Jesus told us to reach out to everyone--and that includes children with special needs and their families. Here are true, inspirational stories from families who share the struggles and successes of parenting children with special needs. Special Needs--Special Ministry is a practical, real-world guide to help you! Learn from the successes and failures of churches with special needs programs; launch or further develop a special needs ministry; and gain insight from Pat Verbal, Louise Tucker Jones and more! View a sample chapter.

Publisher Group Publishing, Incorporated

ISBN-10 0764425471

ISBN-13 9780764425479

Format Trade Paperback

Language English

Publication Year 2003

Number of Pages 176 Pages

Copyright Date 2003

Target Audience Trade

Topic Christian Ministry / Children, Christian Ministry / General, Children with Special Needs

Genre Family & Relationships, Religion

Summer. It's a season of joy. A season of warmth and relaxation. A season of freedom and refreshment, and of watching sparkling waters under a blue sky. We spend time enjoying the ones we love, basking in the sun, strolling on the sand, or exploring new and exciting places. We take a break from our fast-paced schedules, invest in relationships, and give ourselves a chance to breathe. This 90-day devotional will encourage you to spend some time with God being refreshed in his presence. Experience his peace, life, and freedom during this season of joy.

Publisher Broadstreet Publishing

ISBN-10 1424555817

ISBN-13 9781424555819

Language English

Publication Year 2018

Number of Pages 192 Pages

Author Staff Broadstreet Publishing Group LLC., Michelle Winger

Format Imitation Leather

Target Audience Trade

Topic Christian Life / Inspirational, Devotional, General, Christian Life / Devotional

Genre Religion

In this lighthearted guided journal, Daily Mail wine columnist Helen McGinn simplifies wine education for amateur wine drinkers who want to know more about wine and are looking for a fun, easy way to learn. Fifty-two weeks of intuitive fill-ins become a self-taught course in wine-tasting, gleaned from evaluating one new wine each week, combined with McGinn's streamlined explanations of key wine knowhow (what distinguishes common wine styles, how to read wine labels, what wine terminology really means, and more). Users end up with a working knowledge of wine, an understanding of which wines they enjoy and why, the confidence to shop for wine, and a lasting record of all the new wines they've tried over the year. 

A Very Nice Glass of Wine: A Guided Journal

ISBN-13 9781797209807

ISBN-10 1797209809

Format: Paperback

Author: Helen McGinn, N/A

Topic: Wines

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Language: English

Signed: No

Intended Audience: Adults

Genre: Food & Drink

Type: Activity Book

ISBN: 9781797209807

You’re only as great as your relationships. Show me your friends and I will show you your future. There is immeasurable growth and success to be found when you’re surrounded with the right “they." Do you have the right they in your life? Fifty Shades of They gives you fifty simple, yet profound insights that will help any relationship thrive, from friendships to business partnerships to marriages. Based on biblical standards and the teaching of Ed Young, this book is written for anyone who is looking to give new life to their relationships.

Author: Ed Young

Publication date: 02/11/2015

Genre: Christian literature

ISBN 13:

9781942306030

ISBN 10: 1942306032

Binding      Paperback

Do you want to take a risk? Escape? Break out of daily life? Or break through your boundaries? If so, this is the book for you! It's about God's plan for you. It's about your slumbering dreams that are trying to push into your real life. In Hello Future, based on Moses' life, Leo Bigger provides ideas about how you can change little things in your everyday life and experience the adventure with God you eagerly desire. Bigger incorporates true stories from his own life that encourage readers to think bigger, move forward, and take more risks. What's so special about this book? It's the fresh, sassy, amusing, and in-depth way current issues are handled. Nothing is glossed over; everything is direct, honest, and even revolutionary. Hello Future will help you savor your life and encourage you to count on a great God, who intends to bless you in every life situation.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ ICF Media (January 1, 2012)

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 150 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3033032990

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3033032996

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces

Even though he has two million copies of books in print, Robert J. Morgan writes only one short story each year—an original work to share with his church on Christmas Eve. These Christmas stories are now available in one beautiful volume for your own enjoyment. You’ll meet a shy, bookish boy who finds himself center stage in the Christmas pageant, a Pennsylvania family whose car disappears on December 24th, and a mountain man trapped in a blizzard with his grandson on Christmas Eve. From six different settings, you’ll meet characters you feel you’ve known your whole life, who’ll make you laugh one minute and cry the next. So this year, and the years to follow, gather your family and experience the true spirit of love at Christmas through this timeless gift of story.

Author: Robert J. Morgan

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 128

Publisher: Thomas Nelson (October 3, 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 9781404189744

ISBN-10: 1404189742

Weight: 14.4oz

Dimensions: 7.3" x 7.3" x 0.63"

Audience: General/trad

Woman of God: Living Loved, devotion book for women with poppy floral design. 64-page book includes 5 weeks of daily devotions that are quick to read and applicable to everyday life. Book is 4.25" x 6.75".

Published by CTA (2017)

ISBN 10: 1943216193  

ISBN 13: 9781943216192

Used  Softcover  

Title: Living Loved Devotion Book

Format: Gift

Vendor: Christ to All

Publication Date: 2017

Weight: 3 ounces

ISBN: 1943216193

ISBN-13: 9781943216192

• Make Your Mark: A 40-Day Devotional By Gateway Women   ---  NEW

Forty days of devotionals written by women who want to discover how to live a life that impacts those around them. Can be used by individuals or in small-group studies. Whatever your gifts, passions, or stage of life, you can make a mark on people around you. Don't wait for what will be. Instead, begin now. God wants to use you in your everyday life to bless others. Pastor Debbie Morris writes in the introduction: "If you have asked Jesus into your heart, you are accepted. Your quest to make a mark is not to find significance. You have significance. You are loved. You are highly favored. You are known by God. You are special."

