to families touched by disability. Starting a disability ministry in the context of your children’s ministry makes sense strategically for many churches. Disability ministry actually helps children’s ministry thrive. This training will focus on starting with your church context and current…
Find out more »Classroom Management: A Gospel-Centered Understanding of Behavior
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8 pm ET | 7 pm CT | 6 pm MT | 5 pm PT Teacher: Ashley Belknap, Director of Engaging Disability With The Gospel Our goal in children’s ministry is the effective discipleship of all our children. When there are challenging behaviors in the classroom, how can you manage them without taking away teaching time from the whole class? This online training will challenge the way you think about behavior and how behavior is shaped and changed. Almost every child…
Find out more »May 2019
Vacation Bible School: Enfolding Kids with Special Needs
Thursday, May 2, 2019 12 pm ET | 11 am CT | 10 am MT | 8 am PT Teacher: Ashley Belknap, Director of Engaging Disability With The Gospel Vacation Bible School is a great opportunity to take the next step in ministry with your families who live with disability. Join us for this online training as we discuss how to approach discipleship, friendship, and positive behavior supports in the week-long context of VBS. Topics we will cover: Developing a plan…
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Engaging Disability With The Gospel is a missional partnership of Mission to North America (MNA). We serve people touched by disability and the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) which minister with them.