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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
Luke 5 Award for Parish Nurse Roofbreaker
Through the Roof’s Luke 5 Award celebrates disability inclusion in Christian life. Usually, a disabled individual makes the nomination – to celebrate how an individual, group or church has made a difference by enabling them to access Christian life in some way. This time, we have several disabled people telling of how they are now able to access Christian...
Disability inclusion framework ABC: Spring 2024 Vital Link Newsletter
Welcome to the Spring 2024 Vital Link newsletter from Through the Roof. Download your copy to: read all about our new framework: the ABC Journey of Disability Inclusion, and how to apply it in your church watch our new video 'Understanding autistic meltdowns and shutdowns' and share it with others meet our new Chair of Trustees, Trevor Hahn, as he celebrates...
Book review: Loving Our Own Bones
Becky Clegg, a Roofbreaker with personal experience of disability, reviews 'Loving Our Own Bones: Rethinking disability in an ableist world' by Julia Watts Belser In her latest book, 'Loving our Own Bones', Watts Belser offers a glimpse into disability, aiming to address key questions of inner life and spirituality....
International Roofbreakers in Kerala, India, 2024
Our first International Roofbreaker mission trip to Kerala, India, in January 2024 had a profound impact. It touched the lives of at least 135 disabled people and family members. The trip also addressed the hearts and minds of over 200 local Christian leaders, teachers and students, giving them a more Biblical view of disability inclusion. We were told that very...
News release: ABC journey of disability inclusion
Disability charity Through the Roof is calling on all UK churches to join the ABC journey of disability inclusion, from Access to Belonging to Commission. We are sharing a new framework – the ABC model. It is a simple tool for churches to show that disability inclusion is about more than just access. Disabled people are hugely under-represented in the...
God Grows Our Gifts: Winter 2023 Vital Link Newsletter
Welcome to the Winter 2023 Vital Link newsletter from Through the Roof. Download your copy to: read all about our the latest Wheels for the World work of lives transformed with our partners in Kenya watch our new autism support video and share it in churches, with more videos to come! hear about the launch of Together @ Home, a new...