Testimonies from the VCF Community

"Crossing the River" from Shannon

Hi everyone. My name is Shannon and I want to share about my recent trip to Haiti. Before I begin, a little background: I am a nurse and I went to Haiti on a medical mission through Azusa Pacific University to provide health care in the villages of Northern Haiti.

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"A God who heals" from Armi

At the beginning of November 2010, Grant shared a word during a 70 Cohort meeting that he felt that the Lord was releasing a ministry of healing to us.  He challenged us to believe God for something we haven’t seen before in healing.  In the past when I’ve prayed for healing for people, even though I can say that at times God has indeed answered my prayers, I realized that there was a certain underlying dread I felt whenever someone mentioned to me that they had an ailment or sickness.

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"God healed me of malaria" from Salihu

On July 13, 2010 I returned from a trip to Nigeria. Six days after my return I became sick. I knew from the symptoms that it was malaria. The doctor I saw attributed my stomach pain to excessive acidic gas and prescribed medicine. That took care of my stomach pain but not the body ache and headache.

There was no relief either for my body temperature.

I contacted Nigerians that I know in New York, Maryland, and here in California for assistance. They all responded with what they had for malaria. Every drug I took brought temporary relief, but not total cure.

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"God makes a way" from Steve

July 27, 2009 I was laid off from at Huntington hospital.  A separation package was offered but for reasons of conscience I did not sign the agreement and left with no severance pay.  Huntington did set me up with an organization which helps people find new jobs.  This helped some, but it was difficult to stay motivated after a few promising leads fell through and it seemed nothing was opening up.

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"A paradigm transformation" from Brenda

I'd been worried for months that Steve might lose his chaplaincy job at Huntington Hospital. However, I believed the Lord would surely prevent this because since we had no savings to speak of, we wouldn't survive otherwise. The Lord had his own (better) idea, however, and Steve was laid off at the end of July 2009. I estimated our savings would last us about 1 and a half months. As it turned out, Steve was unemployed for one year and one week.

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