YU SEE GUD?
Monday, 2016 9:00 pm
After a hearty breakfast it was off to Tanna,
and the optometry clinic where we were going to help people see. The lines were
large, but as the team noted not as large as in times past. But they are
confident that many people are still walking from as far away as two days walk.
Regardless of the distance to come, we still served over 50 people today,
people with cataracts, eye issues and many with simply short sightedness.
So
I tried to communicate to them using my broken, Bislama… Yu needem glasses lo eye blo yufala? I stumbled and fell through my Bislama and
somehow with the grace of God and the patience of the people of Tanna we were
able to communicate.
The day was eventful in the way it began. Jumping into a
small powerboat off the side of large ship is challenging at best, but with the
additional eyes of the Captain and first mate watching the pressure not to slip
or fall was all the more significant. But with a little dexterity and an agile
step or two we were able to able to sit down in a place that I was quite sure
would be the safest.
Safest, yes… Driest…not so much. The bow of
small zodiac ships has a tendency to nose into the water in rough seas. Not so
much to threaten the people aboard but more than enough to get all parties on
board wet. Especially the person sitting in the safe seat in the bow of the
boat centered on the floor.
So with a quick dive the safe seat became the
wet seat and with that I started my trek onto the island of Tanna.
The crowd of patients was already waiting as we
drove up. Children laughing parents watching and the elders sitting and talking
through whatever community news needed to be discussed. We quickly unpacked and
the Marine Reach team were excellent setting up the clinic with speed and
precision. Soon, lines were forming and people began to file into the medical
centre to see the doctors who were waiting to assist them.
What an incredible ministry Marine Reach is.
This floating medical centre supplies the nation of Vanuatu with the one thing
that they cannot supply for themselves. Good, inexpensive medical care on the
remote islands of this Pacific Nation. 83 Island with little to no medical
supplies, or facilities desperately need the kind of assistance that the
Pacific Hope is only too happy to provide. So people lined up, filed in, and
filed out with most receiving the medical care that the so desperately needed.

So now it is night and there is talk that they
want my Mormon seminar to be presented to the pastors on the island. I have
email Gary and Lori Ellison in the hope that they have a copy of the Bislama
version. Once again as I settle into bed I bid you all a fine farewell and a
hearty good night, for this Pastor is tired tumas.
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