[Nfbmo] What would you do?

[fred olver]

Dan, I am on what is called the Christian Action committee, I'm starting to 
think it is a Christian Inaction committee which is set up to oversee 
programs out in the community and the churches involvement.

Fred
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DanFlasar at aol.com>
To: <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What would you do?


> Fred,
>    I don't know the governing structure of your church (or  any other for
> that matter) but did you press them for an explanation as to why  their
> promises/assurances were not met?   Is there an appeal  structure?   I can 
> tell
> you that I have been to trivia nights in which  there were only one or two
> questions that required sight.  One was  regarding corporate logos, and
> another was of school pictures of famous  people.   The first group was 
> fairly
> well understood but almost no one  got the school picvtures so it was a
> failure and you could have gotten pretty  much the same result as any of 
> the other
> people by randomly choosing one of the  multiple choices.
>     The point being that visual cues aren't  necessary.  I would take this
> to the next level.   And by the  way,what committee are you on?  Is it an
> accessibility committee?
> Dan
>
>
> In a message dated 10/24/2011 8:44:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> goodfolks at charter.net writes:
>
> A year ago,  I attended a Trivia Night put on by a food pantry in the St.
> Louis area. This  pantry is supported by my church along with several 
> others.
> After the night's  program was over, half of the categories being visual 
> in
> nature so that a  blind person could not participate in that portion of 
> the
> program I wrote an  item for my churches news-letter and sent it on to the
> director of the  organization. In this item I pointed out that it was not
> fair or necessary to  include only video-type questions and asked that 
> they
> do, in the future  consider having categories which were non-video in the
> future. I received  assurances from the director of the organization that 
> indeed
> they would do  this.
>
> Last Friday, I attended their Trivia Nighht again. True, only two
> categories of questions were video in nature, however these two categories 
> included
> roughly 1/3 of the questions. Yesterday at a meeting of a church 
> committee
> I suggested that they with-hold two weeks worth of donations and  that
> these donations go to another organization as a protest, the rest of the
> committee said no to this idea, sighting the possibility that a family 
> might  have
> to do without this food, I personally doubt it, and figure they're just 
> to
> comfortable in their place and don't wish to because it doesn't affect
> them, so what would you do if you were in my place? This really upsets me,
> especially since I had spoken to this organization a year ago and they had
> more or less agreed that this was not a good thing to have happen.
>
> Fred  Olver
> http://www.dealingwithvisionloss.com  For some of us it's a way  of life
> and for some of us it just makes life easier. Fred  Olver
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