We believe that each child is a gift from God and feel called to show Jesus love by ministering to the entire family at Grace Fellowship. We want to provide a buddy for each special needs child during Noah s Ark Adventures Sunday morning Children s Ministry so that the parents can attend adult worship together knowing that their child is safe, loved, and included in the Sunday School class. The buddy helps the child with special needs be successful during Sunday class by being an advocate, helping the child with activities, and especially, by being a friend. Training and guest speakers are scheduled quarterly to help educate both our parents and volunteers. A special needs home group for parents of children with special needs meets on the 1 st and 3 rd Sunday evenings for parents to study God s word together and share their joys and struggles being parents of special needs children.
Child care is provided to enable parents to attend together.
We have many more dreams of ways to minister to our special needs families and are excited about what God has planned for us in 2001. We are praying for God to raise up the volunteer infrastructure to enable this important ministry to occur during God s perfect timing. 16 with any questions.