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

[Ericka]

Oh by the way I was going to put the listserv contact information at the end of my blog piece. Maybe this will get at least more people for a Wisconsin talking on here.

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

 from my iPhone 6s

> On Sep 25, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Justin Williams via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Sure.
> I would. 
> Justin
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> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] 9/24/16 Quotes, and Something That Has Been Laying
> On My Heart for a Long time
> 
> 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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