Disability Awareness Sunday

All people are 'Made in God's image'

In 2025, the theme for Disability Awareness Sunday is 'Made in God's image'. Join hundreds of churches across the UK - and the world! – to explore and celebrate disability inclusion. 

This year, Disability Awareness Sunday is 28th September 2025. But any Sunday can be Disability Awareness Sunday! Disability Awareness Week from 21st-28th Sept leads up to it. We are planning exciting new resources... coming soon!

Free church service resources

You can register below to receive the new 2025 Disability Awareness Sunday (DAS) service resource free of charge, to be available in April 2025. The 2024 resources and more are still available. Just complete the form below for past resources right now, and new resources soon.

Emily Owen: author of the DAS 2025 resource

We're thrilled that Christian author Emily Owen shares in this year's DAS church resource on the theme ‘Made in God’s Image’ (Genesis 1).  Emily will also share her insights from her own lived experience in the 2025 resource video. Emily lost her hearing overnight aged 21 and has had numerous surgeries. Emily knows what it is to be broken, and she knows what it is to meet God there. But in our brokenness, we remain 'in God's image', as the imprint of God's nature in us all – including disabled and non-disabled people alike.

Join UK churches to hold a Disability Awareness Sunday service or event, celebrating disabled people in our communities as 'made in God's image'. Include a prayer, or play a video story of someone's lived experience of disability, by accessing the free resources. Just register below. 

Register to access resources

FREE resource materials are provided to help you plan and celebrate Disability Awareness Sunday at your church – order them on the form below.

• A new resource pack for 2025 will be available from April on the theme 'Made in God's image', which includes a short video with Emily Owen and a suggested church service outline. Register below and for past resources now, and new 2025 materials by email soon.
• The 'Journey with Jesus' resource for 2024 is currently available, including a short video and a service outline. Register below to access this now.
• If this is your first Disability Awareness Sunday, you may want to use service resource on the Luke chapter 5 'Through the roof' theme which contains a full range of videos, key messages, children's and youth ideas, prayers, and much more. Complete the form below now for access. 
• There are also free disability inclusion leaflets to order for churches in the UK (see foot of page).

To receive your Disability Awareness Sunday materials for 2025 soon, plus past resources now, and other helpful disability inclusion resources in future, please complete this form:

Why is disability inclusion important?

Churches are often not aware of the many barriers disabled people can face on their journey to join, or be fully included, in church communities. Accessibility of church buildings isn’t the only barrier – there are lots of social and attitude barriers too.

In a UK survey, 2 out of 3 people said they felt ‘uncomfortable’ speaking with disabled people, and 3 out of 4 disabled people reported experiencing negative attitudes or behaviour from others (Scope). Together, we can change this! 

What can we do?

Your church can raise awareness of how important disability inclusion is in church – it’s a Gospel issue!

God values each human life equally. Jesus did not make assumptions about 'fixing' the disabled people he met.  He asked Bartimaeus 'What do you want me to do for you?' (Mark 10:51). Jesus did not assume Bartimaeus wanted or needed physical healing. Even if our physical or mental make-up is not the same as others', we are all 'made in God's image'. 

What happens in Disability Awareness Week?

Through the Roof encourages all churches to mark Disability Awareness Sunday, for example with a service or event. But it could be as simple as getting to know a disabled person over coffee.

You can also watch and share Disability Awareness week videos of people's lived experience of faith and disability on our social media channels @TTRChangesLives. Here are the 2024 videos.

The most important thing about Disability Awareness Week is that Christians in churches reach out and include disabled people fully in the life of their community. Join the journey today! 

Register to receive Disability Awareness Sunday service resources by completing the form above. And if you'd like free leaflets about disability inclusion, order them below...