Join us as we take a look at the development and need for a ministry for children who have special needs and their families.

1:00 PMBuilding a Ministry for our Families with Special Needs.

Anna Ingle and Bridget Smith

2:00 PMTraining and Understanding the Needs in Your Church Family.

Laura Mulvaney, Jill Knight

3:00 PMLooking Back at the Beginning: a Panel Featuring a Children's Ministry with an Established Program.

Panel from  Memorial Road Church of Christ


Seminar Information

CRN Coming soon

Anna Ingle serves as children’s minister for the Highway Church of Christ in Judsonia, Arkansas. Her passion and creativity for this ministry was formed from a young age of teaching Bible classes and has carried over into her home as she homeschools her children. She is on a mission to help equip families in discipling their children to build a relationship with Jesus and feel welcome and loved as a key part of the body of Christ.

Bridget Smith is a 2001 Harding University alumna with a B.A. in Special Education, Bridget Smith has dedicated her career to empowerment and inclusion. Originally from Columbia, Tennessee, she remained in Searcy after graduation, teaching for 11 years at the Sunshine School and serving as a stay-at-home mother for 6 years. She is in her eighth year as Harding’s Director of Disability Services & Educational Access and recently earned an M.S. in Student Affairs in 2024. A long-time member of the Highway church of Christ, she shares her life with Jeff, her husband of 25 years, and their children, Zoe, a Harding sophomore, and Lane, a junior at Harding Academy.

Laura Mulvaney. Guided by faith and a deep calling to serve, this Speech-Language Pathologist offers over 15 years of experience in hospital and private practice settings and has spent more than a decade teaching at Harding University, where she is passionate about shaping and mentoring future clinicians with both skill and compassion.  

Jill Knight has been an occupational therapist for 30 years, with 13 years working in pediatrics. Her specialty area is helping regulate sensory difficulties, especially using primitive reflex integration. After working with children in outpatient, school, and Sunshine School settings, she began teaching in the Occupational Therapy program at Harding in 2024, teaching pediatrics as well as other OT courses. Jill is excited to bring the “OT lens” to this ministry, with the focus on how to help children of different ability levels be able to engage and participate in their own unique way.