[Faith-talk] 9/24/16 Quotes, and Something That Has Been Laying On My Heart for a Long time

[Ericka]

I've been thinking about listers here lately. One common thing is that at some point in our lives we have really struggled to be a part of a family church family. One of the cool things that my boyfriend and I are going to do October 9 is to do a question and answer period during the coffee time after the service. We are hoping that Pastor can find people with other disabilities so it's more of a panel discussion. Yes October is meet the blind month, but we really don't think it's fair to single ourselves out. We are not the only people with disabilities in the congregationyes October is meet the blind month, but we really don't think it's fair to single ourselves out. We are not the only people with disabilities in the congregation I'm sure and an older gentleman in a wheelchair joined the same day. I am certain Randy will join us. I think it's good to have a senior citizen on the panel. We are also hoping to have someone with a learning disability, seizures, and at least one parent of a child with a disability too. 

We plan to have somebody video it with their phone so we can post it on both the church website/Facebook page and other places. Would anyone be interested in getting the video of what we did?  

Ericka Short
1750 Fordem Ave. #508
Madison. WI. 53704
608-665-3170

 from my iPhone 6s

> On Sep 25, 2016, at 7:44 PM, Beth Kats via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Paul,
> When you talked about this, I thought of how many church members react to people with disabilities!  They think blindness is "such a burden!"  I have gone, and still go through times like that.  I enjoyed the quote shared that the pleasure is to do something people thought you couldn't.  Well, that makes me also think of us as blind people.  It, especially makes me feel good to know that I've proved a sighted person wrong.
> Love In Christ,
> Beth
> 
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