A Place for All
Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities
A Place for All: Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities explores the courageous stories of persons with disabilities as they succeed in making their faith communities truly inclusive. It features people such as members of the ELCA’s
DAYLE program where Definitely Abled Youth gather at the 40,000 strong
triennial
ELCA Youth Gathering in New Orleans; Rabbi Darby Leigh, spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai Keshet in New Jersey and one of the handful of deaf rabbis in the world; Pastor Beth Lockard, the leader of Christ the King Deaf Church; and Brandon Kaplan, a severely disabled boy with limited sight and speech who recently had the privilege of becoming a Bar Mitzvah.
Interviews with leaders of faith groups include: the Rev. Bill Bixby, Director for Youth Ministry, ELCA; Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rabbis; Bishop Peggy Johnson of the United Methodist Church; the Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America; the Rev. Bill Gaventa, Director of Community and Congregational Supports at The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Imam Mohamed Magid, Executive Director, All Dulles Area Muslim Society and Rabbi Robert Levine, Senior Rabbi, Congregation Rodeph Sholom, New York.
NBC stations nationwide began airing the program November 14, 2010, as part of NBC’s Horizons of the Spirit, a presentation of the
Interfaith Broadcasting Commission.