Our first clinic day this year was at a church in El Cacao. It took a little while to get set up but everything went great. We had a great prayer time at the beginning with the people who came to the clinic. I always have some good stories to tell each year about some of the patients who come through our clinic. One gentleman came through our clinic whose vision was over 20/200. We worked to get him some prescription glasses that would help improve his vision at least a little. Unfortunately the program only came up with 2 pair that would work for him out of over 3800 pair . When Rick gave him the first pair, they didn't help much at all. Then he tried the second pair which was actually a woman's pair of glasses. Those glasses got him to 20/20!! And he was so happy. He didn't care how they looked - just that he could finally see with such an amazing improvement!! We love stories like these that make our work here worth it. The kids from Casa Cielo Children's Home worked with us also. They did a great job running errands and doing any task we gave them.
On Sunday we will go to church as Crusadas and then check out the bodega (our storage warehouse) next to the church to get some more supplies. It's been a great start for our mission trip.
Today's totals:
Total patients - 93 (by 1:30!!)
Total readers - 34
Total prescription glasses - 16
Total saved - 2
One more for Jesus!
Es una cosa de Dios! It's a God thing!
Near vision station
Two of the Casa Cielo boys working the sunglasses station
Far vision testing with 2 of the Casa Cielo girls
