Dan Vander Plaats – in All things

Articles by Dan Vander Plaats

Dan Vander Plaats is the Director of Advancement at Elim Christian Services in Palos Heights, Illinois, a ministry that exists to equip people who live with disabilities to pursue their highest God-given potential. He is also a member of the advisory committee for Disability Concerns for the Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America. In 2009, he developed “The 5 Stages: Changing Attitudes” as a resource developed at Elim Christian Services. The 5 Stages helps churches and individuals assess and change their attitudes toward people with disabilities. He is married to Denise (Hiemstra), and is father to Ben and Emma. They are members of Orland Park Christian Reformed Church in Illinois, where Dan serves as a member of the council and the Disability Concerns team, and as a helper in the Friendship class.

Western Christian subculture, and the rest of the western world, has traditionally measured people according to what they can do. More and more, we define people by how different they are and how uniquely they express their individuality. But our identity is not in what we own, what we do or what we can accomplish, or in what others think of us.

Articles by Dan Vander Plaats

Disabled Images: On Identity and Disability

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