• We work with area churches to build awareness of the need for ministry to and with people affected by disabilities in our Through the Roof program. We offer training programs and materials, speakers’ bureau, our On a Roll for Jesus mission and disability awareness program, training conferences, and full-blown Disability Awareness Sunday programs.
  
  
• With three Family Retreats, held at Spruce Lake Retreat in the Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains, we minister to families in need, offering fun, fellowship, Bible study, and disability ministry training. We have volunteer opportunities at Family Retreat for individuals and church groups. Contact us for details.
  
  
• We sponsor a number of disability-related support groups, providing a safe setting for our friends to share with and help one another. We also sponsor marriage retreats to help families deal with the unique problems disabilities bring to marriages.
  
  
• Special Delivery offers individuals and groups the opportunity to visit people affected by disabilities and to share God’s love with them.
  
  
• We collect wheelchairs for Joni’s Wheels for the World program. Reaching out to the world, we take ministry teams to China each year to distribute rebuilt wheelchairs and Bibles to people who have never before heard of the love of Jesus. Contact us about becoming a part of our next outreach.
  

Who we are
Sib Charles, Program Director- Sib became involved with Joni and Friends as a volunteer in the 1980’s, traveling throughout the country for the JAF Congresses on the Church and Disability. She worked for 10 years with a disability ministry in northern New Jersey before moving back to Pennsylvania and marrying her husband, Jesse, who is quadriplegic as the result of a fall from a tree. Sib serves as co-director of our Family Retreats and heads up the Special Delivery and support group ministries. She also is the primary planner for our major events. Sib, Jess, and their son, Nick, reside in the Lancaster area.

Mike King, Church/Development Coordinator- Following his motorcycle accident in 1978, Mike was paraplegic. Not letting his disability slow him down, Mike began training, becoming a member of the U.S. national track and field team and wheeling his wheelchair across the continent. Mike has been active in disability ministry for many years and is much in demand as a speaker. Mike joined the ministry in 2005, working with our churches to develop disability ministry and developing our network of partners in ministry.

Our Board of Development- Our Board serves as a sounding board for our programming, leads us in our development program, and provides us with support in the ministry. The Board is chaired by Pastor Brian Funk; other members are Marianne Charles, Joyce Eby, Earl Kreider, Jeff Sholly, Linda Barto, Don Myer, and Butch Herhei.