{"id":25216,"date":"2025-05-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25216"},"modified":"2025-05-12T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T23:25:09","slug":"new-bible-study-curriculum-from-adn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/new-bible-study-curriculum-from-adn\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bible study curriculum for adults with intellectual disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A release from the Anabaptist Disabilities Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADN) has published <em>The Story of God\u2019s First People: Bible Stories from the Old Testament<\/em>, a Bible study curriculum for youth and adults with intellectual disabilities. Written by Jeanne Davies, ADN executive director, this Bible study fills the need for faith formation resources written from an Anabaptist perspective specifically for youth and adults with intellectual disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congregations who seek to include people with disabilities in their faith communities can use this Bible study in group or individual settings to foster spiritual growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally released as a part of the Believing and Belonging accessible Anabaptist membership curriculum, these Bible studies are dedicated to Peter Graber in recognition of his many years of service to the ADN board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study includes six lessons covering key figures in the Old Testament. Each story features a captivating illustration by Dona Park that incorporates people of various genders and races, as well as people with visible disabilities, so readers can see themselves in God\u2019s story. Lessons also involve a &#8220;do&#8221; portion, with action items that provide a \u201clearning through doing\u201d approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bible study is available for purchase from Brethren Press at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/product_p\/9798988573432.htm\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.brethrenpress.com\/product_p\/9798988573432.htm\">www.brethrenpress.com\/product_p\/9798988573432.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"471\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/TheStoryOfGodsFirstPeople-600px-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/TheStoryOfGodsFirstPeople-600px-copy.jpg 471w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/TheStoryOfGodsFirstPeople-600px-copy-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/cds-volunteers-support-kerrville\/\">CDS volunteers support \u2018Faith and Fellowship\u2019 memorial event in Kerrville<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/pastors-ordained-in-south-sudan\/\">Pastors ordained for Church of the Brethren ministry in South Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/speakers-for-nyc-2026\/\">The speakers for National Youth Conference 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-and-the-declaration\/\">Brethren and the Declaration of Independence: Denise Kettering-Lane presents an equipping session<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/god-of-grace-and-god-of-glory\/\">\u2018God of grace and God of glory\u2019: A call to worship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADN) has published The Story of God\u2019s First People: Bible Stories from the Old Testament, a Bible study curriculum for youth and adults with intellectual disabilities. Written by Jeanne Davies, ADN executive director, this Bible study fills the need for faith formation resources written from an Anabaptist perspective specifically for youth and adults with intellectual disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[2098,1673,1724,49,1276,2610],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-adn","tag-anabaptist-disabilities-network","tag-bible-study","tag-brethren-press","tag-disabilities","tag-discipleship-and-leadership-formation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25218,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216\/revisions\/25218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25216"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}