MOST Ministries Eyeglass Clinic
Mission Opportunities Short Term (MOST Ministries) is an independent short term Christian mission agency that facilities interested and committed Christians from all over the United States who are looking for opportunities to live out their Faith by serving Lutheran Church Missouri Synod missionaries, partner churches and related charitable organizations throughout the world. For one to three weeks these teams of 10-30 people work with the local pastor or missionary to meet their specific needs.
God has blessed many people through this ministry. Eyeglasses are simply not available or affordable to people in many countries, and yet the need for improved eyesight through a simple pair of glasses is there. When one Kuna Indian in Panama was asked why she wanted glasses, she responded, "So I can see to pick the bugs out of the rice." Another woman in Latvia was overheard to say, "Now I can see for distance and for reading; I think I must be in Heaven."
Teams are trained to use a very simple method of testing the eyes for appropriate prescription and then selecting and fitting the right glasses. When a team arrives in the country for a clinic, additional training provides the final eyeglass instruction. Depending on the number of team members, a team can serve from 100-300 people each day of clinic. All patients are registered and these registrations provide names and addresses for the local church for follow-up evangelism. Each patient receives a pair of glasses as well as sunglasses and information on how to protect their eyes. In countries where allowed, while patients are waiting or being tested and fitted for eyeglasses, they are given personal witness of a team member or a local church member and sometimes given tracts or other evangelistic materials. The glasses that these teams distribute are donated from a variety of sources such as schools, churches and individuals that send used eyeglasses to MOST Ministries as well as glasses that are obtained through the International Lions Club. These glasses are collected, sorted, tested and marked with the prescription strength by volunteers who spend countless hours doing this work and making this eyeglass ministry possible. This simple eyeglass clinic process and training can also be taught to lay church workers in the foreign field. The ministry can then be continued after the team leaves.
Volunteers from Zion Lutheran Church joined together to form a team. Named Team 741, they worked hard to make the 2007 spring journey to Nicaragua.
MOST Ministries Eyeglass Clinic
Mission Opportunities Short Term (MOST Ministries) is an independent short term Christian mission agency that facilities interested and committed Christians from all over the United States who are looking for opportunities to live out their Faith by serving Lutheran Church Missouri Synod missionaries, partner churches and related charitable organizations throughout the world. For one to three weeks these teams of 10-30 people work with the local pastor or missionary to meet their specific needs.
God has blessed many people through this ministry. Eyeglasses are simply not available or affordable to people in many countries, and yet the need for improved eyesight through a simple pair of glasses is there. When one Kuna Indian in Panama was asked why she wanted glasses, she responded, "So I can see to pick the bugs out of the rice." Another woman in Latvia was overheard to say, "Now I can see for distance and for reading; I think I must be in Heaven."
Teams are trained to use a very simple method of testing the eyes for appropriate prescription and then selecting and fitting the right glasses. When a team arrives in the country for a clinic, additional training provides the final eyeglass instruction. Depending on the number of team members, a team can serve from 100-300 people each day of clinic. All patients are registered and these registrations provide names and addresses for the local church for follow-up evangelism. Each patient receives a pair of glasses as well as sunglasses and information on how to protect their eyes. In countries where allowed, while patients are waiting or being tested and fitted for eyeglasses, they are given personal witness of a team member or a local church member and sometimes given tracts or other evangelistic materials. The glasses that these teams distribute are donated from a variety of sources such as schools, churches and individuals that send used eyeglasses to MOST Ministries as well as glasses that are obtained through the International Lions Club. These glasses are collected, sorted, tested and marked with the prescription strength by volunteers who spend countless hours doing this work and making this eyeglass ministry possible. This simple eyeglass clinic process and training can also be taught to lay church workers in the foreign field. The ministry can then be continued after the team leaves.
Volunteers from Zion Lutheran Church joined together to form a team. Named Team 741, they worked hard to make the 2007 spring journey to Nicaragua.