[Faith-Talk] getting involved in church

[wesley.burden2 at verizon.net]

I will definitely keep you in prayer that you can get involved.  It's very
sad that the church who is suppose to be a warm place to visit sometimes
treats the blind as a cherity case.  Glad I don't have that issue anymore.
I went to a church because of my blindness thought I couldn't do anything.
Here is the line the church use to instead of telling me they were
interested in letting me participate in church activities like serving on
committees and the list goes on.  Every time I would ask to get involved
with someone the church would say well we are still praying about it.  That
was their nice way of saying to me not interested in having me serve
anywhere.  So I brought it up one time and confronted the church and ask
them the question is that I am blind is the reason why you don't want me
participating in anything?  They said we are still praying about it.  So my
answer is I am still praying if I am to find a new church as well and
eventually I did leave that church that wouldn't allow me to participate in
activities associated with the church and now I am back at my home church
where I was born and raised. And love it.



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Subject: [Faith-Talk] getting involved in church

hi all, I have a question about getting involved in church. so, because my
church is far from my college and the bus doesn't run on Sundays in my city,
I have to depend on rides and other people to go to church. the thing is,
whenever I go with people the people I go with do not have a positive view
on blindness. they are overly helpful, and they try to do everything for me.
I feel that because of this, other members of the church also see me as the
blind girl, and I feel that because of this is harder to get involed in the
church. has anyone else had simillar experiences?

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