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Discover how a woman wheelchair user with cerebral palsy found purpose in librarianship and in ordained Christian ministry. Glean hints on how to live with purpose as a person with physical disability. Gain clues on practical everyday living with physical disability. Gather insights as friends and health professionals on how to relate with understanding to people with physical disability. Appreciate how Christian faith can inform and strengthen motivation in the experience of physical disability

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Heather S. Coombes was born in 1954 in India with cerebral palsy. She was educated in Australia at Young Infants' School, West Wollongong Primary and the Spastic Centre of NSW (now the Cerebral Palsy Alliance) She attended Macquarie University (Behavioural Sciences), University of NSW (Librarianship) and the United Theological College (Theology). Heather was employed with the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled (Librarian) in 1978 to 82 and ordained as a Uniting Church minister in 1986. Her working life continued with Uniting Church Ipswich Central Mission in Queensland as a chaplain and later as an associate librarian in a theological library Her pastoral ministry in aged care began in Mayflower Retirement Village chaplaincy (southern NSW and continued with UnitingCare Ageing Central Coast NSW. Retirement now leaves time to spend with family and hobbies. Heather likes reading biography and murder mystery. Swimming gives her pleasure. Heather volunteers in pastoral care and occasional preaching. She lives in Thornlands, Queensland Australia

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