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

[Linda Mentink]

Her email address is a link at the bottom of her message where it 
says My contact information email. It's a verizon.net address, and it 
worked for me.

At 06:31 PM 5/10/2010, you wrote:
>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.
>
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