OK everyone I know its been done before with different items, but starting May 1st. we are launching our very own BUY A PAIR, GIVE A PAIR program. We are honored to have partnered with the Peachtree City Eye Center as our first office to sign up for this endeavor.
They have offered to donate a pair of prescription eye glasses to us for every pair they sell. I can't even put into words how thankful I am to Dr. Bowser, his partner and staff for their outrageous generosity.
As many of you already know we are currently working on our second level goal of (ATPAM) giving sight to 1000 people every month by fitting them with the prescription eye glasses that they so desperately need. Dr. Scott Bowser's offer will play a large part in helping us achieve that goal.
For any of our friends or readers who live in or near the Fayette county area in Georgia, please visit the Peachtree City Eye Center for all your eye health needs. You can find their office at
100 n. Peachtree Pwky in Peachtree City Their phone number is 770 487-8900.
If any other eye doctors are reading this we would love for you to follow Dr. Bowser's lead and join him in supporting this program. For those doctors who own a different type of practice we have counter top donation boxes we would gladly supply you with for you to display in your offices. We can also supply the donation boxes to anyone who knows of a place where they could be displayed. Please feel free to reach us at Godseyes4u@aol.com or call me anytime at 404-966-8705.
The God's Eyes team is growing all the time. Keep spreading the good news that the eyes of the poor will soon be opened. To all of our friends and partners keep running the race. One day WE WILL reach (ATPAD ) a thousand pairs a day!
until then,
bryan
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
The big and busy busy apple
Jennifer and I just attended the Vision East Expo Trade show in New York City.
There were thousands and thousands of attendees and I think about 1000 exhibitors. We went there to try and get some equipment and lenses donated that we desperately need when we are in the field. There are only 2 companies that make the piece of equipment we need. We were able to spend time with the presidents of both those companies and although they are constantly bombarded with similar requests from other non -profits just like ours, I feel we have a good chance of getting the equipment we need.
We also experienced all kinds of favor from other vendors. One man even jumped out in front of us and gave us a $ 2.00 pack of nose pads for free. I told him I really didn't need them and he asked "what do you need ?" When I said lenses he said I can give you lenses! Well today he called me and said he has 10 Large boxes filled with 100's of pairs of lens blanks that we can have just for the price of the shipping charges. Another vendor offered to make us the round shaped frame we need for certain prescriptions at an amazing price. And yet still another offered to sell us the lenses we need at a savings of 40% off what we have currently been paying. All in all we talked with so many exhibitors and spent time with the presidents of seven or eight companies.
I know we walked several miles during those three days and my feet got so sore I had to get some of those gel inserts. We went non stop for a few days but it was so worth it. God was showing up the entire time we were there. The son of the president of a large lens and frame distribution company even told me he had a million yes 1,000,000 frames he could give us. He then agreed to give us a free frame for every lens we buy from him.
Jen and I are so amazed with what God is showing us He wants us to do through Gods Eyes. We are so honored to be a part of this wonderful ministry.
Thank you to all of you who are partnering with us. May God Bless you all.
humbly yours,
bryan
There were thousands and thousands of attendees and I think about 1000 exhibitors. We went there to try and get some equipment and lenses donated that we desperately need when we are in the field. There are only 2 companies that make the piece of equipment we need. We were able to spend time with the presidents of both those companies and although they are constantly bombarded with similar requests from other non -profits just like ours, I feel we have a good chance of getting the equipment we need.
We also experienced all kinds of favor from other vendors. One man even jumped out in front of us and gave us a $ 2.00 pack of nose pads for free. I told him I really didn't need them and he asked "what do you need ?" When I said lenses he said I can give you lenses! Well today he called me and said he has 10 Large boxes filled with 100's of pairs of lens blanks that we can have just for the price of the shipping charges. Another vendor offered to make us the round shaped frame we need for certain prescriptions at an amazing price. And yet still another offered to sell us the lenses we need at a savings of 40% off what we have currently been paying. All in all we talked with so many exhibitors and spent time with the presidents of seven or eight companies.
I know we walked several miles during those three days and my feet got so sore I had to get some of those gel inserts. We went non stop for a few days but it was so worth it. God was showing up the entire time we were there. The son of the president of a large lens and frame distribution company even told me he had a million yes 1,000,000 frames he could give us. He then agreed to give us a free frame for every lens we buy from him.
