Access Sunday 2026 Get Your Resources Here!

Access Sunday 2026: Get Your Resources Here! ![rw-book-cover](https://d34adp677peecb.cloudfront.net/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) 🔗 **Source:** [Access Sunday 2026: Get Your Resources Here!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI) > [!note]+ Document Notes > tags: [disability-ministry, accessibility, inclusive-worship, disability-theology, church-resources] > author: United Church of Christ > source: United Church of Christ (YouTube) > reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI > date created: 2026-10-02 09:23 > > > [!info] Generated analysis — not the author's words. Sections below are machine-written > > from the captured source. Only text inside `> [!quote]` blocks is verbatim from the author. > > Do not quote or attribute any other line to the named author. > > # 🏷️ Title: Access Sunday 2026: Get Your Resources Here! >  ## 🧭 Table of contents - [📝 Summary](#-summary) - [📖 Main content](#-main-content) - [🗒️ Notes](#️-notes) - [📚 References](#-references) - [🗣️ Paraphrase](#️-paraphrase) - [📰 Newsletter](#-newsletter) - [✅ Action items](#-action-items) - [🧪 Hypotheses](#-hypotheses) - [📊 Methodology](#-methodology) - [❓ Questions](#-questions) - [🔮 Future research](#-future-research) - [💡 Implications](#-implications) - [🧠 Learning styles assessment](#-learning-styles-assessment) - [📊 Accessibility assessment](#-accessibility-assessment) - [🌍 DEIB assessment](#-deib-assessment) - [✅ Logical validity](#-logical-validity) - [🛡️ DARVO analysis](#️-darvo-analysis) - [🎯 Conclusion](#-conclusion) - [🔄 Refactor appendix](#-refactor-appendix--access-sunday--2026-get-your-resources-here) ## 📝 Summary - **What happened.** The United Church of Christ (UCC) channel posted a 1:02:46 replay of a webinar in its "Nurture the Soul" series, uploaded 2026-10-02. Host Reverend Ellie Hutcherson (Minister for Congregation and Community Engagement, they/them, per the self-introduction at 00:02:32) interviews Reverend Jacob Null (he/him, per 00:05:29), secretary of the denomination's Disabilities Ministries Board. The hour covers what Access Sunday is, what the Board's resource kit contains, a premiere of a new song with a lyric video (00:37:04), and live Q&A from chat. - **The claim.** Speakers present Access Sunday, held on the second Sunday of October (00:15:09), as a low-barrier way for a congregation to start thinking about disability. Null says the resource kit supplies liturgy, a children's time script, two sermon discussion videos of 15 to 20 minutes each (00:29:25) and new music, with every earlier year archived in lectionary years A, B and C (00:30:06). - **The mechanism.** Volunteers on the Board, all of whom have disabilities or lived experience as caregivers (00:14:25), write the kit. Null coordinates a dedicated crew of musicians who record from four states and send him files to mix (00:41:17). Hutcherson and Null frame the work as interdependence, and the hour ends with specific low-cost accessibility steps from chat: large print bulletins, ushers who help, narrated on-screen text, assistive listening devices (00:50:20 to 00:52:34). - **Why it matters.** A congregation that says it lacks the budget for a ramp or a chancel lift can still adopt a free worship kit and a list of no-cost practices. Null also names a Cornerstone Fund grant for disability improvements to buildings and ministries (00:48:00). - **Key stakeholders.** The UCC Disabilities Ministries Board (volunteers plus one admin, Taylor, who built the lyric video and redesigned the website at 00:26:29), the Disability Theology Committee, lay leaders and clergy watching live or on replay, viewers with disabilities who raised access gaps in the Q&A, and the UCC Mental Health Network, which shares a seat on the Board (00:17:28). - **Risks and tradeoffs.** Viewers reported gaps in the kit itself: one blind viewer finds parts of the A2A resources not screen-reader friendly (00:42:03), and another sees mostly physical disabilities covered, with neurodivergent and intellectual and developmental disabilities missing (00:43:30). Null answers that the committee is working on both. The piano score was unfinished at recording time (00:34:33). The video has no chapter list and the auto-captions garble the denomination's own acronym. - **Bottom line.** The webinar works as a guided tour of free worship resources and a candid account of what the kit does not yet cover. Everything quantitative or institutional (dates, grant existence, Board makeup) comes from the speakers; the transcript contains no links, and the description carries none. ## 📖 Main content **Format and source.** This is a livestream replay with two on-camera speakers. Hutcherson opens with a sung gathering piece (00:00:04 to 00:01:47), reads housekeeping for the Q&A and reactions features (00:03:15), and describes their own appearance for viewers who cannot see the screen (00:02:32). Null does the same at 00:05:29. Both give pronouns in their introductions; this analysis uses those and avoids pronouns for anyone the transcript does not gender. **Auto-caption cautions.** The captions render the denomination as "UCCC" throughout, which is almost certainly "UCC" (the channel name). The program label is rendered "A2A", and the caption of the explanation reads "A2A accessible to all follow falls under our umbrella" (00:13:39). The likely expansion is "Accessible to All", the UCC's designation program for congregations, but the transcript never spells it out, so treat that as an inference. "Exo Sunday" at 00:36:02 is Access Sunday. "CDM" at 00:02:32 and "setings" at 00:01:47 are caption errors. Names that look garbled: "Rob Stimple" (co-chair), "Maggie Getzian", "Richard Brooks Colligan", "Cheryl Lindseay", "Jeff Richtor", "Becca Maren Anderson". The description confirms none of them, so spellings stay as captioned. **What Access Sunday is.** Null says it falls on the second Sunday of October (00:15:09). He had not located the start date, but the Board's website holds liturgical resources dating back to "200 something" (00:26:29). The kit, modeled on how UCC Worship Ways curates weekly resources (00:27:14), includes an opening prayer, call to worship, invitation to offering, prayer of dedication, benediction, a written children's time script (00:27:58), two lectionary-based sermon discussion videos, one on a Psalm 23 reading and one on a gospel text (00:28:41), and new music. Null compares the discussion videos to the Pulpit Fiction podcast. Preachers may play them in place of a sermon or use them as commentary (00:29:25). **Who writes it.** The Board is volunteer-run apart from the admin. Every member has a disability or lived experience as a caregiver (00:14:25). A separate committee in the Board handles A2A applications (00:15:09), and the Disability Theology Committee sits alongside it. Null came in through music: he co-wrote and produced the new song, rewrote the first verse of a familiar hymn in a disability-affirming form in 2021 (00:12:13), and became secretary after Board colleagues pushed him toward it (00:12:55 to 00:13:39). Null describes himself as among the only three or four people who write music from lived experience of disability theology, most of them on the Board (00:21:14). **Disability theology.** Null defines it in one sentence as practical theology born out of disabled experience, by disabled people, and compares it to queer and liberation theologies (00:16:43). His central tent pole is interdependence: everyone relies on others, the bootstrap story does not match how people live, and disability is a group anyone can join at any time (00:22:01 to 00:24:16). Hutcherson places this against religious and Christian nationalism, which they describe as one way people read others out of scripture (00:17:28). That is the host's framing, offered as context, and not a position this analysis attributes to the denomination. **The song.