I am leaving Samoa on Friday, so I am tying up lose ends and working with the hospital eye clinic to get statistics on the number of patients they diagnose with cataracts and pterygium. After a preliminary look at my surveys, I counted 19 people in the 31 households I surveyed as having cataracts or pterygium, which is surprising. Most of the 19 were pterygium. There are no ophthalmologists in Samoa, so they rely on mission teams to do any eye surgeries, especially the YWAM Marine Reach. I'm hoping that bringing light to this will cause more ophthalmologists to go there on mission.
The School of Mission outreach team (which includes Emily) left from the YWAM base on Monday for Fiji. They are training people on how to build the biogas for cooking fuel and doing evangelism. In 5 weeks they are going to Vanuatu where they will be doing similar things plus reconciliation ceremonies for the missionaries that have been killed there and going through the jungle to a village that has never been reached by the Gospel. PLEASE PRAY FOR THE TEAM. Especially when they are in Vanuatu, which should be the end of July-beginning of September. There is a lot of witchcraft there and physical dangers. They also need more finances.
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