We’d just returned home from a busy vision clinic in Lagazi, Uganda. The team of translators we’d worked with went on to help another missions team in the same area. Going door-to-door, they surveyed the residents.
One door yielded an unexpected surprise. The man who answered it was wearing glasses.
“What’s your story?” the team members asked.
“I was born a Muslim,” he answered. “I lost my job. There was nothing left. I needed hope, so I prayed to Allah. Nothing.
“I heard about a free eye clinic in town. I didn’t have anything better to do, so I went. There, I received these glasses.”
A key part of our eye clinics is the ‘gospel station’, where people hear the good news about Jesus. After his time at the clinic, the man returned home.
“Jesus,” he prayed later that day, “if You’re real, if this is true, please give me a job.”
A few days later, the man received a new job.
“I pray to Jesus all the time, and He answers my prayers,” the man now says. “I believe in Jesus; my family believes in Jesus.”