The Brenize's arrived on the 8th. Eileen always comes with "goodies" in hand. This time it was peaches, apples and she always brings David her homemade fruit cake. They were a blessing to all. Dave did so many maintenance jobs...hard to name them all but the steps to my container are much safer now because he remade them. Eileen had meetings everyday with some of her Flannelgraph program leaders. She sent in 8 new complete set of the Flannelgraph and now it isn't enough because more programs are starting up. PTL!
Sept 10th a team from our home area arrived. What a blessing. Dr Michael Braden...eye doctor in Owensboro...his wife Trish, son Jarrett and daughter Ellen along with Tommy Heifner.. Matt and Leesa Pendley. They set up an eye clinic in our Burn Clinic. They had told me they wanted to give complete eye exams not just check to see if they needed reading glasses. The old people from our feeding program were the first patients. What a challenge....so many people here cannot read. We had to use charts with symbols but even then one of the old ladies told me she could see the shape but she had no idea what to call it. Michael was so good as he patiently took so much time with each one. Each patient that needed glasses were allowed to select a frame and then the team took the frames back to Owensboro, KY where they will make each prescription for each person. We will bring them back to Haiti after our time out in the US.
The greatest blessing was to see the patients faces when they received a new Bible. They had their choice of a French or Creole. Some said "why give a Bible to the ones who can't read?" They will take this Bible home and someone in their family will read it to them>>>> The team thought they would give away 60 Bibles....they gave 123 away. PTL!!!
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