Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Anglican Youthworks is an Australian Christian not-for-profit organisation based in Sydney.Youthworks oversees three divisions, each of which contributes to the organisation's mission: to support the teaching of the gospel in schools and churches, particularly to families. [1]
Prospects is a Christian charity in the United Kingdom whose aim is to support learning disabled adults, and to enable them to reach their full potential. It was founded in the mid-1970s by David Potter, a Christian minister, who was drawn to the needs of these adults because he and his wife had a daughter with Down syndrome.
In the Middle Ages, there were two prevailing approaches to those with disabilities. Some priests and scholars took the view that disability was a punishment from God for committing sins, as is often described in the Bible. Others believed that those with disabilities were more pious than non-disabled people. [16]
Young Life is an evangelical Christian organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which focuses on young people in middle school, high school, and college.. Week-long Summer camps are a major focus, and these have a definite evangelizing aspect. [3]
Some of the disabled and needy kids have been adopted by new parents with the help of the Christian Care Foundation. [2] There are former CCD children living in the UK, USA, Australia, Europe and in Thailand. Donors to CCD are private citizens, humanitarian organizations, business companies, religious organizations. [3]
Because the law does not clearly state to what degree the least restrictive environment is, courts have had to interpret the LRE principle. In a landmark case interpreting IDEA's predecessor statute (EHA), Daniel R.R. v. State Board of Education (1989), it was determined that students with disabilities have a right to be included in both academic and extracurricular programs of general education.
His Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader, [42] which he prepared with John Swinton was the subject of a special edition of the Journal of Religion, Disability & Health. [43] The project he has been working on for over a decade, a theological account of disability, was published in 2019 as Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and ...
Koinonia is not focused on academic research and instead is a magazine which tries to "explore student culture, and share and learn from each other’s experiences, best practices, and stories". [2] GROWTH has a more academic focus, and provides a place for Christian authors to publish academic student development research.