What are we unintentionally doing that's making it hard for you guys to attend as a family?

You come up with solutions for that one family, and then it's easier to come up with solutions

for the next family and the next family. And God weaves church families together in ways that

benefit the whole body.

And so even at our church in Pennsylvania that was 125 people,

he had already placed people in that church who could meet the need

once the need was made known.

Sandra Peoples is the Disability Ministry Consultant for the Southern Baptist of Texas Convention

and an adjunct professor at Liberty University teaching classes in disability ministry.

She's also currently a PhD student at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,

and she and her family live outside of Houston,

Texas. Sandra, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossplay podcast.

Yeah, I'm so excited to be with you.

So you've written this amazing book called Accessible Church, and the whole focus of the book

is helping churches, helping pastors and ministry leaders and everyday attenders to take maybe a step

forward when it comes to loving those with various disabilities who might be in their congregation.

And we're going to get into some of the ideas that you share in that book and the advice

and the encouragement that you offer. But I think before we jump into some of those topics, it's probably

helpful to go back a little bit and hear more about you and your own personal story.

Because your family, you're from a family that has experience with some disability. So I

wonder if you could just start by telling us a little bit more about yourself.

Yeah, sure. So I grew up with a sister with Down syndrome. And she was my big sister. And so I have never not been in a family impacted by disability.

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