** Null and co-writers, including the Board co-chair, built a new setting on Psalm 23 imagery. Players recorded remotely from California, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Minnesota (00:41:17). Null produces, mixes and masters alone (00:34:33). A lead sheet was available at recording time, the piano score was in progress, an MP3 finished earlier that week, and Taylor made the lyric video (00:35:19). Null names the inspiration as Psalm 23 read as a text of liberation where asking for what you need is hard (00:35:19 to 00:36:02). The 3-minute playback runs 00:37:04 to 00:40:32. The auto-captions of the sung text are unreliable; this analysis does not quote or interpret the lyrics beyond saying the piece is a petition addressed to a shepherd figure. **Q&A.** Four threads come from chat. (1) A blind viewer reports parts of the A2A resources are not screen-reader friendly; the answer is that the A2A committee keeps refining the process (00:42:03). (2) A viewer asks about a news item, which the host reads as a euthanasia case involving a child with severe disabilities in the Netherlands. Null responds with a short expression of shock and the host says the Board may want to look into it (00:42:48 to 00:43:30). No source for the news item is given in the transcript. (3) A viewer asks for resources for neurodivergent people and those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Null points to the Mental Health Network and a new Board member who joined within the last few months and is pushing the Board to expand (00:43:30 to 00:44:18). (4) A pastor asks how to convince a reluctant congregation to start, which opens the last third (00:45:45). **Cost, grant and low-cost practices.** Null names cost as the most common reason churches stop (00:47:13). He cites a same-day email about a Cornerstone Fund grant for disability improvements to buildings and ministries and says it might fund an interpreter or a more accessible chancel; the host says a link is posted in chat (00:48:00 to 00:49:34). He gives population reasons: older members, temporary injuries (00:49:34). Chat contributions add large print bulletins, ushers, assistive listening devices, and Null adds recording a voice-over for on-screen text in videos shown in worship (00:50:20 to 00:52:34). **Language.** Asked why "disability" and not "handicap" or euphemisms, Null says the word was a dirty word to many in the 1970s and 1980s, that euphemisms such as "differently abled" are unnecessary, that people may self-identify as they choose, and that he prefers identity-first "disabled person" for himself (00:53:17 to 00:54:45). He adds that nobody has arrived and that the Board sees areas it has not yet worked on (00:54:45). **Uncertainties and unverified claims.** The Netherlands news item, the Cornerstone Fund grant terms, the archive structure, and the number of A2A congregations come only from speakers or chat. The transcript holds no statistics on how many churches observe Access Sunday or on reach of the kit. ## 🗒️ Notes #### ⏱️ [00:00:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=4) Sung opening - A sung gathering piece plays before any speech and runs about 1:43 (00:00:04 to 00:01:47). The captions show repeated phrases of becoming and freedom. Function: opening music for the series. - The captions are the only text source for the sung portion and are unreliable for lyric detail. #### ⏱️ [00:01:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=107) Welcome, housekeeping and visual self-description - The series runs weekly on Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. Eastern; the full list of digital programs is at ucc.org/events (00:03:15). - Hutcherson gives pronouns and describes their setting: a purple "green screen," glasses and a pixie haircut (00:02:32). - Viewers are pointed to Q&A, the reactions heart and the chat; the host reads out places viewers joined from, including California, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Hawaii and Texas (00:04:00). #### ⏱️ [00:04:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=285) Guest introduction and soul check-in - The host opens each webinar with "how is it with your soul and how does that feel in your body today" (00:05:29). - Null gives pronouns, describes his kitchen and green polo, and mentions moving into a first house with boxes unpacked (00:05:29 to 00:07:01). #### ⏱️ [00:07:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=464) Path from music education to ministry - Null studied music education at Lakeland University in Wisconsin (caption: "Shboan"), where an education professor suggested a path that avoided math (00:07:44 to 00:09:12). - He jokes that ministry has less math, then that clergy need to be generalists with finance support from a committee (00:09:12). Chat jokes about "biblical math" and geography. #### ⏱️ [00:10:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=642) How the guest joined the Board - Official Board member for about a year, at-large on the Disability Theology Committee for two to three years (00:09:57). - A predecessor as Board chair recruited Null around 2021 for contemporary music, and he records from a home studio in northeast Wisconsin (00:10:42 to 00:11:29). - He became secretary after two colleagues urged it, and the host shares a similar story of drifting from note-taker to president (00:12:13 to 00:13:39). #### ⏱️ [00:13:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=819) What the Board is and what disability theology means - The Board offers liturgical and musical resources and handles the A2A designation, with named contacts for applications (00:13:39 to 00:15:57). - Board members are volunteers except the admin. > [!quote] [00:14:25] > we all have disabilities of some sort or some lived experience with disability. - Disability theology in one sentence: practical theology born out of disabled experience by disabled people, in the family of queer and liberation theologies (00:15:57 to 00:16:43). The Mental Health Network chair also sits on the Board (00:17:28). #### ⏱️ [00:18:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=1091) Learning the field, and the music gap - Null grew up in a UCC church and learned of disability theology in seminary through a friend at "Eden" (likely Eden Theological Seminary; the transcript gives only the one word) who said "there's a whole academic field on this." That friend is referred to as "they," and Null self-corrects from "she" at 00:19:40. - Books exist in the field, but music is thin. > [!quote] [00:20:24] > there isn't a whole lot of music. - Null can name three or four people writing music from lived experience of disability theology, mostly on the Board (00:21:14). #### ⏱️ [00:21:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=1274) One tip for lay leaders: interdependence - Null will be at the Convergence music gathering in Kentucky the following week; the host plugs it (00:21:14). - The tip: disability is a group anyone can join at any time, by birth or by a crash or illness. He rejects the bootstrap story and lists everyday dependence: cashiers, school accommodations, adaptive driving devices others built and refined (00:22:01 to 00:24:16). > [!quote] [00:24:16] > this idea of interdependence is deeply rooted in disability theology and should be more deeply rooted in the general conversations - The host agrees and adds that invisible disabilities exist and that trying everything alone fails "about 85% of the time" while shared effort succeeds (00:24:59). That figure is the host's rhetorical estimate, not data. #### ⏱️ [00:25:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=1543) History