ECUADOR MISSION TRIP

Dear Friends,
Trust you were able to spend some time with your family during the Holiday Season. Would like to share with you a brief report on the Ecuador Mission Trip. My friend Steve and I spent a little over two weeks there on Kingdom Business. We saw the hand of God move in so many ways while we were there. There seems to be a great hunger in the people of Ecuador for the Living God. Notice I used the words "Living" God. The people there are tired and fed up with dead religion. I guess you could say the same thing for the people in America, and everywhere else in the world for that matter. There truly is a growing hunger for the manifest presence of God everywhere and the following are just a few of the things that we experienced.

We had to make a trip one day to a furniture store, and while we were there I noticed that this woman who worked there was showing signs of experiencing much pain and fatigue. One of the people that was with us asked her if there was something wrong with her, and she said that she had a growth under her left arm which was causing her excruciating pain. She could not lift her arm as she had no strength. I asked her if I could pray for her, and she immediately said yes. As Steve, Suzy and myself gathered around her and prayed the power of the LORD came upon her in a very visible manner. After we finished praying, the intense pain left her and she was able to raise her arm perfectly without any discomfort whatsoever. We also prayed for an emotional problem that was causing her to be depressed. Her whole countenance changed, and by the time we left the store she was laughing.

We also went to the City of Asuncion where we met with a man named Fernando. As we talked to him, he opened up and told me that he had lost his two sons in less than two years and at the same time his wife had left him. I could tell that the man was emotionally crushed and needed the Lord in his life. I asked him if I could pray for him. He told me to please pray for him. As gathered in a circle and I prayed the presence of God filled that place with His Shalom. You could feel the tangible presence of the Father there. After the prayer was finished, Fernando had tears rolling down his cheek. He was deeply touched as the LORD had done a work of healing in his heart.

Throughout both of these events, there was a family of four that was witnessing the whole thing. One night we were invited to dinner and they started to bombard us with questions about God, and life in general. You could see the hunger for God in these people. A few days later, I invited them to attend a meeting at the hotel where Steve and I we were staying and that night I led them in a prayer to receive Jesus Christ as their LORD and Savior. I was very impressed by the hunger for God in the people of Ecuador. We intend to continue by the grace of God to do ministry work in Ecuador in the days to come. We would like to thank those of you who have helped us with your finances and prayer for us to be able to do missions in places like Ecuador, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico and wherever the LORD leads us. May the Father bless you and grant
you much peace in the coming year 2013.

Shalom,
Augusto Perez
The Appearance Ministries

NOTHING BROKEN OR INCOMPLETE

I retired at Jesus' request from teaching (34 yrs) in 2000. I pulled down all retirement and gave it where He directed and just lived totally on Jesus. With Him being my only income, I am fed, sheltered and all my needs met.

The greatest of all my needs is/was dental. My teeth were falling out left and right. In February 2011 I filled out a form online for Donated Dental Services and was moved to the head of the list and called December 2011. I have FREE donated dental services with Dr David Abrams (God bless him).

Dr. Abrams checked me and found my blood pressure was 180/101 and suggested I see a medical doctor. When I went to the medical doctor, she prescribed so many meds that I left her and went to Global Cardio Care who provides transportation, screened me with all the ultrasounds and lowered my blood pressure, blood sugar and weight without meds, just exercise, supplements and dietary changes. Now all of these services are paid in full. I go every day for treatments where the blood from my lower extremities is pumped throughout my body and working with the body to heal itself.

I do not forget to give God the glory for without Him I could do nothing. We are now working with lowering my heart rate from 100 to 60. It will happen I know because God did not bring me to this point to leave me.

My Testimony – Shalom! Intercessor Evelyn L. Threadgill

SURPRISES OF THE LORD

Twenty-Four years ago, I had a bad car accident. My children and I were in our van, on the highway going 50 mph; a Suburban coming from the left ran a stop sign and hit our rear driver's side tire. It exploded and we began flipping and did so 5 times, 3 times horizontally and 2 times vertically. My daughter and her friend flew out the back doors, my 2 sons stayed inside the van and I went out the windshield, landing in a deep ditch. (At that time we had no seat-belts in the van). The last bounce that the van made landed on top of me and then flipped off again, landing in a foot and a half of water right beside me. Two cars were behind us when this happened and one woman said, "This looks like a scene out of a movie. No one can survive this!" Yet we all did!!

