Barrier Free Friendships [Paperback]

Joni Eareckson Tada (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 11, 1997

Each of us knows someone who is hearing, visually, or mentally impaired, or physically disabled. Millions more suffer from invisible disabilities that can be just as devastating. Writing from her own experience as a person with a disability Joni Eareckson Tada joins with her fellow disability advocate, Steve Jensen, to share how you can overcome obstacles that have kept you from becoming friends with those who may be limited by their bodies or their circumstances. Joni shows you how to build mutually fulfilling relationships based on insights into how Jesus related to individuals with disabilities. She also offers story after story of the hope and joy of those who've crossed the barriers, from either direction, and found a lifetime of friends.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

All of us know someone who is hearing, visually, or mentally impaired, or physically disabled. And we also know people who suffer from invisible disabilities that can be just as devastating. How can we help? How can we reach out to these people and encourage them emotionally and spiritually as well as physically? Writing from her own experience as a person with a disability and drawing on the experiences of listeners to her radio broadcast, Joni and Friends, Joni offers thoughtful advice for putting our willing hearts and hands to work. She draws on her knowledge of the Bible to show how Jesus related to physically or mentally impaired people, using him as an example of how we can help those who feel limited by their bodies or circumstances. She explains how we can build vital friendships with people who keenly feel their handicaps - friendships that not only brighten their lives but transform ours as well.

From the Author

Joni Eareckson Tada is the founder and president of JAF Ministries (Joni and Friends), an organization that accelerates Christian outreach in the disability community. Through JAF Ministries, Joni strives to pass on encouragement to other people with disabilities and their families worldwide. Joni is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Heaven and Diamonds in the Dust. Joni and her husband, Ken, have been married for over fourteen years.

Steve Jensen serves as director of outreach for JAF Ministries and is the author of The Disability Awareness Study Guide. He co-founded the Christian Council on Persons with Disabilities and served as executive director of the Christian League for the handicapped. He and his wife, Andrea, live with their three children in Williams Bay, Wisconsin

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan; Revised edition (April 11, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310210070
• ISBN-13: 978-0310210078
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,606,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #40 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Science > Behavioral Sciences > General

More About the Author

Joni Eareckson Tada is the founder of Joni and Friends, an organization accelerating Christian outreach in the disability community that numbers 610 million people worldwide. This organization operates out of the new Joni and Friends International Disability Center located in Agoura Hills, California. Joni is not only an international disability advocate but an artist and the author of numerous bestselling books, including Pearls of Great Price, Diamonds in the Dust, More Precious Than Silver, the Platinum award-winning Joni, Heaven: Your Real Home, When God Weeps, and The God I Love.