Dr. Amy Jacober encourages churches to relentlessly communicate hospitality to parents, particularly lead pastors who have an important role supporting the effort.

Dr. Amy Jacober uses the Shema to explore how every autistic child can bring their very neurodiversity to worship.

Dr. Amy Jacober offers insights for empowering neurodiverse children and youth to express leadership in the church

Dr. Amy Jacober offers key insights to help autistic children adapt to general children’s ministry environments.

Dr. Amy Jacober continues her presentation for Nurturing Care’s day of Learning. Jacober frames her presentation through the Shema and continues with an adaptive model of faith formation that can inform worship and prayer practices with autistic children.

Dr. Amy Jacober presents during Nurturing Care’s Day of Learning. Dr. Jacober, practical theologian and author of Redefining Perfect: Theology in Dialog with Disability, provides an overview of living out worship daily with autistic children. Jacober includes a basic description of autism as unde...

Point Loma Nazarene University Emeritus Professor, Dr. G. Michael Leffel, provides a brief introduction to generative care, the primary virtue that guides both PLNU and Nurturing Care’s virtue formation project on the West Coast. You can read more from Dr. Leffel at the following link https://did...

Point Loma Nazarene Professor, Dr. Ross Oakes Mueller provides a brief overview of the PLNU Moral Integration project. The project provides the basic background for Nurturing Care’s West Coast emphasis on virtue formation with children through worship and prayer practices, nurturing generative ca...

Dr. Dean Blevins, Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship, shares about the changes that have taken place in children's ministry over the last several years, and how we are entering a new period in how we think about children. In addition, Dr. Blevins discusses the work of Nurt...

Dr. Dean Blevins, Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship, briefly discusses three phases in children's spirituality, and how our thinking is changing.

Dr. Dean Blevins, Nurturing Care Director and Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship, explains what is meant by the phrase Maker's Space as this relates to the work of Nurturing Care with Children in Worship and Prayer.

Dr. Dean Blevins, Nurturing Care Director and Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship, shares about the latest Maker's Space event for Nurturing Care with Children in Worship and Prayer, which took place in September 2024.

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 Answer co-founded New Community Church with her husband Daryl. In this clip, Stephanie discusses the ways her son and New Community Church have grown together and integrated an understanding of autism into how they worship.

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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...

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...

A conversation with Kris Mitchell and Kelly Lee on how the local church can practically engage children with autism.

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...