I was pressed to 3-4" in width, 3 vertebrates exploded - 2 between my shoulder blades and one at my waist, - my sternum was broken, I sustained a heart attack that the Lord healed instantly while I was still in intensive care. I went out the windshield the back of my head first and there's still glass in my head today; at that time I got 8 staples in my head and some in my left arm also. I also had a Traumatic Brain Injury from it that still affects me today, 24 years later (hence my short term memory problems ). I had seizures after I got out of the hospital and I never remembered having them. The doctors said "Your brain slammed around inside your head about 3 times" and said there was nothing they could do for it, I would just have to "heal naturally". But the Lord has brought me forward a great deal since then!

It took the ambulance over an hour to reach us as we lived in one of the Plains states and we were smack-dab in between 2 towns, with only fields in the middle. When they finally got there and were trying to put me on a wooden stretcher that was in 2 sections, they kept pinching my spine between the boards! Man, that hurt. I would go in and out of consciousness all the time. My 17 year old son was sitting right beside me in the ditch; he never left my side. My 14 year old son and my 12 year old daughter sat along the roadside, his arm around her shoulder comforting her. I never did find out who comforted my daughter's friend.

In the hospital it was discovered that I had massive internal bleeding, so I was air-flighted to another hospital and given 3 blood transfusions. Had not the vertebrates exploded causing the need for surgery, I was told I would still have to have it as my back muscles were so shredded that nothing was holding up my spine. I had the surgery and two 10" rods were put in, one on either side of my spine. I shrank 2 and 1/2" in height when they fused my spine together. One of the helicopter pilots watched the surgery and told my (now ex) husband, "Boy, Someone is sure watching out for your wife!" When asked what he meant he said, "Because her spine was pushed out as far as it could go - he put his fingers together in a > to demonstrate - and it was never severed! She would have been paralyzed from the shoulders down if it had been." (Remember the stretcher? Satan was again attempting to harm me but the Lord prevented it).

I was in a church service 6 years after the accident and went up for prayer - not even for my back - and went down from Holy Ghost's power and got stuck to the floor. Could not move a muscle. For over an hour I felt as if I was moving! I thought I was imagining it but weeks later when talking with my daughter she suddenly said, "Mom! You're taller!" The Lord had grown me back up to my original height when I was on that floor!!

I confessed daily that I was healed in the name of Jesus, no matter WHAT sort of pain I was in. I got shots in my right shoulder every once in a while for pain; it never took the pain away but I would fall asleep for a day, so did not feel the pain. For 8 years I was on many narcotics for the pain but the only thing they did was keep me mobile. From then until now I do not remember what a pain-free day feels like.

A week after surgery I had to learn how to walk all over again; I was 37 years old. I was in the hospital for 2 weeks, so filled with joy the entire time. The joy felt like a "force". It was amazing; in the worst pain of my entire life yet I was continually sustained with this joy.

Five weeks later, I found out that the rods had popped off the top of my spine and I would have to have a second surgery. The instant I heard that, the joy flew away from me for the first time. The thought of enduring that agony again was almost more than I could bear; the scar on my back is 19" long and I would have to be cut again! BUT, after I told the doctor to remove the rods if he could as "you are never touching me again!," in recovery I found out that the rods had been taken out! Praise God!

Twelve years later I had another huge fight for my life and overnight my right eye went completely blind. Five years after that my left eye started going blind. The doctor who examined them at that time said that the shots I'd had in my shoulder were - in the natural - the cause of the blindness. I knew it was an attack of the enemy. I had a 10 hour battle for my life and called my pastor and he prayed for me. He also had a second phone line and called another pastor and they both prayed for me. Paralysis came during this battle and the left side of my head was paralyzed for 8 months after the attack; I had to learn to write again too.

I was totally blind for 3 years. The doctor told me, "I'm very sorry to have to tell you this but you will be completely blind within 18 months and the pain in your eyes will be so severe, we will have to remove them." I told him that the Lord had brought me through so many things in my life and He would bring me through this as well.

Throughout the 3 years, sudden horrific pain would strike my eyes and I would cry out, "Oh, no you don't!! In the name of Jesus get OUT of here!" and the pain would slowly leave me. Any sunlight - even through sunglasses - caused severe pain.

When I was blind I felt completely vulnerable, but never afraid. It actually didn't bother me that much; I spent so much time with the Lord that it all was 'okay'. I knew His grace was on me greatly.

Eighteen years later after this all happened the doctor told me that "You died that night in the hospital." I did not "see" anything when that happened and have always wondered why not. The Lord's will, I believe.

