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VISITATION MINISTRY
Special Delivery
In collaboration with our many Joni and Friends Local Ministry offices and local church partners, we provide training and inspirational materials to bring hope, encouragement, and the promise of a genuine relationship with God to those who are hospitalized, homebound, and institutionalized.
In delivering Bibles and other inspirational gifts, the primary gift we share and we want you to share is the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. People in hopeless and helpless circumstances, the “shut in” and the “shut out” need the message of Christ, need you, need family in Christ, and need the hope and encouragement only the Holy Spirit and God’s Word can provide.
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How Can I Participate?
- Contact your nearest Joni and Friends Local Ministry office
- Get permission from your pastor to participate in this program and we will provide some resources and training
- Contact the Special Delivery Outreach Supervisor
- In starting any disability ministry in collaboration with your church, we urge you to purchase and read our ministry development manual Through the Roof
Reflecting upon her dark days in a hospital and rehabilitation center, Joni Eareckson Tada wrote of her Christian friends whole personal visitation ministry to her – reading the Bible, sharing inspirational gifts, eating together, laughing, crying and praying together – made all the difference:
They provided “insight into the same profound message that brought me out of the darkness of depression and changed my life. The profound message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ – the One who provides hope in what seems like hopeless situations, light in darkness, and peace, purpose and power for living… even when you can’t move your arms or legs.”
Get started now in your church. This CD-ROM is packed with sample letters, training materials, posters, how-to guides for recruiting volunteers, making gift packages, keeping records, and more.
Click here to dowload a form for a Special Delivery.
More than one family commented:
"These will be the only Christmas gifts our family will receive this year."
A Bible received through Special Delivery prevented one woman's suicide.
From a Joni and Friends Field Director,
"Special Delivery is one of the best programs we have to work along side our Lord in the Kingdom!" |
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You can make the Special Delivery yourself or provide Joni and Friends information that will allow us to mail or deliver the package. |
