Practical love - dental and eye clinics

The past two weeks have been a lot of fun. We've gotten to see people with bad vision get new glasses and people who badly need dental work done leave smiling. Actually many of them left wincing, but I think they were smiling on the inside - glad to have had that painful, beyond-repair tooth pulled.

We had a team come from Marine Reach Ministries, a medical professional arm of YWAM (note: I got their name wrong in the newsletter I just sent out), to put on both the dental and vision clinics. We had the privilege of hosting the dental clinic in our building in the village. They were such a pleasure to work with - we would have them back in a heartbeat. :-)

Luke was one of the main translators for the clinic. We got as many translators as we could, but through sickness and schedules and unplanned emergencies, we were a little tight on translators. Even Lydia was helping translate (as much as possible) for registering people.

One of the great moments of the clinic was getting to see this young man's smile transformed. He walked in with his front top teeth looking almost rotten, but the dentists were somehow able to save them (with only fillings or extractions offered)!

And this little boy with new glasses stopped by to say hi at the dental clinic --