The Lord began to heal my back and is still doing so today: He would work on my body for hours upon hours every day. Hours and hours and year upon year He has worked. He's still not finished but I have every confidence that He will perfect all that concerns me, in His timing.

I have so much more I could write but it would be too much. I will say one more thing about my daughter, though. At the accident site, she told me she thought I had died. She stood way up on the side of the highway and could hardly see me in the deep ditch and tall reeds. Said I was not moving. She said (she was 12 then), "I tried and tried to think of Jesus' name and I couldn't think of it. So I thought and thought and finally thought of it and I tried to say His name. I couldn't say it. I tried and tried and finally it came pouring out and I hollered, "You're healed in Jesus' name! You're healed in Jesus' name! Over and over and over. Finally your arm raised up and you wiggled your fingers so I knew you were alive."

Isn't that amazing? She was deeply traumatized by flying out of the van herself yet she was praying for me to live! Her life has been deeply hurt ever since and I'm still expecting any day now that the Lord will come to her personally and heal and deliver her completely. She is humanly alone in the world and needs prayer cover in the Spirit. She has lost everything, as I have, but gave her heart to Jesus when she was little, baptized in the Holy Ghost and when He flowed through her it was powerful and awesome to behold. He will NOT forget His "little gem of a girl, His diamond" as He described her to me; He will go to her and reveal His great, great love for her and use her mightily. She has a high and holy calling on her life.

I just had to share how big our God is, how lovely and faithful. Through all I've lived and been through with Him, I've learned that the way up in God is down. lol Following Jesus has never been easy but is SO worth it all! HE is worth is all! Love and blessings, Cynthia

My Testimony by Cynthia Beck

THE CHUCK DUDREY STORY

My name is Charles Dudrey the author of “Hell on Church Street” My story begins ten years before my birth with the life of my mother during the close of the great depression. At eight years old I was nearly beat to death by my father sending me to the hospital barely clinging to life with head trauma. The fall of the same year my mother was shot to death, murdered in the kitchen of our home.

Over years I experienced every form of abuse imaginable. I‘ve been beat with boards, hoses, extension cords, anything my abuser could find. One dark night in a cold house the woman that treated me so badly was in distress about to give birth. Calling me for help, I ran fearfully expecting the worst, finding her on the floor at the top of the stairs pleading for me to help her. My mind began to swirl in thought; was this was opportunity that I had dreamed of for years. Was it time to kill her, the woman who has starved me, was part of my mother’s death, whipped me and spit in my face screaming, she hated me. I could get away with it, who would ever know, I could end it all now! Then all of a sudden something began to stir with in me and I made a decision that would change the course of my life.

Twenty years later working as a bounty hunter I had the life I had always wanted. I was living in the fast lane and doing what I like to do, beating up and assaulting people. All the violence I had learned growing up did have its advantages. I was involved in every type of crime and had no moral conscious. The life of a criminal was all I had ever known and I felt comfortable and had little remorse for anything.

In 1990 while running form the law to keep from going back to prison I fled to Washington, state. With fake identification and birth certificate, a new wife and home, I felt like a new man and nothing could stop me now. Seemed that no matter how I looked on the outside I was falling apart on the inside. There was a battle raging in my mind to the point that I thought I would go crazy. Always looking over my shoulder wondering if the law was about to close in and send me to jail. Then one night when life couldn’t get any worse, something happened that would change my life forever. I had an encounter with Jesus.

Today my wife Diana and I have a wonderful family and together we continue to serve in our local church in various areas. It is nothing short of amazing to see the hand of God at work in our lives.

My life story has been featured on the CBN 700 Club and my autobiography “Hell on Church Street” is in print and been released.
The Chuck Dudrey Story
PO Box 118 Pacific Beach, Washington 98571
700 Club Testimony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0mhZL3KXvE
Email: thechuckdudreystory@yahoo.com
Web site: http://hellonchurchstreet.blogspot.com/
Book Store: http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Church-Street-Charles-Dudrey/dp/1603833625

ARTHRITUS IS NO LONGER A VISITOR

I was in my early twenties a newly wed and diagnosed with crippling rheumatoid arthritis. My hands had begun to look like I had very large knuckles and swollen fingers lots of pain. Could not hold anything just kept dropping things, even the phone. The doctor told me to get a hospital bed and a wheel chair because I was going to be a cripple and on lots of medication the rest of my life. I had just gotten married, graduated from college and was teaching school when I got the news. I was told to stop teaching because I could not take a chance and pass out from the medication. After 2 years and taking myself off the medication for six months, we had our first healthy baby boy. I had been told I would not be able to have children. Another 2 years our second healthy baby boy was born. I had to go back on the medication, 50 to 60 tablets of Motrin a day, sleeping pills and valium, with Maalox by the bottle and every 2 weeks drive 150 miles to get a shot of cortisone in the hip. My youngest was about 4 months old when I was listening to the 700 Club, while I was attempting to do house work, when Pat Robertson said," There is some one out there that has been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and in the name of Jesus you are healed. “I hollered that's me and I claimed the healing for me. It has been 40 years and I am still free of the horrible pain and medication. God is good!!!

