Tada is the author of over 35 books on the subjects of disability and Christianity.
Tada has also written several children's books, including Tell Me The Promises, which received the Evangelical Publishers’ Association’s Gold Medallion and Silver Medal in the 1997 C.S. Lewis Awards, and Tell Me The Truth which received the EPCA Gold Medallion in 1998.
The life story of Tada was used by Czech composer Ivan Kurz in his opera
Ve?erní shromá?d?ní (
Evening Divine service).
Tada and her husband Ken have been married since 1982. Mr. Tada retired from 32 years of teaching in 2004 to work with his wife. Ken Tada, along with Joni, are permanent members of the International Board of Directors of Joni and Friends. In 2001, Mr. Tada received Family Life Ministries’ Robertson McQuilken Award honoring “The Courageous Love of a Marriage Covenant Keeper.”
On April 1, 2009, Tada was inducted into the Indiana Wesleyan University
Society of World Changers and was presented with an honorary doctorate while speaking at the university.
Her books include:
- Joni
- Glorious Intruder
- A Step Further
- Heaven ...Your Real Home
- Life and Death Dilemma
- The God I Love
- Tell Me the Promises
- Tell 'Me the Truth
- A Victory through suffering
- When God Weeps
- Pearls of Great Price
- When Is It Right To Die? Suicide, Euthanasia, Suffering, Mercy