Two years ago, I wrote about Frank and Sally Dennis, active in their 90s – he’s a “retired” medical missionary. As he said often, there are no pictures of Sally not smiling!

Sally passed April 26, 2020. On the first anniversary of her passing, Frank wrote:

It will be one year on April 26 that my dear Sally left and I confess I have been dreading the day and wishing that Spring would finally come and quite burying the flowers under new snow storms,  Just today I saw the first hummingbird and I am glad I had two feeders ready for him, because the daffodils are all facedown in  the dirt.  

But yesterday I got a beautiful smile from Sally!.  The Sally Smile Fund has gifted a sweet little girl in Ethiopia with a life-changing smile that I want you to see.  As we see sadness in so many places today I want you to rejoice with me as we see Christian doctors and nurses and dental teams bringing smiles and the Good News of Jesus.  This is an ongoing thing but the smile that came yesterday was just what I needed to remind me that her smiles are still going on and blessing others as they did so many years wherever she went!

Here’s the little girl he’s talking about.

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me. (Matthew 25.35, 36, ESV)

He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. (Luke 9.2, ESV – this is the mission verse of Cure, the organization that did the little girl’s surgery.)