Dear Friends and Supporters, As we conclude another chapter in Zimbabwe, we look back upon the past month with gratitude and joy in our hearts at what God accomplished through our work and ministry there. Firstly, the shipping consignment that contained the new state of the art cataract machine and other supplies finally arrived after a number of delays. We were able to unpack it, place the phaco cataract machine at the hospital, and perform […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, The work here in Zimbabwe is going well. We are busy and have accomplished much since arriving here two and a half weeks ago. Steve has continued with the teaching and mentoring program at Richard Morris Eye Hospital. He has been supervising and spending most of his time with two doctors, Dr. Gilbert Moyo and Dr. Ora Malemane. Both of these men have good medical knowledge and skill, but they have […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We have been in Zimbabwe for a week now, and have been busy since arriving from the US. Steve has been teaching surgical techniques at the Richard Morris Eye Hospital, and today he will be working on a gentleman who has a large skin cancer invading the whole lower lid. This will require a procedure to remove the whole lid and reconstruct it using a sliding flap from his face, so […]
Dear Friends, We have just departed on that long 16 hour flight to Johannesburg for another term of service and ministry in Zimbabwe. We have been preparing for this chapter for a couple of months now, and are excited to return. We will stay overnight at a guest house and take another hour and a half flight to get to Bulawayo. Zimbabwe has been going through severe economic and political upheaval and unrest the last […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We have completed another memorable and wonderful chapter of medical ministry in Zimbabwe and our hearts are full as we think back on all that God accomplished through us over these last 6 weeks. We would love to share with you a summary of the different dimensions of work and the experiences that we were able to take part in during our stay in Zimbabwe. We delivered 13 lectures and talks […]
Dear Friends, Time has moved by swiftly over here, and we have been, as always, busy in the work and ministry of eye care. The past two weeks have been filled with opportunities for teaching surgical procedures and management of eye disease to doctors, medical students, and nurses. At the Richard Morris Eye Hospital, we have installed a laser so kindly donated by West Georgia Eye Care Center and we have begun to show and […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We have now been in Zimbabwe for 9 days, and they have been full to the maximum. We arrived on July 20th, and the next day 3 doctors and their families, a total of 10 of us, started work at the Richard Morris Eye Hospital in Bulawayo. We were joined by Dr. Bothun, Professor of pediatric ophthalmology at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Faruk Orge from Case Western in Cleveland, Ohio and his […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We want to give you an update of what has happened since we arrived back in late March from our latest trip to Zimbabwe. As we communicated to you in a previous message, we were able to continue surgical skills training with a focus on cataracts and other surgeries, and we were so pleased to observe the improvement in skills of the training doctors at the hospital. However, our last shipment […]