Wednesday on Utila

Today has been a great day in the clinic. We had one man come in whose daughter came to our clinic several years ago when we were on Utila. Our team made a referral for her to Dr. Ponce on the mainland because she had crossed eyes (strabismus). Dr. Ponce was able to do surgery and correct the problem and now she is doing great. She is on the mainland in school. Rosa told us about a little 3 year old boy (William) we saw in our clinic with his mom in 2009. I told Guf that the little boy had strabismus and he made a referral to Dr. Ponce. His mom took him to Dr. Ponce and a team from New York that was working with her was able to do the surgery to correct the problem and now he is also doing great. Today the mom brought William back to our clinic and we were able to meet him. I have a picture of William below. We love these amazing stories we hear about on our trips. Bill shared last night in devotion – God doesn’t call the equipped – He equips those He calls. I don’t know what I am doing sometimes (I am definitely not equipped since this is not my field) but God makes it work. He blesses me with these sweet people who welcome us and then we get to help them have a little better life with better vision.

At 3:00 we had already seen 92 patients!! We have never seen this many patients in that amount of time. This is another one of those experiences where God is making time stand still as I mentioned on Monday about the experience on Yellow Rock. One of our team members called it the “five loaves and two fish experience”. God gave us all the time we needed to see all of the patients who came to us. We praised Him and thanked Him for blessing our team in such a way that we could help more people. There were a number of people who came today who were corrected to 20/20 with the right pair of donated glasses. Thank you to everyone who has donated and for your prayers for our team. God may have used your glasses to help someone have better vision.

Our count for today

Total patients: 92

Total glasses dispensed: 36

Total saved: 12 - Yeah!! One more for Jesus!!

Some of you who have followed my blog for several years may remember why I used that phrase all the time (one more for Jesus). It came from a book by Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life). He tells about his dad who was dying and at the very end, he laid his hand on Rick’s head as if he was commissioning him for a ministry. He then said “One more for Jesus”.