Title Make Your Mark: A 40-Day Devotional by Gateway Women

Author Gateway Women

Publisher Gateway Publishing, 2017

ISBN 1945529288, 9781945529283

Length 224 pages

Subjects Religion › Christian Living  › Devotional

Disposable relationships and throw away marriages permeate our culture. When the dream fades and the realities of life set in, many just throw in the towel. In this book, The Creative Marriage: The Art of Keeping Your Love Alive, Ed and Lisa Young take a penetrating look at what it means to have a lasting marriage in today? world. After more than twenty years of marriage, they speak openly and honestly about the hard work involved in a creative marriage and the lasting rewards of doing it God? way.

Author: Ed Young, Lisa Young

Language: English

Edition: 4th Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 199

Publisher: Creality Publishing

Publication Date: 2002-10-01

ISBN: 0972581308

• Unconditional Love: Radical Stories, Real People   ---  NEW

Inspired by the film Unconditional and Papa Joe Bradford's outreach to at-risk children, Unconditional Love gathers real-life stories celebrating the best in ordinary people who have found extraordinary ways to act as the hands and feet of Jesus in their time and place. Through them we see what matters most in this life, we stir our God-made desire to help others in need, and the world becomes a better place.

Papa Joe writes the collection's foreword, starting the conversation about how God's love compels us to show unconditional love for others in ways simple and profound, selfless and yet so rewarding.

We meet a band whose trip to Africa resulted in an effort that has so far provided life-saving water and health care to more than 600,000 people. In Tennessee, an 80-year-old woman works a plan to feed 2,000 homeless each week.

Others give from their own struggles: a teenager who lost his leg raises money to provide other children with prosthetics; a woman whose brother was killed on 9/11 helps Afghani refugees who fled the Taliban feel at home in the United States; a human rights agency rescues victims of slavery and sexual exploitation.

A host of other stories bringing our lives into clearer social and spiritual focus are combined with inspirational quotes, a Bible reading plan, and other tools to encourage further self-discovery and greater personal outreach.

Title Unconditional Love: Radical Stories, Real People

Editor Ben Stroup

Contributor Joe Bradford

Publisher B&H Publishing Group, 2013

ISBN 143367971X, 9781433679711

Length 208 pages

Subjects Religion › Christian Living › Social Issues

Messy Beautiful Love delivers an incredible testimony of grace that offers hope for today’s marriages and a spark for rekindling love. Love gets messy. Financial problems, sickness, aging parents, a chronically unhappy spouse . . . trials will inevitably come that threaten your marriage.

Originally published: September 16, 2014

Author: Darlene Schacht

Title Messy Beautiful Love: Hope and Redemption for Real-Life Marriages

Publisher Thomas Nelson, 2014

ISBN 1400206219, 9781400206216

Length 240 pages

Subjects Religion › Christian Living › Love & Marriage

In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating; then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told that an unknown degenerative disease had left him with the mind of a baby and he probably had less than two years to live. Martin went on to be cared for at centres for severely disabled children, a shell of the bright, vivacious boy he had once been. What no-one knew is that while Martin's body remained unresponsive his mind slowly woke up, yet he could tell no-one; he was a prisoner inside a broken body.

Then, in 1998, when Martin was twenty-three years old, an aromatherapy masseuse began treating him and sensed some part of him was alert. Experts were dismissive, but his parents persevered and soon realised their son was as intelligent as he'd always been. With no memory of the time before his illness, Martin was a man-child reborn in a world he didn't know. He was still in a wheelchair and unable to speak, but he was brilliantly adept at computer technology. Since then, and against all odds, he has fallen in love, married and set up a design business which he runs from his home in Essex.Ghost Boyis an incredible, deeply moving story of recovery and the power of love. Through Martin's story we can know what it is like to be here and yet not here - unable to communicate yet feeling and understanding everything. Martin's emergence from his darkness enables us to celebrate the human spirit and is a wake-up call to cherish our own lives.

Title Ghost Boy

Author Martin Pistorius

Publisher Simon and Schuster, 2011

ISBN 0857203320, 9780857203328

Length 304 pages

Subjects Biography & Autobiography › General

You know that thing when you're in Walmart at noon before you discover you haven't brushed your teeth? Sarah Parshall Perry gets that. She also gets weird things showing up in her bed, her daughter asking for war paint, and her son crawling into a giant blue sock on Christmas morning. Mainly, she gets that conflicted feeling of finding her kids hanging out in the dogs' cages and happily realizing they have stopped getting into trouble for a minute.

According to Perry, "The hardest stuff is the quickest way to God," and readers get to watch the systematic destruction of her carefully planned life, laughing at her missteps, aching at her tragedies, and recognizing themselves along the way. A mother of three children, two of whom are on the autism spectrum, she has experienced plenty of ups and downs, but from the chaos of her "ordinary" life she pulls the universal truths of motherhood, addressing them with humor, poignancy, and a naked honesty that will make the reader think, That sounds a lot like my crazy life. Perry helps mothers realize they aren't alone, even if they've fallen off the straight and narrow of their intended path and are instead lying in the ditch next to it. Life's a mess. But as Perry reminds us, it's all for a purpose.

Perfect for mothers, this book will encourage, inspire, and enlighten.

Title Sand in My Sandwich: And Other Motherhood Messes I'm Learning to Love

Author Sarah Parshall Perry

Publisher Baker Publishing Group, 2015

ISBN 0800724100, 9780800724108

Length 224 pages

Subjects Family & Relationships › Parenting › General