In addition to the resources listed here, contact your church or denomination for information. National and international offices of world faiths and denominations provide information on accessibility and worship and education resources. You can contact your clergyperson or search the internet for information on your faith or denomination.

Tennessee Interfaith Resources

All God's Children has as its mission opening the doors, lives, hearts, and minds of Nashville's congregations to children with special needs. For information contact the Junior League Family Resource Center atVanderbilt Children's Hospital.

Christian Church Foundation for the Handicapped (CCFH) provides materials designed to help faith groups include people with a variety of abilities.

The Junior League Family Resource Center's Faith Community Support offers a variety ideas, agencies, and other resources to improve care for children with disabilities or special health care needs and their families within any faith community.

Joni and Friends is a Christian ministry geared toward disability outreach with an area ministry in Knoxville, TN. Joni and Friends' programs include an annual Family Retreat and a Wheels for the World ministry. Their 'Fellowship of Friends' meets regurlarly to encourage disability ministry at the local church level.

Just As I Am is an organization dedicated to serving children, youth, and adults with disabilities and their families through education, therapy, research, and supportive services.

Stone Soup is a part of the Redeemer Fellowship family in partnership with Judson Baptist Church in Nashville, TN. Stone Soup offers many programs intended for families of children with all abilities to fellowship together around a high quality, learning focused approach to life.

National Interfaith Resources

Accessibility and Inclusion: An Interfaith Resource List. A list of publications compiled by the Health & Welfare Ministries, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church.

Accessible Faith: A Technical Guide for Accessibility in Houses of Worship is a 50-page national guide is designed to:help congregations navigate building-related code requirements for accessibility, identify design solutions for common physical, auditory, and visual barriers and provide technical guidance on planning, financing, contracting and incorporating access into their houses of worship.

Disability, Art, and the People of God is a resource book for organizing exhibitions by artists with disabilities in local congregations. It includes information on why to show art by persons with disabilities in local congregations, equipping a congregational space for showing works of art, finding artists with disabilities in your community, organizing, installing and publicizing the show, and hospitality to artists and viewers.

DISC! Disability Concerns is for persons living with physically or mentally challenging conditions, their friends, families, caretakers, lay associates, and clergy. They offer information related to disability concerns, yet add the dimension of spiritual care. They have material on developmental disabilities, mental illness, creative writing by or related to persons with disabilities, and resources in the area of disability ministry for both individuals and faith communities on their web site and e-mail list.

Family Village Worship Center includes religious/faith/spiritual resources for those who have disabilities. Resources are "General Worship Resources" and "Educational Worship Resources."

Let All the Children Come to Me, written by MaLesa Breeding, Dana Hood, & Jerry Whitworth, is a guide to including children with disabilities in church ministries.

Religion and Disability Program, National Organization on Disability, Now in its 12th year, this program is an interfaith effort that urges local congregations, national denominations groups and seminaries to identify and remove barriers to worship that alienate people with disabilities. In addition to supporting community-based conferences, the program is sponsoring the Year 2000 Accessible Congregations Campaign, and has published three handbooks: That All May Worship, Loving Justice, and From Barriers to Bridges.

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Site for Accessibility Information provides information on Jewish disability-related resources, hearing and visual impairments, other Jewish resources, and low-cost solutions to barrier removal.

WheelchairNet: Accessibility in Places of Worship. Provides links to information on Accessible congregations, Some examples of accessible worship communities, and a Wheelchairs and Worship Discussion.