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Camper Baptized Following Every Child Belongs Camp
Camper Baptized Following Every Child Belongs Camp

Every Christian parent longs for his or her child to be baptized, but for some families, that's not easy as it sounds, particularly for children impacted by disability. Learn about Kim Stillwell and her daughter Katie’s baptism story when they attended the second annual Every Child Belongs Camp last summer.

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Banquet Network Brings NTS to Dominican Republic
Banquet Network Brings NTS to Dominican Republic

The Banquet Network’s (TBN) work in the Dominican Republic (DR) was recently highlighted in an article by the BCMD. Learn about TBN’s new partnerships in the DR through the perspective of a dedicated volunteer, Alisha Williams, and our Executive Director, Katie Matthews.

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Celebrating Disability
Celebrating Disability

This week, I celebrated my 9th anniversary of being blind. Some may read that sentence and wonder why I said “celebrated.” But in fact, I celebrate the day that I was admitted to the ER with a rare autoimmune condition (TENS) that eventually led to my vision impairment every year. Most of the time, my “TENS-iversary” celebration includes a fancy dinner, enjoying the warm glow of sunset, reflecting on what God has done through the years as we scroll through pictures and journal entries, and creating an “ebenezer” to commemorate what God has done.

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Code Switch
Code Switch

One of the goals of The Banquet Network is to inspire people and churches to consider people with disabilities as a people group. We are urged to this by the example of Jesus who refers to the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind as identifiable categories of people (see Luke 14:13). We want to notice people and social dynamics like Jesus did. We want others to see the distinct characteristics of people with disabilities, how they relate to the world, and how they relate to others.

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Outcasts
Outcasts

How cool is your church? Is it filled with people who have many material possessions? Is it filled with highly resourced, comfortable, successful, powerful people? It is a common sentiment throughout the years and in our current day, as the Church, to try hard to be relevant and “cool” by these worldly standards.

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