Disability Awareness Sunday

Disability Awareness Sunday is an opportunity to be intentional about disability awareness within the Church. Disability Awareness Sunday was the 15 June 2025, but disability awareness is for every day as well!

It is about celebrating people with disabilities in their gifts and recognising that we are all valuable members of the Body of Christ. This year's theme was 'Respect'. We want to highlight respect as the fundamental way we interact with every person we meet.

'Respect' goes far beyond seven letters; to help us explore this concept, we've selected three key-words we think help to put 'Respect' into practice. The three words are:

Equal: We need to treat each other with kindness and equal importance.
Value: We all have an inherent value as humans made in God’s image.
Dignity: We all deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

Purple background with title that reads this year's theme is 'Respect'

Did you miss the 15th of June this year? You can still participate!

Disability Awareness Sunday can be any Sunday, not just the third Sunday of June each year!

Your Church or Lifegroup could choose to do a 'disability awareness day' by selecting a date and preparing some resources to share with your Church family.

The purpose of your 'Disability Awareness Day' is to spark a conversation in your Church community about disability awareness.

You could ask to play one of the video resources listed below, or download and print some of our posters to display in your Church.

Or you could use our 'Conversation Starters' about this year's 'Disability Awareness' theme; respect; in your small group.

Another option is taking the opportunity to personally educate yourself to be more disability confident by reading our 'Everybody Welcome' and 'Beyond Disability' booklets. See the resources section below.

Our Elevate team love to share at Churches, so do reach out if you'd like a guest speaker to share about the importance of disability confidence in your Church at any point in the year, and we can see what we can arrange.

Disability awareness is a life-long opportunity to commit to learning about disabilities, and how they affect fellow believers. It is a reminder to encourage each other in our faith, despite our circumstances.