You know when God shows up the scenery always changes and we are left to say WOW!
That is kind of the way we feel around here. Two different events that God has opened up for us have clarified our focus. We still have the school for children and adults, the church, the community center which is trying to help find jobs for the deaf and gives the deaf an opportunity to build relationships with other Christians.
However, as of having the Doctor here and having a meeting with the top officials of the Lions Club. Both agreed that the number one area that needs to be our focus is early intervention to help find deafness as early as possible, in order to ether surgically fix the problem if capable or start teaching signs. This will allow them to develop a language much faster.
So we, by the grace of God, acquired all new equipment to start testing for hearing problems as early as newborns. This is a common practice in the USA, but here we are the first to have the equipment to do this sort of testing.
Now along with all the other things that God has started here in the Community Center, now we have a Clinic. Only God knows what is the next step.
Love you all be blessed,
Paul
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Is there a Doctor in the House?
Dr. Jim Smith is here. He is an amazing person to talk with and all of his experience in missions around the world is astounding. He is a wonderful Baptist man from Oregon. He found out about us through some friends and decided to come and help.
He is specifically testing the deaf to see if they could medical be able to hear. He has come to put tubes in those that it would help and he has also brought a new type of hearing aid and wants to use us as a test site for its durability. So we are testing children and adults to find 5 candidates to see which the aids will help the most. If they are as durable as he says this will be an amazing leap for this area. One they only cost $125.00! Two they are solar powered so there is no need for batteries. Three they can be submerged in water for 3 sec. and still work. This is necessary because of the high humidity here.
The Doctor is also going to the largest hospital in San Pedro to teach other doctors about early intervention, how to preform tube surgeries and many other things that is beyond my vocabulary ability. (I know you don't have to say anything I opened myself up for that) The hospital has two sound proof rooms for testing, but no equipment so that is a project we are going to be working on. They said that if we get the equipment that the room is ours to use as much as we want and that they would refer all the deaf to our intervention
program. This is exciting.
He also is doing a training sessions to the Doctors at two of the COG clinics, one in San Pedro and another at Le Ceiba.
God is awesome and we are humbled to see all that He is doing and allowing us to be apart of this Kingdom work.
God's blessing to you all,
Paul and Kim
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