Hello all! Greetings from the Philippines! It has been a LONG day here and it is midnight so I think this blog will be more brief.
Today was the first day of our medical mission. I was sick last night but quickly recovered. I think it was something I ate. "Lechon" is a delicacy here. It is a pig, cooked whole, on the table. Need I say more. I got sick after eating that. I don't think it was bad, but some of the people here think maybe my stomach is just not used to it.
Anyway, Christine and Kelly have been struggling physically. We did some major warfare praying this morning before leaving since it seemed that the enemy was definitely coming against us with so many feeling ill. Everyone was able to go and function, even if we weren't all feeling 100%.
It went well. We split into two teams and traveled about an hour away to Baiz. One team was Jerry, me, Angel, Danny, and Pastor Bobbi. The other team was Dan, Kelly, Obi, and Christine. The other team saw way more patients than Jerry and I today. They saw somewhere between 85-100. Jerry and I saw 25. There was a funeral in the neighborhood Jerry and I were working in and Pastor Bobbi said that the people in that area were mourning and that is probably why we did not have a lot of people.
But overall it went great. We had an evangelism crusade in the evening. The Biblr college students did dances and performed dramas. We had worship, and Jerry preached a great message laying out the gospel in such a relevant way. Everyone said a prayer of salvation together as a group. Then people came up for prayer for healing. They formed 3 lines. One line for Jerry, one for Obi, and one for Tom Hutchens. That left me without anything to do, so I was worshiping on the sidelines and interceding while the others prayed. Then all the children lined up in front of me and wanted me to pray for them. I was so touched to pray for these children. We did see miraculous healing, including a blind eye receiving sight and pains leaving.
We ended the night very late with street barbecue. There are vendors that cook food and sell it. We ate at a table on a blocked off street at about 10:30 at night. We had barbecue chicken, bread, and rice. Now we are finally in bed at midnight.
We will be doing another whole day of medical mission tomorrow in Dumaguete along with another evangelism crusade in the evening. Stay tuned!
~Doc Loch, aka Alicia
Today was the first day of our medical mission. I was sick last night but quickly recovered. I think it was something I ate. "Lechon" is a delicacy here. It is a pig, cooked whole, on the table. Need I say more. I got sick after eating that. I don't think it was bad, but some of the people here think maybe my stomach is just not used to it.
Anyway, Christine and Kelly have been struggling physically. We did some major warfare praying this morning before leaving since it seemed that the enemy was definitely coming against us with so many feeling ill. Everyone was able to go and function, even if we weren't all feeling 100%.
It went well. We split into two teams and traveled about an hour away to Baiz. One team was Jerry, me, Angel, Danny, and Pastor Bobbi. The other team was Dan, Kelly, Obi, and Christine. The other team saw way more patients than Jerry and I today. They saw somewhere between 85-100. Jerry and I saw 25. There was a funeral in the neighborhood Jerry and I were working in and Pastor Bobbi said that the people in that area were mourning and that is probably why we did not have a lot of people.
But overall it went great. We had an evangelism crusade in the evening. The Biblr college students did dances and performed dramas. We had worship, and Jerry preached a great message laying out the gospel in such a relevant way. Everyone said a prayer of salvation together as a group. Then people came up for prayer for healing. They formed 3 lines. One line for Jerry, one for Obi, and one for Tom Hutchens. That left me without anything to do, so I was worshiping on the sidelines and interceding while the others prayed. Then all the children lined up in front of me and wanted me to pray for them. I was so touched to pray for these children. We did see miraculous healing, including a blind eye receiving sight and pains leaving.
We ended the night very late with street barbecue. There are vendors that cook food and sell it. We ate at a table on a blocked off street at about 10:30 at night. We had barbecue chicken, bread, and rice. Now we are finally in bed at midnight.
We will be doing another whole day of medical mission tomorrow in Dumaguete along with another evangelism crusade in the evening. Stay tuned!
~Doc Loch, aka Alicia