Wednesday, November 20, 2024, Day 5, Day 3 of the Clinic

 Today ended with quite the rain storm, and the downpour was very noisy as it hit the tin roof above us. Early in the day traffic was pretty slow at the clinic, and at one time I even asked my prayer partners to pray for traffic to pick up — and for snow (as a joke). God did answer our prayers, and traffic did pick up! We saw 85 people today And, as I said, we got a big rainstorm. When I texted back to some of those that I had texted earlier in the day, I said, “I asked for snow, not rain.” The comment I got back was, “It’s melting before it gets to you.” 

Yesterday I wrote about how the clinic works, and I wrote about how the first thing is that the pastor tells those who come about salvation. One of our team members gives out salvation bracelets and salvation puppets, and then the person continues to an eye health assessment. 

At this time each person is given an eye dropper bottle and instructions about using a saline solution they can mix up on their own. Groups and congregations often put together kits and donate these to MOST.

After the assessment, the person is tested for reading  and distance. 

With a number for reading and a number for distance, the person then goes to dispensing where glasses are pulled and then used to test for correctness of good vision.

With glasses in hand the person then goes to fitting where the ear piece is fitted, screws are tightened, and the glasses are straightened. Each person also gets cases for the safe keeping of their glasses and they also get a pair of sunglasses 😎.

We thank the Lord for His continued blessing of the clinic, and we look forward to hosting the clinic for one more day. Continue to keep us and the wonderful people of Belize in your prayers.