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"Miracles in India"   In 2001, my friend David from India, and 5 others began to pray about going to India on missions. Before coming t...

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"Miracles in India"
 
In 2001, my friend David from India, and 5 others began to pray about
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

harvest was near.
 

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

beautiful
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

crying and ran to the bongos and began to bang on
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

the
funds needed and there are no loans on this building!
 
Once, last year, the
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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