Tuesday clinic was bigger but...

Our volunteers opened the day up by singing several hymns and praise songs to set the mood for the day.

The volunteers sing praises

We got a good start this morning, but then quickly realized that it was the last day of Ramadan, so it looked like our numbers of patients would not increase dramatically on the second day of the clinic as has historically been the case.  Tomorrow is a national holiday and that will either be very good or very bad for us, time will tell.  Anyway, we were blessed that several nearby schools sent children over for eye chart screening and we were able to squeeze a pretty large number of them in, which might not have been possible on a normal clinic day.

By the end of the day, 340 people had entered the clinics and 331 of them got treatment of one sort or another and almost all of them were prayed over individually.  I worked several different jobs in addition to trying to do the usual team leader stuff.  The day goes quickly when you don't stop for anything!  One of my favorite moments was when I was working in our triage unit and a 75 year old man who appeared to be about 50 came to me for treatment.  He said that our project had done cataract surgeries for him 2 different times over the years and now he needed glasses, which we were able to provide.  He was a joyful gent and it really lifted up my spirits to know that we do has had such an impact on one life.  Bill Goodoff handled a large share of the triage job during the whole day and I know that I also worked with and prayed with well over 100 people when I could chip in.  It's an amazing experience to be used in this way by the Lord, it's almost an out of body experience in which you feel like you are observing what the Holy Spirit is doing through you as if it is another person you are watching praying over people.  There really aren't adequate words for it, but it multiplies your faith in leaps and bounds.

That's about it for now.  We are all well and making sure we get plenty of rest and are getting hydrated as much as possible.  Stay tuned for more tomorrow!