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“We are in Africa among the poorest of the The moment he chose to forgive his accuser,
poor, because we love seeing what our the pain left."
perfect Saviour can do! For example, there's 3. “God is healing so many people, that the
Elaina, a fifteen-year-old when she was hospital which was full the last 3 - 4 weeks is
brought to our Iris Ministries Base in Yei, now almost empty! There were very few sick
Sudan, by the UN. She escaped to the people left to pray for. The nurses did not only
Sudanese border after she had been ask for prayer, but for teaching to learn how
abducted and brutalized by the LRA in the to pray for their patients! One woman was
jungles of the Democratic Republic of the lying lifeless in the wards on the floor. She
Congo. She was tortured, saw people killed in wanted to die and took poison that left her
front of her and was tied to trees for days. blind, deaf, and unable to talk or walk. The
When she arrived she could barely sit up, had team prayed for her. Then they moved on to
no use of either hand, scars all over her body pray for a few more cases. On the way out of
and a faraway look of fear and pain in her the ward, they met her again. She could see,
eyes. Two months later she was back with her hear and walk, and introduced herself as
family in Aba, DR Congo, healed and restored Rose."
in Jesus with nearly full strength back in both 4. "About a month ago we took notice of
her hands. One by one we keep seeing about 500 police officers in training just near
victims of Satan's cruelty brought back to to our compound. It turned out that they were
life, healed inside and out." coming from all over our state. One of our
Other Iris Ministries workers in South Sudan team members was heavily burdened for
mailed these testimonies: them and began to pray. One day we were
1. "Two of our students went to visit one of driving by and there was an overwhelming
our neighbours. Everyone in his family was sense to stop. So we did and one of our
seriously ill. God gave him a dream the night leaders, John, jumped out and went and met
before that two men would come to pray with the lead commander. The commander asked:
them and he saw Jesus coming with them. 'Where have you been? We need someone to
The next day our students turned up. The tell us what to do with all the demonic
man was beside himself that strangers would attacks.' They invited us to come back and
come and pray. Everyone was healed!" share the Good News with all officers. When
2. "Prison officials have been asking for we preached, many of them decided to follow
prayer. When we were there, many prisoners Jesus. We will baptize them in our local, all-
came forward to be released from the pains in purpose community pond!"
their bodies. We prayed for a man who was [Missionaries Roland and Heidi Baker report
hurting all over his body. He had been in from South Sudan, JOEL NEWS INTER-
prison for six years, falsely accused he said. NATIONAL 787 / 15 September 2011].