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00:09 We are in such a beautiful, idyllic location in Micronesia
00:14 on the beach. 00:15 You know, there are people 00:16 who cannot see what I'm seeing right now. 00:19 There are people who can't see the colors or anything else. 00:23 Stay tuned today to find out 00:24 how Canvasback is changing all of that. 00:48 You know, I kind of like to call this section 00:50 the anatomy of a volunteer. 00:53 See, because Canvasback mission, 00:55 that's what makes the whole program work 00:57 is volunteers. 00:59 People come from all over the country, 01:01 all over the world sometimes to join with Canvasback 01:04 to help people need. 01:06 Especially in this case, it focused on the islands, 01:09 Micronesia. 01:10 In this specific case, Pohnpei. 01:13 In Pohnpei, the people can make $30, $50 a month. 01:18 Why do these people leave lucrative practices? 01:21 Why do they leave good paying jobs at home? 01:24 Why do they leave family and friends, 01:26 take on their vacation time and come here? 01:28 We're going to find out today, 01:30 see what makes these people tick. 01:32 And I think what you're gonna find 01:34 is they all have a love 01:36 to do something for somebody else. 01:38 And in so doing, 01:40 they gain so much for themselves, 01:42 they may gain an incredible blessing themselves. 01:45 So stay tuned now. 01:46 Get ready to see 01:48 what these volunteers are doing in an amazing way. 02:02 Yeah, so we're in Pohnpei, you know, Pohnpei, 02:05 however you'd like to pronounce it, Micronesia, 02:07 and we are at the main hospital. 02:11 And one of the things 02:12 that I always remember about my last trip to Majuro 02:15 was finishing a long day of work 02:17 and coming outside and seeing the kids, 02:19 and that just cheered me up. 02:20 And we would walk home every day. 02:22 And the kids started waiting for us 02:23 because we had pockets full of toys. 02:25 We had chalk 02:26 and they would graffiti the whole city with chalk. 02:28 Yeah, I was watching you the other night. 02:29 You're going down the street, 02:31 you have all these little fancy balls dancing around. 02:32 You attracted kids pretty rapidly. 02:33 Yes, yes. 02:35 So I have some nice, some other toys 02:36 will be delivering to you. 02:37 But that's really fun because I like to interact. 02:39 It's nice to know who you're helping 02:40 and that's important. 02:42 So I wanted to go outside also, 02:43 because if you haven't been here, 02:44 you kind of wonder what the hospital looks like. 02:46 Some people wonder 02:47 if it's made of, you know, wood or the shack. 02:51 I mean, it's a real structure. 02:53 It's just really dated, and not really finished, 02:55 but it's functional, you know. 02:58 How many patients are you seeing in a day? 03:01 So between like surgery and clinic, personally, 03:05 maybe like 10 to 20. 03:07 And that's not very much 03:09 compared to what we can do at home. 03:11 But every patient's brand new, every patient has two eyes. 03:14 And it seems like every eye has a problem. 03:17 Really? Yeah. 03:18 And then, when you get him into the operating room 03:20 and that takes a few hours to few days too. 03:23 So that's just for you on a daily basis. 03:25 How many in the team now? 03:27 Oh, boy, you're asking questions 03:28 that I don't know the answer to, 03:30 but I think we're in the 20s, 21 maybe. 03:32 Okay. Okay. Yeah. 03:33 So you're doing a lot of work on a daily basis as a team? 03:37 Yes. Yeah. 03:38 And sometimes, you know, 03:40 one or the other doctors will see the patient 03:42 and they have multiple problems. 03:43 So you'll get a retina specialist, 03:44 and you'll get optometrist, you know, 03:46 when you'll get a glaucoma or cataract, 03:48 you know, doctor looking at them 03:50 trying to help solve the problem. 03:51 Drops dabble your eyes. 03:53 Look here. 03:54 Forehead up against the path for me. 04:04 Well, give me a tutorial here. 04:05 What are we carrying on? Okay. 04:07 So what we're putting on our hats. 04:09 So obviously don't forget to wear your hat to the party. 04:12 That's to prevent hair from falling. 