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- GOA Stewardship Department
Description
This 16-page booklet is an excellent introduction to ministry to people with disabilities from an Orthodox Christian perspective. Fr John describes the Church as a place of hospitality and welcome _ a place of inclusion _ for all people. All members of the Church make up the Body of Christ as a community of persons with a variety of complementary gifts.
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Orthodox Christian disability booklet
How we as the members of the Body of Christ may proceed to welcome persons with disabilities is summed up in those 15 pages. He speaks of the Church as Communion, the realities of disability, the gifts of people with disabilities, the centrality of the Cross and our inter-dependence, the physical and emotional burdens on families that calls for our support. There is an inspiring story which is also included in the bookl is also included in the booklet from the Saying of the Desert Fathers about Abba Agathon and his encounter with a person with disabilities.
