We had a total of 57 people come to our clinic today and we gave prescription glasses to 10 patients. Some of Leonard Jones' children from his children's home helped us in the clinic today. They had a great time working with us and we loved working with them. Leonard and Marie have done an amazing job in raising these kids. Marlon, one of Leonard's children, helped the pastor on our team by leading the team in praying at the beginning of the day. Some of our team members were first timers this year. They had never worked in the eye care field and had not been trained in working any of the stations. We worked with them in training what they needed to do once we got everything set up. After that, everything went unbelievably smooth. Emilie worked in triage, Pat and Mary in near vision, Rick in far vision, Laura took care of paperwork at the beginning and Jeff and Kristi took care of evangelism. Barbara, me and Guf were in the autorefractor station and Ken did a lot of repairing things with the trailer. Jeff and Kristi said that around 10 - 12 got saved today. One more for Jesus.
Bucket shared with us last night during devotion about an incident that happened last year when we were down here. He was walking down the street with a couple of team members. A young lady walked up to him and told him she has some lemons to sell. Bucket told her that he didn't want any lemons. Later he felt the Lord had laid it on his heart that he should have bought some lemons and then talked with the girl about the Lord. He knew he missed a divine appointment that the Lord sent his way. He began looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere. He told the team about the lemon girl story and how he totally blew it by ignoring the opportunity. He encouraged us to never miss a "lemon girl" opportunity that God is sending our way. Sometimes it may be something that is right under our noses that we aren't paying attention to. We must be aware of those moments and not let them pass us by. I had one of those opportunities today. A young girl was standing on the other side of a wire fence behind our station. She had two small children with her. She continued to stand there for a long time but I was so busy, I didn't really pay any real attention to her for a while. I finally asked about her and if the two children were her kids. I was told that they were her baby sister and brother. Her mom was an alcoholic and was not in her kids' lives. This oldest sibling was having to care and raise the younger ones. Leonard had brought the team some sandwiches and there were plenty left. I took some over to her for her and the children to eat. I talked with Bucket about it and then he went to them and took some more sandwiches to her. That opportunity almost passed me by because I let everything else keep me focused in other directions. We must always remember to pay attention to those chances that God brings across our path - those divine appointments/lemon girl opportunities to serve Him by serving others. That can happen in Honduras or on the streets or in Walmart or wherever back in Alabama or anywhere you live. Let's make a commitment to watch for those opportunities and follow God's direction.
Es una cosa de Dios! It's a God thing!
Barbara with the autorefractor and Nana helping
Brent is doing the post test station
