On Friday night I was approached by a woman who asked me if we had been to the Alzheimer unit at a specific nursing home. I told her that the administration would not allow our team to pray with the patients on that unit. The woman whose name was Tema, she gave me her phone number and asked me if there was anyway we could return to the facility to pray for her father on the Alzheimer unit. I told her that I would send a team to pray for her father on Saturday May 24th. She called ahead and made sure that the staff gave us access to pray for her father. I sent one of our team leaders onto the unit to pray for the gentleman. She came back and said that he was “unresponsive”. I felt led to go onto the unit myself and pray for him. As I knelt down next to him he said “Your a minister aren’t you!”. I said “yes, I am a minister, and your daughter Tema asked me to come and pray for you today.” I read through the gospel script and he rededicated his life to the Lord. Afterwards he said “I bet you didn’t think I was going to pray that prayer with you today.” I told him that I actually felt in my spirit on my way to the nursing home that he was going to pray with me. He then started mumbling words which I could not understand. I was also blessed to be able to pray the prayer of salvation with 15 other patients on that Alzheimer unit. The testimony is wonderful and does not end there. When I called Tema back to tell her that her father had rededicated his life to the Lord she began to weep. It turns out that her father was a backslidden preacher who had been hurt by the church and had turned his back on God many years ago. Tema told me that she had not been able to go soul winning this week with our teams in Tri-Cities as she had to work. As she was weeping she told me that God had personally showed her how important it was that we went out and carried the Word of God to the lost. All she kept saying was “God Bless you and your ministry for going out and praying for my father. I will never forget this ministry.” Tema said that she was going to take off of work and fly to Arizona and help our teams bring in the harvest there. It blessed me to see how one small act of obedience on my part could touch this family so deeply.

Elizabeth H.