04:14 And then we also wear booties. 04:16 Put these on top of my head. 04:17 Yeah. There we go. 04:19 And what you'll notice too, 04:20 is a lot of us try to recycle as much as possible. 04:23 So I do carry my hat with me 04:26 all though probably it was done for the day, 04:27 so it's a little beat up side. 04:30 So I take it somewhere along this line 04:33 as we can't go in unless we've got this on. 04:34 Correct. 04:36 So you'll see a red line before you go into a hallway. 04:39 Now that's not necessarily a sterile hallway, 04:41 but is a hallway that we got clean. 04:43 And then the sterile environment 04:45 is when you go into an operating room 04:46 where there is instruments opened up. 04:49 And so you have to wear a mask when you go into those places. 04:51 So, for here we don't need a mask. 04:53 And then I think I heard you talking about the scrubbing, 04:56 you know, why do you kind of rub, 04:58 you know, bring your arm across the water. 05:00 So everything goes from, you know, sterile to clean 05:04 to contaminated almost. 05:06 So this hands so forth is the most sterile area 05:09 down to your elbows 05:11 which are still but after that it's not, 05:12 so all the dirt and everything washes 05:13 towards the non sterile arms. 05:15 That's why you put your hand through the water like that. 05:18 Why do you not touch the two hands together? 05:20 You can. You can? 05:21 Yeah, that's okay. 05:23 So, yeah, you're trying to dry them. 05:24 So we're just trying to get them dry as we go out. 05:26 Yeah. Okay. 05:40 Well, you know, the beauty here of this island is incredible, 05:45 Pohnpei. 05:46 Pohnpei is an island, 05:48 virtually out in the middle of nowhere. 05:50 The teams traveled for about two days, 05:55 two days to get here by airline, 05:56 it was kind of grueling travel. 05:58 But they've done it free will 06:00 because you see, they're all volunteers. 06:02 They've come here to this island, 06:04 the doctors, the ophthalmology team, 06:08 the dental team to help people. 06:11 Now while it's a beautiful island, 06:13 the folks don't have a lot of money. 06:15 They just don't have much of anything. 06:17 You see, it's a situation 06:19 that while people may make 06:22 $30 or $50 a month. 06:26 They can't afford a surgery 06:28 that costs thousands and thousands of dollars. 06:31 There are people that go for maybe, 06:34 well, I don't know, 20 years, 06:37 20 years, they've gone without surgery on an eye 06:41 that they've needed for 20 years. 06:43 In the United States I can't even begin to imagine 06:45 how that happens, but it really does happen. 06:48 I want you to check it out now, 06:49 just as we walked down the road here. 06:52 Look at this, it's just a simple neighborhood. 06:55 But think about how could someone here afford 06:58 a 10, $12,000 surgery? 07:01 Well, bottom line, they can't, 07:03 they just can't afford anything like that. 07:06 But because of Canvasback Missions, 07:08 Canvasback is able to provide all of this free of charge. 07:12 I want to share with you today some amazing volunteer, 07:16 stories of volunteers that just will warm your heart 07:19 because people from every walk of life, 07:21 but they were touched by God to come out here on their own, 07:25 leave their practices, leave their homes, 07:27 in some cases, leave their families, 07:29 and travel out here to help these dear people. 07:32 And I love the smiles of the children and everyone, 07:35 they are so happy. 07:37 When we come they're so excited to see the teams. 07:41 And I want to share with you, we're going to, 07:43 later on in the series, 07:45 we're going to talk about some of these dear people 07:47 who have eye surgery with no anesthetic 07:49 except in the eye, 07:51 but they'll lay there for three or four hours 07:53 and never move a muscle. 07:55 It's incredible. 