Jen and I are so amazed with what God is showing us He wants us to do through Gods Eyes. We are so honored to be a part of this wonderful ministry.
Thank you to all of you who are partnering with us. May God Bless you all.
humbly yours,
bryan
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Thousands and thousands and thousands of .... eyeglass frames
Well everyone the frames have finally arrived !
Thanks to the extreme kindness from the owner of Ono Eyewear we now have enough frames to last us for a few years. Please go to our website photos and click on our photo album and you can see pictures of just how large this shipment is. We have about 100 different styles and maybe 500 t0 1500 frames in each style.
Some of you already know that we are trying to set up an optical in northern Haiti. Well about five weeks ago I was wondering where in the world would we get the frames we needed to stock that optical. Just two days later I got an email from the owner of a frame manufacturing company who said he had about 100,000 frames he wanted to donate to us. Yep, that was a few more than the 500 frames I needed.
God is Awesome !
Now we need 200,000 lenses.
I stand, amazed
bryan
Thanks to the extreme kindness from the owner of Ono Eyewear we now have enough frames to last us for a few years. Please go to our website photos and click on our photo album and you can see pictures of just how large this shipment is. We have about 100 different styles and maybe 500 t0 1500 frames in each style.
Some of you already know that we are trying to set up an optical in northern Haiti. Well about five weeks ago I was wondering where in the world would we get the frames we needed to stock that optical. Just two days later I got an email from the owner of a frame manufacturing company who said he had about 100,000 frames he wanted to donate to us. Yep, that was a few more than the 500 frames I needed.
God is Awesome !
Now we need 200,000 lenses.
I stand, amazed
bryan
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Last year
Last year in Haiti I held a sick baby in my arms. He has no parents, and had no hope. God loves this baby boy so He asked some people to care for him. They said yes to serving God.... they took a leap, and because they did this little guy will live.
Then I saw a mother starve her baby boy to death. She was to poor to help him and she had five other children at home and there was just no money. God loved this baby too, but I think perhaps somewhere someone said no to serving God...... so he died.
I cried.
Last year I met a young lady in her late twenties. God asked her to leap from the comforts of the USA to a dangerous area in Haiti. She is a nurse. Everyday she works long hours in very hard conditions and and she is constantly stretched to her limits.. Hundreds of people are alive today because she yes to God. Her stories are of constant encouragement to me.
Last year I met a Dr. who travels a day away several times a month to help others see. God loves the people in the little town she travels to and He is concerned about their lack of sight. So He has asked her to leap. She receives no pay for her labor and it makes her life more complicated. But she said yes to God and a thousand people a year see because of her.
Last Year I met a dentist who lives a very simple existence in a very poor place . Within a few hours of her house there are numerous little mountain villages where even poorer people live.
30 years ago God has asked her to serve Him. So she gave up her plans and started leading groups of visiting medical teams into these villages to bring care to people who God loves. Thousands of people have been comforted because she leaped.
Last year I met and traveled with a pastor in Haiti whose life is threaten daily. He had to send his family far away in fear that they would be kidnapped. He no longer gets to enjoy life with them.... instead he serves God by building schools and churches and medical clinics in places where there are none. He has also leaped. He is more than amazing, he is one of my heroes.
Last year I met a hundred other people who said yes when God asked them to leap. Some of those people live here in the USA and some have moved far far away. All of them are the best people I have ever met. They all share the heart and love of God and they exhibit the fruit of the Spirit. They have all taken a leap and that has taken many of them to places they never knew existed. Millions of people are comforted by what they do.
Last year I put glasses on a ninety year old man who walked for four hours to see me. I put glasses on a three year old girl who needed 100 steps of power and I put glasses on a thousand other people in between. I've fitted glasses by candle light when there was no electricity, and in churches with no roof and only mud for a floor. Last year God asked me to travel to some of the poorest places on earth where I put eyeglasses on the people who God loves and cares for even though many of them don't even know who He is. Last year I laughed with and cried and rejoiced and smiled and prayed with those people who God cared so much about that He wanted to help them see.
