Celebrate disability as a unique ability.
Cars began arriving to the cheers of the awaiting crowd of volunteers, also known as Short Term Missionaries or STMs. Each family who drove into the conference center was coming for five days of rest, refreshment and restoration. Each person who had … [Read more...]
In a seat down near the front of the auditorium with my friend Chad next to me, sitting in his wheelchair, a paraplegic due to the complications of spina bifida, I had called him the day before and asked if he would like to come to this healing … [Read more...]
abby's story Written by: Tammy (her lucky Mama) The doctor performing the routine ultra sound during my fifth pregnancy 7 years ago, was quietly studying the screen while I lay there watching his face and my husband sat eagerly … [Read more...]
When Joey came to our Joni and Friends Family Retreat, people were just drawn to him. He had this inexplicable joy, a quick and frequent smile, a deep and understanding heart. He came into our lives for a very short time and we feel so very … [Read more...]
As I sat in a local coffee shop with this family from Joni and Friends Family Retreats, this is the story that I was told that so moved me, I felt it must be shared. I had heard too many others like it. Each time I would hear from a family, how the … [Read more...]
Written by Joey's sister Jasmine - I didn't meet my brother, Joey, till he was five years old, and I was eleven. When I first met him he had already been through numerous surgeries, been taken into the custody of the State of Texas and had … [Read more...]
Kara is a awesome writer and lover of people. [Read More …]
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