A place to discuss disability/health issues as they relate to mission.
Accessibility
What issues have you faced with accessibility when travelling and how have you coped with them or worked around them? This would be a good place to share things like: Which airports and airlines have the best accessibility, and which ones to avoid. Tips on how you might get better accessibility (i.e. do they provide assistance if asked?) What you might take with you to help any potential problem situations. To get the ball rolling, here's a great website setup to provide accessibility reviews…
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I'm not sure, but I think this may be the spot to post this information. It certainly has to do with doing missions with a disability! My mission agency has just put up a webpage with a 22-minute video of God's story in my life. It is at https://us.worldteam.org/stories/video-details/bad-legs
My personal goals for it are: 1) As a missionary story it will hopefully encourage others to join the ranks; 2) As a story of God's creating wholeness out of brokenness, my hope is that it can be used to point people to Christ.
We are running an introduction to mental wellbeing for cross cultural workers on 28th February at All Nations College. A great opportunity to learn from health professionals with experience of member care and life overseas
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-wellbeing-an-introduction-for...