God watches over those who trust Him, and He was working overtime when it came to Komlavi Djikpo, a market vendor in Lomé, Togo.
Catherine and Marty Schwebel, Chaplains onboard the Africa Mercy, were browsing through an artisan market with their sons when they met a very nice man, named Komlavi,

When Claudine was born, her eyes did not open. She was lucky enough to be born in a hospital, but the doctors did not know why her eyelids remained closed. Her mother, Akouvi, brought her home and waited. Days passed, but the baby’s eyes remained closed. Seven days after the child was born,

Eye Screening



Over 1,100 people wrapped around the Evangelical Presbyterian Church on the first day of eye screenings for the Mercy Ships Field Service in Togo, West Africa. They had a common purpose – the hope of restoring or improving their eyesight. That hope was focused on the eye clinic

“I see about one bilaterally blind person in one year at my practice in Minneapolis,” stated my friend and co-worker in the mission field, Dr. Steve Anderson. We saw many bilaterally blind people per day on our month long outreach mission trip to West Kalimantan this past June. Blindness from

My 27 year old son wrote this poem while on an eye mission trip to Honduras last year. His vocation is state policeman; but his mission vocation was to check far visions on our trip. He was very moved by the many people we saw with blindness. Which eyes are more blind? The