Wednesday February 21

Today we went to the Bethany Public School, run by Love N care. We painted kids faces and had an eyeglass clinic there to hand out prescription glasses from yesterday. We held a 1 mo baby for a mom while she got her eyes checked and got her glasses. She just handed him over and asked us to watch him with complete trust. Can you imagine someone doing that at, say, the mall while they shop?

We prayed for the healing of some of the people. It was amazing. We broke for lunch...a very nice lunch with meat and pepsi in the chapel. We bought a few things from the little stand/store by the ministry. The guys are going to play cricket with some of the school boys after school. Rachel, regan and I are going to practice with the young kids for their Saturday performance. This evening we're going into the city to shop for Sarees.

We're going into the tribal village tomorrow. I can only imagine what that might bring. I'll post some new photos later tonight when Jason can download them. Jason is working on the computers at the computer school today getting them working for word processing, mostly, they are 486's!!!

The cataract surgeries yesterday were unbelievable. The doctor performed them so quickly. As you can see in the pictures the men recover on a sheet on the floor. The women get cots. There is no ac and this is the winter here at 86. Imagine having summer surgery and recovering in 110 heat! The bathrooms are outside "squatties" (that's a whole other post). There is no after surgery pain treatment. They use hot steam to sterilize gowns and equipment so the surgery rooms are unbearably hot.

I am going to teach the kids now so I will post more later.

~love from India~