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April 2007 Pastor Garcia has fully recovered with no surgery! The doctors were amazed!
February '07 The good news continues-Pastor Garcia is at his old self, continuing to gain strength.
We give praise to the Lord for this and all things, knowing that all things work together for the good...
December '06 Pastor Garcia continues to improve as the following sentence from Rufino indicates:
"Ok Jim one´s again thank you for your visit to Pastro Garcia he is doing much better and he has a check up with
the doctor on wendsday, I will call Hector to let him know what the doctor will say to him...".
Thank you all for your prayers. Please continue as we watch to see how the Lord will use this.
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James 1 Consider it pure
joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many
kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith
develops perseverance... Blessed is the man who
perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the
test, he will receive the crown of life that God has
promised to those who love him.
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Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought
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mercy.
14 Is any one of you
sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him
and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
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Dear James
An urgent need has arisen here in
Guatemala and I am writing you to ask for your
help. A friend and pastor of a local church here
in the Lake Atitlan region is deathly sick and needs
your prayers. Pastor Garcia of the Assembly of God
Church in Godinez has been critically ill for several
weeks and is now confined to his bed in a village some 4
hours from Panajachel. We will be making the drive
Wednesday to visit and pray for him and his family and
would ask you to pray for him as well. The Bible
in James chapter 5 and verse 14 says "Is any one of you
sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray
over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the
Lord." All christians know the power of prayer but
many times we don't believe with sufficient faith to put
it into action. Please help us in this effort by
forwarding this request for prayer for Pastor
Garcia and his family. We are asking for peace and
comfort for the pastor and his family as well as God's
will and glorification throughout this difficult
time. Please help!
Please take a moment to read
below about our interaction with the pastor and his
church over the last 2 years. He has been a real
blessing to us!
Medical Mission in Godinez, Feb
2005
...Well another interesting day. Our truck (loaner
from Pastor) broke down on the way to our medical
mission! Wait on God! And wait we did, for an hour and a
half! But $9 later we were fixed! Turns out we had a
direct short which melted the battery cable terminal. Go
figure. When we arrived in Godinez there were many
people already waiting. We quickly set up and began the
process. Lucy was not able to assist us as she was very
sick.
After awhile a woman with a one year old baby came
in. The baby was lethargic and acting very sick, with
its eyes rolled back. Cherie said the baby needed to go
to the hospital immediately and I spoke with the woman
about it. I told her we would take her to the hospital
but she said she needed to speak with her husband. I
asked her how far away she lived and she said very far.
I asked the Pastor to talk with her and he did. Then her
husband showed up and after hearing from his wife he
said he would take care of his own baby, that we didn't
really care about it anyway. He wasn't about to go to
the hospital. And they left. So very sad and lamentable.
But God knows why. Another woman had a baby a year and
three months of age that couldn't sit up. Something was
obviously wrong...
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The Truck Breaks Down...At Night...Far,
Far away
....Then I thought
the truck was not running right. And my thoughts were
confirmed when the engine quit. In the middle of no
place, on a road hardly traveled, around 9:30 at night.
As we coasted to the side of the road strangely enough
there was no concern from any of us. A car began to
approach from the other direction and Hector and Antonio
were going to flag it down. However, it turned into a
driveway just up the road so they went to meet it. We
got out of the truck and began making jokes about our
situation, not really thinking about what to do. Hector
returned and said the man was willing to let us put our
truck in his yard and behind his gate where it would be
secure, and then take us home to Panajachel! I could
scarcely believe my ears!
At this point you must realize we had $3000 worth of
video equipment and over $2000 worth of medicines in our
$10,000 truck. No way could we leave all this all night
unattended. No way could we have found a ride home at
this hour. Our phone had a dead battery even if we did
not someone to call. God is great...
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Heart Attack Story
July 9,
2005
The
following story took place yesterday as I returned from
Guatemala City. I do not fully understand it, I am
merely reporting what I saw and documented with my
camera. If you don't want to be challenged, don't read
any further...
...When I returned pastor Garcia and the other
four or five people present were praying out loud, the
pastor touching the woman's heart with the Bible and
asking God for help. Proclaiming the power of Jesus
Christ and the glory of God he continued for maybe 30
minutes. When this began I still was incredulous,
feeling that I was somehow responsible for what I was
sure was going to be the death of this woman, because I
wasn't demanding that we take her to the hospital. And
so I knelt down beside her and took her left hand which
was hanging motionless to try to find a pulse. I could
find none (though this should not be surprising as
things were kind of crazy and I am not a medical person)
so I just held her hand as the praying continued. Every
time the pastor would raise his voice proclaiming the
power of Jesus I could feel this lady's hand twitch and
jerk. As I looked at her she looked so bad, still not
breathing right and now clutching at her heart with her
right hand. As I looked around everyone was crying and
praying and I just couldn't help thinking how wrong this
all was. Again, I was feeling responsible for this
woman's death...
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