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
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
Eliseo Navarro Jordan, president of the ICPC Onel: 12-13 years old Degenerating foot bones Could barely walk Within a year, no walking
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
Dorka R. Rojas Cruz, rector of the Elim Bible Institute Felipe Rojas Rojas, 1956 43 days of fever Too weak even to sit Sent home to die Est. 5-6 days left María Machín and Gisela prayed
Within seconds, healed Converted; now 73 fully Dorka knows him well: Her father Healed before she was born
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
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
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
Alya Putri Kemala Dewi: healed of leukemia at age 8 before surgery Indonesia
Speaking of family: Jacques Moussounga Painful mouth abscesses (1960-1981) Prayer group leader (Suzanne Makounou): Lord revealed Permanently healed, 1981
Gracia Moussounga Gracia dying of cerebral meningitis Papa Jacques prayed beside her bed all night; restored
Médine (next slide)
Healed of severe, dangerous fever, age 9
Emmanuel Moussounga
Others also instantly healed when he prayed E.g., Henriette Mabiala (as a girl), healed of extended fever
Other pastors also often see instant recoveries during prayer E.g., Pastor Jean Mouko (friend of family)
Convert bitten by poisonous snake, c.1984-1986 Convert, Leelamma, turned black and blue, dying Hindus very angry at Christians, thinking their gods had judged her for converting
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
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
Another witness in the Philippines shared with me the raising of a baby that he witnessed