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 […]
Dear friends and supporters; We are packed and ready to depart on another mission to Zimbabwe. Please pray for Steve as he still has some gastrointestinal issues from hist last trip to Zimbabwe at the end of May. He was worried that he caught something from his cooking, but the two other men who were with him did not catch the traveller’s diarrhea that he is suffering with. We hope that that problem will be […]
Dear friends of Eyecare; Our two week mission trip back to Bulawayo has just ended, and we leave with joy and rejoicing in our hearts. Pastor Rob preached and lectured a total of nine times in the nine days that he accompanied us. Three of those were six hour sessions at the Institute of Biblical Teaching where his talks made a huge impact on the students. Dr. Darrell Baskin, the retina surgeon from Alaska, performed […]
Dear Friends of Eyecare; It’s been a very busy, but fulfilling week here as we have worked and ministered to many. Dr. Baskin arrived, and while he went to work teaching management of retinal diseases to Dr. Moyo, Steve and Pastor Rob conducted an eye camp at a senior citizen’s retirement community with very poor elderly people. Just a pair of reading glasses alone produced great joy and thanksgiving from those we ministered to. Pastor […]
Dear Friends and Supporters; We have just arrived in Zimbabwe; those flights and time differences have not become any easier. These first two nights found us awake at 1:30 am, and only dozing off at around 5 am, to be awakened by the alarm clock at 6 am. Steve and Pastor Rob Heath travelled together to Bulawayo. The last flight that they took to Bulawayo was delayed, but otherwise all bags arrived, and immigration and […]
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 […]