But last year I also saw people who went blind because they could not get the help they needed. I saw people die from starvation and saw people who ate mud because they had no food. I saw children suffer from typhoid and all sorts of curable diseases and heard them crying in pain at night because they did not have the medicine they needed to comfort them. I saw illiterate people who never got the chance to learn or go to school whose lives were slowly wasting away in sheer boredom. I saw people born in such isolated places they would never have hope of ever finding work. There were those who drown in floods, and others who lost their crops to droughts. I saw multitudes of people hurting in every way possible from the injustice of extreme poverty.
Overall Last year I saw a lot of needless suffering, lots and lots of needless suffering. Because somewhere, someone said NO when they were asked to leap.
Last year instead working near home in an beautiful upscale eye practice, where everyone and everything is beautiful. I worked far away in third world countries in some terribly hot conditions and I worked when it rained on us. I got to sleep in places where I never could have imagined staying. I went to places where your life was threaten and you had to be protected at night by men with guns and machetes. I've eaten things I don't ever care to taste again. I've been sick in the field with stomach viruses and suffered from diarrhea in places where there were no bathrooms and even acquired parasites. I've traveled up mountains on roads which were little more than goat trails and through deserts where we got flat tires. I carried equipment through fields of mud and saw people robbed and thousands who were hurting.
Last Year I did all this because God loves people
and He asked me to help them see.
So I left the life I knew and said yes. And last year with the help you all gave me, I was able to help a couple of thousand people SEE and I saw hundreds of people discover who God is.
Last year ......
I learned to leap ........ and
I learned how others suffer when you don't.
Apella farlo, bryan
Then I saw a mother starve her baby boy to death. She was to poor to help him and she had five other children at home and there was just no money. God loved this baby too, but I think perhaps somewhere someone said no to serving God...... so he died.
I cried.
Last year I met a young lady in her late twenties. God asked her to leap from the comforts of the USA to a dangerous area in Haiti. She is a nurse. Everyday she works long hours in very hard conditions and and she is constantly stretched to her limits.. Hundreds of people are alive today because she yes to God. Her stories are of constant encouragement to me.
Last year I met a Dr. who travels a day away several times a month to help others see. God loves the people in the little town she travels to and He is concerned about their lack of sight. So He has asked her to leap. She receives no pay for her labor and it makes her life more complicated. But she said yes to God and a thousand people a year see because of her.
Last Year I met a dentist who lives a very simple existence in a very poor place . Within a few hours of her house there are numerous little mountain villages where even poorer people live.
30 years ago God has asked her to serve Him. So she gave up her plans and started leading groups of visiting medical teams into these villages to bring care to people who God loves. Thousands of people have been comforted because she leaped.
Last year I met and traveled with a pastor in Haiti whose life is threaten daily. He had to send his family far away in fear that they would be kidnapped. He no longer gets to enjoy life with them.... instead he serves God by building schools and churches and medical clinics in places where there are none. He has also leaped. He is more than amazing, he is one of my heroes.
Last year I met a hundred other people who said yes when God asked them to leap. Some of those people live here in the USA and some have moved far far away. All of them are the best people I have ever met. They all share the heart and love of God and they exhibit the fruit of the Spirit. They have all taken a leap and that has taken many of them to places they never knew existed. Millions of people are comforted by what they do.
Last year I put glasses on a ninety year old man who walked for four hours to see me. I put glasses on a three year old girl who needed 100 steps of power and I put glasses on a thousand other people in between. I've fitted glasses by candle light when there was no electricity, and in churches with no roof and only mud for a floor. Last year God asked me to travel to some of the poorest places on earth where I put eyeglasses on the people who God loves and cares for even though many of them don't even know who He is. Last year I laughed with and cried and rejoiced and smiled and prayed with those people who God cared so much about that He wanted to help them see.
But last year I also saw people who went blind because they could not get the help they needed. I saw people die from starvation and saw people who ate mud because they had no food. I saw children suffer from typhoid and all sorts of curable diseases and heard them crying in pain at night because they did not have the medicine they needed to comfort them. I saw illiterate people who never got the chance to learn or go to school whose lives were slowly wasting away in sheer boredom. I saw people born in such isolated places they would never have hope of ever finding work. There were those who drown in floods, and others who lost their crops to droughts. I saw multitudes of people hurting in every way possible from the injustice of extreme poverty.
