Joel was diagnosed with Autism at the
age of two. We notice that he wasn't
acting like other children,
we noticed he had no eye contact, he wasn't playing,
lack of language, and we noticed
something wasn't right so we went ahead
and got him diagnosed at the age of two
years and nine months and that's when I
journey began.
Part of the struggle was what's next
now that we know that he's Autistic
what the next step that we have to do
and to not navigate the system
since we don't know, we didn't know
what to do
it was it was not easy
to take the first steps
as a mom,
it was very difficult at in the beginning to
accept
it was a process you go through
denial this is not happening to me,
then you go through grief and anguish, crying
and then it's finally is like, no wait a
minute there's a purpose and there's a
reason why God allowed this to happen in our lives,
there's a bigger picture but
we just couldn't see at the time
and I said we going, we going to face this
and we're going to press on, were going
to move on and God will make available
for him all the things that he needs
time is of essence in dealing with
disability because we have to spend
while we can, a lot of time with with our
little ones, you know providing them with
the resources, therapies, all that they
need in order to overcome their condition
so all those, all the time is to spend with them
and we don't have
our partners next to us,
we have to go to work , we have to do things and it takes
a toll on the family,
especially the couple
sometimes we need to be renewed,
we need to be alone, we need to be refreshed,
we just not able to do it
we're greeted with so much love
and the kids can worship in their style their
free to be themselves and no one is
actually staring at you because
your son's having a meltdown or making noises
or has tick's
and it's just a relief to
be among other families that understand
us and get it
Abel has actually been
able to get Joel out of his shell, he
started dancing last night and it was
just overwhelming to see that
we came up to our room and he says mom I made a
friend and I'm going to invite him to the swimming pool
I think that's great
that's awesome, he's been saying he
doesn't have friends like me so that was
really something incredible to hear
so most of the year for families with
disabilities it's a pretty busy,
it's living from one day to another just
trying to get through a lot of stress
and worries and doubts about the future
so camp really provides a break from all
that just to enjoy themselves relax meet
people that are going through the same
things as them and just not worry about
anything for five days
we know that's with the STM staff
they're taken care of and my husband and
I have some time off I get pampered
he goes on a hike and I really enjoy that at the retreat
our family looks forward for our
family retreat because to be able to enjoy
a whole week of different activities not
just for the kids but for ourselves,
it was a great time a refreshing, renewal,
and what we learn, the time we spend
together the way they treated us,
they make us feel so so special
the beauty of even the worship leader
here is a parent with a special need
child and he is worshiping God with such
a natural anointing, the flow from his
heart and that really shows me to, all of
us that beauty of worshiping God.
You know away from everything else and just
concentrating and pouring out your
heart to the Lord.
You know I came to United States when I was 20 years old,
to me it was clear that God had a calling in my life,
God called me to lead a
congregation, you know, we responded to
the calling of God but God has been with
us all along the way.
We started a special-needs ministry because we were
having special need families attending our church,
it's a blessing to be able to
have a church family that, that will be
supportive and will accept people with all
kinds of abilities.
It's good to have a good connections and
God allow those to happen and to us
Joni and Friends, they there God sent
to us because you know I don't think we
will be able to do what we do now
without out the help
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