How Time Flies.

I was just reviewing some of my blogs and I realized there are so many trips that I have been on that never even got mentioned in my blogs. No pictures, no posts, nadda, just nothing. I think what happened was I waited until after I got back to learn what it was the Lord was teaching me before I wrote anything and then this thing called the busyness of life interrupted my good intentions. There are so many stories that have gone untold here, and I'm pondering whether or not its even to late to record them.

Yesterday I spent the day packing eyeglasses and sunglasses for Africa and last night we had help from friends so we packed frames that are going to Haiti. One of our friends Dawn, stayed afterwards and showed Jen and me how to make this blog look better. Thank God Jen was there because most of what she did was all Greek to me.

So here again is one of my efforts to be a better blogger. I leave next week for Haiti. Once again I'll be in traveling to the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission, which is located in the poorest providence in Haiti. This will be my third trip to the NWHCM, they are such an incredible ministry. You enter through a well guarded steel door into a compound the size of several football fields. Once inside you are safe from.... well safe from whatever could happen to you if you weren't well protected in Haiti. Northwest is a busy place. they run orphanages and birthing centers. They offer eye, dental and general medical care and run a well stocked pharmacy. They even have 2 or 3 operating rooms on site. In another part of the compound they have a center where the mentally and physically challenged children can live and receive love and care. There is a ministry inside for the older folks to live and be cared for. They put on daily food programs for hundreds of the poor and they offer so many other programs I can't even mention them all here.


Twice a year the "I team" arrives to Northwest. In Feb.and once again in August. The "I team" or (eye team) consists of volunteer ophthalmologists, optometrists, opticians, oculists and ophthalmic techs from all over the USA and even Canada. Over 40 volunteers were there in Feb. operating on well over a hundred patients and treating and examining nearly a thousand more. This is where God's Eyes comes in. We are the provider for the prescription eyeglasses that are given out there. I forget how many hundreds of prescription eyeglasses we did in Feb. but now we have made a complete eye kit which we will leave behind so that even when the eye team is not there, the local Haitian eye doctor who volunteers there several times a month can prescribe and offer prescription eyeglasses to the poor in St Louis De Noir and surrounding areas. When I was there in Feb. the local optician who works at NWHCM told me there are only three areas where there are optical facilities in all of Haiti. I'm not sure if that is correct but imagine having only a handful of dispensaries to service 8 million people.



This is a picture of Safina, a 3 year girl who was buried for 5 days in the Port Au Prince earthquake that took place a year ago. Next week I am taking back a pair of prescription eyeglasses for her. In Feb. the eye surgeons were able to remove the traumatic cataracts she obtained from that horrifying experience, and God's Eyes will provide the eyeglasses that will return her sight to perfect again.




I have so many other stories like that last one. We have been traveling to some of the poorest places on this planet for the past few years restoring sight to those who could never afford the eyeglasses they need. I have been on this incredible journey where I've seen the Lord do marvelous works and have learned first hand just how much He cares for and loves on the poor throughout the world.
I will try to be a better blogger because I know the stories I have are not meant just for me. If you ever want to hear more please contact me at Godseyes4u@aol.com. Jen and I will go anywhere at anytime to share with anyone the marvels of what God is doing. Until the next blog I remain,

humbly yours,
bryan