and structure of Access Sunday resources - The host says this is their third year as an associate pastor highlighting Access Sunday (00:25:43). - Null can't date the start but sees resources back to the 2000s on the Board's website, which Taylor redesigned (00:26:29). - The kit mirrors Worship Ways: opening prayer, call to worship, invitation to offering, prayer of dedication, benediction, children's time script (00:27:14 to 00:27:58). #### ⏱️ [00:28:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=1721) Sermon discussion videos and the archive - Two lectionary-based discussion videos: an Old Testament reading on Psalm 23 and a gospel text, in the style of the Pulpit Fiction podcast, 15 to 20 minutes each (00:28:41 to 00:29:25). - Some preachers take the day off and play the videos as the sermon (00:29:25). - Chat reminds viewers that past years are archived. > [!quote] [00:30:06] > everything that we've ever done is also archived on the website. - Archive sections are lectionary years A, B and C, and viewers can mix and match (00:30:06). The kit is new each year. #### ⏱️ [00:30:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=1850) Who contributes, and the song crew - The host lists the liturgy pieces and asks whether the Board solicits from many people. Null answers with a dedicated crew of musicians tied to the Disability Theology Committee (00:31:36). - Null co-wrote the song with Maggie (caption: "Getzian"), a pastor on the committee, and the Board co-chair. Richard Brooks Colligan (as captioned) contributed guitar on a past song; Maggie adds bass and flute; the co-chair adds electric piano and mandolin; Null plays acoustic piano and most contributors sing (00:32:19 to 00:33:47). #### ⏱️ [00:33:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=2027) Song inspiration, sheet music status - A lead sheet exists; the piano score is in progress, with Null hedging on "tonight" (00:33:47). A viewer asked for piano music; a link went into chat (00:42:48). - Null is the sole producer, mixer and master, and his studio has been packed for 3 weeks because of the move (00:34:33). - Inspiration: Psalm 23 read as a text of liberation where the speaker asks for what is needed (00:35:19 to 00:36:02). The MP3 finished earlier that week and Taylor made the lyric video. #### ⏱️ [00:37:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=2224) Song playback (about 3.5 minutes) - The lyric video plays from 00:37:04 to about 00:40:32 with a refrain repeated several times in the captions. - Function: the premiere of the Board's new Access Sunday song. Captions of sung words are machine output and should not be quoted as the lyric text. #### ⏱️ [00:40:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=2432) Reaction and remote production - The host reacts warmly. Null says no player was ever in the same room; contributors live in California, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Minnesota and sent files for Null to assemble (00:41:17). - The host teases that his production work involves more math than he admits (00:42:03). #### ⏱️ [00:42:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=2523) Q&A: screen readers, a news item, neurodivergent coverage - A blind viewer reports parts of the A2A resources are not screen-reader friendly. Null's reply, relayed by the host: the A2A committee keeps refining the process (00:42:03). - A viewer raises a reported euthanasia case of a young child with severe disabilities in the Netherlands. Null reacts with "Wow, right" (as relayed) and the host says the Board may want to learn more (00:42:48 to 00:43:30). No source is given. - A viewer asks about neurodivergent and intellectual and developmental disability resources. Null notes the Mental Health Network and a Board member who joined within months and is expanding coverage (00:43:30 to 00:44:18). #### ⏱️ [00:45:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=2701) Why start if the congregation resists: cost and seed planting - The host asks everyone to volunteer if they can, and calls viewers' comments "blind spots" that the Board needs to hear about (00:45:01). The metaphor is the host's. - The pastor's question: why observe Access Sunday if the congregation is not thinking about disability, and how does it plant a seed (00:45:45 to 00:46:29)? - Null names cost as the main roadblock. > [!quote] [00:47:13] > the conversation too often stops there. - He cites a same-day email about a Cornerstone Fund accessibility grant, possibly usable for an interpreter or a chancel change; the link goes in chat (00:48:00 to 00:49:34). #### ⏱️ [00:49:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=2974) Everyone is affected, and cheap practices - Disability touches elderly members and temporary injuries such as a broken foot (00:49:34). - Chat and speakers list large print bulletins, ushers who help people find seats, and visual descriptions of screen content (00:50:20). - Null's tip for videos shown in church: many carry on-screen text with no narration, so record a voice-over in a consumer editor or have a liturgist read the text live (00:50:20 to 00:51:53). #### ⏱️ [00:51:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=3113) More low-cost ideas, live stream captions, upcoming webinar - Chat adds portable assistive listening devices and teaching ushers how they work (00:51:53). - A congregation says adding captions to its YouTube live stream makes the stream stop working; the transcript records the problem but no solution (00:51:53). - The host mentions an upcoming intergenerational ministries webinar on a practice the caption renders "prayer grounds," offered as a route to accessibility for neurodivergent participants (00:52:34). #### ⏱️ [00:52:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=3154) Why the word "disability" - Euphemisms came from a time when the word felt like a dirty word; Null warns against slurs and encourages learning (00:53:17). - Person-first versus identity-first language: people may self-identify; Null uses "disabled person" for himself and compares it to saying "black person" (00:54:02). > [!quote] [00:54:45] > we are all on the way. Nobody has arrived. #### ⏱️ [00:55:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=3328) Follow-up plan - Unanswered questions go by email reply to the host, who will connect people to the Board (00:55:28). - The host will send past Nurture the Soul recordings, from October of the prior year, on disability, ableism and disability justice (00:56:15). #### ⏱️ [00:56:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=3418) Thanks, schedule changes and next series - Null thanks congregations that observe Access Sunday. > [!quote] [00:56:58] > your church celebrating Access Sunday helps us um change hearts and minds - The host says their congregation will become an A2A congregation and thanks the Board, tech and media team and attendees (00:57:40). - Regular webinars for the first two weeks of October after this one are cancelled "due to some unforeseen circumstances," with three prior-year videos recommended (00:58:24 to 00:59:08). - Next: Monday, October 19, 3:30 p.m., a "future of faith" session on loneliness and polarization with an interim associate conference minister (00:59:08 to 00:59:53). #### ⏱️ [00:59:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=3593) Benediction - Null offers a closing blessing at the host's request. Function: closing liturgy of the session, speaking of belonging, the range of bodies and minds, and meeting access needs, ending in the traditional blessing formula and dismissal. - Not paraphrased further because the content is liturgy and not an argument. #### ⏱️ [01:01:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI&t=3686) Closing and giving prompt - The host thanks Null and congratulates him