Sowing seeds

India blog 10/30/2017

Another beautiful 85 degree day in the making. I finally figured out how to get hot water out of our shower. It is going to be a great day. Couple cups of coffee in my room hot pot. Instant Starbucks Italian Roast. yum. Watching another beautiful sunrise come up over the sugarcane and rice fields. Beautiful green and blue birds flying from electric lines to balcony railings. The smog cranks up the color of the morning sunrise. We are refreshed from the grueling schedule of the previous day. 

The India team is picked up promptly at 7:30 at the hotel, by pastor Daniel. We are ready to serve the Lord helping bring the good news to the local Indians.  Pastor Daniel takes us to his home, adjacent to the church. His wife Elizabeth and other Christians have prepared another feast for breakfast. Yummy. We have another wonderful meal. I feel so out of place. A big fat white guy who never misses a meal in a land where most of the population would blow over in a stiff wind. I am spoiled. Lord, have I got it good. Thank you. 

We all go upstairs to the adjacent church. The team prays together with the Indian nationals hosting the clinic. They have done a fantastic job of translation and set up, and driving, and a host of things I'm sure we don't even realize. Kathy opens us in prayer. 

The clinic begins and Gods children come strolling through. Beautifully adorned newlyweds to men who are contractors to young kids with the biggest whitest smiles to 80 year old ladies to teen agers and everyone in between. 

They climb the stairs and wait outside the door peering through the window. Once inside, they are pointed to Ray and Rosy who give them a medical history exam of sorts. Looking for any infectious disease that would keep them from continuing through the clinic. 

Then they proceed to the flippers, lenses used for identifying their proper prescription needs. Lynn and Meenu quickly get their reading and distance scripts. Sandeep and myself do the same. It is rewarding to see their smile as you increase the prescription one lens at a time. And they see better with each step. Those smiles get bigger and bigger.

Once they complete our station, they visit the witness table where Sunita shares the good news with them in their mother tongue, be it Hindi or Punjabi. Today 172 souls heard the word of God. Shared by a finger puppet, a wrist bracelet, or the folding picture box. Some for the first time. Some for a repeat account of God’s love.

Then they move down to have a selection of glasses, that Sandy pulled while they were listening to the Gospel. Karie, Josh, Vision, and others pop in and out to make the magic happen. Once the proper pair of glasses has been decided on, they move down to see Janet. She massages the glasses onto their face for a perfect fit. She bends the arms, fixes nose pads, and gives them a good last cleaning before they head off with their new sight and the word of God fresh on their heart. 

272 pair of glasses today.

Lots of seed sown

Laughs and smiles

All to Gods glory.

It was a Great Day!

Clay Donnell