Your Life of Service is an Example of Christ
Q&A with Bart Wilson, former Wheels for the World Shop Supervisor at Metro-Davidson Detention Facility in Tennessee. Bart jumped into the adventure of...
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Oct
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Aug
At the Beginning
In 1979 when I moved to California to begin Joni and Friends, the staff included me and two co-workers – but we had a big dream, and knew that we ...
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Jun
Praying for Poland
If you’ve been around for very long, you know we are always asking you to pray! For the next ten days, Joni and Friends is sending a Wheels for the ...
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Apr
Keep up the pursuit
Sometimes we can miss a powerful lesson, if we read too fast. And I'm glad Ken and I were reading slowly when were in the book of Judges. Because in ...
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Apr
Andrea’s Wheelchair
Andrea is eight years old and lives with her grandparents. When she was just a baby, her parents gave up trying to care for her. Why? Because Andrea has a ...
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Apr
Tools to Go
At Joni and Friends, we talk a lot about wheelchairs. But we know that’s not the only thing that can help people get around. There are things with wheels and ...
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Feb
A Funny Thing Happened at Walmart…
My friend Don has lived as a quadriplegic in a wheelchair almost as long as I have – and I'm always inspired by his upbeat, positive attitude (plus he and ...
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Dec
Come Take a Tour!
Just recently we held a Christmas tea for all the women who serve as docents at our International Disability Center — these girls love telling the Joni and Friends story ...
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Dec
Maria in Tanzania
Can you imagine lying on a blanket all day, or being carried about on a wooden chair or in a sack? It’s the way many people with disabilities live in ...
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Nov
Thank You, Hospital Volunteers!
Not long ago, the leaders of the volunteer-auxiliary at Los Robles Hospital (where I went for my cancer surgery) came by the International Disability Center to present a gift of ...