on his new home (01:01:26). - The host closes with an appeal to give to the annual fund by text message to a short code (caption: "UCCC to 41444") and a blessing (01:02:10). Verify the keyword against the UCC's own page; the caption likely has "UCC." ## 📚 References The transcript itself contains no links; the following come from the video description or are primary sources for named entities. The description holds no URLs. - [Access Sunday 2026: Get Your Resources Here! (United Church of Christ)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI): the source video, 1:02:46, uploaded 2026-10-02. - ucc.org/events: spoken by the host at 00:03:15 as the full list of National Ministry Setting digital programs. - UCC Disabilities Ministries Board website: referenced at 00:26:29 as redesigned by Taylor and holding the archive of Access Sunday resources by lectionary year (00:30:06). No URL is spoken; links went to chat and the follow-up email. - UCC Worship Ways: named at 00:27:14 as the weekly liturgical resource Access Sunday imitates; Reverend Dr. Cheryl Lindsay (caption: "Lindseay") leads the team per the host's phrasing. - Pulpit Fiction podcast: named at 00:28:41 as the model for the sermon discussion videos. - UCC Cornerstone Fund accessibility projects: a grant named at 00:48:00; the link was posted in chat but is not in the transcript. - Convergence Music Project and Convergence Music Festival: named at 00:20:24 and 00:21:14, the latter in Kentucky the following week. - Accordance Bible study software: named by Null at 00:09:57. - [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/): primary source for the success criteria used in the accessibility assessment below. The speakers do not cite it. ## 🗣️ Paraphrase The UCC's Disabilities Ministries Board writes a free worship kit for the second Sunday of October, and this webinar walks through it. Rev. Jacob Null, the Board's secretary, explains that the volunteers who write the kit all live with disability or care for someone who does, so the material comes from their own experience. He summarizes disability theology as theology made by disabled people from disabled experience, and he keeps returning to one idea: everyone depends on others, and anyone can become disabled. The kit includes spoken liturgy, a children's script, two preaching-conversation videos and new music. This year's song is a Psalm 23 setting, written with colleagues and recorded by players in four states who never met in a room. The hosts play the lyric video, take questions, and admit gaps. One blind viewer finds parts of the kit hard to read with a screen reader. Another notes it centers physical disability, and Null says a new Board member is pushing the kit toward neurodivergent and intellectual and developmental disabilities. The last third is practical. Cost is the excuse Null hears most often, so he points to a grant, then to free steps: large print, helpful ushers, assistive listening devices, and reading aloud or narrating text that appears on screen in videos. He explains why he uses the word "disability" and prefers "disabled person" for himself while leaving the choice to each person. The host ends with next steps, a cancellation notice for the next two webinars, and a link to the next series session on October 19. ## 📰 Newsletter **A free worship kit, a new song, and a list of accessibility fixes that cost nothing.** The UCC's Disabilities Ministries Board is promoting Access Sunday (second Sunday of October), and its one-hour "Nurture the Soul" webinar is worth the time even if your church is not UCC. The takeaway for WordPress folks is in the last 12 minutes. Null, the Board secretary, says video producers often put text on screen with no narration, and the fix is a voice-over recorded in a consumer editor. That is the same advice WordPress.tv volunteers and plugin authors give when they ask for captions and a spoken description of what a demo shows. What we liked: the Board named its own gaps on camera. A blind viewer said parts of the kit don't work with a screen reader, a second viewer said the kit leans physical, and the answer was "we're working on it" plus a call for more volunteers. Open projects can use that move. A live-stream question about captions making a YouTube stream stop working got no solution on air, so if you've solved that one, the replies are open. Pick-up points: [watch the replay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI), check the Board's site for the archive, and read the [WCAG 2.2 guidelines](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/) for the captions and audio description criteria cited below. ## ✅ Action items #### DevRel - Developer advocacy: no direct action from this source. Nearest relevance: when a talk or demo shows on-screen code, say the key lines aloud, the practice Null recommends for church videos (00:50:20). - Education: add "narrate what is on screen" to any workshop recording checklist, with Null's voice-over tip as the example. - Developer experience: no direct action from this source; nearest relevance is screen-reader testing of docs and downloadable kits, since the kit itself drew a screen-reader complaint (00:42:03). - Developer marketing: no direct action from this source. - Community management: adopt the Board's practice of reading chat questions aloud and naming gaps on air, and keep the reply address for unanswered questions (00:55:28). - Internal/external/cross-project: share the live-stream captions problem (00:51:53) with the accessibility and media teams as a field report, without a claimed fix. #### OSPO - Policy and governance: no direct action from this source. Nearest relevance: a designation program (A2A) with a committee that reviews applications (00:15:09) is a model for an accessibility review process. - License compliance: none. - Security management: none. - Software inventory: none. - Developer support: none. - Community engagement: note the Board's open call for volunteers as a model for inviting interdependent support (00:45:01). - Strategic alignment: none. #### Community - Maintainers: no direct action from this source; nearest relevance is the Board's "mix and match" archive of past-year resources (00:30:06), a pattern for versioned release docs. - Contributors: invite contributors with lived experience of disability to review onboarding material, which the Board's own membership model demonstrates (00:14:25). - Sponsors: no direct action from this source; nearest relevance is the Cornerstone Fund grant that funds access improvements (00:48:00), as a funding template for accessibility work. - Ecosystem: none. #### WordPress - Core: no direct action from this source. - Core Performance: none. - Core AI: none. - **Core Program Team:** none. - Mobile: none. - Playground: none. - Community: share the low-cost accessibility list (large print, helpers, narrated screens) with meetup and WordCamp organizers as a starting point. - Training: add the narrated-text and live-stream-captions topics to a lesson on accessible event video. - Marketing: none. - Support: none. - Design: none. - Documentation: where docs embed screencasts, add a spoken description or transcript for on-screen text. - Photos: none. - TV: relevant. A blind viewer's report that on-screen text goes unnarrated parallels caption and description quality checks for WordPress.tv uploads (00:50:20); check the current upload guidelines against WCAG 1.2.2, 1.2.3 and 1.2.5. - Polyglots: none. - Accessibility: the live-stream captions failure (00:51:53) and the screen-reader report (00:42:03) are candidate topics for a team discussion; neither source supplies a root cause. - Meta: none. - CLI: none. - Hosting: none. - Tide: none. - Openverse: none. - Themes: none. - Plugins: none. #### The WPOCC - Programs: no direct action from this source. If The WP Open Community Collective funds accessibility work, the Board's grant example shows a category (interpreters, access upgrades) that small funders cover. - Projects: none. - Funding experiments: none. ### FAIR - Technical independence: none. - Policies and covenants: none. - Productized governance artifacts: nearest relevance is a designation program with named contacts and a review committee (00:15:09); no direct action. ## 🧪 Hypotheses 1. Congregations given a concrete no-cost first step (large print, helpful ushers, narrated on-screen text) are more likely to act within 90 days than those told about building accessibility costs, because Null says cost stops the conversation (00:47:13). 