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• Stressed or Desserts?

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  I’m often amazed at how the mentally challenged community weathers their greatest times of stress.  During my first few years of ministry with Special Gathering, I thought it was because they simply didn’t understand what was happening.  However, over the years, I’ve learned that our members watch the news ...
  14 hours ago

• Live Simply in Humble Contemplation

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  He is a handsome Jamaican whose family migrated from the Northeast to Florida when his parents retired from their work. For a couple of years, I thought Paul was non-verbal.  When I made him angry one Sunday after chapel services, I found that Paul is definitely able to speak.  In fact, even though I was shocked, ...
  1 day ago

• The Future of the Mentally Challenged community from a Support Coordinator

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Because I did not get this Waiver Coordinator’s permission to use this e-mail, I’ve not included his name.  However, he is known in this district as probably the best of the best and I have included his picture. I wish I had an answer to all of your questions, Richard Stimson from his November 7 post. And he ...
  2 days ago

• Could this be the future for mentally challenged people in Florida?

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  This is a interesting analysis on what may be the future for mentally challenged persons in the State of Florida.  This is the response from a presentation of the iBudgets, the newest innovation from APD. Thank you for the information on iBudgets. I find myself hear the old Kenny Rogers song; you have to know when ...
  4 days ago

• Columnist: ‘Hateful’ language can spur violence against disabled

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 436
  ‘When did people with disabilities cease to matter in the battle against bigotry?’Writing in the [UK] Independent, columnist Ian Birrell says society widely prohibits the use of “crude stereotyping” and “hateful words” when directed against other minority groups, yet accepts the same behavior when directed ...
  4 days ago

• What do I understand?

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  One of my mother’s favorite verses came from Psalm 45.  Loosely transliterated the psalmist said, “I won’t fret about matters that are above my ability to understand.”   Within the mentally challenged community there are a myriad of things that we cannot understand.  The economy, electricity, ...
  5 days ago

• APA Division 33: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Atkins related newsletter articles

  
  Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) — Authority: 129
  In the past I mentioned (at ICDP sister blog) the importance of APA Divisions 33 (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities) and 41 (American Psychology-Law Society) for psychologists and other professionals interested in Atkins cases.  I recently joined both (although Ive yet not received confirmation of ...
  6 days ago

• Mind Your Own Business

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Debbie and Dorie were the best of friends from the day they met.  Perhaps it was because of the tension and stress of their circumstances that made each one cling to the other.  Debbie’s family was faced with the hard choice of moving their older sister from her life-long home when their mother died.  They had ...
  6 days ago

• Report on Worship from The Special Gathering 2009 Retreat

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Richard Stimson wrote: I wanted to report back on the results of our questions. We had 35-40 people at the retreat from eight Special Gathering chapels. These were mostly teachers but there were also a few staff. They all ranked the importance of the different questions. Some things were easy to group like “What ...
  1 week ago

• Simple Principles from Simple Lives

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  I don’t like windows covered.  My husband, Frank, on the other hand likes all windows closed tightly and securely.  My compromise was to put blinds on the windows.  They can be opened widely during the day and closed tightly at night.  A couple of months ago, I opened the blinds and my three years old niece ...
  1 week ago

• The Work of Worship

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  This is the devotion given during our retreat on Friday evening. The Work of Worship II Chronicles 29:30 and 31 John 4:20-24 Central Theme:  The work of the Church is to worship God. Introduction–Bring a watch that does not work.  Throw it away.  Bring a straw with a hole in it.  Throw it away.  I ...
  1 week ago

• Jesus deals with me as a person–a sermon for the mentally challenged community

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Jesus deals with me as a person–not a member of a family Matthew 9:37 Central Theme: Becoming a Christian is personal and Jesus deals with my problems as an individual. Introduction–Everyone in a family is different. All families are incompatible. That is, all families have problems with each other.  They are ...
  1 week ago

• Commentary on Worship Questions

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Here is some commentary on the worship questions Special Gathering struggled with during our retreat.  On Friday evening, we listed these in order of importance to us. That is we tried to determine which our teachers and volunteers (our elders) think are important. 1) What do we like? I think often this becomes the ...
  1 week ago

• What Now?

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Because our retreat begins tonight, I will be posting highlights from the retreat regularly.  However, I wanted to post an article I received from Prime Time with God.  I get daily e-mails from them.  If you are interested in receiving these you can e-mail them.  The address is below.  Worship and Work TGIF ...
  1 week ago

• The Special Gathering Retreat Wrestling

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Richard Stimson has come up with a list of questions he developed that which he believes effect how people evaluate worship.  These questions will be the jumping in place for the Special Gathering Retreat held on Friday, October 30 and Saturday October 31.  Here are the questions.  Perhaps you have others that you ...
  1 week ago

• Swine Flu?

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Pam is a member of our Vero program.  She is in the hospital with viral pneumonia, in critical care.  She is also in semi-isolation.  She cannot confirm because she doesn’t know if she has swine flu and the hospital staff cannot tell me.  Pam has no family in the area.  As you probably know, it is not the flu ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wanting more than God

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Have you ever been like Abraham and Sarah?  God had promised something wonderful and you are tired of waiting?  Of course, this impatience only produces an Ishmael that will cause contention and pain for years. Often I tend to blame the Ishmael’s in my life, rather than put the blame for the trouble produced ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Surge in DS pregnancies is matched by surge in terminations’

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 436
  From the [UK] Times, [UK] Telegraph, Reuters, [UK] Daily Mail:A study in the current issue of the British Medical Journal says the number of reported Down syndrome pregnancies in England and Wales has increased more than 70 percent  over the past twenty years as women postpone childbearing.But the number of births ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letter from APD to Family Care Council regarding APD’s Initiatives

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  This is the content of a letter sent from APD signed by Jim DeBeaugrine, Director, to Family Care Council.  It’s a bit of a smooze job.  However, I thought would want to read this.   For some odd reason, it would not copy directly, therefore, I had to type it into the post.  If you would like to give your own ...
  2 weeks ago

• Maryland advocates protest $29 million in disability cuts

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 436
  From the Baltimore Sun:Maryland disability advocates have launched a campaign to reverse $29 million in state budget cuts that would affect more than 20,000 residents with developmental disabilities. They say the vulnerable community is already underfunded.“In good times, we don’t get our share. In bad times, we ...
  2 weeks ago

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