07:57 I know you're gonna enjoy this, 07:59 because it's about giving yourself 08:02 exactly what Jesus said to do, 08:04 "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel 08:07 and share about Me," He said. 08:10 People today don't understand who Jesus Christ is. 08:13 They don't understand that the God of the universe 08:16 loves every one of us completely, 08:18 fully and supremely, 08:19 so much that He died for everyone else. 08:22 And that's exactly what we're seeing here 08:25 is people who are coming 08:26 and sharing Jesus with the world, 08:28 sharing Jesus with the people of Pohnpei really, 08:31 so that they might know who Jesus is. 08:33 You realize that, in reality, when Jesus came to earth, 08:37 He spent the greatest percentage 08:39 of His time healing people. 08:42 See, for you and for me, if we're sick, 08:44 we can't think about anything else other than being sick. 08:47 And here we are now in a situation 08:49 to be able to share with these dear folks, 08:52 heal them first and then share Jesus Christ. 08:55 And really, they see Jesus Christ 08:57 in every one of us that have come on the team. 09:00 So I want to thank you so much for watching today. 09:04 And remember, Canvasback is doing amazing things 09:06 around the world, 09:08 changing hearts and lives, one miracle at a time. 09:17 The super teams are making an impact on hearts and lives, 09:20 a miracle at a time, 09:21 but there's more, so stay tuned. 09:25 Canvasback Missions 09:26 has been changing hearts and lives 09:29 in the islands of Micronesia for nearly four decades. 09:33 Founders Jamie and Jacque Spence 09:34 once ferried medical and dental teams 09:36 by catamaran ship across the Pacific Ocean. 09:40 But when small hospitals were established 09:42 on many island nations, 09:44 the mode of operation changed as did the needs of people. 09:47 To this day, however, 09:49 these hospitals lack medical specialists 09:51 to perform the most difficult surgeries. 09:54 On an ongoing basis, 09:55 Canvasback flies all volunteer super teams to the islands 09:59 to conduct surgeries 10:00 and to train local medical staff. 10:02 Teams are usually comprised of specialists 10:04 in the fields of gynecology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, 10:08 ENT, dental and others as needed. 10:11 They dedicate two weeks of life changing mission work 10:14 to relieve the pain and suffering of the people. 10:16 If you would like to volunteer 10:18 for two weeks of life changing work, 10:20 log on to canvasback.org 10:22 and follow the prompts to volunteer. 10:25 As a leader in the field of health in Micronesia, 10:29 Canvasback Missions has been helping people 10:32 reverse diabetes for years. 10:34 Yes, you heard correctly, reverse diabetes. 10:39 In addition, we are helping 10:40 to reduce the incident of heart disease. 10:43 At least 34 million people in the US have diabetes. 10:47 Many have no idea they have it until it's almost too late. 10:51 Many children have diabetes. 10:53 It's time to stop it in its tracks. 10:56 What's the key? 10:57 Certain foods, exercise 10:59 and many other simple yet critical items are combined 11:03 to produce amazing results. 11:05 Log on the canvasback.org to download your own free copy, 11:09 written by renowned author Brenda Davis. 11:12 Learn from an expert in the field 11:14 how to reverse this dreaded killer. 11:16 Remember, it's completely free. 11:18 Download a copy today for yourself, 11:21 friend or loved one, it will be life changing. 11:33 You know, I look at all this sand. 11:35 You think about this. 11:38 A single grain of sand, I can't even hardly focus, 11:41 the camera could probably never focus 11:42 on a single grain hardly. 11:45 But a single grain represents our time here on planet earth. 11:49 Bible says threescore and ten, 70 years. 11:53 Now some may live longer, some less. 11:55 Here in Pohnpei, they live less normally. 11:58 Some of the other islands, they're far less than. 12:01 I'm fortunate to be in the United States, 12:03 we tend to live longer. 12:05 But even that, even if we live 80, 90 years, 12:08 there is an end, there's an absolute end, 12:10 we all die. 12:12 We all age, grow older, and die. 12:15 Now the Bible records a couple of people 12:17 that God translated in a marvelous way. 12:20 But for the rest of us, 12:21 unless Jesus actually comes soon, 12:24 we all die. 12:26 But you see, God didn't create us for time, 12:29 He created us for eternity. 