With fervent efforts to deliver relief and aid to a destitute Haiti, Christian Dominican Medical Mission has been very busy. Our team has stepped up and even grown to meet the bill. God’s timing was perfect with a new intern from Ohio, Yvonne Goll, who will be with us for a few months, has really chipped in and arrived just after the quakes in Haiti. Luis Javier and Starling Reyes, our Dominican intern students, have been very helpful and such a blessing. Also Joseph Klein, a CDMM missionary training as a teacher in Dallas, has come to help off-set the extra workload. We continue our full schedule of programs and ministries in the Dominican Republic as we expand to helping Haiti in this time of great need.
Between visits to provide aid in Port-au-Prince, we here at CDMM have provided a large scale vision/medical clinic in the Dominican Republic. On the 28th of January, a team arrived for a five day, five location vision clinic. This team came equipped with hundreds of eye glasses, surgical equipment, and diagnostic instruments ready to consult patients, prescribe and dispense eye glasses, as well as perform several eye surgeries including trigiem & cataract removals. While here, they were able to literally restore sight to blind in some instances, as well as greatly improving vision and bettering many people's lives with the gift of clarity to others. The team based out of Ashland, Ohio sponsored by Ohio VOSH, the Lions Club, and S.E.E. international worked in the areas of Cambita, Santo Domingo and the mountain villages of Los Cacaos, Mucha Agua, and San Rafael. Through the week over a thousand glasses were dispensed, forty surgeries performed, and most importantly the Gospel was shared with thousand people. What a privilege to share God’s salvation and restore sight to the blind as God’s church works together to be His body. Praise the Lord for this group and their help!
It was a pleasure to be there and an experience that I will never forget!! Keep fighting the good fight...God bless you!
ReplyDeleteThanks Donna, your team was such a blessing, it was great to have you guys.
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