![]() We celebrate, inspire, and support neurodivergent children, adults, and their caregivers by creating a gathering place for all ages and abilities. What is God asking us to do? An inclusive park!įamilies with neurodivergent individuals and people dependent on mobility devices face many challenges but enjoying a park shouldn’t be one of them! Inspired by God’s hope and love, Emmanuel will create an inclusive park different from others in the Seymour area and develop accompanying ministries to enrich the lives of families in our community. Park Vision: Working together, Emmanuel will build an inclusive and accessible community park to inspire, support, celebrate, and equip neurodivergent children and adults to fulfill their potential in life. Paul aims to embrace and raise up an historically under-valued and excluded population in the church, thereby modeling a more inclusive, supportive, and whole community of faith. Paul staff and volunteers who work with kids on how best to nurture and support neurodivergent children and youth 3) construct a sensory-friendly space for faith formation for all ages and 4) equip neurotypical teens to act as buddies and advocates for their neurodivergent peers. Paul’s Social Spectrum will use grant funding to : 1) launch an inclusive family-learning style Sunday School class 2) train St. Paul’s efforts to address these needs, amplify autism inclusivity and awareness, and hopefully inspire other congregations to do the same. The funding from the ELCA Disability Ministries grant will bolster St. The stories, experiences, and needs shared within this group clearly identified several opportunities for growth in the ways the church as a whole welcomes, supports, and empowers neurodivergent children and youth and their families. Paul in the summer of 2022 as a support group for parents and caregivers of neurodivergent individuals to connect and find empathy with one another. Paul Lutheran Church is a congregation of over one thousand families, many of whom have children and teens who identify as autistic or neurodivergent. Located in the heart of the Quad Cities, St. Lisa Heffernan, ELCA Disability Ministries coordinator I want to offer a special thanks to the advisory team for all their hard work in reviewing the grant applications and proposals. We hope those not chosen this time around will consider applying in the future. Thank you to all applicants! It is amazing to learn about all that is being done across our church for accessibility and inclusion! We were blown away by the number of project applications submitted and all that they entailed for your ministries. ![]() V.Congratulations to the five recipients of the ELCA Disability Ministries grants for 2023! We have invited each to offer a snapshot of the project their grant will be fun, ding.Reinhard Slenczka (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia).Remigijus Semeklis (The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania). ![]()
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