Dan Vander Plaats assited with volunteer training at Special Connections in September of 2016.
Evelyn McMullen reports that they use The 5 Stages as they assist churches in starting up disability ministries.
Todd Krygsheld reports he is using The 5 Stages to change attitudes towrad people living in poverty.
Joni and Friends has made freuent use of The 5 Stages, including:
Michelle Moujaes is using The 5 Stages in their production of a disability ministry book for orthodix churches.
Barb Newman of CLC Network trained seminar participants in using The 5 Stages to change disability attitudes.
Andrew Ippel used The 5 Stages to train people from a church that meets on the campus of Nicaragua Christian Academy
Sophia Nicholls of the Seventh Day Adventist Church reports using The 5 Stages in seminar trainings in local and regional events across the United Kingdom.
Dan Vander Plaats will be presenting an interactive workshop on The 5 Stages at the IN Conference on April 15 & 16, 2016. http://in2016.org
Two friends of Elim will be travelling to Arad to teach about the inclusion of people with disabilities, and they will be using The 5 Stages as a teaching tool.
http://www.harvestbiblechapel.org/10780/ministry/ministry_id/466659/Short-Term-Missions
Shannon Dingle, of Key Ministry, shared The 5 Stages as part of the "A Church For Everyone" conference on April 9, 2016.
http://btmcallen.com/event/a-church-for-everyone/
Marvin Miller used The 5 Stages as a resource within his doctoral thesis entitled "SERVING PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: A COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE PERCEPTION OF FAMILY CAREGIVERS AND KANSAS MINISTRY NETWORK CREDENTIAL HOLDERS"
http://www.agts.edu/dmin/project/Sample%20Abstracts/Miller_READER_APPROVED_01_26_16_MJM_FINAL.pdf
Dan Vander Plaats, Director of Advancement at Elim Christian Services, shared The 5 Stages at a Disability Concerns conference at Maranatha CRC in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.
April 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
November 2015
Dan Vander Plaats shared The 5 Stages tool with an Elim Christian Services mission team that travelled with members of the Faith Church - Dyer team.
June 2010
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Young Life staff
December 2015
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with Jen Zink of the Kurt Warner Foundation
January 2016
Brad Mowry, Young Life Eastern & Greater NY Divisional Capernaum Coordinator shared The 5 Stages with the Kurt Warner Foundation
January 2016
The Chicago Office of Joni and Friends brought an Amharic translation of The 5 Stages to Ethiopia. It is now used as part of Chirch Disability Training there.
Joni and Friends
Inclusive Church Workshop
September 20, 2014
The 5 Stages is used in the Introduction to Sped Generalist course for adult learners at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Colorado.
Evelyn Dita has used The 5 Stages as a disability ministry tool in Indonesia.
Wendie Benton brought The 5 Stages on a mission trip here in July 2014.
Rev. Gerry and Mrs. Laura Koning shared the Spanish translation of "the 5 Stages" alongside Spansih translations of "The Inclusion Handbok" on a mission trip in the summer of 2014.
Milt Stoltzfus gives give each of our their new Team Members a copy of "The 5 Stages" during the “Spirituality and Disability” training that he leads in Team Member orientation. He has also shared it with all current Team Members (over 350) and have received positive responses. Finally, Milt has shared it with other disability ministries that are a part of a coalition called the Lancaster Christian Council on Disabilities.
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