My Testimony – Angela Gorton

THE LOVE OF MY FATHER FOR A SINNER

I was given diagnoses of terminal cancer. I went to the elders of my church and asked for prayer of healing or a miracle in the cancer. They had told me 15 pints of blood, 5 hrs in surgery and if I survived, I would most likely wish I had gone on due to the pain and physical condition I would be in, radiation and so forth. I felt the power of God come thru me and out thru the bend of my knees. I had the surgery it was 1 hr and 45 minutes from the beginning until I woke up in my room, from what was supposed to have been a five-hour surgery, no blood transfusions, no cancer. The doctor shook his head and told me how could this be, I pointed up and said that is how. He just shook his head no, the nurse with him told him she believed. I promised God that any time a door opened to tell someone what He had done I would do so. God can and will deliver us from all things if we just reach out to Him and TRUST, He will do it. Praise the Lord and and I ask all things in His name Jesus. I thank you for the opportunity to share my miracle.

My Testimony - Erlene Washington

BLINDED AND HEALED

I was blinded and healed when I was 5 years old. My mother was ironing and I came up to her just as she was pulling the iron back. The iron burnt my eye. My mother said that when I was burnt, I cried out , “Oh God please don’t let me be blind” (I had been in Sunday school since they could carry me there. I can still remember the bright colored pictures of Jesus healing people and of him surrounded by little children. “Jesus loves the little children all the children of the world” was one of the popular songs then.)

I was taken to the hospital and my eye was bandaged. This was in the mid 1950s, and medicine was definitely not as advanced as it is now. My parents were told that a cornea transplant could possibly be done. I was in the hospital overnight. The next morning when the bandages were taken off, my eye was perfectly healed. It was only a few years ago that I found out that the morning when the bandages were removed and the doctor saw that my eye was healed, he pulled my parents aside. He said that he didn’t know if they were religious people or not, but my eye was perfectly healed and he hadn’t done anything to my eye.

My miracle has affected my entire life. The church I was raised in and stayed in until I moved out of state when I was in my late 20s didn’t teach on healing, didn’t anoint with oil and pray for the sick. I was raised, saved, and baptized in the Church of Christ. But I was blinded and healed as a child who was taught about a Savior who loves people and who healed people.

My healing gave me a hunger to know more about my God and my Savior, Jesus Christ. I’m a seeker. And I thank God for the Holy Spirit, who is leading me and guiding me into all the truth I need to know to fulfill my destiny here. I cannot keep quiet about the miracle that happened to me so long ago. My prayer is that my miracle will give someone hope, who has no hope or little hope left. God is no respecter of persons. What He did for me He will do for others.

My Testimony - Mary Brewer

A TOUCH FROM HEAVEN

When I was a young man, the doctor's gave me a few days to live. When the time came and I thought I was going to die; I just went out to the woods to die. I had never been to church a day in my life, so I didn't know how to pray! I simply cried out to God who I never met, with a joint, a drink and a doctor's report of death in my hand. The animals began to gather all around me and I just thought it was good dope.

I had no idea what happened that day in the woods until a few weeks later when the doctor told me I was completely healed! My mind went back to that day in the woods and then I realized what happened. God's love and Glory had filled the woods when He reached down from heaven and healed me! How sad that the animals recognized God's Glory but I didn't.

My Testimony - Dominic Sola

GOD HAD A PLAN FOR MY LIFE

I once battled depression and anxiety for over 10 years. There were many challenges that came with those symptoms, such as alcohol and thoughts of suicide. I have sat across from doctors for more hours than I can count. I have had three admissions to a psychiatric hospital. I swallowed thousands of prescription pills and drank countless bottles of beer. All this in effort to take away the pain of post traumatic stress disorder.

My friend of 30+ years had visited me on two occasions that I recall in particular, once at my house and once in the psychiatric hospital. The visit at my house ended with him asking if he could pray for me. I obliged but laughed it off.

