Day 3

Saturday we went out in ministry mode! We split up in two groups. John and I went to Calvary Chapel to bring them water filters, find out what other needs they had, and pray for everyone. The other group went to a clinic to pray for the sick there. We shared God's love and created relationships. One crazy thing that happened was that the pastors of Calvary, Chuck and Tia had just been to Atlanta to take Tia's mom for a surgery. While they were there they stayed with her cousin, and they met the leaders of Bethel Atlanta. Her cousin happens be good friends with the Hales ( who started Bethel Atlanta) and Lauren's dad Steve Hale met Tia and her mom! What are the chances?? Lauren and her husband Brent were with us and couldn't believe the connection! We were all like we are moving to Atlanta for that church! Isn't that crazy!

We had a couple of hours before dinner so we all went swimming of Miss Peggy's dock (she is the one with the health clinic). Then we went to a Spanish speaking church that evening to bring the message and pray for people. Scott and Tracy spoke at the church and then called some of us up to give words of knowledge. This was me and John's first time to do this in a setting like this. I had a word about someone having pain in the arch of their right foot. Sure enough there was someone there-later we prayed and all the pain left her foot! I also prayed for a woman and four of her daughters, one of who suffers from terrible headaches (probably migraines). The pain left her head that night, and I am believing that she will never have headaches again- like me!! They were so grateful and loving! It was so interesting praying for people with a language barrier. My spanish improved over the course of the week, but it had been 8 years since I last had a class!!

Lauren prayed for a sweet grandma who I think had some sort of arthritis or something in her hand. It was all crumpled in and she couldn't move it, but God is good and He healed her and she got so excited! She ran around and made us pray for everyone in her family. John and Jordan prayed for her grandson who was a Honduran version of Paul Egan (it was crazy weird). His name was Ronald and he work at a zipline place on the island. He had fallen off and platform awhile back, hurt his back, and had never fully recovered. They prayed for him and then asked him to test it out and move around. Ronald said it didn't hurt, but he needed to lift something heavy to really test it. So the guys told him to pick up Mario (one of the guys in our group). He tried, but said he still had pain in his pack. They prayed again and told him to try to pick Mario up again. He pick him up and lifted him high! He was completely shocked that he could do that! It was crazy and hilarious all at the same time. Ronald is really on fire and passionate about God. We got to see him two more times during the trip.

Overall, around 80% of the people that were prayed for claimed healing in their bodies. I had never witnessed anything like this in my life. It was amazing. And God used me. Wow.