The church is not complete without people affected by disability.

It's just like the Bible when you remove disability from the Gospels

from Jesus' life, if you remove disabilities, how much are you taking from the Lord and it's

the church and it does cost love is messy love is messy. It is beautiful though. When you get that glimpse of glory and they get it and they are loved, this is a group of people who have been left behind. Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

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This is family life today. I remember several months ago I was with over 100 women probably 130 women and at the

end of our time together I said I'd really like for those of you that have

children with any kind of disability to stand up and we would like to pray over you and

so all the women in the room gathered around

this women standing, laid hands on them

and prayed that God would equip them,

change them, move them, give them wisdom as they're raising these precious children.

And when we were done, these women could not stop crying because they said, we feel like we're never noticed.

We feel like we're all alone and oftentimes we feel like the church has forgotten us.

And that night I felt like, oh, we need to be aware, we need to help, we need to

minister to these families. And I think that we're missing it in the church many times.

Yeah, I know as a pastor for 30 years.

I missed it.

And we brought some things in to help, but yeah.

Yeah, and we want to help the church not miss it because Jesus doesn't miss it.

And we've got the couple to help us do that here today, Paul and Jill Miller, who leads

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