[Faith-Talk] serving and connection

[Ericka]

I am sad to hear that a small church would treat you so. It’s the larger churches that my husband and I have had problems with. The totally blind have always been treated like they were five and those with some vision get more respect. That’s totally unchristian, but people are reacting humanly, unfortunately to you. My husband is on church council and I serve communion every Sunday at our small evangelical Lutheran church which is the more liberal Lutherans. We have no problems connecting and the pastors 100% supportive of anything we do I have always been blessed with fitting into a church setting but work… Not so much.  if you’d like to talk off-line, you can either email me at DOTWRIterone at gmail.com or even better yet, call us and we’d be happy to talk to you at 608–7 54–8671.  we are in Linda’s home city of Janesville Wisconsin. 

Don’t give up because God is hearing you, those in your church aren’t listening.

Ericka Nelson


> On Aug 9, 2024, at 9:28 PM, andrew edgcumbe via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> My name is Andrew for those who don't know me.
> 
> I have just had struggle after struggle with  just being able to serve as
> part of a church body and stuff like that other then maybe music and stuff
> like that.
> To me the experience is they don't know what to do with me because of my
> blindness and stuff like that.
> It is like people have been so hazatant to do anything or to support me or
> help me find those opportunities either as part of a church or even
> ministry and stuff like that.
> The answer I always get is just pray about it while we should do that and i
> been doing that all along but faith should be followed up by action to and
> stuff like that.
> 
> 
> While I don't know other area's speciffically my church is a very small
> church so it is limited but I want to find christian ministries who
> actually let blind people serve even if it is from home or some other way.
> 
> The other area is that i have trouble making connections that really foster
> into more then just sunday morning fellowship.
> I have tried to find hiking partners and finding other things.
> i reached out to couple of the other churches for walking buddies and stuff
> like that and just other people whom perhaps i can really make connection
> with from a church to do coffee with or do other things with and I don't
> know they are afraid of the fact i am blind I don't know what it is.
> I just been really looking for answers as to what to do with myself like i
> have few people in building i connect with but they have disabilities that
> keep them from doing walks with me or  other adventures I would like to be
> able to go on and stuff like that.
> 
> I struggle making connection through or  church or community  like I said
> even a buddy of mine has tried to talk to t others about  others about
> walking with me or what not but there is great hazatation and never had any
> luck weather it is walking or ki hiking and stuff like that.  or even
> people to really connect with.
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