2. Narrating on-screen text in videos shown during worship improves comprehension for blind and low-vision attendees measured by a short recall quiz, compared with the unmodified video. 3. The live-stream failure at 00:51:53 comes from the caption ingest method, not from captions as such, because the speaker names captions as the trigger without naming the workflow. 4. Release of a multi-format song kit (audio, lyric video, lead sheet, score) raises the share of churches that use the song, compared with audio alone, because worship leaders need parts for accompanists (00:34:33). 5. Adding intellectual and developmental disability and neurodivergence content to next year's kit raises adoption among congregations that cite the current kit as physical-disability focused (00:43:30). 6. Screen-reader complaints about the kit trace mostly to one file type (for example, PDFs without tags), which a format audit would show. ## 📊 Methodology - **H1.** Recruit 40 congregations that have not applied for A2A. Randomly assign half a one-page list of no-cost steps and half a standard cost-focused guide. Count steps adopted at 90 days via a follow-up survey, with the first outreach logged for each group. - **H2.** Show the same worship video with and without a narrated voice-over to two groups of blind and low-vision volunteers, then run a 5-question recall quiz and a usability rating. Report mean scores and effect size; use a within-subject crossover with a different video in each round. - **H3.** Reproduce the congregation's setup in a test channel. Enable captions through three paths (platform auto, caption encoder, embedded stream), record which break the stream, and log encoder settings and bitrates. - **H4.** Track downloads and usage reports by asset type for last year's song and this year's, using the Board's website analytics and a short poll of music directors. - **H5.** Interview 10 congregations that identified gaps and compare 2027 kit adoption with 2026, with the previous year as baseline. - **H6.** Run an automated and manual screen-reader audit (NVDA, VoiceOver) on a sample of 30 kit files, tallying failures per format and per WCAG criterion. - **Controls.** Pre-register hypotheses, keep survey wording constant, and report non-response rates. ## ❓ Questions - What exactly does the A2A designation require, and what does the caption "A2A accessible to all follow falls" (00:13:39) correct to? - Which parts of the kit does the blind viewer find hard to read with a screen reader, and which file formats are involved (00:42:03)? - How many congregations observe Access Sunday each year, and does that count rise over time? - What is the Cornerstone Fund's grant cap, deadline and eligibility, given it came from a same-day email (00:48:00)? - How did the Netherlands case enter the Q&A, and what source supports it (00:42:48)? - What is the cause of the live-stream failure when captions are enabled (00:51:53), and has any attendee solved it? - What is the plan and date for neurodivergent and intellectual and developmental disability resources (00:43:30)? - How does the Board assess whether Access Sunday "plants a seed" (00:45:45), and what outcome measure would show it? ## 🔮 Future research - **Seed-planting outcomes.** The host and guest describe Access Sunday as planting a seed; a longitudinal study of congregations that observe it for three years would test whether physical and programmatic access follow. - **Accessible resource authoring.** Accessible-by-default authoring templates for volunteer-run liturgy kits are underexplored. A study of how often volunteer-made PDFs fail screen-reader checks would give the Board a prioritized fix list. - **Live-stream captioning in volunteer settings.** Small congregations use consumer platforms with minimal tooling. A comparison of free caption paths would answer the question left open at 00:51:53. - **Remote music production as accessibility practice.** Null produces with collaborators who never meet in person (00:41:17), which suggests a model for disabled musicians who cannot travel. Documentation of that workflow could help other groups. - **Language preferences.** The identity-first and person-first discussion at 00:54:02 is anecdotal; survey data on preference within religious communities would help organizations choose defaults. ## 💡 Implications - **Practice.** A kit that includes spoken liturgy, a video sermon alternative and a children's script lets a congregation use it with little preparation. The 15 to 20 minute discussion videos allow a preacher to rest (00:29:25), and narrating on-screen text costs a free editing tool. - **Policy.** A designation program with application review (00:15:09) creates a standard, but the reports of gaps in the kit show the standard must apply to the kit too. - **Security.** Not applicable. One privacy note: the chat exposes attendees' places and questions; the replay preserves only what the host reads aloud. - **Education.** The interdependence argument (00:22:01) works as a teaching frame because it starts from universal examples: cashiers, school accommodations, devices built by others. - **Funding.** Cornerstone Fund grants for interpreters or physical changes (00:48:00) address the cost objection Null hears most often. The Board runs on volunteers (00:14:25), so capacity, not licensing, limits expansion. - **Reputation and trust.** Naming gaps on camera (00:42:03 to 00:44:18) builds credibility; leaving them as promises without a date does not. ## 🧠 Learning styles assessment - **Reading level estimate.** Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of the transcript text is about 6.3 and Flesch Reading Ease about 77, computed by script on the speech with disfluencies included. That is plain conversational English. Terms such as "lectionary," "A2A," "interdependence" and "identity-first" carry load for outsiders. #### 👀 Visual learners - Present: a lyric video with on-screen text, on-camera speakers who describe their own appearance (00:02:32, 00:05:29), and a sung premiere. - Improve: no slide or diagram of the kit's contents appears in the transcript. A one-slide list of the kit pieces would help visual learners. #### 🔊 Aural learners - Present: the whole hour is speech and music, with a sung opening and full song. - Improve: a 3-minute audio-only summary for later listening; the long Q&A comes in chunks without cues. #### 🗣️ Verbal learners - Present: definitions of disability theology (00:16:43), of person-first and identity-first language (00:54:02), and a clear listing of the kit's parts (00:27:14). - Improve: define A2A, lectionary years A, B and C, and Worship Ways on first use. #### 🧩 Kinesthetic learners - Present: practical to-dos in the last third: record a voice-over, appoint ushers, order large print, test assistive devices (00:50:20 to 00:51:53). - Improve: a printable checklist of these steps and a worked example of recording a voice-over would let viewers practice during the session. #### 🧠 Logical learners - Present: argument from universal membership (anyone can join) to interdependence (00:22:01 to 00:24:16), and cost objection followed by a grant response (00:47:13 to 00:48:48). - Improve: no data on adoption or outcomes. Even one count of congregations observing Access Sunday would anchor the claims. #### 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Social learners - Present: live chat, reactions, a hosted Q&A, and a thread of viewers adding ideas that the host reads out (00:50:20, 00:51:53). - Improve: a recurring viewer circle for A2A applicants, with moderated sharing of how others solved the live-stream captions problem. #### 🧘‍♀️ Solitary learners - Present: archived replays and the follow-up email with all chat links (00:30:50). - Improve: a reflection prompt such as "where in our worship do we rely on one sense only?" would suit private study. #### 🌿 Naturalistic learners - Present: little; the sung text uses stream and pasture imagery from Psalm 23, per the captions. - Improve: tie accessibility to outdoor worship and creation-care practice: paths, shade, seating. ## 📊 Accessibility assessment #### Screen reader semantics - Present: the speakers describe their own appearance and setting (00:02:32, 00:05:29), which helps non-sighted viewers. A transcript exists. - Improve: no chapters (the chapter list is empty), so a screen-reader user cannot jump to the song or Q&A. Add chapters for the 20 segments above. WCAG 2.4.5 (Multiple Ways) and 2.4.6 (Headings and Labels) apply to the page. The lyric video's on-screen text is not described in the transcript; 1.2.3 and 1.2.5 apply. #### Keyboard navigation - Present: the YouTube player is keyboard operable by default. - Improve: no issue arises from the content. Chat and Q&A on the live platform are outside the replay and cannot be judged from this source (2.1.1). #### Contrast and readability - Present: unverifiable from a transcript. The host's "green screen" is described as purple with a light swirl (00:02:32). - Improve: check the lyric video for 4.5:1 contrast and size (1.4.3). Check the speaker name overlays and the logo for readability on mobile (1.4.4, 1.4.10). #### Text resizing and reflow - Present: player captions resize independently of the video. - Improve: on-screen text burned into the lyric video cannot reflow (1.4.4, 1.4.10). A text version of the lyrics and a chat link to the lead sheet partly address this. #### Media and captions - Present: auto-captions exist and capture the speech. Both speakers use verbal self-description. The live stream appears to include chat and Q&A, and links went to chat and the follow-up email (00:30:50). - Improve: auto-captions garble the denomination ("UCCC"), program ("A2A"), event name ("Exo Sunday") and several names, which is an accuracy failure under 1.2.2 (Captions, Prerecorded). Sung passages get caption text with no music cue; speaker changes are unmarked in the transcript. For the live session, 1.2.4 (Captions, Live) applies. No sign language interpretation is evidenced in the transcript, so it cannot be assessed. The song needs a corrected lyric text. The description has no links to the resources discussed. #### Forms and interactions - Present: audience interaction by chat, Q&A and reactions; the host explains where each button sits (00:03:15). Replies by email. - Improve: the donation instruction by text message code (01:02:10) should also appear in the description as selectable text (3.3.2, Labels or Instructions). Target-size and status-message criteria (2.5.8, 4.1.3) apply to the live platform, which is outside this source. #### Standards reference - Primary gaps against WCAG 2.2 AA: **1.2.2** (caption accuracy), **1.2.4** (live captions, not evidenced either way), **1.2.5** (audio description for the lyric video), **2.4.5** and **2.4.6** (no chapters), and **1.4.4 / 1.4.10** (burned-in text). The Q&A in the video itself records a report that parts of the kit fail screen readers (00:42:03), which maps to **1.3.1** and **4.1.2** if the files are PDFs or web pages. ## 🌍 DEIB assessment #### Cultural breadth - Present: viewers join from across the United States (00:04:00), and the speakers draw on seminary, church and online music cultures. - Improve: all examples are U.S.-based except the Netherlands news item. No other language or non-Western perspective on disability appears; offer Spanish materials if the kit has none. #### Inclusive language - Present: pronouns stated at introduction. The identity-first and person-first discussion is explicit, and Null warns against slurs (00:53:17 to 00:54:45). - Improve: the host uses "blind spots" as a metaphor (00:45:01) in a disability-focused session. Many blind people find the equation of blindness with ignorance unhelpful; choose "gaps" instead. The remark that "white people love October" (00:25:43) is a joke about identity that may land oddly; it appears in passing without follow-up. "Euthanasia" and "mercy killing" appear in the Q&A (00:42:48) without a content warning. #### Neurodiversity support - Present: the host asks for resources for neurodivergent members and notes an upcoming webinar on a practice for neurodivergent participants (00:52:34). Segments are chunked by topic and the host sets the structure at the start (00:03:15). - Improve: no chapter markers. The sung opening runs 1:43 before speech, and music runs 3.5 minutes mid-session; neither is labeled. A viewer asked directly about intellectual and developmental disability support (00:43:30); the answer is future-tense. #### Representation - Present: both speakers have disability or lived experience connections to the work; the Board states all its members do (00:14:25). Null names disabled colleagues and committee roles. - Improve: only two voices speak. Viewers in chat do the rest. Add a recorded perspective from a blind or neurodivergent viewer to center the groups the Q&A says are underserved. Disabilities other than physical ones are not represented on the call. #### Psychological safety - Present: warm, humorous tone, a soul check-in (00:05:29), and an open invitation to ask more by email (00:55:28). Null calls himself "a one-man show" without defensiveness (00:34:33). - Improve: the news item about a child (00:42:48) appears without a warning or a follow-up; give a content note before discussing it and name a support resource. The host's comment "the lie that we've been told" about bootstraps is a view; invite dissent. ## ✅ Logical validity #### Strong reasoning - **Deductive and experiential, 00:22:01 to 00:24:16.** If disability is a group anyone can join, and everyone depends on others for daily life, then an ethic of independence misdescribes the human condition. The examples (cashier, school accommodations, devices) are concrete and checkable. Strengthen by adding a statistic on lifetime disability incidence. - **Counter-objection with resource, 00:47:13 to 00:48:48.** The cost objection is named and met with a specific grant. The reply holds, but it depends on the grant's terms, which are unstated. - **Population argument, 00:49:34.** Older members and temporary injuries broaden who benefits. It is a sound appeal to self-interest and applies to nearly any congregation. - **Practical inference, 00:50:20 to 00:51:53.** If video text is not read aloud, blind viewers miss it; a voice-over closes the gap at low cost. A short test with a blind reviewer would validate this. - **Definitional clarity, 00:53:17 to 00:54:45.** Null states the difference between person-first and identity-first language and leaves choice to each person, which avoids an overclaim. #### Fallacies - **Overgeneralization, 00:22:47.** "disability doesn't really uh discriminate based on race or gender" is true as to who can acquire a disability. It is incomplete as a statement of risk, since prevalence differs by income, work and access to care. *Fix:* "anyone can join, though risk and support are not evenly spread." - **Hasty generalization from anecdote, 00:47:13.