Rose Colored Glasses : April 2017

My Heart

I really don't know where to start on the this and the next bunch of pictures. The Lord brought us to the Philippines to live and be a part of the people. We are on an island that is 50% poverty, 80 % child and teen incest, sodomy and rape and 90% dedicated to idols at birth. We have been here 15 months now and I am just able to start posting about the children and teens and people here. We love them all and we are happy to be here. But our heart has hurt more than we ever imagined was possible. It is not the safest place to be because we are "white" and they tell me I am the only white woman they have seen. Would we trade living here for anything. No, we are right where we belong. I look at these pictures and I cry all over again. These children are so beautiful and so hurt. We hold them as they sob and cry because of what they have been through and we know we have to send them back to the same situation. We tell them about the Lord but it is hard because we speak a different language but we are learning their language. The Lord gave us a wonderful interpreter and a wonderful Maestra (language teacher). Both the interpreter and Maestra have stolen our hearts. They call us Mama and Daddy and we feel honored. Many have become so precious to us.

We have many people to thank, Patty & Loretta and others who send us clothes & soaps and necessities to take to the village people. The wonderful Intercessor's at LifeWay Church. The need here is so great that it gets overwhelming sometimes. We could not do this without the help So Thank you all.
This is an ongoing story so please follow with us as we walk through each day not knowing what the day will bring.

Monday, April 17, 2017

This Man Just Wanted to Walk

We saw this man coming up the road dragging himself with a bamboo pole. How he made it we don't know. We asked him what he wanted and he said he had been prayed for a lot but never healed and he wanted to walk. So as you can see one of our team members (actually two prayed together for him but one is not in the picture, he is kneeling praying for the man. ) the man was instantly healed and he is crying because he has wanted to walk for so long.

Here you see the man dancing. He danced and danced and cried and danced. Then when we were praying for someone else he also came and prayed along with us. He is the sweetest man. We are going back up to the mountain village soon and hope to see him there. What a miracle and what a happy man.

She Just Wanted to Hear for the First Time

This sweet woman had been told that we were there at a Pastor's home at a small mountain village and we saw her coming across the road. We don't know how far she had walked. She was totally deaf and wanted to hear like everyone else. We prayed for her and the first time she could hear a little bit. So we prayed again and then asked her if she could hear better and she said she could hear us whisper. God is good.

Teaching the young to pray

This woman was in extreme pain. From a # 1 being the lowest to #10 being the highest level of pain she had been in #10 amount of pain for a long time. We will probably never get up to this mountain village again so we were teaching the young people to pray for eachother and those who needed prayer and heaing. This young man prayed for her and she was instantly healed. No pain at all. The young man had been having kidney pain for quite a while so we had another young person come up and pray for him and again the healing was instant.

Team Praying for a Young Lady

Our Team praying for a young girl from a mountain village who wanted prayer.