Creating a place of true belonging for every child and young person with additional needs, church become better for us all.

Inclusion is about the church taking positive action, not expecting a child, young person, or adult, to ‘fit in’.

We must be careful not to offer guarantees that the text does not yield. 

“I’ll only be five minutes…” or “I’m in a hurry…” are some of the justifications given.

Take anxiety and worries seriously. It’s easy to put their concerns off, or to convince ourselves that ‘they will be fine’.

Perhaps if we dig a little deeper, we might realise that we are only acting on a part of the story; we’ve missed some vital information, and our response needs to be very different.

Let’s  do all we can to be the difference for every child and young person who chooses to journey with us.

Pray that God will give you the faith, persistence and determination to keep on praying, even when we seem to be getting no response.

Only two weeks before the general elections, the Spanish government uses the European Union Presidency to promote gender self-identification across the continent.

“We contributed to the perpetuation of slavery, through our theology we justified the abuse”, said a Protestant leader. The Dutch king also apologised.

Due to his various additional needs, James doesn’t really ‘get’ birthdays, but that didn’t mean that we would let the day slip by unnoticed…

While many of us love these films, we need to acknowledge the messages they can give to our children and how these messages can strongly influence them.

Items that can be helpful in supporting children and young people with a range of additional needs.

An exhibition of the well-known artist Markus Lüpertz depicts the freely interpreted biblical story of creation.

If we want a cinema of values, that teaches the world what we believe and how we can respond to the situations we face, we need to support what is out there.

An accessible bible study series journeying with Jesus through the three times he was tempted by the devil.

Write down what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what maybe you could be rewarded for.

With better understanding about our many sensory processing difficulties, and the right strategies, every leader can learn to make all that they do inclusive.

James could visit a small number of familiar safe places but couldn’t go into anywhere new that we have started to visit since epilepsy arrived. Last week, for the first time in five years, that changed.

A draft law aims to cancel the Prayer Day as a public holiday to increase the defence budget. “There is more at stake than a public holiday”, say religious leaders.

How about thinking about whether our church, meets the needs of children and young people with additional needs and their families?

Jesus didn’t exclude any of the children. He wants to get to know them, to love them, to rescue them, to journey through life with them.

“There is a huge range of ways that Christians can make a difference”, says Mark Arnold, who works supporting ‘additional needs’ families in the UK.

The more we practice at supporting children and young people with additional needs, the better we will get too.

More than 140 preachers from different evangelical denominations encouraged each other to preach from the Word of God to today's culture. Chris Wright, Mark Meynell and Alex Chiang participated.