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About Joni and Friends

Since 1979 Joni and Friends has committed to reaching and serving people with disabilities with practical help and the saving love of Jesus. The Joni and Friends International Disability Center in Agoura Hills, California serves as the administrative hub for ministry programs around the world. With every wheelchair and Bible delivered, every retreat and respite event held, and every church mobilized to integrate and honor people with disabilities, Joni and Friends follows the call of Jesus found in Luke 14.

24 Sep

A Prophetic Presence

By Joni and Friends|2025-06-12T14:02:52-07:00September 24, 2020|For the Church|

What if I told you that the Christian church has been silencing a prophetic presence in our midst? Would you write me off as an out-of-touch spiritual...

24 Sep

God Does His Best Work with Empty

By Joni and Friends|2023-08-04T16:27:19-07:00September 24, 2020|Podcast|

It’s amazing how heavy the weight of emptiness can feel, and how much room something that isn’t even there can take up in our souls. Whether due to...

24 Sep

Bringing God’s Love to the Bay!

By Joni and Friends|2024-05-01T09:06:17-07:00September 24, 2020|Inspiration, Stories|

This summer our Bay Area Family Retreat was different due to the pandemic. Unable to hold an in-person Family Retreat, God gave us the idea to host Family...

21 Sep

Beyond the Visa Glitch

By Joni and Friends|2023-08-15T11:31:10-07:00September 21, 2020|Disability in Mission|

"Having to do the harder thing has required us to exercise faith, which put us in a position to experience God’s miraculous provision." I met my husband, Brent, in 1988 ...

17 Sep

How to Be More Inclusive

By Joni and Friends|2023-08-07T08:16:22-07:00September 17, 2020|For the Church, Podcast|

Last week on the podcast, Joshua Fast shared about raising Malakai, his 6-year old son who was born prematurely and diagnosed with myotonic dystrophy and...

16 Sep

The Luke 14 Project: Planting Gospel Seeds

By Joni and Friends|2024-08-23T14:00:12-07:00September 16, 2020|Wheels For The World|

As Luke 14 Project partners you are friends to the lonely and rejected around the world, including children like Puumi in Thailand who are seen as cursed...

15 Sep

Blindness, No Handicap to Training Others

By Joni and Friends|2024-05-24T12:18:37-07:00September 15, 2020|Disability in Mission|

My life didn’t begin with too much promise. A part of that had to do with the circumstances surrounding my birth. I was born three months prematurely. The...

13 Sep

God Sends Grandparents

By Joni and Friends|2023-08-15T11:21:19-07:00September 13, 2020|Inspiration, Stories|

Grandparenting in real time When our daughter was born with Down syndrome, friends weren’t sure how to act. In fact, they weren’t sure they should visit us in the hospital. ...

10 Sep

Looking Back, Springing Forward—Pandemic Pace

By Joni and Friends|2023-11-07T14:04:46-08:00September 10, 2020|For the Church|

Taking a long car ride with small children can be tiring. You might have wondered if the trip would be worth it. You may be asking those same questions as...

10 Sep

God’s Longings

By Joni and Friends|2024-02-19T10:38:21-08:00September 10, 2020|1-Minute Radio Program|

Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada, and I know all too well how unlike my desires are from God's. Too often my desires are all about what I want, or I ...

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