October 22, 2015

October is Inclusion Awareness Month!

October is Inclusion Awareness Month, let us come together to celebrate the gifts shared by persons with disabilities in our churches.

“Every child and adult with special needs, every unwanted unborn child and every person who is “poor, weak, abandoned or homeless” is “an icon of God’s face and a vessel of his love,” said Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput.

“How we treat these persons — whether we revere them and welcome them, or throw them away in distaste — shows what we really believe about human dignity, both as individuals and as a nation,” Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. Read full article

Materials to help you celebrate can be found at the Inclusion in Worship website.