Dear friends and supporters; We had a very blessed and fruitful day yesterday as we conducted our first community eye camp on Edisto Island, South Carolina, here in the US. Steve has given free eye clinics at Brother Bryan Mission in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, and has done part time clinical work and teaching at UAB in Birmingham. However, yesterday was a first for him to lead a volunteer team to conduct an eye camp. Our team was formed with members of Redeemer Fellowship Church, New […]
Dear Friends and Supporters; Our time in Zimbabwe is drawing to the end of our sojourn here. The last couple of weeks have been filled with work, ministry, and hosting dear friends, Ralph and Lynn Parrish. They assisted us in several ministries. Ralph participated as Steve did surgery on a lady removing a cancerous growth on her lower lid and performing a skin graft. Ralph and Lynn both helped at an eye camp conducted in […]
Dear Friends; Our time here in Zimbabwe continues to move rapidly. Each day here is filled with serving those in need with our skills in medicine, sharing the Good News as we are led, and working in a country and system that is broken and corrupt. Steve had to visit the immigration office in downtown Bulawayo several days ago to receive an extension of our residency permits. After taking a large sum of money from […]
Dear Friends of Eyecare; We write to you rejoicing once again for the Lord’s guidance and protection this last week. Last Sunday Dr. Timothy Sipos, a retina surgeon, and Andrea Fenton, his fiancé who is an endodontist, arrived to begin a week of teaching their skills to our local colleagues. Despite jet lag, both went to work the next morning, teaching and passing skills to their respective training doctors. Dr. Sipos gave intensive hands-on training […]
Dear Friends and Supporters: We have just completed our first week here in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and it has been packed full of activity and ministry. We arrived last Sunday afternoon, and our jet lag only allowed us to sleep three to four hours those first three nights before our body clocks reset. A team of five people representing an organization called MITE from North Carolina arrived the day after us, barely making it out of […]
Dear Friends of Eyecare: We are preparing again to return to Zimbabwe to continue the work ministry in Bulawayo and surrounding areas. Our first visitors when we arrive are from North Carolina, and will be doing some video documentation of the eye services that have been developed over the years. They will also work with us in a couple of eye camps, seeing patients, and sharing the gospel. Then will have Dr. Timothy Sipos and […]
Dear Friends of Eyecare; We have just completed this last chapter of work and ministry in Bulawayo and in the southern part of Zimbabwe. It has been a very busy and fairly intense interlude of mentoring, teaching, surgical training and hosting of both visiting doctors and friends and of fellowship with our local friends and colleagues. Dr. Gil Pebayle left us after a work-filled and fruitful time of teaching and service. However, the last few […]
Dear Friends of Eyecare; Another week has come and gone. Days are long, but these weeks are flying by. We greeted a new friend on Monday from France, Dr. Gil Pebayle. He is an eye specialist from a moderate size town near Bordeaux, and when he arrived, he went to work right away that afternoon upon arrival. We have spent the week both at Mater Dei at the Eye Center, and at the Richard Morris […]