medical mission
A Sight to See
CBN.com – Eighty-one-year-old Sung Ree is surrounded by darkness all the time. He has cataracts in both eyes, making him completely blind. He lives in a cemetery with his 80-year-old care taker. Their “home” is a shack that sits high up on a hill, next to a small Tibetan funeral temple in the Gangsu province of China. The only way to reach them is by foot.
“They live in what I would call abject poverty,” said Pam Kolva, a CBN partner who me Sang Ri on a recent trip to Gangsu. “It takes over an hour to get water."
“He’s been blind for three years. He’s had to have people feed him and lead him and he’s not been able to be independent.”
Before that, Sung worked hard to make a living.
“I was a shepherd and did a lot of odd jobs here and there in the village,” said Sung Ree.
Sung doesn’t have the money to have surgery now. He only gets 100 yuan a year -- that’s roughly $12. So when Operation Blessing came to town with a free eye clinic, they made a special trip to Sung’s shack and personally took him to the hospital for surgery.
Everyone was eager to see how the surgery would turn out…
It was a success… Now, Sung can see!
And Sung wasn’t the only one with a happy outcome that day. Many people with vision problems received sight through the help of Operation Blessing.
“We know Jesus and he leads us to love others, even Buddhists,” said one of the doctors.
“I’ve just never seen anyone go from total blindness to total sight. I will never be the same,” said Kolva.
And neither will Sung.
He said, “Thank you for helping me!, I appreciate it so much, I could cry.”
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