Camp meeting attendees typically hear many inspiring sermons and personal testimonies during their stay at Yavapines. This year was no exception.

Native-American Delfina “Little Bird,” part Navajo and part Apache, told listeners about her own camp meeting miracle and the life that led up to it.

As an infant, Delfina had been severely abused. As a result of the trauma to her small head, she was left blind in both eyes. The girl’s birth parents lost custody, and adoptive parents took her to a new, safe home.

As she grew, some of Delfina’s vision began to return. She could see directly in front of her, but her peripheral vision was slow to return.

Delfina refused to accept her impaired vision as a handicap and studied diligently, working to see her textbooks and finding ways to study for her exams. She wanted to get a driver’s license like her teenage friends, but doctors informed her parents that her vision was just too poor.

When Delfina enrolled at Southern Adventist University, she had a tutor who gave her different exercises to help improve the different areas of her brain. She did the exercises faithfully and began to notice that her vision was improving. Soon, she had regained most of her peripheral vision — except for the lower left corner.

In May 2004, Delfina graduated from Southern with a bachelor’s degree in behavioral science with a concentration in family studies. She returned to Arizona to work with her Native American people at Holbrook Indian School.

Delfina assisted in the Holbrook booth at this summer’s camp meeting. Thinking how wonderful it would be to have completely normal vision, she decided to attend a special prayer service that was to focus on healing.

A few days later, during one of the evening meetings, Delfina noticed that she could see in the lower left corner field of vision without moving her head, as she had become accustomed to doing. She realized her vision was fully restored — a miraculous answer to a lifetime of prayer.

Telling her story to an enthusiastic audience, Delfina said, "This was a new day when I realized I could see where I had not been able to up to this point. What a miracle!”

“I now have my driver’s license and am planning to work toward my master’s degree in family therapy," Delfina writes from her parent’s home in Texas. "Soon, I hope to return to my Native American people and show them a Creator who loves them and wants to help them throughout their lives on this earth."