It is exciting to see more and more churches begin to reach out to children impacted by physical, intellectual, and sensory disabilities. Children’s ministry leaders have begun to intentionally vary modalities and teach to different learners within their classes and programs. Making allowances for preferred learning styles, taking into account each child’s strength and weakness, and realizing the need for sensory rich programs benefits all children, not just the child with special needs.
Like all children, those with disabilities grow up. What happens to the child who has now aged out of children’s ministry programs? Where will …
How would describe some of the rewards of leading a multi-ethnic church to pastors who have spent their vocational lives within a homogeneous church?
For eighteen years prior to planting Mosaic I served homogeneous congregations. Like my friends and colleagues serving such churches today, I was blessed on numerous occasions to experience God working in and through me for his glory. Nevertheless, my wife and I have found an inimitable dimension of the …
I am excited to be part of NOC 2010. To listen and to learn from leaders and pastors who have a heart for reaching out. It is such a great time to connect with friends, learn and recalibrate our hearts and our churches to be about reaching and loving our communities.
At one of the …
As a grassroots agent of outreach, I like to naturally connect with people. Often, this progression of relational evangelism is good and fruitful, but sometimes it can impair the supernatural move God desires to make at any given moment.
The first time I experienced this miracle was in the late ‘90s. Fresh out of college, I moved to Atlanta …
Diversity isn’t just a social issue, it’s a biblical one.
An Out of Ur interview with Mark DeYmaz
Mark DeYmaz is the founding pastor of Mosiac Church of Central Arkansas, author of Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church and co-founder of the Mosaix Network. Mark’s recently published second book, Ethnic Blends, addresses some of the unique challenges faced by multi-ethnic churches. Urthling, David Swanson, spoke with Mark about the theology and challenges of multi-ethnic ministry.
In the …
