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The church and the Gospel should be accessible to everyone. This series, Keys to Special Needs Ministries, prepares you to support people with special needs and foster inclusion in all aspects of church life. The goal of special needs ministries is to unite people, both disabled and non-disabled, in the common bond of Christ’s love.

This booklet contains strategies you can use to make sure people with emotional and psychiatric disabilities feel included in all areas of church life. Some suggestions include:

• Visiting individuals who cannot attend church services
• Making a quiet room available to those who need to take a break in a calming atmosphere
• Dispelling, through education, the stigmas attached to mental illness

The church should be one place where a person with a mental or psychiatric illness knows they will be welcomed. By training yourself and others to reach out to this population, you can reflect the approach Jesus uses to show love to all His children.

Paperback. Copyright 2015.