going
to India on missions. Before coming to the US, David started a
ministry
with his brother James. Their mother was always feeding
the poor and
praying for them from her doorstep. They were quite
poor, having a dirt
floor in the kitchen and carrying water up the
hill on their heads. For
years, David and James planted seeds in
this Hindu country, but now the
On September
18, 2003 we arrived in Coimbatore India. At the airport,
James told
David that his 62 year old mother had a heart attack preparing
for
our arrival. We went to the hospital and 2 hours later she died.
Within
a few minutes, we brought her body home and for 24 hours the locals
sang
songs and paid respects in her living room. After 24 hours we buried
her
in a pine box, lowering it with ropes into the hole. The place was in a
tea field overlooking the Nilgiris Mountains.
One evening during a
village meeting, I prayed for a woman with a bone
sticking out of her
wrist. The Lord completely healed her and it was
amazing!! I felt
the bone moving as I held her, and I kept hearing God say
"open your
eyes". I was so tired and not believing it was happening and
kept
telling God to please heal her. Finally the voice to open my eyes was
so
loud, I couldn't pray any longer and I opened my eyes and she was
healed
and crying! At the exact same moment, my friend David was
praying for a
deaf man and the Lord opened his ears! He was jumping
and yelling and
them!
We went to this piece of land that David's father had left
behind when he
died years before. James and David were always
planning to build their mom
a home with running water here. We
prayed and God showed us to build a
ministry building. Since 2003,
this building has been built, and now stands
four stories tall,
housing missionaries, pastors, the church and the church
offices.
The well has brought abundant water supply!! He has provided all
funds needed and there are no loans on this building!
radical Hindu's were going around this area finding Christian buildings
that
were not up to code and going to the government. The government began
to
demolish them. I told my pastor here in Clearwater, Florida and he
prayed
and the Lord said to bring it to the congregation. He did and
all the funds
were raised on a Wednesday night to finish the
exterior of the building and
bring it up to code and the government
has left them alone! Only God can
continue to do this work!
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