Empowering Families and Restoring Hope for People with Disabilities
In 2024, Joni and Friends Illinois served 145 families struggling with disability at Family Retreats, and 12 couples living with disability...
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Dec
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Dec
Christmas Eve
Imagine walking through your front door and inhaling the mouth-watering aroma of Christmas turkey roasting in the oven...
23
Dec
A Lesson From Mary
In the Christmas story in Luke chapter 2, just look at what Mary does. After the shepherds came racing to the stable, hands waving, all...
23
Dec
Family Retreat: Transforming Lives with Love and Support
Josiah, who has Down syndrome, started coming to Family Retreat in 2011. His mother, Julie, says, “The rest is history!”...
22
Dec
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Ask people just who baby Jesus is, and you'll be surprised at the answers you hear. What child is this? Well, think of the answers people in the Bible...
20
Dec
Family Retreat: Where Families Facing Disability Find Love and Belonging
God uses life experiences to impact peoples’ hearts in wondrous ways. God has used disability to do a work in the hearts of Scott, Christina, and...
19
Dec
Be Holy
It was only our high school madrigal choir singing a Gregorian chant. But the beautiful, haunting discords and harmonies in the minor keys swelled my...
19
Dec
God’s Love and Hope for Families with Disabilities
I am so ready to celebrate our Savior’s birth with you, and I’m praying a fresh level of joy will fill our hearts and homes...
18
Dec
A Laughing Lord?
The Son of Man was completely and utterly human, which means of course that he experienced the entire range of human emotions—emotions untainted by sin...
18
Dec
The Church Shines in the Snowy Mountains on Christmas Eve
When it comes to the artistry of my painting Christmas Eve Night, the entire piece is a play on temperature, contrasting a warm, golden glow inside...
