EVERY two years opportunity is given each church member to assist in the ministry to the blind. This offering will be taken this year on May 16.
The General Conference established the Christian Record Braille Foundation more than seventy-one years ago. Quietly and efficiently they have been producing Braille and recorded publications for the blind and physically handicapped.
This literature is wholesome and educational. There are also doctrinal services, such as the Sabbath school lessons, the Braille Bible correspondence school, and the Review and Herald. These are supported one hundred per cent by the offering taken every two years. No other source of funds is available for these worthy projects.
The ability to continue and expand this primary objective is controlled by the total amount received from the church. It is sobering when one considers how much could be done if only sufficient funds were available. A recent Act of Congress has made the Christian Record Braille Foundation responsible for, in addition to the blind, all physically handicapped persons unable to hold a book to read.
There is a great need for more recorded books in the lending library. This service is so popular that more than two thirds of the books are out to borrowers all the time.
There is demand for more large-print books and publications for the handicapped people with only partial vision. The Lord surely loves them and wants them to hear this message too.
One of the popular publications is the Sabbath school lessons on tape. These go out to hundreds of blind listeners who have not yet taken their stand for the truth.
Blind people are a captive audience, and the devil is at work on them. Much of the literature for them, like ink-print publications, is not fit to read or at best not wholesome. Enough wholesome literature must be provided to keep these active minds occupied and not leave any time for the undesirable.
The primary purpose of the Christian Record Braille Foundation is to help give the message to those in darkness. We need the support of the Church for the work assigned to us.
The staff of the Foundation are limited as to how much they can promote this program. This is an important phase of the work of the Church. The burden of responsibility rests on you, the pastor, to uphold and help educate the members as to what is being done for the blind.
Be a partner in the ministry to the blind.
NOTE: For more information, feel free to write to the Christian Record Braille Foundation. They will gladly send more information. Find out what this large organization is doing, and it will astonish you. Their reputation and good influence are widespread.
