Honduran Missions - It's A God Thing: Thursday - last day of clinics on Utila for 2016

Not to sound too repetitious but it was another great day. We stopped seeing patients at 12:00 so we would have time to pack up 3,840 glasses into the duffle bags and get all the other supplies packed and ready to go back to the mainland on the ferry tomorrow morning. We saw 54 people this morning in just a few hours! We were amazed. We had to dilate 3 people but we had the chance to test their vision and give them some glasses.

We had some great stories to tell. One lady came through and as she was leaving the evangelism station, she was in tears. I was standing outside and had the chance to talk to her and hug on her (I haven’t given out as many hugs as I wanted to). She said that she has not been able to see well for a very long time. Her vision has been so bad that she can’t read or see well at a distance. Our glasses changed all that and she is so happy. Then she said that one of the ladies in evangelism talked to her and prayed with her and then gave her a gospel of John track (she has a Bible). She said she hasn’t been in church in many years and had lost a desire and reason to go. She said now she knows that she was wrong and is making the decision to do what God is calling her to do. She patted her chest several times and said her heart has changed. She feels God is calling her to have that relationship with Him that she has missed all these years. Wow! We were so blessed by her testimony.

Bucket said that Pastor Waldo said that they are setting up 2 people to follow up with people who came to our clinic but they are not in church anywhere. He wants to make sure that they have not missed any opportunity to encourage these people to be a part of a church family.

Bucket also wanted me to share that the church here was very appreciative of all of the Bibles that we brought to Utila and shared with the people here. My church back home contributed to the team and then Bucket used the money to buy the Bibles.

At the end of the day, our team and the workers in the church got together to have some praise and worship time briefly before we packed up. I have a picture below. I had already started replenishing the glasses inventory when they started singing and praying. During the singing time, I was multitasking: singing and scanning the glasses into inventory. I thought I just had to get finished so the team could leave. I am a very OCD person. Those who know me well can testify to that. I have to have everything in order and very well organized and timed well. As we were having prayer, I realized I was being a Martha times 10!!! God sent me here to do this work in Honduras but I thought that I just absolutely had to finish this work on the inventory - NOW! I was wrong - big time!! I needed to stop and just be a Mary for a while - spend some time singing and praying and praising God for what He has done by using a nobody from Alabama like me. He didn't call me here to be a Martha - He called me to be a Mary. I am supposed to minister to Him by ministering to His people. I felt very unworthy and had to ask His forgiveness and determine that I would seek to keep my focus on Him and not my stuff. God can replenish that inventory without me or anyone else!! I praise Him for that! Thank you God for what you have done this week and in every mission trip and for all your blessings to me that I don't deserve except through your Son Jesus.

Our count for today

Total patients:    54 (in 4 hours!)

Total glasses dispensed:   22

Total saved:   14 - Yeah!! One more for Jesus!!

Our count for the week

Total patients: 354

Total glasses dispensed: 158

TOTAL SAVED: 46 - YEAH!! 46 MORE FOR JESUS!!