Source: Joni and Friends, Hendrickson Publishers, The Lausanne Movement<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry, sir, that the only person who responded to your invitation to give themselves to serve the Lord in mission was the little crippled girl who could never do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The apology came after a service in my little rural church. It was about me. When I was five years old, polio had profoundly weakened me. Now 12 years old, using my crutches and braces, I had walked down the aisle to say, \u201cYes, I believe the Lord wants me to be a missionary someday.\u201d Logically, it looked like an impossible dream, but the speaker looked the other gentleman in the eye and said, \u201cWhom the Lord calls, He will use.\u201d Those words could not be a truer description of my experience of disability in mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00bb That\u2019s the story of Elinor Young, and one of several recently shared in a new blog series on disability in mission<\/a> from Joni and Friends. To learn more about Elinor, watch World Team\u2019s 2015 video, Bad Legs: A Story of God Using One Woman\u2019s Weakness for His Glory<\/a> (YouTube).<\/p>\n \u00bb Check out the Disability Concerns<\/a> network at Lausanne, and\/or pick up the 2019 book Disability in Mission: The Church\u2019s Hidden Treasure<\/a>, edited by David C. Deuel and Nathan G. John. Looks like these blog posts are excerpts from the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Joni and Friends, Hendrickson Publishers, The Lausanne Movement \u201cI\u2019m sorry, sir, that the only person who responded to your invitation to give themselves to serve the Lord in mission was the little crippled girl who could never do it.\u201d The apology came after a service in my little rural church. It was about me. … Continue reading BLOG\/BOOK: Disability in Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9510,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions\/9510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}