Dear Friends and Supporters, We continue to see great and wonderful things as we work and minister here. We have been in Zimbabwe for over a month now, and our schedule remains busy as we encounter the great needs of the people. Steve has been teaching at the Richard Morris Eye Hospital, and this trip he also had a new and wonderful event in his career. Our daughter, Rebekah, her husband and children joined us […]
Dear Friends & Supporters, Time is moving fast here, and our schedule has been full. We recently travelled to the southern border of Zimbabwe to conduct an eye camp at a citrus estate (this farm is projected to ship 34,000 tons of oranges around the world this year). We were hosted by the owners who were very gracious to us. Traveling with us were two local couples from our church here, and they were astounded […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We arrived in Zimbabwe several weeks ago after the long and tiring journey, and are now busy consulting at the Mater Dei Hospital, as well as teaching at the Richard Morris Eye Hospital in Bulawayo. Our journey over to Zimbabwe was actually very smooth – it started out with a wonderful blessing in the form of a Delta Air Lines check-in lady in Atlanta. She checked our luggage all the way […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, Well, it’s time again for us to head back to Africa and continue the work and ministry to which we have been called. We will be boarding the long 16 hour flight on Delta Air Lines to Johannesburg, staying the night and taking another plane up to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe the next day to face immigration and customs at the airport. Even after all of these years of service, we are required […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We have recently returned from our mission to Brazil and completed our long, all night flight home from Rio De Janeiro. In spite of the travel discomforts though, we are overjoyed, and our hearts are full at what God did through us on this medical mission. Our team consisted of 5 doctors including Steve, 2 dentists, and 6 others who assisted the doctors and dentists, ran the pharmacy, and witnessed to […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We are traveling with a team of 14 people down to Rio De Janeiro on a medical mission from our church here in Birmingham. (Steve talked Jane into coming along – she will be the optical dispenser). We look forward to joining up with dentists and other medical doctors to serve the people in a very poor part of the city. We will be driving up into the Barros (slums) where […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We arrived back into the US several weeks ago after 3 flights and a long 37 hour journey. Why is it, as we age, these journeys seem to be more arduous, and we are more weary when they are completed? I believe this is one of those issues in our lives that is universal – we are not as strong and resilient as we once were. But, we are filled with […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, We are starting to wind things down here with our work in Zimbabwe. We are due to fly out soon, but there is still much to do and accomplish. In the past two weeks we held an eye camp at an Anglican girls high school about an hour and a half from the city of Bulawayo along a road littered with potholes, great and small. We arrived to a warm welcome […]