[nfbwatlk] blind ministers

[Jedi]

Debby,

The National Federation of the blind has a division for people 
interested in faith-based topics. Many of the division's members are 
involved in ministry to some extent or other. I would suggest 
contacting the division President by e-mailing Tom Anderson at 
tanderson at cocenter.org.

As to accessing your materials, you're right that the BrailleNote 
doesn't support pdf. However, you could turn those pdf documents into 
text files using a pdf converter. Many pdf programs have built-in 
converters which see text mark-up and use that mark-up to create your 
text file. For those that don't have text mark-up built in, try putting 
them through Nuance PDF Reader. Just do a Google search on it and you 
should find what you're looking for. Your Apex can read text files as 
well as Word documents, so try that and see where it gets you.

Good luck with your studies.

Respectfully,
Jedi
Original message:
> Hi all, I am in search of people who are blind and who are either
> active ministers or studying for ministry.  They do not have to
> be within a specific denomination but I am working toward
> ordained ministry within the Free Methodist Church.  I am already
> finding that I will have some challenges.  Much of the Free
> Methodist website is in stupid PDF.  We do have a MacBook, which
> reads PDF, but I am sharing the Mac with my husband (who has
> primary custody).  Lol.  I also learn more when I can read things
> in Braille.  Unfortunately Humanware has not made the Apex to be
> able to read PDF, unless there's something I don't know about.
>  It's been twenty years since I've been in school.  Everything I
> do will be through individual study, although I do believe there
> is a two-week intense class that I may have to take.  I still
> have to go through the process of being interviewed at the
> Conference level, but was approved at the local level today.
> Thanks for any suggestions folks might have.    Blessings,
> Debby Phillips

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