The following issue of ADNotes offers a helpful overview of some of the issues involved in the inclusion of persons with disabilities and mental illness in the life of the community.

ADNotes, February 2006: Building Community (MS Word - .DOC)
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From Exile to Inclusion: A Community for Everyone
by Paul D. Leichty.
This article, which appeared in the February 18, 2003 edition of The Mennonite helps churches think about the issues of including persons with disabilities and mental illness and their families into the life of the congregation. View the article or download a copy of the entire issue in PDF format. Article is on pages 9-11.

This issue of The Mennonite also includes an article entitled "The Lord is my strength: Toward an Anabaptist disability theology" by Erick Sawatzky.

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