Saturday, March 24, 2012

The team enjoyed a day of relaxation today after completing 5 days of eyeglass clinics. They saw 839 people! On Friday when we arrived at the clinic to find a mass of people waiting to be seen, some had come from earlier in the week or from others communities to be seen.

Tim  did an amazing job presenting the gospel at all of our location but this last site was predominately Muslim and located within a couple of blocks from the local mosque. Friday is the Muslim day of worship and Tim had to compete with the Muslim sermon on a speaker.

Several Muslim men commented on the presentation and it was good to know. One gentlemen had waited  most of the day and when it looked as if he might be able to be seen, lifted his wrist and showed his witness bead bracelet and said what we received with this is more important than the eyeglasses. God allowed us to be able to call more people into the clinic and he was one of them.

Today the team got to sleep in a bit and enjoy a leisurely breakfast and a longer devotions before setting out to the market and then to a pool. The market was a great experience and everyone took lessons about bartering from Beth and Tim and headed out and bargains we had by all.

We had lunch at a nice hotel with a pool and the team enjoyed a few hours of well deserved rest.

Once we got back to our compound one of our translators came over to give us cooking lessons! A field trip into the neighborhood to find a mortar to grind part of the sauce, a trip to the local market to gather a few missing ingredients dinner is well underway and is spelling delicious! We are having chicken with a peanut sauce.

Once again God out together an amazing team of people ranging from 12 to 75 that blended well together, they looked after one another and did an outstanding job of sharing the gospel in word and deed.


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