The Gamertsfelder Mission Center recently performed its first cataract surgeries. A ministry of the Jamaica West District, the center houses medical, optical, dental, and educational facilities.

Over the course of the first month, a team of surgeons and eye care professionals treated more than 170 eyes, performing 142 cataract surgeries and 30 glaucoma procedures. Many who came blind left with recovered sight.

One of those individuals was Clementine. Blind, she had waited through years of delays with her doctors. She had once again been told by her doctors that she would have to wait another six months for her surgery. Clementine came to the mission center determined to recover her sight.

"I’m glad to know that I can see, and I can move around here, there, and everywhere ..." Clementine said. "In the morning, wake up, I can see the sun and I could not see it before, and I’m thankful and I see my children and grandchildren ... And I give praise, you know? I was going to church but I am not a Christian; I feel myself like I could [be baptized] and be a Christian."

--Church of the Nazarene Mesoamerica Region