Monday clinic at the church in Cacao

Today we had a clinic at an open air church in Cacao.  We saw a lot more patients than we have ever seen but many of them were children who fortunately didn't need any glasses. We did give out 29 prescription glasses and 41 readers so we were able to help a number of people have better vision which hopefully will help them in their every day lives. Quite a few people left the clinic with very happy faces because of the glasses they received.  Several of the children from Casa Cielo Orphanage were with us today and they helped out with getting glasses out of the inventory trailer, working some of the stations and also with interpreting.  They were definitely a blessing to us.

We also went by the home of a family that Papa and Mama Jones at Casa Cielo are trying to help. These children have a very sad situation and are in need of a new home and having other needs provided for.  Please pray for these children that they will get the help they need as well as a responsible adult to care for them.

We have had a strange problem with our laptop that we use with the Retinomax autorefractor that we use to read patients' vision to see if we have any glasses in inventory that will help them. Saturday and today we had a problem with the inventory program but Holland Kendall (who wrote the program and lives in Louisville, Kentucky) was able to help us. We called him and he talked us through the process.  Please pray that God will take care of this and we won't have any more issues with it.  If we can't use the program on the laptop, we won't be able to give anyone the prescription glasses that may make their lives more productive.  We don't want to miss this opportunity to help them so please pray that everything will work like it should with no more problems.

I want to say thank you again to all our prayer warrior/rope holders for praying for this team and for the people we are able to help.  We know you are there for us and we appreciate you so much.

I have a few pictures below of today's clinic.

Today's totals are:

Total prescription glasses: 29
Total patients: 109
Total saved: 7 - one more for Jesus!