Dear Friends; Our time here in Bulawayo is rapidly moving forward. We said goodbye to our daughter, Rebekah, and her family 10 days ago. A couple of days later we welcomed Dr. Faruk Orge who is a well known pediatric ophthalmologist, and who lectures world-wide. The day after Dr. Orge arrived, we drove him 8 hours to an eye congress in the northeast area of Zimbabwe. The drive was difficult, but the scenery was spectacular […]
Dear friends and supporters; Well, it’s been a tough period of time our last correspondence. A week ago, Jane, Rebekah, who is our daughter, and Ellie, our granddaughter began having terrible headaches and high fevers. We urgently had testing performed for malaria on them, and it was positive. We immediately began anti-malarial treatment, and Steve and Robby, our son in law, nursed them through several nights and days. Steve continued with his planned scheduled of […]
Dear Friends and Supporters As always, time moves fast here, and we are busy in the midst of clinical work and ministry in and around Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Steve started seeing patients the day after we arrived. He saw a 17 year old young man who has lost much of his vision due to a condition, keratoconus. This disease of the cornea of the eyes results in progressive thinning and eventual scarring with loss of vision […]