The Bridge Community Spotlight featuring Beth Reed with Sight.org

In 2020 we spoke with Beth Reed about her work with sight.org, living intentionally, and her family’s adoption story. We recently met back up with Beth for an update on how life has been since she and her husband brought their boys home from Haiti. Beth is a wife, mom of now 4 boys, and the Director of Missions for sight.org.  Here are the top 5 things Beth shared with us.

1) Can you tell us about sight.org?

This organization provides eye surgeries in Togo West Africa and through meeting these needs, the door is open to be able to share the gospel. We get to be a part of the patients getting their eyesight back and watching them feel so grateful for this gift, immediately praising the Lord. Their resources are so limited there, many people think getting their eyesight back is an impossible thing and feel their life has ended. We have a prayer tent where we can talk about the Lord and watch them give their lives to the Lord. 

2) How are you growing in the Lord through your work with sight.org?

God has been teaching me to “go at his pace.” Not at the pace I expect myself to go at, nor what the world says I have to accomplish. Just to be constantly talking to the Lord.  

3) What have you learned from your visits to Africa?

I go to Togo Africa once a year. The people there have so much joy in the simple day-to-day life.  They are slow and well thought out. The culture is more relational and connected as a whole. There is freedom to stop and spend time with people. They are not so rushed to get to “the next thing.” There is freedom to express their joy by dancing.

4) How have your experiences with sight.org impacted your life?

I’m doing what I was called to do.  I’ve known all my life that I was called to do missions with art. I’m also able to have constant conversations with my kids about the bigger world.

I want to be an intentional and genuine person. My word for this year is “With.” I’m just trying to be intentional to be with my kids. Whatever they are doing, if I can just be with them to take these moments and join them in their activities. 

5) What have you leaned through the adoption process and bringing your boys home from Haiti?

I’ve learned that we can always trust God’s timing, even if it looks wrong to us.  I’ve also learned since bringing the boys home that I have to be aware of the unseen things going on that God is doing. It’s so easy to just see what’s in front of me, and it doesn’t always look good. But God is always working behind the scenes. Also, my kids have unseen trauma causing them to react.

Thanks Beth for sharing with us your heart-warming story. We are thankful to be able to share your work, words of hope, and intentional living with others.   Our office is currently collecting donations of old glasses for sight.org to reuse.  To learn more about sight.org please visit their website.

For more information about our office or to schedule an appointment, please contact us by emailing: info@thebridgetherapy.com, or calling (903) 283-8729.

The Bridge Therapeutic Services, PLLC

Erin Young, LCSW and Jennifer Wood, LPC-S