News Releases
News Releases sent out from TTR since 2021. Please contact us on info@throughtheroof.org for more details.
News Release: Finding funding for an accessible church
4th May 2023 Disability charity Through the Roof has created a webpage to show churches and ministries where to find funding for building work to improve disabled access. It’s available now on their website and at this link: https://bit.ly/ObtainFunding Katie Mobbs from Through the Roof shares: “I’m a Christian, and a wheelchair...
News Release: Ramping Up Church Disability Inclusion
6 February 2023 With a generous grant from Benefact Trust, disability inclusion charity Through the Roof is ramping up its ‘Roofbreaker’ project to triple the support for disabled people in UK churches. Only 5–10% of disabled people ever hear the gospel in their lifetime (Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization). Our Roofbreakers are local volunteer disability champions who enable disabled people to...
News Release: The Choir of Angels Signs the Way Towards Inclusion of Deaf People
Award-winning Manchester children’s choir both signs and sings to ensure more people can be included. This festive season, a ‘Choir of Angels’ from Sacred Heart & St. Francis parish, Gorton, Manchester, is being celebrated for learning sign language and using drums to help include a deaf member of their church, Minna Moffatt-Feldman (pictured front left). Minna nominated the children for...
“I feel alive! Valued for the disabled person I am" - Celebrate Disability Awareness Sunday
Disability Awareness Sunday Let’s celebrate it in every church! “I feel alive! Valued for the disabled person I am. At last, I feel that I am in a space where I can grow as the person God made.” This is what Sarah said about her sense of belonging at her church. She continued: “They have accepted me for me (without the ‘what’s...
Disability Awareness Sunday in YOUR Church
Let’s celebrate it in every church! Through the Roof invites you to mark Disability Awareness Sunday on a day of your choice). We hope you will take this opportunity to raise awareness of disability inclusion and encourage your church to hold a Disability Awareness Sunday service, or have a disability focus during a church service. Through the Roof has prepared a...
'Disabled People Judged as Not Worth Listening To'
Becky, a 19-year-old with severe disabilities received a standing ovation for her preach to thousands of people at Greenbelt Festival. Yet often her experience is not so positive. Becky says, “Too often disabled people, particularly those with severe disabilities, are judged as not having an opinion that is worth listening to.” Becky was part of a conversation between three young...
Enabling Disability Ministry in Northern Ireland
Ballymena resident, Brian Gault MBE, who was born without arms, will share his journey of faith and disability at an online event for Christians across NI. Brian’s uplifting message will tell how God guided him to help others around the world, which is told in full in his autobiography, ‘Look, No Hands!’ Hosted by Christian disability charity, Through the...
"We Need To Show Another Way”
At a recent online event Jonathan Bryan, who communicates by using eye movements only, encouraged us all that, “As a church community we need to show another way from the norms of society, where disability is often begrudgingly accommodated.” Jonathan communicated every word of his powerful presentation, although it was physically read by his friend, you can watch it...