Joyful Access: Worship, Prayer, and Disabled Black Children

Tuesday, January 12, 2027, 7:00-8:30PM ET

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This interactive Disability and Children’s Ministry Resource Group session explores play as a theological practice through which disabled children of color are welcomed to the center of congregational worship and prayer. Participants will experience practical exercises, theological reflection, and peer learning while gaining tools and resources for ministry.

The session is also designed for participants to learn from one another. Following a presentation, participants will participate in break-out rooms to join facilitated small-group conversations to meet other congregational leaders, parents, caregivers, and ministry practitioners; reflect on what they have learned; and share ideas, experiences, and resources. The small-group conversation is an important part of the 90-minute session, so participants are encouraged to stay for the full session.

Price: $25 or register for all 4 sessions for $79 (a savings of $21)

Facilitator

Lakisha R. Lockhart, PhD., a mother, wife, educator, consultant, Womanist play facilitator, and Associate Professor of Christian Education at Union Presbyterian Seminary. Her work integrates faith formation, liberation-focused pedagogy, and play as a transformative spiritual practice. She is the author of Doing Theological Double Dutch: A Womanist Pedagogy of Play and co-editor of Theopoetic in Color: Embodied Approaches in Theological Discourse and Nobody’s Perfect: Redefining Sin and Mistakes in Adolescent Christian Education.
 
 
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