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 […]
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 […]