Overall Last year I saw a lot of needless suffering, lots and lots of needless suffering. Because somewhere, someone said NO when they were asked to leap.
Last year instead working near home in an beautiful upscale eye practice, where everyone and everything is beautiful. I worked far away in third world countries in some terribly hot conditions and I worked when it rained on us. I got to sleep in places where I never could have imagined staying. I went to places where your life was threaten and you had to be protected at night by men with guns and machetes. I've eaten things I don't ever care to taste again. I've been sick in the field with stomach viruses and suffered from diarrhea in places where there were no bathrooms and even acquired parasites. I've traveled up mountains on roads which were little more than goat trails and through deserts where we got flat tires. I carried equipment through fields of mud and saw people robbed and thousands who were hurting.
Last Year I did all this because God loves people
and He asked me to help them see.
So I left the life I knew and said yes. And last year with the help you all gave me, I was able to help a couple of thousand people SEE and I saw hundreds of people discover who God is.
Last year ......
I learned to leap ........ and
I learned how others suffer when you don't.
Apella farlo, bryan
Thursday, October 30, 2008
What can you do
Over the past several months as we spoke with all kinds of groups, the most frequently asked questions are,
1) what could I do?
2) can you use my old glasses?
So here are some answers for everyone.
Most of all you could PRAY.
Pray for safety as we travel to the poorest areas of third world countries. Many times I have to be locked in at night. Sometimes behind barbed wired fences, and sometimes behind steel doors. Many nights there are guards who carry sawed off shotguns, pistols or even machetes. Once we even had to travel with armed bodyguards in order to insure our safety.
Please also pray for our health. At the clinics we set up, usually hundreds of patients show up for care. Many of them have stomach viruses, colds or a multitude of other diseases. Several times I have developed coughs or sore throats or have become ill with vomiting and diarrhea. Believe me that's no fun especially when you have to run outside to use not the best of outhouses.
And PRAY for and, or make a DONATION.
We are always in need of finances in order to achieve our goals.
We believe the Lord has given us 4 very specific goals to fulfill.
1) ATPAY ....... A Thousand Pairs ( of prescription eyeglasses) A Year
2) ATPAM ....... A Thousand Pairs A Month
3) ATPAW ....... A Thousand Pairs A Week
4) ATPAD ....... A Thousand Pairs A Day.
In 2007 we reached and exceeded our first goal. This year we began to work towards the fulfillment of our second goal. The annual costs needed to achieve that goal is approximately
$ 198,000. Donations of any amount towards that goal are greatly appreciated. Some of the lenses we manufacturer costs over $100 but overall our average cost to help someone see is now around $13.00 As we are able to expand and buy in volume, we will be able to reduce that even more. But just take a moment and ponder that for just $13 you will change someone's life and give a gift will last for years.
If you are unable to donate you can still be a valuable part of the God's Eyes team by VOLUNTEERING.
Here's some ideas for you.
1) Invite us to speak at your church, bible study group, prayer group, your women's or men's group or any civic organizations. God has always raised up support for us every time we've told His story. Jen and I have committed to go anywhere at anytime to talk with anyone about the ministry of God's Eyes.
2) Mention us to people you know might who may be able to help us. People who run radio or TV shows or who work for people who do. People who work in advertising, airlines, those who own their own businesses, caterers, churches, doctors, entrepreneurs, publishers, printers,or restaurants owners. Do you know of anyone or any groups looking for a cause to support next year? If so please contact us.
3 Have a fundraiser for us. Get your group or friends to organize a car wash, a phone campaign, a bakery sale. A golfing event, a book or garage sale or even a concert. Sell hot dogs or hamburgers outside of Kroger or Publix. We'll show up for anything you invite us to.
4) Use your talents. One kind lady offered to write a children's book for us and donate the proceeds. Another offered to write a magazine article about us. One generous man donated his garage space for our storage needs thus eliminating the rental costs of a storage unit for us. Use your imagination and ask God what you can do.
5) Donate your frequent flyer miles or extra buddy passes to God's Eyes. We are currently in the process of becoming approved donors for Delta and Airtran. We can always use any help you can give us to reduce the costs of our annual air travel.
