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Prayers and Tears in the Philippines

Megan Dunegan doing minsitry in the Philippines :


There I was, walking through a small village in Bago La-asan, Philippines making house visits to the churches congregation. We went from house to house praying for health, jobs, food, daily living, the husbands jobs, etc. We had gone to about five different houses, and the last house we came to there was a young girl sitting on the ‘couch’ with her mother. The girl looked like she was sick, and the mother said that she is suffering from leukemia. She has had it for about six months now. Her blood plate level is at 14, and in a healthy person it’s over 100. Needless to say she is in poor condition. Her treatment is about 900 Pisos ($20) per week. She goes untreated, because her family can’t afford it. My heart broke for her as we prayed over her poor little body. I could give nothing but my prayers and tears.


     reya


After we made the house visits in the village we went to the hospital to visit an eight year old boy that is suffering from a very severe urinary tract infection. They said that his stomach is inflamed from his intestines. When we got there we saw his little body laying on the hospital bed, shaking uncontrollably from the chills. His mother sitting next to him holding a piece of wood in his mouth to hold down his tongue, for fear of him biting it. All we could do was pray-I have never felt so helpless. He had to be transfered today to a hospital that could treat him better, because of the severity of his condition. His family is barely making the hospital payments, if at all.

                            boy   

“The only thing I could do was pray”…isn’t that always the answer though? Isn’t that all we should do or can do? I can’t heal them, so why should I think I can do anything more than pray, and be Jesus with skin on for them?