We have returned from a month in Asia. It was crazy and amazing. We started with a surgical eye team who performed cataract surgeries, then went to Vietnam for a week and ended with a medical team back in Cambodia. The trip finished with Kim and I getting stuck in Hong Kong for a day due to flight delays. In the end, it was pretty amazing to see how the Lord worked. 

Starting with the eye team, we knew it was going to be an impactful trip when the team’s flights were delayed due to mechanical issues and we had to scramble shift everything by a day to accommodate them arriving a day later than planned. In total we saw 250 patients and performed cataract surgery on 17. Watching the joy on their face as they got their bandages off the next day and could see was amazing. Cataracts are a huge problem in Cambodia, we even had a 17 year old kid with cataracts already. The trip ended with the team having their flights cancelled due to a winter storm in the US and us scrambling to get them rebooked and home. 

After we saw them off we hopped to Vietnam and got to go and work with the Hmong people in the far north. We were able to provide them with backpacks and fed the kids. It was truly amazing and we are hoping to start a new tutoring program in the village.

We then made it back to Cambodia to pick up a medical team. We had clinics for 5 days, saw over 800 patients and saw some amazing things. Kim worked on a patient that had been shot in the neck by Pol Pot’s regime over 40 years ago. We had difficult dental situations where the team prayed and the Lord moved. A family with a genetic eye condition came to the clinic, most were either blind or mostly blind. The team is working to get them into our school and provide education services for them. You never know who will show up and how we can minister to them. They had us host a medical clinic at a Buddhist temple on what was being celebrated as the anniversary of the beginning of Buddhism. When we showed up, the temple had put all of the festivities on hold, moved the Buddha statue into a closet, invited the governor and he shared a group of Christians were coming to provide medical care. It was a surreal experience and a lot of lives impacted.

Kim and I are home for 10 more days before we head to Togo, Africa to look at a new MANNA medical clinic, then off to Romania for the grand opening of our newest medical clinic. Thank you for your prayers!