6) Introduce us to anyone with previous expertise with non profits or grant writing, marketing or fundraiser experience. Remember this is all new to Jen and me.
7) If you would like to donate a car we would gladly accept it and remember that it does qualify as a tax deductible donation.
8) We are looking for a national spokesperson to promote the charitable work of God's Eyes. This could be a famous sports personality or a celebrity in the movie or music industry. Or perhaps a well known christian musical group. Maybe a famous author. Perhaps a politician or a well known corporate CEO. Who do you know? Can you put us in touch with someone's agent or manager or introduce them to us yourself. Even if you only know a relative who has a friend who knows a friend who knows someone famous. Just give us a call 404-966-8705.
And finally I'll get to the second most asked question and that is
Do you take my old glasses?
The answer for now is no for three reasons. First there are already organizations such as the Lions Club that already do this and I wouldn't ever want to diminish the donations to them. The second reason is it's just so hard to find a person who would just happen to need your exact prescription. I would probably have to carry several thousand pairs of old glasses with me just to have a good chance at fitting the person we're seeing. The weight restrictions alone from the airlines would make this near impossible. The third reason is I have the capabilities of making them a new pair of eyeglasses in the exact prescription they need. In many cases this may be the only new item they ever receive in their life. So since I can make the glasses new, I do.
Please join our team and help us share the love of Christ in a very tangible way. Seeing CAN be believing.
I'm always amazed by you,
bryan
1) what could I do?
2) can you use my old glasses?
So here are some answers for everyone.
Most of all you could PRAY.
Pray for safety as we travel to the poorest areas of third world countries. Many times I have to be locked in at night. Sometimes behind barbed wired fences, and sometimes behind steel doors. Many nights there are guards who carry sawed off shotguns, pistols or even machetes. Once we even had to travel with armed bodyguards in order to insure our safety.
Please also pray for our health. At the clinics we set up, usually hundreds of patients show up for care. Many of them have stomach viruses, colds or a multitude of other diseases. Several times I have developed coughs or sore throats or have become ill with vomiting and diarrhea. Believe me that's no fun especially when you have to run outside to use not the best of outhouses.
And PRAY for and, or make a DONATION.
We are always in need of finances in order to achieve our goals.
We believe the Lord has given us 4 very specific goals to fulfill.
1) ATPAY ....... A Thousand Pairs ( of prescription eyeglasses) A Year
2) ATPAM ....... A Thousand Pairs A Month
3) ATPAW ....... A Thousand Pairs A Week
4) ATPAD ....... A Thousand Pairs A Day.
In 2007 we reached and exceeded our first goal. This year we began to work towards the fulfillment of our second goal. The annual costs needed to achieve that goal is approximately
$ 198,000. Donations of any amount towards that goal are greatly appreciated. Some of the lenses we manufacturer costs over $100 but overall our average cost to help someone see is now around $13.00 As we are able to expand and buy in volume, we will be able to reduce that even more. But just take a moment and ponder that for just $13 you will change someone's life and give a gift will last for years.
If you are unable to donate you can still be a valuable part of the God's Eyes team by VOLUNTEERING.
Here's some ideas for you.
1) Invite us to speak at your church, bible study group, prayer group, your women's or men's group or any civic organizations. God has always raised up support for us every time we've told His story. Jen and I have committed to go anywhere at anytime to talk with anyone about the ministry of God's Eyes.
2) Mention us to people you know might who may be able to help us. People who run radio or TV shows or who work for people who do. People who work in advertising, airlines, those who own their own businesses, caterers, churches, doctors, entrepreneurs, publishers, printers,or restaurants owners. Do you know of anyone or any groups looking for a cause to support next year? If so please contact us.
3 Have a fundraiser for us. Get your group or friends to organize a car wash, a phone campaign, a bakery sale. A golfing event, a book or garage sale or even a concert. Sell hot dogs or hamburgers outside of Kroger or Publix. We'll show up for anything you invite us to.
4) Use your talents. One kind lady offered to write a children's book for us and donate the proceeds. Another offered to write a magazine article about us. One generous man donated his garage space for our storage needs thus eliminating the rental costs of a storage unit for us. Use your imagination and ask God what you can do.
