Big Week for the Reishes: Disability Awareness Week

This week is a big week for the Reishes! Cami (third child, 20, getting married in eight weeks!) is our church’s disability director. This week marks the first-ever Disability Awareness Week at our church. She (and her fiancé Joseph) has been working tirelessly to prepare for the week.

It started off today with a special service dedicated to One Heart and disability. They had Cami’s Thursday night Bible Study group sign a song (“Friend of God”). It was glorious to see over fifty of these special adults joyfully signing, singing, clapping, and smiling!  Then Cami’s “little sister” (in One Heart’s mentoring program) got to help give the announcements, and a young man with Down’s Syndrome got to pray for the offering. They had two promo videos—one with Cami and others explaining One Heart and one announcing the big banquet that One Heart is hosting this week (the Luke 14 banquet—bring the poor, the crippled, the blind that my house may be full).

Then, to the delight of our family, our children (along with others involved in One Heart) performed part of the drama that Kara (fourth child, eighteen) wrote for the Luke 14 banquet. Kara directed it, and she and all three little boys performed in it.

Lastly, a man who lost three of his limbs nearly thirty years ago in a car accident, who is a traveling evangelist with his family (also homeschoolers!) spoke. This afternoon, Cami had a special luncheon for the families involved in One Heart. It was an incredible, rewarding day for all of us.

All week this week, the kids will continue to practice their drama (today they only performed about ten minutes of the thirty minute playlet they will give Friday night) and Cami and Joseph will finish the loose ends associated with the Luke 14 banquet. It looks as though they will serve nearly four hundred people a banquet, along with entertainment and Bible teaching. We are so excited and pleased to see the four younger kids working so selflessly to serve those who are less fortunate and need a loving touch from the body of Christ.

You can see Cami’s One Heart promo, as well as the video about the Luke 14 banquet at the link below. They are September 21^st and September 14^th video announcements. I’m not sure how much longer they will be up there, but they are there now.

Oh, and if you want to teach your children to serve, consider disability ministry. As you will see in the video clip, only five percent of those affected by disabilities are involved in church. There are social programs galore for these people, but they do not simply need more activities—they need to know Jesus—and their families need to know that there are Christians out there willing to give of themselves and help them.

www.firstassemblyfw.org/VideoAnnoucements.php

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