Special Needs Ministry

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 has dedicated her career to empowerment and inclusion. Originally from Columbia, Tennessee, she remained in Searcy after graduating from Harding with a bachelor’s degree in special education in 2001. She taught at the Sunshine School for 11 years and served as a stay-at-home mother for six years. She is now in her eighth year as director of disability services and educational access at Harding and earned a master’s degree in student affairs in 2024. Long-time members of the Highway Church of Christ, she and her husband of 25 years, Jeff, have two children, Zoe and Lane.

Laura Mulvaney. Guided by faith and a deep calling to serve, Laura Mulvaney is a speech-language pathologist with more than 15 years of experience in hospital and private practice settings. For more than a decade, she has taught at Harding, 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 is helping regulate sensory difficulties, especially using primitive reflex integration. After working with children in outpatient, school and Sunshine School settings, she joined the Harding faculty in 2024, teaching pediatrics as well as other occupational therapy courses. She is excited to bring the OT perspective to ministry, focusing on how to help children of different ability levels engage and participate in their own unique ways.