In Depth:  Through The Roof

Christian disability charity Through the Roof announced in late September that it is partnering with the UCCF to help university Christian Unions and other student Christian groups reach out to disabled students on their campuses.

Through the Roof’s guide to becoming an inclusive church, Be a Roofbreaker, was reissued as a new student edition, available to download. At the same time, extracts from its chapters appeared on the UCCF website as separate articles, advising Christian Unions about how to make provision for welcoming students with various different disabilities into their groups and meetings.

Christian disability charity Through the Roof signed up its 100th Roofbreaker in July, and is calling for other volunteers to become Roofbreakers in their own church.

A Roofbreaker helps ensure that disabled people can belong and participate in the life of the church and assists their church to fully involve disabled people and their families. Through the Roof hopes eventually to have Roofbreakers in 1,000 churches.

Through the Roof, a Christian disability charity, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

During those 20 years, it has distributed 20,000 wheelchairs, crutches and mobility aids to disabled people in 13 developing countries and shared the gospel with 40,000 people across the world.

Christian disability charity ‘Through the Roof’ has found that many talented disabled people are eager to use their gifts to serve the church, and see disabled people not merely included but belonging and making their full contribution to the ministry of the church in the UK.

As such, they have produced a free new resource entitled All Of Us Complete In Christ to help churches fulfil Christ’s Great Commission to disabled people in Luke 14. 12-14.