Disability in Mission by David Deuel

Author:David Deuel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian ministry;christian missions;joni eareckson tada;david deuel;nathan g. john;lausanne library;lausanne book;mission field;people with disabilities on mission;joni and friends;missions trips for disabled
ISBN: 9781683072881
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Published: 2019-06-12T13:25:27+00:00

Being Different

Many experiences heightened my awareness that, despite efforts to get on with life in the same way as anyone else, I was regarded as different. I think, for example, of a Saturday afternoon when I and a group of teenage friends with disabilities from my special school were completing our Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award expedition. When we returned, we discovered that the Head Teacher had received two phone calls from people in the nearby village, asking whether four of his pupils had ‘escaped.’ Or of an incident in my early twenties, while I was doing a short course at St. John’s Theological College in Nottingham: A fellow student who happened to be with me in the common room one day was clearly embarrassed at the idea of leaving me on my own. She asked who was responsible for looking after me. I had to reply ‘nobody’!

To think of people like me serving in mission in rural Africa required a large shift of mind-set. I thank God for enabling this to happen, which is clearer to see now with hindsight.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.