[Faith-talk] Research on how churches help or hinder visually-impaired people in congregational worship

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The email address that was sent from the person writing the magazine article 
about church participation as a blind person was not written properly. It 
had no @ sign and it would not go through after I sent it. So, I sent the 
same information that I wrote in that message to the list.
Hello, I am Terri Wilcox. My husband and I are both totally blind from 
birth. We get the bulletins emailed to us ahead of time, with the text of 
the hymns emailed as well. We attend a Missouri Synod Lutheran church. The 
sighted people still use hymnals. We have one, but it would be too bulky to 
carry seven volumes around the church. I sing in the choir, and the texts 
for the music are also sent to me via email. I get the music from the choir 
director via email from a midi file. We walk sighted guide to communion. We 
are taking the membership class, and different individuals pick us up and 
bring us home. It seems as if our church is willing to have us, and they are 
willing to help us when we need it, but they do not make a big deal of our 
blindness. Please feel free to email with any questions. We are in our 
thirties.