If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has… — Cherie Blair Copy Share Image
Special-needs rescues and older rescues have always had a close place in my heart, because those are the ones that tend to… — Beth Ostrosky Stern Copy Share Image
“When parents don't empower a children's ministry team with information to successfully care for their child, everyone loses.” — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic… — Melanie Bennett Copy Share Image
“On their own, the leader of a church's special needs ministry can't meet every need of every volunteer or participating family. But… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“While we all need to be nudged outside our comfort zone occasionally, it is important for church leaders (and parents!) to recognize… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple… — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
“When a church proactively prepares for special needs inclusion, we make a more seamless integration of the person with special needs more… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“Different people do different things. And no one-way of plugging in or serving in the church is more beneficial or valuable than… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“As church leaders, part of our job is to create ministry where serving is a pleasure. And one way we can do… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“In my view, the ultimate goal for a special needs ministry is to being families into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“People don't expect perfection, but they do appreciate when they see leaders who sincerely try to improve and ask for help in… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
Anyone who has a family member, son, daughter, brother, cousin who has special needs you understand what I mean about unconditional love.… — Brian Flores Copy Share Image
“Of all the goals and outcomes for a special needs ministry, there is one that is most important: To enable parents of… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“If the parents felt they had a healthy line of communication with the children's ministry team and the church was following up… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“Accessibility means more than adding a ramp between the sidewalk and the front door of a building. It includes the ease in… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“Traveling with people who have special needs might present difficulties, but please, let it happen. We all need a break and a… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
“If a church doesn't have the volunteers, the space, and the resources to launch a ministry with every base covered, let's not… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“A diagnosis . . . should not be used to close doors, but rather to open them wider, by making modifications in… — Bonnie Buxton Copy Share Image
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
“The process of reforming the mental health system never includes the complaints that families and caregivers have regarding a need for increased… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
“No one has ever seen the wind. We've only experienced the effects and the results of the wind. And none of us… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“In many cases, special needs ministry is a "business-to-business" ministry. The ministry exists to support other ministries and to help them successfully… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“The big-picture goal of a church's special needs ministry is to facilitate a sense of belonging inside the bigger body of Christ.… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
It's very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with children with any kind of special needs is very difficult. — Paddy McGuinness Copy Share Image
When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me… — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
“As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded with God for one more day, one more week, one more month… — Ariana Carruth Copy Share Image
“The educational and therapeutic settings are all about achievement. But that isn't what a relationship with Jesus Christ is about. He loves… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those… — Lauren Potter Copy Share Image
“Good people disagree on how a church should run virtually every ministry inside a church, and this is especially true for special… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“Remember that mourning is both biblical and healing. Doing anything that might repress a person's need to grieve is both uncaring and… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but… — Elena Delle Donne Copy Share Image
“When a diagnosis is still fresh, do not pressure parents to focus on the positive about the situation. Doing so suggests that… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“Justified and unjustified articles written about how one or many churches fail the individual or the family with special needs can create… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“Being deaf is not a weakness or it shouldn’t be seen as one and that’s what I wanted to get across that… — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
