ELCA News Blog
April 9, 2008
Applications sought for ELCA Accessibility Award
by Frank Imhoff, ELCA News Service
Disability Ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is taking applications through May 31, 2008, for its Annual Accessibility Awards. Two congregations -- one with more than 300 members and another with fewer than 300 members -- will be honored this summer for their commitment to provide care and concern among people who are living with disabilities. Each winner receives a grant of $1,000 from the ELCA Mission Investment Fund and the National Organization on Disability, and a plaque from ELCA Disability Ministries through ELCA Vocation and Education.
"Disability ministries helps congregations to be accessible," said the Rev. Lisa Thogmartin Cleaver, director for disability ministries, ELCA Vocation and Education. "The accessibility award is given one time a year to the congregations that are most physically accessible, have the most programs and resources and serve the whole population of the physically, mentally and developmentally delayed," she said.
Applications for the ELCA Accessibility Award are judged according to the physical accessibility of the congregation's church building, the congregation's outreach into the community to people who have disabilities, and the inclusion of people with disabilities in the worship and daily life of the congregation.
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John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news ELCA News Blog: http://www.elca.org/news/blog