Tuesday
Today we had another eye clinic day at a village named Rio Esteban. It is a very remote village - so remote that we had to drive through (not cross on a bridge) two creeks to get to it. We saw over 80 patients today and gave out 38 prescription eyeglasses. Our clinic was in another church and we saw many of the members of the church. We had only 7 team members today so it was tough trying to get everyone seen in the near vision station, far vision station and those who had to go through the retinomax station but God gave us the wisdom about how to plan and organize today's clinic and things went very smooth with only a couple of minor issues that we have discussed and we will have a better plan tomorrow. The thing that concerns us is we don't have an evangelism team with us so we have decided to try to spend some time praying with our patients as they go through the clinic tomorrow.
We had a devotion the last two nights on the Great Commission and we have discussed the meaning of this. The verse is in Matthew 28:19-20. "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age". This was one of the devotions that we used for our Lay Renewal Weekend at our church back home. In this command in Matthew we are supposed to do more than just witness to others and lead them to the Lord. We are also to make disciples of them. A disciple is one who will mentor and teach the one who got saved so that they, in turn, will go out and witness and disciple others. We are supposed to make more disciples who live in obedience to Christ. This devotion is on the www.answersingenesis.org web site and was written by Tim Chaffey. We discussed the fact that short term missionaries can't really disciple since we will not be here long enough. We talked about our two local interpreters who could be those disciples. Please pray that the ones who have been saved these last two weeks will have someone who will disciple them as they continue to grow in the Lord and then they will go out and witness and become disciples also.
Es una cosa de Dios! It's a God thing!
