Queremos Ver! Queremos Ver! A Jesus Exaltado!
We wanna see! We wanna see! We wanna see Jesus lifted high! I feel like that song was playing on Rosy's boom box ALL week as Chris and I worked with the 4th and final MOST Ministries team of the year to hold eyeglass clinics at San Lucas and Cristo Rey. It works though, huh? I also thought it was pretty fitting that the whole service on Sunday the 24th was themed around the story of Jesus healing the blind man. I didn't notice that at the San Pablo English service; I only made the connection after I heard it in Spanish. We started off the week by going to church at San Lucas on Sunday, making sure we were there early to set up. That didn't turn out to be very difficult, since Mexico's Daylight Savings Time began a week earlier than ours. That meant it was always an hour earlier there so we left when we normally do for services and got there with a little over an hour to spare. It also meant that we could sleep in a little later than normal all week since in order to start the clinics at 9:00 am and have a little bit of prep time, we didn't have to leave until around 8:30 when we were in Anapra and more like 9:00 once we moved to Cristo Rey. Apparently the rest of the world forgot about the change though, because the bridge line to get back on Sunday was crazy long, like 2ish hours. Judging by Monday morning as you'll see below, I was afraid it was going to be a theme...but I guess everyone remembered to change their clocks by later in the week!
The line to get IN to Mexico on Monday morning.
I guess she likes her new sunglasses because that is the BEST smile!
These 2 were very interested in whatever it was we were doing...they kept peeking their heads through the door. I guess they eventually worked up the courage to come inside.
Heidi at the testing table.
Debbie (the group's only RN) with Pedro as her interpreter at the nurse station.
The final station--evangelism. This was SOOOO cool! I don't really remember it being like this in Chihuahua, but maybe because it was kind of a slow week (481 people total), Javier, Rosy, and Pastor Martinez were able to sit down and have entire conversations about the Bible with almost EVERY person that came through our doors.
Monday night I drove the group up to a very cold and windy Scenic Drive...here is me with Jane, Mary Anne, and Heidi.
Arthur (one of the interpreters that Rosy found for us) attempting to figure out this guy's presciption...his eyesight was REALLY bad. It wound up being like 10 something, I don't remember if it was - or +.
Arthur was also super-excited about teaching the eye chart to the waiting crowds. It talked about the anatomy of the eye, various eye diseases and conditions, and foods and behaviors that promote good eye health.
About halfway through the week, I remembered that someone at my church had given me a box of baseball caps awhile ago, and they were still sitting by my desk. I figured this was a good use for them, especially since wearing a hat and/or sunglasses was mentioned in the eye education chart and eyeglass clinics always run out of sunglasses, so Wednesday at the clinic we handed them out and got rid of the whole box!
This guy cracked me up because he put his new one right on top of his old one.
Jose Angel, our optician friend. He saw the report about the clinic on the news (yes, we were on the news again), and came to see what he could do. We were packing up at San Lucas when he stopped by, but we told him we'd be at Cristo Rey the next 2 days, and he showed up ready to work with his tools of the trade and everything. Lois asked him if he was a Christian and he said he believes in God but isn't very serious about it, he just likes to help people.
Pastor Martinez got some new shades!
Fernando, me, and Pastor Martinez. I'm wearing Don's jacked because it was freezing that day! Not really, but it was one of those days where it got progressively cooler, so of course I had taken my pullover off. Later on it started pouring and a cold front blew through, which deterred a lot of people from coming. We saw something like 124 people on Wednesday, 96 of which were before lunch.
Lois is a movie star :)
While at Cristo Rey, we had the opportunity to witness first-hand something I had only heard about at a recent staff meeting: Cristo Rey's efforts to generate some revenue for the church by opening a little thrift store and charging for a hot meal every day at lunchtime.
The group happily helped support the endeavor by having gorditas on Wednesday and chile rellenos on Thursday instead of ham and cheese or PB & J!
The line to get IN to Mexico on Monday morning.
I guess she likes her new sunglasses because that is the BEST smile!
These 2 were very interested in whatever it was we were doing...they kept peeking their heads through the door. I guess they eventually worked up the courage to come inside.
Heidi at the testing table.
Debbie (the group's only RN) with Pedro as her interpreter at the nurse station.
The final station--evangelism. This was SOOOO cool! I don't really remember it being like this in Chihuahua, but maybe because it was kind of a slow week (481 people total), Javier, Rosy, and Pastor Martinez were able to sit down and have entire conversations about the Bible with almost EVERY person that came through our doors.
Monday night I drove the group up to a very cold and windy Scenic Drive...here is me with Jane, Mary Anne, and Heidi.
Arthur (one of the interpreters that Rosy found for us) attempting to figure out this guy's presciption...his eyesight was REALLY bad. It wound up being like 10 something, I don't remember if it was - or +.
Arthur was also super-excited about teaching the eye chart to the waiting crowds. It talked about the anatomy of the eye, various eye diseases and conditions, and foods and behaviors that promote good eye health.
About halfway through the week, I remembered that someone at my church had given me a box of baseball caps awhile ago, and they were still sitting by my desk. I figured this was a good use for them, especially since wearing a hat and/or sunglasses was mentioned in the eye education chart and eyeglass clinics always run out of sunglasses, so Wednesday at the clinic we handed them out and got rid of the whole box!
This guy cracked me up because he put his new one right on top of his old one.
Jose Angel, our optician friend. He saw the report about the clinic on the news (yes, we were on the news again), and came to see what he could do. We were packing up at San Lucas when he stopped by, but we told him we'd be at Cristo Rey the next 2 days, and he showed up ready to work with his tools of the trade and everything. Lois asked him if he was a Christian and he said he believes in God but isn't very serious about it, he just likes to help people.
Pastor Martinez got some new shades!
Fernando, me, and Pastor Martinez. I'm wearing Don's jacked because it was freezing that day! Not really, but it was one of those days where it got progressively cooler, so of course I had taken my pullover off. Later on it started pouring and a cold front blew through, which deterred a lot of people from coming. We saw something like 124 people on Wednesday, 96 of which were before lunch.
Lois is a movie star :)
While at Cristo Rey, we had the opportunity to witness first-hand something I had only heard about at a recent staff meeting: Cristo Rey's efforts to generate some revenue for the church by opening a little thrift store and charging for a hot meal every day at lunchtime.
The group happily helped support the endeavor by having gorditas on Wednesday and chile rellenos on Thursday instead of ham and cheese or PB & J!Until next time, blessings!
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