Hi, Mark,

I have never done this myself, but here's an idea.  If your job as a 
minister/priest requires you to go places every day all day, consider hiring 
a driver and take the expense off as a medical or business expense on your 
tax return.  You could probably take cabs and take their expenses off, too.

Some towns and counties have "cab scripts" where a handicapped person can 
take a cab and pay a minimal charge.  The town or county subsidizes the 
service.

I know what it's like living in an area with poor transportation.  I've had 
to depend on sighted family and volunteers all my life.  I have occasionally 
taken cabs, too.  I have never paid a sighted person to do nothing but drive 
me from here to there, but I have paid people to drive plus do other things.

It's only been with a few years that my town and county has a good bus 
system and a good paratransit system and the senior citizen complex where I 
live has a bus that takes people places within the town 3 days a week from 
9-3.  What was offered in the past was quite lousy, but because the law 
requires it, the paratransit system has had to offer more services and 
improve itself.  Just what will happen in this economy, I don't know.

I wish you the best with your transportation needs.