Extreme Missions News

SEPTEMBER
SEPTEMBER 2010

Outbreak
Imagine strategize and pray about when to visit Davao Please pray for:
that you Medical Center. This is the equivalent of a county
or your hospital where the poorest of the poor flock to
family is when they need help. I stopped the people and said, ♦ Our financial support—
sick and “Let’s not spend our time strategizing. Let’s go
need to be tomorrow!” We have been limited by
hospital- severe lack of funding for
ized. You When we visited DMC, the atmosphere was confu-
make your sion (standard atmosphere for this hospital). We the past several months,
way to the asked a nurse where the dengue ward was and she
hospital sent us to the wrong floor.
but we are not stopping.
Emily with a Teen cancer Patient only to
at Davao Medical Center stand in a We ended up getting “lost” and found the cancer
ward for children and teenagers. We immediately
♦ We still are praying for
long line
to be eventually turned away. You hear, “Sorry Sir. decided to stay in that ward and pray for the sick God to give us a car or
Sorry Mam. We have no space available.” there. We prayed with every person in every room
of the cancer ward to healed. They all (family mem- SUV to travel the harsh
That was the recent situation for almost all the bers included) prayed the prayer of salvation with roads in the Philippines.
hospitals in Davao. What was the reason for this us. Some of the teens were amputees. Most of the
you ask? patients were bald from the therapy. It was just
heartbreaking to see them suffering. We followed ♦ Our upcoming ministry
There was a severe Dengue outbreak throughout them up on our next visit and gave them fruit bas-
Mindanao and the people were coming from all kets that Emily prepared. conference with guests
over the island from sometimes a fourteen hour bus Preston and Sharon Sykes
journey to Davao to get help. On our next visit, we found the large dengue ward
for children. It was unbelievable. The hospital was in November 2010.
Dengue fever is a mosquito borne illness that is so overloaded that small children were sharing beds,
often deadly if it’s not treated properly. It’s rainy all of them with IVs connected to them. There were
season here which leaves pools of stagnant water even beds with patients in the hallways. Our group
everywhere and gives a place for mosquitoes to broke into small teams and prayed for them. I must
thrive. have personally prayed for 60 kids and only got to
about 25 percent of them. It was totally exhausting
When we heard about this outbreak, we gathered ministry. There was so much need there that there
our prayer forces and interceded for this outbreak was no way to meet it all, but we did our best to
to stop. The people at the prayer meeting wanted to pray for them all.

On His Death Bed “Go therefore

We recently He was known by many that he openly denied
hosted God existed, and fathered many children by and make
Pastor many different women. He was a rich and pow-
Bong and erful man. He used his money to befriend disciples of all
Evelyn Paz powerful people and helped politicians get
in our elected. All that power and wealth could not the nations,
home who help him as lay in a coma struggling for his life
had to in the ICU of Davao Doctor’s Hospital. baptizing them in
make an
Speaking at a Funeral for the emergency We agreed with the Paz family in fervent prayer the name of the
first time trip to in our home for his salvation and healing. The
Davao second day at the hospital, Mr. Yap woke up
father and of the
from Manila due to a tragic family crisis. and spoke with his adult daughter. She jumped
at the opportunity to share Jesus with him. He
humbly repented of his life of sin and accepted son and the holy
Evelyn Paz’s 84 year old father, Mr. Roldofo
Yap, was hit by a car while crossing the street. Jesus as his Lord and Savior.
spirit”
He was a healthy man up until that moment, He spend the rest of that week fighting for his
but lived a very godless life. life with a visibly changed demeanor.
—Matthew 28:19
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Imparting to the Youth

We just them several times during
concluded an the workshop.
amazing weekend
of teaching the The second day, Emily
youth and chil- and I teamed up to teach
dren of Christian them two evangelistic
Community human videos (musical
Fellowship in dramas). The afternoon
Emily Teaching Ministry Dance Toril, Philippines. Powerful Altar Call sessions were marked by
At the Workshop among the Youth the Holy Spirit moving
Emily organized powerfully among the
and led a fantastic ministry dance and drama workshop for youth. Many were weeping and healed as the Holy Spirit
three day in the sweltering heat. The church was open walls healed broken areas of their lives.
with just a metal roof covering our activities and a few The Youth Presenting a
electric fans cooled us off. We had to dodge the occasional The third day, the youth really shined as they presented Drama that We Taught them
honey bees from a nearby hive that invaded our workshop what they learned in two Sunday services while I preached.
sending the children and girls running. There was a powerful repentance anointing during both
church services. I estimate that over 60 people came for-
Emily used her amazing gift with youth and children to grab ward for the repentance altar call in the combined services
their attention and teach them three Christian dances in one that day. The pastors of the church were delighted by what
day. We also shared the Word of God and ministered to transpired during that weekend and are eager to have us
back soon. “Ask of Me and I

will give the

On His Death bed (continued)
nations as an
When I met him in the hospital, he smiled at me. It was “Isay to you that likewise there will be more joy in
the first time he smiled since the accident. We prayed heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety- inheritance for
with him for his healing. That night Emily had a pro- nine just persons who need no repentance.” —Luke 14:7
phetic dream that he was in a white robe and totally
healed. I knew immediately upon hearing that dream he you and the ends
was going to die. At the end of that week, he died and
went to heaven. of the earth for

I was asked to speak the last night of his week-long your

funeral. At the request of his daughter, I gave a strong
yet comforting salvation message and about thirty people possession.”
repented and got saved. After we prayed the prayer of I’m sure Mr. Yap was one of the ones rejoicing in heaven
salvation, the gloomy atmosphere of the funeral turned over the 30 sinners who repented at his funeral.
to joy. At the end of the funeral, people were smiling and —Psalms 2:8
even respectfully laughing.

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