Cuba 2010: Bishop Laborde

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1 Ruth Nañez in Chile Healing is a major factor in evangelical growth in Latin America Completely deaf in one ear, only slight hearing in the other; difficulty walking because one leg much shorter 1998, student at Santiago s Baptist Theological Institute Morning after prayer, praying in woods Heard rabbit, bees never heard before 2000: Baptist pastor prayed for her lifelong limp Within minutes her leg had grown out and her limp disappeared

2 Cuba 2010: Bishop Laborde -Cuban Lutheran bishop Ismael Laborde Figueras notes it is hard to find Latin American Christians who do not believe in miracles -Bishop Laborde s own healing (liver tumor, 1995) -Psychologist Yamilka Hernández Guzmán, 1998: daughter

3 Eliseo Navarro Jordan, president of the ICPC Onel: years old Degenerating foot bones Could barely walk Within a year, no walking

4 Visiting evangelist prayed Mother kept the doctor s appointment New X-rays: full formation of the foot No deformity Doctor initially insisted that the X-rays were mixed up From then Onel played sports and ran like other children

5 Dorka R. Rojas Cruz, rector of the Elim Bible Institute Felipe Rojas Rojas, days of fever Too weak even to sit Sent home to die Est. 5-6 days left María Machín and Gisela prayed

6 Within seconds, healed Converted; now 73 fully Dorka knows him well: Her father Healed before she was born

7 Mirtha Venero Boza, M.D. and Baptist evangelist: knows burns Hand of baby granddaughter Severely burned by hot iron Swollen and skin peeling off Less than ½ hour of prayer No medical intervention Restored completely, as if it had never been burned

8 A man in the Philippines paralyzed from electrocution When I asked, he showed me the scars An African- American evangelist prayed for him and he was healed

9 Liliane Vernaud: with father, sons Child of Swiss missionaries in Congo-DRC (father had gifts of healing) Childhood leukemia Considered hopeless, so not sent to Europe for treatment Healed We went to Bible college together I visited recently in Africa

10 Alya Putri Kemala Dewi: healed of leukemia at age 8 before surgery Indonesia

11 Speaking of family: Jacques Moussounga Painful mouth abscesses ( ) Prayer group leader (Suzanne Makounou): Lord revealed Permanently healed, 1981

12 Gracia Moussounga Gracia dying of cerebral meningitis Papa Jacques prayed beside her bed all night; restored

13 Médine (next slide)

14 Healed of severe, dangerous fever, age 9

15 Emmanuel Moussounga

16 Others also instantly healed when he prayed E.g., Henriette Mabiala (as a girl), healed of extended fever

17 Other pastors also often see instant recoveries during prayer E.g., Pastor Jean Mouko (friend of family)

18 Convert bitten by poisonous snake, c Convert, Leelamma, turned black and blue, dying Hindus very angry at Christians, thinking their gods had judged her for converting

19 For a few minutes everyone confirmed Jessy Jaison s father kept praying The convert coughed, vomited black stuff and then was fine Later her son Rejeesh stayed with Jessy s family for several years she was dead

20 Sister whom I interviewed in Philippines Diagnosed with liver cancer in 1983, but unable to afford treatment In 1984 died in hospital Dead for 1 hr, 45 minutes Minister prayed, but the woman was already under sheet Came to life; thought she had just been asleep Cancer completely gone Doctor and doctor s husband converted, became missionaries

21 Another witness in the Philippines shared with me the raising of a baby that he witnessed