12:30 If you could take those grains of sand 12:34 and multiply them of every beach on the planet 12:37 and all the sand under the water on the planet, 12:41 that would just be the beginning. 12:42 If each grain represented 10,000 years, 12:46 that would just be the beginning of time. 12:50 And here's the situation. 12:53 Jesus came to planet earth to die for us, 12:56 that we might have that opportunity 12:58 to live with Him forever. 12:59 He said in John, 13:01 "Let not your heart be troubled. 13:03 You believe in God, believe also in Me. 13:05 In my Father's house are many mansions 13:07 or many rooms, 13:08 if it were not so I would have told you. 13:10 I, He said, go to prepare a place for you. 13:14 And if I go and prepare a place for you, 13:15 I will come again and receive you to Myself." 13:20 And there you will be forever with God. 13:23 I've got to admit I've been a Star Trek fan. 13:26 I grew up with Star Trek, 13:28 but I'm looking forward to be a real Star Trekker. 13:31 You see, God says, He's going to come, take us up, 13:35 pick us up and take us with Him to heaven 13:37 where we'll spend eternity with Him. 13:41 How does that happen? 13:42 Well, in Revelation 3:21, God says, 13:47 "To those who overcome 13:48 I'll grant to sit with me in my throne." 13:52 "You mean, Lord, I used to be a drug dealer, 13:55 an alcoholic and a thief, 13:56 and I get to sit with You in your throne." 13:58 The Lord says, "Yes, when you confess Me 14:00 and give your heart to Me." 14:03 Turn my life over, surrender. 14:05 You know, surrender means I'm been going this way 14:07 and all of a sudden, I turn and I totally go that way, 14:11 different direction, new direction. 14:13 And God comes in and gives me the power 14:16 because I don't have it in my life. 14:18 God gives me the power to go that new direction. 14:22 What I do is the choosing. 14:24 Every one of us have choice. 14:25 We all have free choice. 14:26 And God says, 14:28 "Choose you this day whom you'll serve. 14:31 If God, then serve Him, if the devil then, serve him." 14:34 We only have two choices. 14:36 You get out of bed in the morning, 14:37 you have a choice whether you serve God or not. 14:39 If you don't choose, 14:40 you're already serving the other one. 14:43 But Jesus said, "Look, I want to make you royalty." 14:46 And that's what it's all about here 14:48 is we're in royalty training. 14:51 Think about it. 14:52 Adam and Eve threw away their royalty. 14:53 When God says, 14:55 "I'm going to reestablish that royalty in you. 14:56 I'm going to bring you into the royal family of God, 15:00 that you can sit with me in my throne. 15:03 And together, we're going to rule the universe forever." 15:07 I believe with all my heart there's many, many peoples, 15:10 many, many creations of God 15:14 that have never sinned, have never fallen. 15:15 This is the only planet that's fallen. 15:17 This is the only planet where God came in person 15:21 to die on a cross 15:22 to surrender His life to save us. 15:24 All the other beings had been watching in awe 15:26 and wonder, to really see the amazing character of God. 15:31 You know, today, I invite you to see 15:32 that amazing character of God. 15:35 That's what Canvasback Missions is all about, is healing people 15:40 so they can begin seeing 15:41 the amazing character of God's sight 15:44 is an amazing thing. 15:57 So what's the plan I think there actually is? 15:59 The plan is, I take it, we can't really cross into here 16:02 until we have all of our sterile things on. 16:03 Correct. 16:05 So we need to have boots with shoe covers and hats. 16:10 Got my hat. 16:11 Yeah, yes, I like that by the way. 16:13 So we're gonna enter in here 16:15 and then I want to go over to the right where Sheila does, 16:19 our certified registered nurse and anesthetist 16:23 is anesthetizing the eyes. 16:27 Now, is this typical for 16:29 to have an anesthetist do the eyes 16:32 or do you use other methods if you don't, 16:34 if someone like she doesn't show up? 16:36 Yeah, so we're actually pretty blessed to have her here. 16:38 Because usually I'll do the numbing injection 16:41 ahead of time, 16:43 and that just is another time consuming part for the doctor. 