** "if I had a dollar for the amount of times I've heard that excuse" generalizes from the speaker's experience to clergy as a group. It is a rhetorical flourish, not data. *Fix:* give a count or survey result, or label it as experience. - **Unsupported causal claim, 00:56:58.** More churches observing Access Sunday leads to more accessible churches. It is plausible but no data supports it. *Fix:* report the number of A2A applications by year. - **Hyperbole presented as a figure, 00:24:59.** "about 85% of the time" and "100% of the time" are the host's rhetorical estimates of failure alone and success together. *Fix:* mark as personal experience. - **Unsourced report, 00:42:48.** A news item is relayed from chat without a source. The speakers don't build an argument on it, so the weakness is limited. *Fix:* verify before repeating. - **Metaphor with ableist undertone, 00:45:01.** Using "blind spots" for gaps in knowledge in a disability setting. This is a language issue and a persuasion risk, not a formal fallacy. *Fix:* say "gaps." #### Tone of voice - Warm, conversational and humorous, with frequent laughter and self-deprecation ("math was my GPA killer," 00:08:27). The host validates often ("I love that"), and the guest is candid about unfinished work (00:34:33). Moments of weight arrive in the Q&A, where Null's short reaction at 00:42:48 is followed by a practical pivot. The tone moves from celebratory (song premiere) to earnest (cost objection) to gentle correction (language), and returns to prayerful at the close. ## 🛡️ DARVO analysis Not applicable to this source. DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) describes a defensive response to accusation, and this webinar has no accuser or accused. For completeness across the three prongs: - **Deny.** None. The two reported gaps (screen reader, neurodivergent coverage) are acknowledged and met with a commitment to continue refining (00:42:03 to 00:44:18). Null also concedes the piano score is unfinished (00:34:33). - **Attack.** None. No critic or viewer is discredited. The only critique of an outside group is a general remark about video companies that add on-screen text without narration (00:50:20), made as an observation, not an attack. - **Reverse victim and offender.** None. The host's remarks about religious and Christian nationalism (00:17:28) describe a social context, not a claim that the speakers are victims of an accuser. Emotional cues are warmth and humor; no rhetorical pattern of deflection appears. ## 🎯 Conclusion The webinar introduces Access Sunday, a free worship kit from volunteers with disability experience, and shows its parts: liturgy, children's script, sermon discussion videos, and a new Psalm 23 song. It argues for interdependence as the base of disability theology and that cost does not need to stop a congregation from starting. The Q&A names three gaps in the kit itself (screen-reader access, neurodivergent and intellectual and developmental disability coverage, live-stream captions), and the speakers answer each with work in progress. Next steps for readers: pull the kit from the Board's site and check the lectionary-year archive, apply the free steps at 00:50:20 to 00:52:34, and ask the Board about the Cornerstone Fund grant before assuming a ramp is the only route. For anyone building accessible media, fix the captions first: this video's own auto-captions garble the denomination, the program and several names, and the lyric video needs a text equivalent. ## 🔄 Refactor Appendix — Access Sunday 2026: Get Your Resources Here! > Density: 2–5 Literature atoms (H1 pad), 0–3 Permanent candidates (P1 pad). > Emitted: 5 Literature, 2 Permanent. Resonance filter applied: the sung lyrics and benediction were not turned into atoms because they are liturgy and music, not claims. > > Konik claim-header rules: present tense, declarative, ≤10 words, searchable, unique. > > Atomicity: one declarative sentence per atom. "and"/"also" → split. > > Tag pool: #bmf · #addendum · #xref · #articleseed · #storystem · #share · #aphorisms ### 📚 Literature Split Pad #### [H1] Resource writers share lived experience of disability > [!quote] [00:14:25] > we all have disabilities of some sort or some lived experience with disability. **Context & use**: - 00:14:25, Null explaining who the Disabilities Ministries Board is and why its resources are credible. - Model for who should review accessibility documentation: people who live the barrier or care for someone who does. **Tags**: #xref #share  #### [H2] Interdependence anchors disability theology > [!quote] [00:24:16] > this idea of interdependence is deeply rooted in disability theology and should be more deeply rooted in the general conversations **Context & use**: - 00:24:16, closing Null's one tip for lay leaders after rejecting the bootstrap story. - Transferable: dependence on others is the default case, so access work is shared work and not a niche. **Tags**: #xref #aphorisms  #### [H3] Disability membership is open to anyone anytime > [!quote] [00:22:01] > disability is um a group that anybody can join at any time. **Context & use**: - 00:22:01, the premise behind the universal-benefit argument for accessibility. - Pair with the caveat that risk and support are unevenly distributed (see Logical validity); the speaker's phrasing is a universal-possibility claim, not a rate. **Tags**: #xref  #### [H4] Past resources stay archived for reuse > [!quote] [00:30:06] > everything that we've ever done is also archived on the website. **Context & use**: - 00:30:06, the chat contributor's note that earlier years' resources are reusable, confirmed by Null. - Pattern for versioned documentation: new material every year, old material kept and discoverable by lectionary year. **Tags**: #xref #addendum  #### [H5] Video text without narration excludes blind viewers > [!quote] [00:50:20] > there are so many video companies that have text on the screen, but they don't have a narration **Context & use**: - 00:50:20, Null's observation from producing church videos; the fix at 00:51:07 is a recorded voice-over or a liturgist reading live. - Applies to screencasts and demos: key on-screen text spoken aloud costs minutes and serves blind and low-vision viewers. **Tags**: #xref #articleseed  ### 🧠 Atomic Split Pad #### [P1] Interdependence makes access a shared job **Claim** (one sentence, Courtney's voice): Because everyone depends on other people and anyone can become disabled, accessibility is a shared responsibility and not a special-interest task. **Evidence pointer**: [[#H2]] · [[#H3]] **Scope & conditions**: Holds as a framing for teams that treat access as someone else's work. It does not replace legal or technical requirements, and it needs evidence on how risk and support differ between groups before it makes claims about equal exposure. **Links**: - [[Accessibility as team practice]] — because extends - [[Independence myth in open source]] — because contrasts on who carries the load - [[Accessible documentation review]] — because applies-in reviewing docs with disabled contributors  #### [P2] Narrate on-screen text in any shared video **Claim** (one sentence, Courtney's voice): A short spoken pass over on-screen text is the cheapest access fix for demo and training video. **Evidence pointer**: [[#H5]] **Scope & conditions**: Applies to prerecorded video with meaningful visible text. Does not substitute for captions or full audio description under WCAG 1.2.2 and 1.2.5, and it does not cover complex diagrams or code that needs a described structure. **Links**: - [[WCAG 2.2 media criteria]] — because extends - [[Screencast production checklist]] — because applies-in documentation videos - [[Corrected captions]] — because