God had a plan for me on July 18,2009, the same friend invited me to a church outreach bbq. I was like "woo bbq! I will bring the beer!" But my friend explained that beer would not be a great idea for this particular bbq. Keep in mind that I am also a vegan/vegetarian so I was not impressed at all, but I said "Well, I can't bring beer and I'm a vegetarian but I'll still go to your bbq".

Again I tell you, God had a plan for me. As soon as I stepped foot on the property at the bbq, I felt nothing but love. It was an arms wide open feeling that I had not felt in a long time. As the evening went on, I was drawn more and more to these strangers who treated me like they knew me from birth. As time passed they shared stories of how Christ changed their lives. At that moment, I was thinking to myself "This is what I need. This is what's missing." At the end of the night my new friend, Pastor Gary, asked me if I wanted to accept Jesus into my life. I told him I was not quite ready to make that decision. However, when I walked out of there, I left with a new joy that I have not experienced in the past. That joy is what I now know as Jesus Christ.

Again, I tell you that God had a plan for me. The following night, I took a ride out to my father in laws resting place. I gave my heart to the Lord and broke down sobbing and crying, releasing all the pain and agony that had built up over the years.

The following day, I went to a new church. One that I never set foot in or heard of before. That Church was Living Hope Christian Assembly in Hamilton, ON. At the end of the service, I responded to the altar call and publicly accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior.

Since that day, great things are happening in my life. I am overcoming obstacles and advancing in His kingdom. I have had a prophetic word on my life that I am standing on. God has made great promises to my life and my family that I am faithfully holding Him to. Without Jesus in my life, I have not a clue where I would be. But with Jesus there is nothing I can't do.

Again I tell you God had a plan for me. And God has a plan for you, despite what your going through. May God Richly Bless You!


My Testimony - Stephen Malgo Amazing Salvation Ministries

ONE OF SATAN'S OWN BECOMES A MAN OF GOD

I was born to a young 18 year old mother and a 19 year old alcoholic father. My mother raised me basically by herself until I was 7 years old, when she married my stepfather, who later adopted me. My mother worked in a shoe factory and also for my grandfather as a dispatcher for his cab company. Things on the home front were not good! My mothers way of communicating with me consisted of yelling and screaming and I witnessed her being physically abused by my biological father many times. This caused much confusion and pain for me as I tried to sort out a simple question --- Why?

I started drinking beer at the age of 9, eventually graduating to hard liquor by 11 and then I began getting high on pot and LSD by 13. This life style led me into the depths of misery an pain until one day I met a man who showed me magic beyond what anyone could imagine and the access to all the booze and drugs that I could ever want! At that time I joined a Satanic Coven, where I served as a level one Witch. I excelled in my learning, gaining more and more strength in my knowledge of witchcraft. At 16 years old, I was a Satanist Priest and in control of the drug supply in and out of the Coven, as well as the followers. I had countless women as personal slaves to do whatever I wished. The list goes on and on......

One day while waiting for a bus to go to school, a young woman, whom I did not know , appeared out of nowhere and asked me "how are you?" I was coming down from a high from the night before and retorted with, "what do you think?". She completely ignored my response and asked if I'd like to see a movie. With the ulterior motive of recruiting her to my already, well established group of slave-women, I said, "sure what time?" and proceeded to set the time for 6 p.m. that evening.

I had no idea what I was getting into as we walked into a large building in Boston, Ma. Which I later found out to be the Tremont Temple Baptist Church. I thought I was in a theatre as I sat down to watch the movie. I sat in awe of what I realized was my life on the screen! After the movie, I wept like never before.

John d'Brine from the Songtime radio broadcast was the speaker that night. It seemed he was looking straight at me when he asked the audience "is this your life?. I nodded my head in response. Without missing a beat, he said, "you need to turn it around and come down to the front and someone will show you how."

I did go forward that day and accepted Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord of my life. After this life changing experience, I went to the Coven and proceeded to tell them that I was getting out, but leaving Satanism isn't that easy! As I went home to my apartment, someone jumped me and put a burlap sack over my head. Others stripped me and beat me leaving me for dead at a local hospital. As I healed my wounds, I began to study the Bible and dedicated my life to serving the Lord! I thanked the Lord then as I do now, that He saved me from eternal damnation I was heading for. Instead, it was God's love and grace that was extended to me that day that has given me eternal life with with Him in Heaven

My Testimony - Chaplain Mark O'Reilly from God's Facebook, one of the Pastors on staff.