16:46 So she's numbing in for us, so we can keep the flow going. 16:49 She also is offered to do anesthesia if we needed 16:51 what's called monitored anesthesia care. 16:54 That's what we do in the States. 16:55 So that means that an IV is placed 16:57 and the patient is given sedation like Versed 16:59 or maybe even something stronger like Propofol. 17:02 It's dissociative medication. 17:05 So as we're talking about these patients coming in 17:08 and laying on the table 17:10 for maybe four hours in a case yesterday. 17:11 I mean, I don't know 17:13 if I could lay on a table for four hours. 17:14 I was gonna say, I noticed that lady 17:16 we were watching her surgery. 17:17 She didn't seem like she knew, I couldn't believe it. 17:19 Yeah, she wasn't comfortable though. 17:21 She was telling us that she had trouble breathing 17:23 because they draped over and I don't blame her, 17:25 but she didn't move, you're right. 17:27 And that made a big difference 17:28 and made the surgery much easier. 17:30 So these patients aren't requiring 17:32 that heavy sedation, which is really good. 17:34 Because when you're given that sedation, 17:37 there is a risk you might stop breathing, 17:38 and there is a risk that your heart could stop. 17:41 And we don't have a monitor, we don't have EKGs, 17:44 and we don't have pulse oximeters 17:46 and those other things that would cost money, 17:48 and we wouldn't be able to do this 17:50 with just one nurse anesthetist like Sheila. 17:53 We would have to have one with each patient. 17:54 With every patient, yeah. 17:56 Yeah, and we just don't have that staffing. 17:57 So if we were to place 17:59 that that patients were not stoic 18:01 and were not willing to, 18:03 you know, hold still through the surgery, 18:05 we wouldn't be able to get the number of cases done 18:06 that we're doing. 18:08 Okay. 18:09 So we go from here, then where do we go? 18:12 So from here we go to the operating room. 18:15 Now this, the hospital itself, 18:17 and it looks like a decent hospital. 18:19 Why? Why does this team need it? 18:21 Right. 18:22 So it is a decent hospital in it. 18:25 There's different levels of care you can give, 18:27 there's primary care, secondary care, 18:29 and then there's tertiary care. 18:31 Tertiary care usually refers to the subspecialties. 18:34 And we're one of the subspecialties. 18:36 We in retina, which is my subspecialty, 18:39 which technically could, 18:40 can even considered a sub subspecialty 18:42 because we're subspecialty of ophthalmology. 18:46 It's not the most... 18:50 We don't have like the most common diseases 18:53 that we treat most of the time, 18:57 but here where the diabetic rates 18:58 are really high, it is pretty common. 19:01 And unfortunately, it's not completely treated. 19:05 The conversation we're having with patients are, is it, 19:07 you know, we could probably fix your eye, 19:10 but it's going to require two to three surgeries. 19:13 Now, since the team will not be here 19:15 and you have to do that, what happens then? 19:18 Right. 19:19 So, unfortunately, we're not doing those cases. 19:20 Okay. You just can't do that. 19:22 Yeah, it would be higher risk than the benefit. 19:26 Because when oils inside the eye, 19:28 you can run into problems of inflammation, 19:30 pressure going up, 19:31 and there's no way for them to get it removed. 19:35 Yes. What's that noise coming out? 19:37 Yeah, that is pretty annoying. 19:39 It's pretty loud. It's pretty loud. 19:41 It's pretty disturbing too if you're operating. 19:43 I don't know if you can still hear me over it, 19:46 but that is an air compressor. 19:48 And that is one of the things 19:50 that made retina surgery possible on these islands. 19:52 And I really want to thank the retina doctor 19:54 that came before me. 19:56 He came out to do retinal surgery 19:58 and he brought everything except an air compressor. 