contrasts on which barrier each fix removes  ### ✏️ Fleeting Queue - [F1] Confirm what "A2A" expands to (likely Accessible to All) and the designation criteria from the UCC's own pages; the auto-captions never spell it out; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAMNmGJVtI #fleeting #inbox - [F2] Find the root cause of captions breaking a YouTube live stream (00:51:53) and test three caption paths in a throwaway channel #fleeting #inbox - [F3] Check the Cornerstone Fund accessibility grant terms from the fund's own page before repeating them (00:48:00) #fleeting #inbox - [F4] Verify the Netherlands news item raised at 00:42:48 from a primary report before reuse #fleeting #inbox - [F5] Article seed: "The cheapest accessibility fixes are spoken": narrated on-screen text, ushers, large print; list with costs #fleeting #inbox #articleseed - [F6] Replace "blind spots" with "gaps" in my own writing and docs; note the 00:45:01 usage as the example #fleeting #inbox ### → Things 3 (max 2 actions) - [ ] Add a "narrate on-screen text" line to the screencast and video checklist for docs: accessibility review, 15 min #things - [ ] Check WordPress.tv caption and description guidance against WCAG 1.2.2, 1.2.3 and 1.2.5: accessibility follow-up, 30 min #things  📄 **Full text:** [[Full Document Contents/Articles/Access Sunday 2026 Get Your Resources Here!.md|Access Sunday 2026: Get Your Resources Here! by United Church of Christ]] ## Highlights - [00:13:39] And I'm like, "Yeah, dang it." >> Uhhuh. Uh-huh. They saw something and they like the organization. I know how organized you all are. So that totally >> I try to be. >> So can you tell us a little bit about what the disability ministries board is and what it is that they do as well as you mentioned disability theology. Can you talk a little bit about those two things? >> Sure. Yeah. So um our the disabilities ministries board is a um a subset of the um of the UCCC that offers uh resources both uh lurggical, musical um A2A accessible to all follow falls [00:14:25] under our umbrella. Um and all of us are volunteers um except for Taylor, our lovely admin. um who is also here on the call. Um and um and um we all have disabilities of some sort or some lived experience with disability. Um whether that is our own disability or we are the active caregiver of someone with a disability. Um and um and so we you know this isn't just random people who just sort of saw a need. This is you know all ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3ycx0af29r57vbdh8vhxchh)) - Note: [H1] Resource writers share lived experience of disability - Tags: atom/literature/h1 - [00:21:14] four other people that write music from the lived experience of disability theology and most of them are on our board. So, >> well, I know that Convergence Music Festival, I think, is next week or >> It is. I'll be there. If you're going to be in Kentucky, I'll be there, too. >> Yes. Oh, that's awesome. Well, I definitely hope you all get a chance to go visit Jacob. If you're going to that, it it's in Yep. Kentucky. >> Well, and you know, um, Jacob, I have one more question. thinking about the disability theology. I know we have a number of people who uh watch this webinar live or in post view that are lay leaders and so I'm curious if um you can share with us let what is one tip if [00:22:01] you have one tip that you could give a lay leader to help us think about um the ways that we love and interact and educate people from a disability lens. Gosh, >> just one. Ellie, you're killing me. >> I know, right? >> Um I think um and this is true in a lot of contexts, I think, in the in this fractured community that we live in. um is this idea of interdependence. Um the um disability is um a group that anybody can join at any time. Um whether you are ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3ycx60gv4rqfhazfn5aknd6)) - Note: [H3] Disability membership is open to anyone anytime - Tags: atom/literature/h3 - [00:24:16] perfect over decades um you know uh and I could go on from there but you know there there this idea of interdependence is deeply rooted in disability theology and should be more deeply rooted in the general conversations that we are having in um in our churches um especially in this fractured uh political ideological time that we're living in. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think about it too and I say amen to that. Yeah. Brooke. I feel like and and I I share with my own [00:24:59] congregation that there are invisible disabilities. >> There are disabilities that we experience. Like especially thinking about the way you describe disability theology is it's about uh interdependence. And when we age, >> we never can do anything alone. We really can't. And I I am a proponent of trying everything by myself first and failing miserably. about 85% of the time, but the moment I I I bring somebody else to experience it with um 100% of the time it is quote unquote successful, right? It is it's not even about an end result or an end idea or a dream that's been ach uh obtained. It's about the journey and the experience and ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3ycx3ahbffkcnyfkwff12hn)) - Note: [H2] Interdependence anchors disability theology - Tags: atom/literature/h2 - [00:30:06] >> So, um, yeah, and and uh Katie also notes and if you want to re use resources from past years, uh, everything that we've ever done is also archived on the website. Um there's a year a archive, a year B archive, and a year C archive. But we always do new resources every year. Um but you know, if there's if there's something that uh that really speaks to you from um another um another uh year years resources, you know, you can play you can play mix and match. So that's a cool thing, too. [00:30:50] >> Yeah. Yeah. So, you had so you've done everything and if you can you the link will be in the chat. It's already been put in the chat. We'll send the follow-up uh email and link that will include resources to access Sunday. But really thinking about um and just know in a follow-up email you'll get everything that has been shared into chat. Uh but you so you do like call to worship, you do you know prayer of transformation, opening prayer, benediction, uh the call to uh the the thanksgiving, the call to generosity, and you you have music, right? And I think that this is >> so really really exciting. And do you ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3ycx9tzyc7sratc194phk19)) - Note: [H4] Past resources stay archived for reuse - Tags: atom/literature/h3 - [00:50:20] Carolyn um put in the in the chat um uh large print bulletins um g um helping having ushers who can uh sort of help people find a um find a place uh for uh for people to enjoy the worship service. um and uh there and giving visual descriptions of something that's on the screen. Uh like for instance, um one of the uh things that I've noticed as I've produced videos for my church is that there are so many video companies that have text on the screen, but they don't have a narration [00:51:07] of that text. um because they probably have music in the background or something. Um and uh too often, you know, so if you're showing a video in church, what you might be able to do if you're a little savvy um is go into something like iMovie or whatever the Windows equivalent is of iMovie. I'm a Mac guy, I don't know. um you know, record a voice over of you reading whatever's on the screen or um you know, depending on what your sound system is capable of, you might um you might have a pastor or liturgist sort of read live what's on the the screen. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3ycxcbn21r3xy4thzph7347)) - Note: [H5] Video text without narration excludes blind viewers - Tags: atom/literature/h3