Gene Smith, administrative pastor at First Baptist Church De Soto, Missouri, and his wife, Kristi have led an international mission trip to the Dominican Republic to help out with eye clinics.

“Meeting needs goes hand in hand with sharing the gospel,” Smith said. “My wife speaks Spanish, so we wanted to go to a Spanish-speaking country.”

“We started looking at different opportunities,” he said, “and we looked at Vision 3:16. My wife and I took a mission trip to Mexico to see how it worked. We were excited to see how the eyeglass clinics worked, and we decided to buy supplies and to go to the Dominican Republic.

“We set up our eyeglass clinics in stations,” he said. “We used five stations in each clinic. We registered them at the first station, then they moved on to the wall chart, then to the autorefractor which measures prescriptions, then to the fitters to match the glasses to the prescription and finally to the evangelism station. Spanish and Creole are spoken, and the pastor follows up with them.”

“We set up our eyeglass clinics in stations,” he further continued. “We used five stations in each clinic. We registered them at the first station, then they moved on to the wall chart, then to the autorefractor which measures prescriptions, then to the fitters to match the glasses to the prescription and finally to the evangelism station. Spanish and Creole are spoken, and the pastor follows up with them.”

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