20:01 And so when he went to do retinal surgery, 20:03 we have to have a compressed gas 20:05 to run the instrumentation to cut rate soon. 20:08 You do the check 20:09 and you have to cut out this gel from the eye, 20:11 you can't just suck it out. 20:12 And this is on a microscopic level. 20:14 So air is used with springs to open and close 20:16 and cut like 10,000 times a minute, 20:19 these machines can open and cut. 20:21 And unless you have air, 20:23 you're not going to run your machine. 20:25 So when he got here, there was no way to run it. 20:27 So I presented this problem to a company 20:30 and they put together a solution 20:32 and they tested it and it worked. 20:34 And they gave me the specs on 20:36 want to go buy for an air compressor. 20:38 And so he shipped the air compressor down here. 20:40 And now we're on our second island using it. 20:41 So that little annoying sound is what allows you to work? 20:44 It is. It is. 20:45 Yes, and I feel bad when it goes off. 20:47 Like there was a C section being done last night 20:49 and there's a cataract surgery being done. 20:51 And then we're doing a retina surgery 20:53 and that causes the machine to go off 20:55 every time you use the retina machine. 20:57 So it's pretty loud and disturbing. 20:59 So is this our operating room here? 21:01 This is. This is operating room. 21:02 Is there some place we can peek right now 21:04 or you've got something going on. 21:05 We can't go in there right now. 21:07 They're actually doing a cataract surgery. 21:15 According to the World Health Organization, 21:17 depression is the leading cause of worldwide disability 21:21 that happens to a lot of people. 21:23 Are you depressed? 21:25 Have you become discouraged lately? 21:27 The list is endless of things 21:28 that can trigger discouragement, 21:30 despair, or even depression. 21:32 If you are someone you know is experiencing 21:34 one or more of these difficulties, 21:36 we have a great little booklet for you. 21:38 It's written by author 21:40 and international speaker Jim Ayer. 21:42 Overcoming the 3Ds contains timely advice 21:45 set in a lighthearted manner, 21:47 meant to help lift you up and out of your problems. 21:50 Understand, we all have problems, 21:52 trials and troubles, 21:54 but we don't need to focus on them. 21:57 You can obtain your copy right now 21:58 by going to canvasback.org. 22:01 And for a gift of any amount, that's for any gift amount, 22:04 you will receive your copy of Overcoming the 3Ds. 22:08 Get your copy today. 22:17 Doctors' lounge, right? 22:19 Yeah, this is the doctors' lounge. 22:20 I love it. 22:22 All right. So... There are two chairs in here. 22:24 There are two chairs. 22:25 So in this room, there's multiple suitcases. 22:28 And this is not for clothes, this is for supplies. 22:33 So whether it's sterile drapes, 22:35 whether it's instruments, trays, 22:38 the heart cases have medications in them. 22:40 So you mentioned too, you guys bring all of it? 22:43 We do, because what you don't want to do 22:45 is show up here and deplete the resources. 22:49 Exactly. That's not fair. 22:51 I mean, we know what we're doing is important, 22:53 but they're doing it every day. 22:54 And so I wouldn't want someone coming in my house 22:57 and eating all my food 22:58 even if they're helping with something. 23:00 Okay. Okay. 23:02 So even, you know, 23:03 I'm just thinking kind of on another level now 23:05 for those people who don't want to partner 23:07 with Canvasback financially. 23:09 Yeah. 23:10 There's need of all kinds of things, 23:12 even, even, these aren't too expensive. 23:14 No. But they're needed. 23:15 Right. 23:16 If you have 12 people using them, 23:18 they're doing multiple cases, they deplete really fast. 23:21 Probably don't have any idea how much those costs? 23:24 I don't. 23:25 But I imagine if somebody, you know, had 50 bucks, 23:27 it can go long ways to buy some of these. 23:30 They're not made too much of them. 23:32 Yeah, yeah, this is true. 23:34 And when we can, we try to do reusable things, 23:37 you know, hats that we can reuse. 23:38 Oh, I watched you pull one out of your pocket. 23:40 You didn't put it on in that hallway. 23:42 Yeah, it's time to get a new one. 23:44 All right. 