Disability Ministry Practice and Promise

On Wednesday, September 26 at 7:00 PM in join Rev. Bill Gaventa for a presentation and discussion on new resources, promising practices, and problem areas in the rapidly growing movements and initiatives to include people with disabilities and their families in faith communities and in ministry/theological training.

Rev. Bill Gaventa has lived and worked at the intersection of disability, faith, and theology for over 40 years.  He taught a course in Western’s Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry (MN586 Disability, Community Supports and Faith: Foundations and Strategies for Effective Collaboration) and completed and refined his recent book, Disability and Spirituality: Recovering Wholeness (Baylor University Press), while teaching it.  He is also the founder and Director of the Summer Institute on Theology and Disability, which WTS will host this year May 20-23.