The Synod's ministry to blind people, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, includes a nationwide network of nearly 1,000 volunteers who transform books, magazines and other reading materials into braille, large-print and audiocassette formats. Those resources for the blind are housed at the Lutheran Library for the Blind, based at Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis. Offering more than 2,000 titles, it is the largest religious lending library in the United States, according to Andrus. The Synod currently serves about 5,000 blind or visually impaired people. So, we're trying to activate blind people to be missionaries.
Many volunteers work from home, typing, proofreading or recording audiocassettes.