23:45 So, I mean, it is kind of amazing 23:51 the amount of equipment it takes to drive what you do? 23:54 Yes, I started the lists on my phone, 23:57 things that I wish I had this trip, special dyes, 24:01 special tools for depressing the eye. 24:04 So I thought we could make do with the Q-tips 24:07 to kind of indent the eye when we look in. 24:10 But they don't work that great. 24:12 We use what's called scleral depressor 24:14 which is made of metal 24:15 and you actually indent the white part of the eye, 24:17 so you can see the retina in certain spots. 24:19 You can't just look in there and see it 24:21 if the indent to see the edges. 24:24 I noticed, I saw your son, you brought your son along? 24:26 I did. 24:28 Is this his first trip or is he done some more? 24:29 It is his first trip. 24:30 What's he thinking of all this? 24:32 I think he's liking it. 24:33 He is diving in 24:35 and I check every morning with them 24:36 to see how you're doing 24:38 not only like mentally but physically. 24:40 Can I know how old he is? 24:42 Sure, he is 19 years old. 24:44 Nineteen? Yes. 24:45 And he's helping and assisting in surgery and... 24:48 That's part of the deal. 24:49 As I have three children 24:51 and I plan to bring each of them. 24:52 Last year I brought my daughter, 24:54 this year I brought my son. 24:55 And the deal is, 24:56 you have to have a skill to bring, right? 24:58 If you learn something here, 24:59 but that doesn't help us that much 25:00 because we're teaching you. 25:02 So he learned how to do CTs, check vision, check pressure, 25:05 check patients post op after surgery. 25:07 And that's turning out to be invaluable. 25:09 On one little side note, we came here 25:12 and there is a brand new machine 25:14 called a Cirrus OCT. 25:17 No one knew how to use it. 25:18 Dr. Gallons had it for a while and hasn't used it, 25:21 his tech hasn't used it. 25:22 So when they get equipment either purchased or donated, 25:25 there's not a rep that shows up and sets it up 25:27 and shows you how to take your first few pictures. 25:30 So it'd be like us getting a piece of equipment 25:32 from the future for them. 25:34 You know, they may be seen it and read about it, 25:36 but never used one here, it's first time. 25:38 So we were just lucky enough 25:40 that the machine that camera trained on 25:42 at our office is the same one here. 25:44 And so that was a blessing. 25:45 He's already taught Gefleen 25:47 and that's Dr. Gallons' lead tech how to use it. 25:51 And just yesterday, 25:53 we unboxed a camera that they hadn't used. 25:55 And it's a state of the art piece of equipment 25:58 for photographing the inside of the retina, 26:01 unboxed and never used 26:02 because this didn't come with any support. 26:05 So at 19 years old, 26:07 he's been invaluable to the hospital? 26:08 Yes, yeah. Yeah, hopefully. 26:10 That's pretty exciting. Yeah, that is. 26:12 Which says that, you know, no matter what age you are, 26:15 God can use you. 26:17 That's right. That's right. 26:18 Fantastic. 26:23 Again, look straight ahead again. 26:56 My husband and I founded 26:57 the ministry of Canvasback Missions 26:59 38 years ago 27:00 to serve the island nations of the Pacific. 27:03 From those humble beginnings, 27:05 our medical and dental super teams 27:07 have been changing lives 27:09 and bringing hope to so many people. 27:12 Our teams volunteer their time and resources, 27:16 and all of our services are free. 27:18 But it does take funding to make it all happen. 27:22 That's where you come in. 27:24 Your financial support is needed. 27:26 Please join us in changing lives 27:29 one miracle at a time. 27:32 You know, if you'd like to be a part 27:34 of this exciting ministry, 27:35 you can write us at Canvasback Missions, 27:37 940 Adam Street Suite R, 27:40 Benicia, California 94510. 27:43 You can also log on to canvasback.org 27:45 or call us at 707-746-7828. 27:50 Thank you for watching. 27:52 Please join me again 27:53 for another exciting island adventure. 27:55 Remember, Canvasback is making an impact on hearts and lives, 27:58 one miracle at a time. |
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