5) Donate your frequent flyer miles or extra buddy passes to God's Eyes. We are currently in the process of becoming approved donors for Delta and Airtran. We can always use any help you can give us to reduce the costs of our annual air travel.
6) Introduce us to anyone with previous expertise with non profits or grant writing, marketing or fundraiser experience. Remember this is all new to Jen and me.
7) If you would like to donate a car we would gladly accept it and remember that it does qualify as a tax deductible donation.
8) We are looking for a national spokesperson to promote the charitable work of God's Eyes. This could be a famous sports personality or a celebrity in the movie or music industry. Or perhaps a well known christian musical group. Maybe a famous author. Perhaps a politician or a well known corporate CEO. Who do you know? Can you put us in touch with someone's agent or manager or introduce them to us yourself. Even if you only know a relative who has a friend who knows a friend who knows someone famous. Just give us a call 404-966-8705.
And finally I'll get to the second most asked question and that is
Do you take my old glasses?
The answer for now is no for three reasons. First there are already organizations such as the Lions Club that already do this and I wouldn't ever want to diminish the donations to them. The second reason is it's just so hard to find a person who would just happen to need your exact prescription. I would probably have to carry several thousand pairs of old glasses with me just to have a good chance at fitting the person we're seeing. The weight restrictions alone from the airlines would make this near impossible. The third reason is I have the capabilities of making them a new pair of eyeglasses in the exact prescription they need. In many cases this may be the only new item they ever receive in their life. So since I can make the glasses new, I do.
Please join our team and help us share the love of Christ in a very tangible way. Seeing CAN be believing.
I'm always amazed by you,
bryan
Monday, October 27, 2008
Life in a desert of dirt
Hola Amigos
I just returned from a small village in Pucasana Peru. It was truly one of the most unusual geographical places I've ever been to. There is nothing there but dirt. In fact the entire region is a desert made out of rock and dirt, lots and lots of dirt.
As with most 3rd world countries there was an abundance of poverty everywhere.. The residents in the village I worked in lived in small shacks made out of a combination of scrap metal, wood and plastic tarps. Good thing it doesn't rain often there or these people would get soaked.
We set up clinic in a very small church about 10ft by 30 ft. The good news was we had electricity so we had lights.
Every night we had to turn people away from the eye clinic, there was such a need there for vision correction. And every morning there would be lines of people waiting for us. We were able to help a lot of people see. We prayed for so many eyes and people on this trip. We always told them that God loves them so much that one of the things He has done for them was to send us to them to give them the glasses they needed. A lot of people cried with joy and thanksgiving when their eyes were opened and everyday we received so many hugs.
I haven't totaled everything up yet but I believe we dispensed around 300 to 350 pairs of eyeglasses.
Other than myself there were 2 doctors along on this trip seeing patients as well. If we reduce this trip to just numbers then I think we saw 874 patients altogether.
This trip I had the help of Ken Weaver who was literally my right hand man, and Cindy who translated so very well for me. These two "servants of the Lord" literally worked themselves sick. They worked so hard and long and we simply would not have been successful without them. Thank you so much Ken and Cindy! May God continue to bless you both.
Life is just so hard for everyone who lives in Pucasana. There is nothing to do here, the area is so barren. Just take a look on google earth and you will see what I mean. Everything is always covered in dirt and the people are so very poor. They seem to have little and from what I could see there is little hope of ever making it out of there.
Some of you already know that the goal of Gods Eyes is to show the love of Jesus in a very tangible way, by providing vision correction to those that will never be able to afford it.
By opening their eyes our hope is that they will have hope and open their hearts to the Lord.
On this mission 124 people did exactly that, 124 prayed and invited Christ into their lives and that is the best number of the trip.
They will all be followed up by the pastor of the church we worked out of. I think he is probably going to have to expand the church building because there is no way 124 more people are going to fit in it. Continue to pray for these new believers, and for everyone else there.
124 ......... 124 ........ amazing , simply amazing!
bryan
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I just returned from a small village in Pucasana Peru. It was truly one of the most unusual geographical places I've ever been to. There is nothing there but dirt. In fact the entire region is a desert made out of rock and dirt, lots and lots of dirt.
