Throughout the Bible, God calls us into compassion by loving, leading, and inviting the disabled into our life with Christ. Still, as Christians, we are often challenged by this calling. Join the Gospel Initiative to explore these questions and more: 

Why do some disabled people feel the constant need to prove themselves? How do we extend compassion to those with whom we cannot identify? How can we help disabled and needy people while honoring their dignity and worth in the process?  

Steve Stirling, president and CEO of MAP international, has spent a lifetime engaging these questions and others. A survivor of polio, he experiences daily the intersection of human disability and the redemptive power of the gospel. Join us to hear Steve’s story and peek into his ministry. Through MAP International, Steve and his team provide medicine and necessary medical supplies to those in need around the world so that no child suffers the same fate that he did simply because of a lack of access to medicine. His story will encourage you to take redemptive gospel action.  

Following Steve’s presentation, Dr. J.D. Kim, professor of theology at Denver Seminary, will join Steve to answer questions. 

“As [Jesus] went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.”

John 9:1-3, NIV