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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