Final Words…

 

I would like to speak directly to people with disabilities.  It doesn’t matter whether it’s ADD, CP, Downs, paraplegia or quadriplegia or any other disability, you have incredible gifts and you don’t need to wait for the elevator to participate in the ministries here at St. Joseph’s.

 

If you sing, join one of the music groups.  If you have a wonderful smile, be a greeter or a Eucharistic Minister.  If you have a nice speaking voice, be a lector. Lectoring doesn’t require reading from the Ambo—a microphone can be attached to wheelchairs, lap boards can hold lectionaries, and there are even brail lectionaries for the blind.  Or perhaps you have secretly yearned to be an altar server—this just might be your day!

 

If you feel you are being called, please don’t say, “I can’t do that.”  Say “I think I can” and call the office or the ministry coordinator listed in the bulletin and talk it over with her or him to see how you can participate.  The coordinator can’t know your gifts by looking at you—you are going to have to come forward.  Our ministries are incomplete without your gifts.  Of course this applies to everyone—not just people with disabilities.

 

If your disability is such that joining one of the active participation ministries is out of the question, please become an ardent prayer support person.  You might commit to your favorite ministry by calling the coordinator and telling them of your intention to pray and give them the opportunity to contact you when special prayers are needed.  Prayer is one of the greatest gifts you can share with the “action people” who implement our ministries.

 

God bless you and thank you for all your love and support to the People with Disabilities Ministry.

 

 

 

 

 

Gay Pollock