As with most 3rd world countries there was an abundance of poverty everywhere.. The residents in the village I worked in lived in small shacks made out of a combination of scrap metal, wood and plastic tarps. Good thing it doesn't rain often there or these people would get soaked.
We set up clinic in a very small church about 10ft by 30 ft. The good news was we had electricity so we had lights.
Every night we had to turn people away from the eye clinic, there was such a need there for vision correction. And every morning there would be lines of people waiting for us. We were able to help a lot of people see. We prayed for so many eyes and people on this trip. We always told them that God loves them so much that one of the things He has done for them was to send us to them to give them the glasses they needed. A lot of people cried with joy and thanksgiving when their eyes were opened and everyday we received so many hugs.
I haven't totaled everything up yet but I believe we dispensed around 300 to 350 pairs of eyeglasses.
Other than myself there were 2 doctors along on this trip seeing patients as well. If we reduce this trip to just numbers then I think we saw 874 patients altogether.
This trip I had the help of Ken Weaver who was literally my right hand man, and Cindy who translated so very well for me. These two "servants of the Lord" literally worked themselves sick. They worked so hard and long and we simply would not have been successful without them. Thank you so much Ken and Cindy! May God continue to bless you both.
Life is just so hard for everyone who lives in Pucasana. There is nothing to do here, the area is so barren. Just take a look on google earth and you will see what I mean. Everything is always covered in dirt and the people are so very poor. They seem to have little and from what I could see there is little hope of ever making it out of there.
Some of you already know that the goal of Gods Eyes is to show the love of Jesus in a very tangible way, by providing vision correction to those that will never be able to afford it.
By opening their eyes our hope is that they will have hope and open their hearts to the Lord.
On this mission 124 people did exactly that, 124 prayed and invited Christ into their lives and that is the best number of the trip.
They will all be followed up by the pastor of the church we worked out of. I think he is probably going to have to expand the church building because there is no way 124 more people are going to fit in it. Continue to pray for these new believers, and for everyone else there.
124 ......... 124 ........ amazing , simply amazing!
bryan
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
catching up
Some of this summers highlights.
Talking and praying with Heidi Baker
Spending a few days with Franck from Haiti
Being blessed by so many new partners of Gods Eyes
Tuesday nights at Gary and Shelly Davis' house
Learning to walk "in the Spirit"
Loving on my family and growing with all of them
Enjoying life with my wife, the most wonderful person I know
Meeting and getting to know Maurice who fixed our air conditioner 6 times for free
Seeing God do amazing things with His ministry of Gods Eyes
Working in the field in Honduras with Jennifer
Handing out thousands of new prescription glasses to poor people around the world.
Dr David Johnson's generous donation of an entire optical dispensary
Special thanks to these partners for their amazing and outrageously generous ongoing support
Jamie and Donna Bergrenn
Dr.Gary and Shelly Davis
Tom and Patty Fulton
Ken and Mary Weaver
Butch and Jan Wallace
Heritage Christian Church
Doug Barclay
and our heartfelt most sincere thanks to EVERYONE who supports and prays for Gods Eyes.
Without you we could not help others to see.
May God bless you all !!!!!!
Talking and praying with Heidi Baker
Spending a few days with Franck from Haiti
Being blessed by so many new partners of Gods Eyes
Tuesday nights at Gary and Shelly Davis' house
Learning to walk "in the Spirit"
Loving on my family and growing with all of them
Enjoying life with my wife, the most wonderful person I know
Meeting and getting to know Maurice who fixed our air conditioner 6 times for free
Seeing God do amazing things with His ministry of Gods Eyes
Working in the field in Honduras with Jennifer
Handing out thousands of new prescription glasses to poor people around the world.
Dr David Johnson's generous donation of an entire optical dispensary
Special thanks to these partners for their amazing and outrageously generous ongoing support
Jamie and Donna Bergrenn
Dr.Gary and Shelly Davis
Tom and Patty Fulton
Ken and Mary Weaver
Butch and Jan Wallace
Heritage Christian Church
Doug Barclay
and our heartfelt most sincere thanks to EVERYONE who supports and prays for Gods Eyes.
Without you we could not help others to see.
May God bless you all !!!!!!
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