Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors Program
Inclusion in Worship
Inclusion Awareness Day Workbook 2004
Creating Congregations Where People of All Abilities
Participate
Pathways Awareness Foundation has declared Sunday,
September 26, 2004, Inclusion Awareness Day. The goal is to create caring,
inclusive congregations where people of all abilities can participate.
Through special worship services, sermons and prayers, congregations use the day
to reflect on how well they intentionally include people of all abilities in
worship, ministry, fellowship and education every day of the year.
Congregations of all denominations are invited to celebrate the day in their
houses of worship or to select a date of their own.
The annual Inclusion Awareness Day Workbook
provides material to assist congregations in observing Inclusion Awareness Day.
Print a complete 2004 workbook
(PDF) or click on the pages below
that you are interested in.
Introduction
An Invitation to Participate
Letter for Francis Cardinal George, Roman Catholic Archdiocese
of Chicago (pdf)
Letter from Bishop William D. Persell, Episcopal Diocese of
Chicago (pdf)
Roman Catholic Congregations
Scripture Readings
Homily Hints, by
Reverend Donald Senior
Presentation of Gifts
Intercessory Prayers
Saints With
Disabilities Provide Lessons for Today by Mary Jane Owen
Litany of the Saints
Episcopal Congregations
St. Samuel Schereschewsky
Preaching with
Dignity and Respect
Homily Hints
Presbyterian Congregations
Claiming Our Place
at the Table
For All Congregations
Ten Easy Ways to Communicate Welcome
Access Survey,
National Organization on Disability
Sources
For more ideas and activities: see the
2003,
2002 and
2001
Inclusion Awareness Day Workbooks!
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