By a member of SCDG. This article is available as a Word Document, Word and as a PDF Document PDF A local church has devised a new way under lockdown of letting its members listen to its church services. By providing this option, the church is including someone who is visually impaired, and others…
DetailsHow can we help people to enjoy church more. We do not provide answers for everyone. We are all different because that is how we were created. Our section ‘Hints and Tips’ does not guarantee to solve everone’s problems. But they have helped someone at some time. Even if they only help one or two…
Details“Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you” Romans 15: 7 Jesus is for everyone Worship is for everyone All are welcome How do our places of gathering, the way we worship and our activities reflect this? To make our communities and worship more inclusive we need to give reasonable consideration to how…
DetailsProfessor June Andrews Introduction Being a dementia friendly church is about much more than the physical building. It is about how the church welcomes people with dementia and their carers. It is about how you support them and help them to worship in spite of the common trials and tribulations that dementia brings. You can…
DetailsThe title for this section comes from information sent to: websiteeditor@scdg.org.uk This was very gratefully received as it covers areas we have not yet included. There are different subject areas and these are shown separately Advice to churches from parents of children with additional needs: advice-to-churches Five ways to support autistic children in church: support…
DetailsThe team from Disability and Jesus have put together an impassioned plea for churches to apply three principles in all the literature they produce: Accessible Cool Equal Their argument is based on two premises: firstly, that many visually impaired people are embarrassed to acknowledge their difficulty in reading and go to some lengths to cover it…
DetailsSt Margaret’s Parish Church in Glenrothes has been honoured with the ‘Dementia Friendly Glenrothes’ award from Alzheimer Scotland, which was presented at their monthly All Age Celebration Service on Sunday 2 September. The accolade was bestowed on them for their work to improve accessibility in their church for those with dementia. Rev Eileen Miller of…
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