{"id":1686,"date":"2010-07-15T11:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2010-07-15T11:21:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:21:32","slug":"developmental-disability-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/15\/developmental-disability-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Developmental Disability Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Friendship Ministries is a not-for-profit organization that exists to help churches and organizations around the world share God\u2019s love with people who have intellectual disabilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friendship.org\/\">Friendship Ministries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LDM equips the Church to minister with persons who are mentally impaired. Through innovative programs, we evangelize, develop relationships, model servanthood, and disciple leaders<\/p>\n<p>LDM began as an independent ministry serving the Lutheran Church. However, we understand that the mission of LDM is much larger than any single denomination. We are available to assist any Christian congregation to start intentional programs for people that are mentally impaired. Our programs teach the basics of the Christian faith as revealed in God&#8217;s Holy Scripture. As Christians, we are saved by God&#8217;s grace through Jesus Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ldminc.org\/\">LDM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friendship Ministries is a not-for-profit organization that exists to help churches and organizations around the world share God\u2019s love with people who have intellectual disabilities. Friendship Ministries. LDM equips the Church to minister with persons who are mentally impaired. Through innovative programs, we evangelize, develop relationships, model servanthood, and disciple leaders LDM began as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/15\/developmental-disability-ministry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Developmental Disability Ministry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89,99,147,150,165,168],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-injustice","tag-listening","tag-storytelling","tag-teaching","tag-worship","tag-youthwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}