Dodie,

This summer I have been working freelance writing
press releases and articles for a PR firm in Chicago.

Send me all the information and I will write up a
press release that you can send to your local paper
and to your local TV news.

I need to know
-Name of Church
-Location of church
-Pastor
-How many HoH people
-whether the church has signed services or wheehr it
is considering them
-details about the system previously used
-contact information (Whom they should call for
further info, phone number for that person, email
address if one is available, and snail mail address)
-Any other relevant info

In the release I will want to include a brief quote by
your pastor and one by you as a deaf/Hoh church
member. If I don't quite like a quote you send, I will
polish it up or make one up out of whole cloth.




--- Doreen <dodiepettipas@...> wrote:

> Our church just completed the building of our new
> sanctuary, after a
> 10 year struggle with the city over a conditional
> use permit. Once
> we got our conditional use permit (about 2 yrs ago)
> I started
> researching what was available out there for looping
> the church for
> the hearing-impaired congregants. I went to a
> meeting with the
> building committee and told them about the need and
> how it would be
> better for the people needing it than using the
> portable FM receivers
> previously used. I stressed that using headphones
> on a personal FM
> deprived the user of the amplification of their
> hearing aids which
> are adjusted individually based on the wearer's
> loss.
>
> Well, they agreed to pursue it. We moved to the new
> sanctuary on
> June 25th. The building wasn't complete and the
> sound system wasn't
> entirely finished. This past Sunday I got to try
> the loop out. It
> was so nice to be able to hear the sermon without
> all the background
> noise in the sanctuary. People don't seem to
> realize how distracting
> it is when they are moving around, shuffling papers,
> coughing, baby
> crying, etc. When you have to work hard to hear in
> any situation you
> quickly find out how distracting these sounds are.
>
> We are looking into getting signs to let people know
> the loop is
> there and working. I hope there are lots of others
> who can benefit
> from it. We also have large screens at the front of
> the sanctuary
> where the sermon outline is posted. This is very
> helpful, since I
> sometimes miss what the fill-ins are when I have to
> look down at my
> paper.
>
> I am going to see if there is someway the church can
> get free
> publicity from the local paper regarding the loop
> system. There
> aren't many places here in the Southern Oregon area
> that have any
> amplification systems. The ones that do are just
> infrared or FM and
> use headphones. Again, back to taking out your aids
> to use the
> headphones and not having enough amplification
> without the aids to
> really hear. At least for those of us with severe
> or profound
> losses.
>
> Anyway, just thought I would let you guys know that
> this happened.
>
> Dodie
>
>
>
>
>



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