A quadriplegic who has spent more than 40 years in a wheel chair says living with suffering teaches you who you are.

Singing, drawing, and painting are unique forms of self-expression for this evangelical speaker and writer and also a means of encouraging others with disabilities.

"Once you have empowered a disabled person artistically, you have in fact empowered a disabled person,” says this Georgetown University chaplain who ministers to wounded combat veterans and amputees through the theater.

"He deserves to pray. He has a right to faith, too," says Safiyyah Muhammad of her autistic son, Sufyaan. Their mosque in Irvington, New Jersey and other houses of worship are working to accept and include people with disabilities and special needs.