Friday, October 13, 2006
Eye see you!
A couple nights this week I slept in the apartments above the medical clinic here at Double Harvest. These apartments were recently built and are typically used to accomodate large teams of short-term workers like college groups, surgical teams and the board of directors. This is also where the optometry team is staying so we have eaten together a few times as well. Last night Jim and I picked veggies from the Double Harvest fields for a stir fry dinner - eggplant, swiss chard, carrots and garlic. Yum!
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Since the power was still out in my building on Thursday morning, I volunteered to help the optometrists see their first round of patients. Two of the older students from the school, Kedlar & Loubert, assisted all day in translating. They are very polite Christian guys and were a huge help. In a little over 4 hours we ended up seeing 44 patients, provided 15 pairs of reading glasses, took eyeglass prescriptions for 4 people, and distributed completed prescriptions to patients from their July visit here - all free of charge courtesy of Russ's organization, Living in Faith, in conjunction with Double Harvest. Unfortunately, there were a handful of people whose eyes were in such a poor state of degeneration that we were unable to help them with glasses as they would require surgery.
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The guys from Living in Faith also make frequent trips to Cuba for similar distribution of glasses and other necessities. They have some amazing stories of how God has enabled them to help people who previously thought they were without hope. Please pray for God to continue opening doors in Cuba and Haiti for the Living in Faith organization.
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# posted by A*Dub @ 7:48 AM 
