Gift of Sight

Last November, while attending the Global Medical Missions Conference in Louisville, KY, Evan and I met an optician with the heart to train God-followers to run vision clinics. In the early 90's, Dr. David Curtis started running his own vision clinics on short term mission trips and found that he couldn't keep up with the demand for his services.  After many unsuccessful attempts at recruiting opticians to join him in missions, he designed a low-tech training program to equip "lay-opticians".   Currently, Dr. Curtis is training North American short term missionaries and he is just beginning to train national believers as well. 

Evan and I were able to attend his training program at CC St. Pete.  Our desire was to further our knowledge about optometry so that we could improve the I-See training program.  We had a wonderful time at the training, both because the session was informative and stimulating, and because we met other like-minded believers from CC St.Pete.  We look forward to seeing how the Lord may use the connections made that day.  The day of training provided us with further skills and confirmed our desire to train national believers to use this vital skill to share the love of Jesus.