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“God’s Vision: The Great Dinner is Open to All.”

Widening the Welcome 2013

Inclusion for All

Pre-Synod Event
Renaissance Long Beach Hotel

Thursday, June 27, 2013

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Widening the Welcome 2013: A one day national gathering developing the life of congregations to include persons with disabilities and persons with mental illnesses/brain disorders and their families.

Churches usually have a welcome sign outside their building. What we want to demonstrate and encourage is the welcome that is experienced inside the church and as a result, that transformative power will be released into the world. As we read, “practice hospitality,” this conference seeks to build up our churches to be welcoming and inclusive communities. This includes people who have been touched by or have experienced a mental illness/brain disorder and/or a disability, apparent or unapparent. National statistics indicate that at least one out of four families are in some way affected by these experiences.

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