The Blind See!

Minosh and Valentina stopped to translate for Nick and I when were praying for an elderly man with a cane.  After the man was healed of his leg pain Minosh (a Hindu) looked at us with wide eyes and asked if we would pray for his left eye.  He could only see about 1 foot in front of him in that eye.  We prayed once and then he covered his right eye and realized now he could see further than before!  We prayed 4 times (each time it got a little better) and by the end he could see as far as I can see!  He immediately wanted to follow Jesus as his only God and invited us to his house to pray for his mother!  His wife Valentina already knew Jesus and was so excited that her husband came to know Jesus!  The next week we went to Minosh’s house and prayed for his mother, sister, and next door neighbor and all three were healed of various illnesses.  Minosh’s mother (also Hindu) was healed of a high fever and pain in many places on her body.  After she was healed she wanted to be baptized.  That day we baptized Minosh, his mother, and his sister.  Every person who came to that meeting was healed of something and the whole family was so excited about Jesus they wanted to get ride of all the Hindu idols that filled their house!  Since then we have been meeting with Minosh and Valentina and are training them to lead a house church in Minosh’s mothers home.     

My address for all of you who may have lost it!  

Gabe-CPI 

PO Box 470

Wheaton,IL 60187

Its a bird... its a plane... its a little man in our coconut tree!

This morning i was spending time with Jesus when I kept seeing the coconut tree out by our house moving around.  Excitedly I though it was a monkey or a scarlet macaw so I went over to have a look...  Well I couldn't see anything so I went back into the office, but then I heard it again. Only it sounded like hacking...  Now for your information I live on the third floor of this villa and our trees are just barely above our house (they are really high!!!).  I thought the only thing that could get into this tree would be a chipmunk, monkey, or bees.   

I could not concentrate because the noise kept getting louder.  I went back over to have another look and I saw a huge knife sticking out of the tree and then I saw this little Indian man peeking out of the tree three stories up!  He was harvesting coconuts.  I said hello and I guess they were doing it illegally because when he saw me he quickly shimmied down this enormose tree and him and his buddies carried their loot away quickly!  I sat there stunned that this man not even 100 LB had climbed all that way up and then before my eyes just slid down the tree like you might see in a movie.  It never ceases to amaze me the things I see here!  

Just wanted to share that with you!

gabe