Hi All,
Our church secretary e-mails the bulletin for Sunday each Friday. A church
member volunteer types the words of the hymns we are to sing each week. I
paste the hymns into the bulletin where they are to be sung. Then I save a
text copy of each hymn with its number and title as the name of the
document. That way they all are listed as in the print hymnal in the
folder on my compact flash card. I continually update a hymn list and sent
it to our church secretary so that she knows if a given hymn is already in
my folder. In this way, I am gradually creating a text version of our
hymnal and I have the bulletin, the announcements, and the hymns for each
week. I e-mail my edited version to a blind friend who also attends our
church and uses a different note taker.
There was a bit of a learning curve for getting all this to work out, but
now it is slick. I agree with a previous post that one must strip out all
the formatting by converting the document to a .txt format.
There have also been times when I have embossed a copy of our church
bulletin for friends visiting.
When I bought my Braille Note initially, I went back and forth about the
extra expense for the braille display. Now I am so glad that I spent the
extra money. Another church-related use I make of it is to braille the
music for our chimes group and read and memorize from my electronic copy.
Everyone sees my Braille Note in church and there is no problem.
Once though, when the little kids came forward for the children's sermon, I
was in the front row and searching for a Bible verse that I hoped to use in
my part of the service. One little kid, as he left, accused me of playing
computer games during the service. There was no time to set him
straight. Oh, the impression we make.
Joleen
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At 02:06 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote:
Hi Christopher:
I use it in church all of the time and they do not have a problem with
it. I have people come up to me and ask me what it is that I am reading
with, and I get to explain it to them.
Sincerely,
Jolena Foster
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May I ask, would the church allow worshippers to follow along using an
MPower? Just curious. A very interesting idea though!
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:16:26 -0400, "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]"
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Ann;
Keep me in contact. I am also interested. It sure would be neet to
take my M-power to church and be able to follow along.
Still interested in hymns. Never got the free hymnal a bible study
group promiced me at convention. It was just the words.
Terry Powers
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Hi Guys,
I'm on the trail. It's gettin' warmer, but I haven't been able to
contact the lady. She's out of the office. Hang in there folks.
I've often found that the best way to get info is to start at the
original source. So, I'm hoping the Xavier Society does have what
Mona wants. It may not be in electronic format, but it should be in
hard copy Braille.
Ann P.
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