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Spring 2025 Vital Link: "God is in Charge of Making Me"
Welcome to the Spring 2025 Vital Link newsletter from Through the Roof. This issue, we begin our 2025 series exploring the Disability Awareness Sunday theme, 'Made in God's Image'. Download your PDF copy in this more-accessible format with alt text and reading order. As creation springs into new life...
News release: Anxiety levels soar among disabled people!
Proposed cuts to disability benefits are causing rising levels of anxiety among disabled people, according to Through the Roof, the Christian charity that works together with churches and people across all disabilities to advance God’s kingdom. Lynda, a disabled volunteer with Through the Roof, currently receives disability benefits including Personal Independence Payments (PIP), which are designed to help people with...
Know and Grow Makaton training in 2025
Learn a new skill this year... Makaton is a communication programme using symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate. Many churches use Makaton to support people with learning disabilities to be able to access worship and teaching. It is also widely used to communicate with children before they can speak. We had a fantastic Know and Grow Makaton training...
November 2024 Vital Link: “I don’t need working legs...”
Welcome to the November 2024 Vital Link newsletter from Through the Roof. This issue we have a new look! Hope you like the more-accessible purple design. Download your PDF copy of this story-themed issue to: read about Jade and John Reynolds' quest to dispel the stigma surrounding...
News release: launch of Disability Awareness Week 2024
Join the launch on Sunday 15 September The Revd Helen Cameron, President of the Methodist Conference and Moderator of the Free Churches Group, and President of Churches together in England, encourages all churches to celebrate Disability Awareness Week 15-22 September 2024. Helen will share her passion for church disability inclusion by preaching to launch Disability Awareness Week 2024 on 15...
Jade and John Reynolds, The Power of Your Story
On Saturday 28th September 2024 from 10.30am to noon we held a free Through the Roof online event, 'The Power of Your Story,' with Jade and John Reynolds.
New hope and new horizons: Summer 2024 Vital Link newsletter
Welcome to the Summer 2024 Vital Link newsletter from Through the Roof. Download your copy to: read all about lives transformed in Lagos and Delta State, Nigeria, as hundreds are blessed with wheelchairs and Bibles with our partner in mission OIF Nigeria hear about the exciting resources...
News release: Journey with Jesus for Disability Awareness Week 2024
Disability charity Through the Roof is inviting churches to celebrate Disability Awareness Week. Everyone is encouraged to include local disabled people and to hold a service on Sunday 22nd September 2024, or a day of their choice. A free church resource pack is available