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**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 6, No. 1 January 2004 Greetings in the new year! The Companion Resources Newsletter is now in its sixth year. I appreciate all of you readers who have remained encouraging of these humble efforts. Most of you are aware that this newsletter as well as the […]

**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 5, No. 10 October-December 2003 This issue of Companion Resources Newsletter will be a bit unusual, but hopefully helpful as well. As you may have noticed, my attempts at publishing this email epistle in a timely monthly fashion have floundered a bit. I’ve decided that this

**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 5, No. 9 September/October 2003 Greetings to all community builders! This issue of the Companion Resources Newsletter will feature a slightly different kind of discussion than in many of the past months. I want to talk about a new Internt technology and strategy that I believe

**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 5, No. 8 August/September 2003 Are there wheel chairs in heaven? Will blind people be able to see? Will persons with autism be able to think clearly? Disabilities and mental illness have always challenged the faith of persons who believe in a loving God. Most of

**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 5, No. 7 July/August 2003 How special is special? In a paper entitled “Community Building In Logan Square,” Mary O’Connell tells the story of how neighborhood leaders in the Logan Square section of Chicago were asked to identify persons with disabilities in their neighborhoods in order

**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 5, No. 6 June/July 2003 On July 3, 2003, I had the rare opportunity to hear a former U.S. President speak in person to a Mennonite Church convention in Atlanta. Since leaving office, Jimmy Carter has used his position as a former President to work for

**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 5, No. 5 May/June 2003 Greetings from the land of Goshen! In Biblical times, the land of Goshen was the place where Jacob (also called “Israel”) and his family settled in Egypt after a famine racked their homeland. That settlement came about after Jacob’s son, Joseph,

**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 5, No. 4 April/May 2003 The title of the article in a church magazine caught my attention. “Jesus would cry,” it read. Yes, I imagine Jesus would cry about a lot of things in our world today. The article wasn’t quite what I anticipated. Instead of

**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 5, No. 3 March/April 2003 Time and money are very much entwined in our capitalist economy. As one saying goes, “Time is money.” I suspect there is some truth in that saying. That has become very evident to me in these last few months of living

**Companion Resources Newsletter** edited by Paul D. Leichty Volume 5, No. 2 February/March 2003 I was recently asked to speak briefly on the spirituality of persons with disabilities as it relates to building community. In the process of reflecting, I realized there was a significant intersection between spirituality and the administrative structures of the helping