There is so much beautiful flora and fauna to be found here, even in the midst of a large city. The gardener at the church itself is quite remarkable. These are some photos of the plant life just at the church.
Wow! There’s so much to share and it’s overwhelming to try to write about it concisely. Today was our last day of clinic for the trip. We had our busiest day yet with 130 people fitted for glasses. The final numbers haven’t been tallied yet, but that brings us somewhere near 450+ people served with more than 700 pairs of glasses and another 450+ pairs of sunglasses as well. The attached video walks you through what our clinic looked like. You enter into the courtyard and begin with the registration table. Registrants then waited in the seating area of the courtyard where a short session on caring for your eye health was held and then the witness for Christ by either Pastor Rudy or Pastor David. From there, registrants went to the nursing station where they discussed their eye health history and learned about the use of eye drops and received an eye dropper and a recipe for making their own eye dro...
Day 5: Friendship It’s midnight and the bunk bed springs are squealing as you hang over the edge to look down at your bunk mate. You’re making faces and trying to make them giggle as your counselor admonishes you - once again - to settle down. Your bunk mate is your best friend for life and the four days you’ve known each other has convinced that you should move with them to Ohio rather than going home at the end of the week. You’re thick as thieves, making mischief at craft time, pretending to shoot each other in archery and being forced to retake the safety portion. You squeeze into one little round seat at the cafeteria table because some knucklehead didn’t leave your spot open and you jostle your spots in line to make sure you get to take your swimming competency tests together. You wear the matching friendship bracelets you made on day one and you won’t take them off until your mom declares it ratty and d...
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