Yesterday, we began to swap our team members around the
clinic a bit, to give each of them a new experience and also, in some cases, to
switch between standing and sitting jobs.
Shirley spent some time helping with dispensing reading glasses, since
the eye chart jobs she had been performing involved almost 100% standing and it
gave her a chance to interact with the people a little more. Merrilee has been on the eyechart, helped
some in triage and helped with pulling the lenses to spell Martha. Charles has been keeping an eye on the
glasses assembly crew, helping in triage, fitting glasses and helping with
traffic flow. As the week goes on, those
that have a heart for triage are all encouraged to give it an hour or two. This station involves determining what kind
of vision treatment we may be able to provide, but it has a large spiritual
component, since we have conversations about each patient’s faith life. We see a large number of Christians, but
yesterday the numbers of Muslims began to swell due to word of mouth from
Monday’s clinic. Regardless of the
outcome of any talks we have, we almost always are able to pray one on one with
each person for any needs they may have identified or just to bless them. This is a very powerful experience indeed for
both parties. Many of these prayers end in
tears or in praising God for all of His blessings.
I’m sure we’ll move more of our people around to give them a
different experience today. The clinic
is running so well, we can afford to experiment a bit and we can always go back
to what was working if there are problems.
Time to start getting ready.
More to follow!
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