[Faith-Talk] Possible new partnership

[Linda Mentink]

Hi Ericka,

I hope this partnership works out Good for you!

Blessings,

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From: Ericka via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org
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Date sent: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 10:19:04 -0500
Subject: [Faith-Talk] Possible new partnership


Resources was just brought up yesterday as some of you know.  
Well with all the technology I was assuming just stupid in the 
beginning, that the app for our Evangelical Lutheran Church in 
America women’s magazine gather was accessible.  It is in a 
sense, but you can only read past issues not current ones.  So it 
was back to the drawing board for me.  I went to the website for 
the church worldwide office and was happy to see that they had 
Bookshare as one of the resources for people who are blind.  
However they still offer everything on audio cassette or large 
print.  In the past when I contacted the disability coordinator 
the person was clueless and didn’t want to be informed.  Well I 
had a wonderful talk with the person who took the job.  She’s 
been there for three years and is very willing to be informed.  
In fact they are working on getting videos of people with 
disabilities talking about their experience in churches available 
for seminarians, current pastor‘s and other leadership in the 
church.  Well that’s in production, they are also working hard 
to get conference calls together are people with disabilities to 
brainstorm how we can make ELCA churches more welcoming.  She was 
very understanding about why I didn’t feel I could participate 
as well in my women’s group and I connected her with Scott 
White and informed her about the NFB andnewsline For the blind.  
I’m so excited because I know she will get more information 
from Mr.  White about what other services the NFBW can offer to 
make everything they have as accessible as possible

Please pray for this new adventure as I’ve been asked to be one 
of those teleconference numbers add to reach out to others in my 
state to join.  Also pray for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 
America that they stop looking at funding the changes and 
accessibility and looking at who and how.  God will always 
provide, right? 😀

Ericka Short

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