Dear Friends and Supporters, We have now returned back to the US, and we want to thank you for praying for us through our time in Zimbabwe. Looking back on the whole trip, we are very thankful to have had so many opportunities to use our skills and talents to help many underserved and needy people in the southern part of Zimbabwe. We saw a total of 806 patients, dispensed 589 pairs of glasses, mentored […]
Dear Friends, Thank you for remembering us in your thoughts and your prayers since we last wrote to you. These last 2 weeks have been filled again with days of service and ministry, but we have also had the privilege of hosting Rebekah, our daughter, Robby, her husband, and our grandson Lewis. They flew over to spend time with us and to help serve. With the 3 additional family members, and with assistance from Rebekah’s […]
Dear Friends, We have now completed a little more than half of our time in ministry here in Zimbabwe, and are writing this message to you by candle light. Yes, the electricity here on most days only comes on between about 11 PM and 4 AM. But, we are coping well and consider this a minor inconvenience. We have enjoyed a number of ‘romantic’ candlelight dinners with the power outages, so there are advantages to […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We have been in Zimbabwe two weeks now, and we have finally grown accustomed to the cold nights, sleeping under three to four blankets with long pajamas and socks. However, the days here have been beautiful and fairly warm with constant sunshine. We arrived to find that the electricity is only operational from 11 pm till 5 am, and water is being restricted. So, we have enjoyed some ‘romantic’ dinners by […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, As we prepare to depart again for Zimbabwe we ask you again to remember us in your thoughts and prayers. We have a number of ministries planned, but we also face new and unknown challenges during this upcoming chapter of our lives in Zimbabwe. The country of Zimbabwe is presently experiencing great difficulties and hardship with strict laws that were recently passed in finance and currency controls. This has resulted in […]
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 […]