Question 4: What has your experience taught you about the different challenges caregivers face?

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An Interview with Meaghan Wall

We all have certain fears or phobias—powerful and penetrating worries that can paralyze our thoughts and actions. Fear relates to feelings of anxiety, dread, worry, and being out of control and is often highlighted when circumstances change or our life takes unanticipated twists and turns. Yet Scripture repeatedly reminds us that faith is trusting Christ with the unknown—trusting Him when our plans change and God chooses a very different path for us. Meaghan Wall had a wonderful life plan as a pre-med student until God led her in a very different direction. God’s plan was not what she could have ever imagined, yet every circumstance, every opportunity, every experience taught her several core lessons that brought her to where she is today. In this interview, Meaghan honestly speaks to all who have chosen to trust Christ, to walk by faith and not sight. She reminds us that when we choose to let go of our human-made plans, God’s work and will for our lives leads to His working through us in ways we could have never imagined.

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Connect with Meaghan Wall

Meaghan serves as pastoral leader of Special Needs at Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas. Meaghan has a degree in Social Work, has served in residential communities and hospice facilities, and is a well-sought-after speaker and teacher for disability ministry.

  • Meaghan seeks to provide a ministry of inclusion founded upon an intentional, systematic theological understanding of God’s love for all people.
  • Meaghan leads more than 200 volunteers, who are highly trained to meet the spiritual, physical, and social needs of those with disabilities.

Insight for Living Ministries Resources

Other Suggested Resources

  • Nonviolent Crisis Prevention: A CPI Specialized Offering
  • CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute) in your area (www.crisisprevention.com/Home)
  • Joni and Friends (www.joniandfriends.org)
  • Easter Seals (www.easterseals.com)
  • The ARC: For People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (www.thearc.org)
  • Local and community teaching centers and support programs, agencies, doctors’ offices, hospitals (search online for “training and disability” in your community)
  • The Inclusive Church Blog (theinclusivechurch.wordpress.com)
  • Orange (whatisorange.org)
  • Leading a Special Needs Ministry: A Practical Guide to Including Children and Loving Families by Amy Fenton Lee (secure.rethinkgroup.org/store4/product.php?productid=1653&cat=406&page=1)

Note: please keep in mind as you read these resources that Insight for Living Ministries cannot always endorse everything a writer or ministry says, so we encourage you to approach with wisdom and discernment these and all other non-biblical resources.