She and her husband Ken were married in 1982 and reside in California. Joni survived stage 3 breast cancer in 2010, yet keeps a very active ministry schedule. Joni’s lifelong passion is to bring the Gospel to the world’s one billion disabled people. Joni and Friends serves thousands of families with disabled children through Family Retreats, and has delivered over 100,000 wheelchairs and Bibles to disabled people in developing countries, as part of their Wheels for the World programme, which Through the Roof UK ‘imported’ in 1997. She founded Joni and Friends in 1979 to provide Christ-centred programmes to families with disabled children, as well as training to churches. We are privileged at Through the Roof to be an affiliate of JAF since being founded in 1997, after Joni’s European speaking tour in 1994.Īt the age of 17 a diving accident left Joni quadriplegic and in a wheelchair. She and her husband Ken were married in 1982 and reside in Calabasas, California.Joni Eareckson Tada, is an international author and speaker and the founder and Chief Executive of Joni and Friends International Disability Centre in the USA. Joni is General Editor of Tyndale’s Beyond Suffering Bible, a special edition published for those who suffer chronic conditions, and their caregivers. Her newest book, A Spectacle of Glory, won best devotional book in the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s 2017 Christian Book Awards – it contains fresh biblical insights from her battle with chronic pain. Joni survived stage III breast cancer in 2010, yet keeps a very active schedule. Joni and Friends serves thousands of special-needs families through Family Retreats, and has delivered over 170,000 wheelchairs and Bibles to needy individuals with disabilities in developing nations. Filled with practical insights, her story reveals the power of Gods love to transform, as well as the triumph of faith over pain and suffering. She founded Joni and Friends in 1979 to provide Christ-centered ministry to special-needs families, as well as training for churches.
After two years of rehabilitation, she emerged with new skills and a fresh determination to help others in similar situations. A diving accident in 1967 left Joni Eareckson, then 17, a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. Joni Eareckson Tada, the Founder and CEO of Joni and Friends International Disability Center, is an international advocate for people with disabilities.
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