After lunch, we celebrated Hector's birthday and sang "The Lord Bless You and Keep You". Hector than brought us to visit his American neighbor, David and Fran. David had suffered a stroke when they visited their children in San Francisco. Only Natalie, Katie, Hannah, Eugene Mei and Marshall went. We sang "Restoration" and "The Lord Bless You and Keep You" and prayed for Dave. They are Orthodox Christians and we had opportunity to remind them how much Jesus loves them. They requested a recording of our singing and we promised to give them a CD which we had forgotten to bring here but left at Martelas. We rested here until about 6 PM when we went to Red Familia for the healing service, stopping to pick up two CD's to give Hector and his neighbor.
We got to the church around 6:30. It was almost empty but there were 4 babies and toddlers there with their mothers. They immediately asked those of us who were there to pray for the children, reminding us how much Jesus loves the little children. We realize that healing is only a manifestation of God's goodness and that it is all about bringing God glory and His using the miracles to bring sinners come to know Jesus as Lord and for believers to realize how much God loves them. At 7, there were maybe 20 people here, but by the time Chris started preaching, the room was almost filled with over 100 people not counting us. During ministry time, he asked all the youths to be prayed for one-on-one by Vision folks, about 30 youths. He asked us to pray for anointing of the Holy Spirit on these youths so they could heal others. As Vision prayed, Chris called for those who wanted prayer to come forward, so Vision and the young people from the church went to pray for the adults. Almost, if not every young person saw healing as they prayed and they felt empowered to go pray. This just showed us how gracious God is in encouraging those stepping out in faith to see their prayers answered. Toward the end of the ministry time, Vision sang our two Spanish songs, but were persuaded to sing "Take Me to the Water" and finally, "Holy Is He". After almost everyone left, we then prayed for Chris who had been suffering a lot of pain in both arms between his elbow and wrist. He had been praying for healing for several weeks by many but the pausing persisted. Tonight, we all surrounded him and prayed for healing and he said it felt better but he still had some pain in his left arm, so we persisted and prayed some more. He said he felt fire flowing in his arm while we prayed and that the pain was gone! We then ate some pizza and returned to Martelas.
July 24 - This morning, we again went to the pastor's home for breakfast. Thank God Tim and Gentle are doing well but Kaitlin is still not feeling all that good. Hannah has a cold but is better. The following have stomach problems: Meghan, Jason, Sam, Eugene, and Rachel, while Meghan and Jason have sore throats and Elaine feels a sore throat coming. Chris came for breakfast and we will return to Martelas to begin debriefing after we finish eating.
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