Joni and Friends: From a Founder's Heart to a Fledgling Worldwide Disability Missions Ministry
This paper documents the history of Joni and Friendsas a worldwide missions ministry to people with disabilities which, in 2005, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The organization's ministry, while initially an outgrowth of one person's struggle with a disability (Joni Eareckson Tada), deve...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2006
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Journal of religion, disability & health
Year: 2006, Volume: 10, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 171-194 |
Further subjects: | B
Joni Eareckson Tada
B Asia B Europe B Africa B Joni and Friends B disability in developing countries B disability in former communist countries B Wheels for the World |
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Summary: | This paper documents the history of Joni and Friendsas a worldwide missions ministry to people with disabilities which, in 2005, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The organization's ministry, while initially an outgrowth of one person's struggle with a disability (Joni Eareckson Tada), developed into a worldwide ministry of witness and service in which evangelical witness was deemed as important as providing wheelchairs to the persons needing them. Gradually, the ministry has grown to a point where ministries in the United States and around the globe function independently yet in a highly integrated manner with the Joni and Friends International Disability Center. Especially significant is its focus on the needs of people with disabilities in developing and formerly communist nations. |
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ISSN: | 1522-9122 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, disability & health
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1300/J095v10n01_12 |