# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S676
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676 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

tacted with the one purpose of having them assign a contact pastor °
in their respective District through whom contact may be estab- *
lished in the individual State School and through whom the work

of our Board may be cleared in each District. Through such con- }
tact pastors we are hopeful of keeping each District informed as 3
to’ how our congregations might better serve any Blind which they 4
have in their membership, and through such contacts we feel §
that also our subscription lists can be cleared in the various Dis- *
tricts with the possible thought of gaining any unchurched sub-

scribers for our Church. We. trust that in this program we shall §
have the co-operation of every District Mission Board. ;

Literature for the Blind
Since one of the primary means of conveying the messages of ;
our Church to the visually handicapped is raised type, one of
the primary interests of the Board from the beginning of its assign- J
ment was not only to continue and to improve our present publica- 4
tions but also to prepare new publications to be put into Braille. 4
Before incurring any expenditure in the preparation and production -3
of new materials, however, it was felt advisable to make a complete 4
appraisal of what we have prepared in the past. This has now a
been done. To facilitate this study, ink print copies of our various .
publications have been prepared and the first step in new pub-
lications has been taken. This is the preparation in Braille of -
A Child’s Garden of Bible Stories by A. Gross, eventually to
supplant our present Old and New Testament Bible Stories.
On the child level this new copy, it is felt, will be more meaningful
than our previous text to the children we are serving in the various
State Schools. :
Another venture only recently undertaken is the production
of our first Talking Book, placing H. W. Gockel’s What Jesus Means
to Me on a series of disks, or records. This is by no means a new
method of instruction in work among the Blind but has before
not been utilized in our Church. While the method of preparing
a Talking Book is a rather costly venture, being about 40 per cent
higher than Braille Printing, the need for this in the work of our }
Church has long been felt, since there are twice as many talking: }
book readers among the Blind than Braille readers. Once this book
is completed, it will be available to those requesting the same
through our Chicago Library. If the response to this venture is
favorable, we hope to enter this field of service to the Blind on
a larger scale, since through this method even such as are unable
to read by means of Braille and other raised types will have the
advantage of much of the fine literature of our Church.