Speech Pathologist and S2C practitioner Stephanie Barton joins with Stephanie Answer, a parent and ministry team leader at New Community Church, to explain how to best understand both nonspeaking and minimally speaking autistic children. Barton utilizes a new method, Spelling 2 Communicate (S2C),...

Stephanie L. Barton, Med CCC-SLP serves as a Speech Language Pathologist helping individuals with Autism and Selective Mutism reach their full potential. She is a practitioner and advocate for providing access to communication utilizing Spelling to Communicate Methodology to those who suffer from...

Stephanie Answer serves as a co-minister with her husband Daryl Answer at New Community Church, a gathering of spiritual families providing holistic ministry in the Ivanhoe neighborhood of Kansas City. https://www.newcommunitykc.church/

Stephanie also champions the use of Spelling 2 Communicate...

Dr. Drew Hart (author of Trouble I've Seen and Who Will Be a Witness?) was invited by a collaboration of churches in the KC Metro to speak at a a conference on racial justice.

Preston Goff shares about the Influenced Event at MidAmerica Nazarene University on March 21, 2024.
Register at http://tinyurl.com/4jmdz53j

Influenced is a live workshop event created by parents for parents. Designed by The Exodus Road, Influenced is full of practical education and action steps ...

Preston Goff, NTS alumni and Vice President of Global Communications at The Exodus Road, hosted a lunch and learn event at MidAmerica Nazarene University on avoiding exploitation in the digital world.

Dr. Dave Sharpes sits down to discuss Wesleyan Songwriting philosophy and methods with Dr. Brannon Hancock, Rev. Danny Quanstrom, and Mike Crawford as they prepare for the upcoming Wesleyan Songwriting Summit.

Register for the conference at: www.wesleyansongwritingsummit.com

In this first session, Dr. van Ommen oriented the audience to the major themes of his most recent book Autism and Worship: A Liturgical Theology.

Dr. van Ommen noted that autistic children are 50-70% less likely to attend religious services than others in their age groups. This statistic merely ...

The second session of our NTS Nurturing Care/KC initiative included a presentation by Dr. Léon van Omme: Non- and Minimally-Speaking Autistic People in Church.

Beginning with a method of having minimally speaking autistic participants indicate via photos what they thought was important in the ch...

Join us for a conversation with Black Nazarene pastors hosted by the NTS Alumni Council about a path toward greater inclusion of persons of color in our Church leadership, liturgy, and mission.

Presenter:
Rev. Dr. Sam Vassel, Metro New York District Superintendent, Church of the Nazarene

Respon...

The first lecture from the Heinmiller Lectures in Spiritual Formation with Dr. Steve Porter and Nazarene Theological Seminary. Dr. Porter serves as the Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of Westmont College’s Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture, as well as Affiliate Professor...

The second lecture from the Heinmiller Lectures in Spiritual Formation with Dr. Steve Porter and Nazarene Theological Seminary. Dr. Porter serves as the Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of Westmont College’s Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture, as well as Affiliate Professo...

The third lecture from the Heinmiller Lectures in Spiritual Formation with Dr. Steve Porter and Nazarene Theological Seminary. Dr. Porter serves as the Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of Westmont College’s Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture, as well as Affiliate Professor...

An interview with Dr. Scott Jimenez on his book and upcoming webinar both entitled, "PTSD: A Theological Approach"
The webinar will run February 6th-March 12th from 6-7pm (Central) on Tuesday nights.
To learn more or register for the webinar go to ntspraxis.org/events

Dr. Dean Blevins interviews Kelly Lee, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Camp Encourage, and Kris Mitchell, LMFT, with the Joshua Center for Neurological on What is Autism.

Kelly Lee co-founded Camp Encourage in 2007 due to the community expressing a dire need for a quality overnight camp opp...

Dr. Dean Blevins interviews Kris Mitchell, LMFT, with the Joshua Center for Neurological Disorders and Kelly Lee, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Camp Encourage

Kris Mitchell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has worked with children since 1992 in various capacities in both ch...

Dr. Dean Blevins interviews Kelly Lee, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Camp Encourage, and Kris Mitchell, LMFT, with the Joshua Center for Neurological on Barriers to Care.

Kelly Lee co-founded Camp Encourage in 2007 due to the community expressing a dire need for a quality overnight camp o...

Dr. Dean Blevins interviews Kelly Lee.

Kelly Lee co-founded Camp Encourage in 2007 due to the community expressing a dire need for a quality overnight camp opportunity for autistic children and due to their leadership in a similar camp in the Kansas City area.

Kelly received an undergraduate de...

Interview with Kris Mitchell (Joshua Center for Neurological Disorders) about autism.

Kris is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has worked with children since 1992 in various capacities in both church and clinical settings. He has overseen programming and events that provided children...

This interview with Rev. Herminia Esqueda and Rev. Irene-Lewis Wimbley talk about the NOW Movement - a Church of the Nazarene grassroots movement for pursuing justice. They also share on the upcoming Praxis webinar that they will be co-leading on Mondays from February 5th-February 26th.