Pastor Albert Kang was trained under
The Elijah Challenge

 

"Praise the Lord for training us. You do not know how grateful we are. This is the first time so many signs and wonders are happening in my ministry and in such a short time. ...Honestly, in my 25 years of ministry, I have never experienced so many miracles in such a short time."

 

20 July, 2007

Organizer: Dr. John Tayoto, President of ACLEAD – Asian Center for Leadership Education And Development, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija

Healing At The Dinner Meeting with Pastors and Church Leaders

After a four-hour bus ride from Baguio City, we finally reached San Jose, a town that is 15 minutes from our destination - ACLEAD – Asian Center for Leadership Education And Development. Dr. Tayoto was our host and the following evening, he had organized a dinner gathering pastors and leaders from around Science City of Munoz in Nueva Ecija. We were told that this place has been the center of agricultural and scientific education for many years. In fact, the hostel that we were staying belonged to the Central Luzon State University (CLSU) which had just celebrated its centurial anniversary.

At six in the evening, forty plus pastors and church leaders from Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic backgrounds, gathered at the cafeteria at CLSU for an evening of "learning church growth and Elijah Challenge". One young pastor told me that he is a "conservative" Baptist but believes in healing. A banner was displayed prominently as a backdrop with these words, "The Elijah Challenge Healing Ministry with Rev Albert Kang, July 20 – 22, 2007, Science City of Munoz in Nueva Ecija". The treatment that Grace, my father-in-law and I received was befitting of a royal welcome. We did not expect such reception and were so humbled by their love that we were almost speechless.

After food and some preliminaries, I shared my favourite message on church growth: "Seven Keys of Success". Then I moved to the topic of Elijah Challenge. After giving a brief history and comparison between the traditional way of praying for the sick and the Elijah Challenge's way of healing the sick, I gave a demonstration. First, I asked how many people in attendance were suffering from actual pain. A couple of hands went up. After finding out their conditions, some pastors and church leaders who were willing to try their hands in healing were asked to come to the front. An elderly lady-pastor, whom they called "Pastora", was chosen because she had a painful left knee. (It seems that knee conditions are among the easiest to receive divine healing). The volunteers were taught how to lay hands on the painful knee of this lady-pastor. Then, with mountain-moving faith, I commanded the pain to leave and the knee to heal. The first time, this elderly lady felt slight improvement in her knee but the pain was still there. As expected, all eyes were staring at me, wondering what I would do next. (I now remember that I did the same thing when for the first time, in a healing demonstration, I saw [my teacher] command and the patient was only partially healed). As a good imitator of that teacher, I went for the next round. With a wide grin, this lady-pastor was visibly feeling better. On the third round, she was completely healed. She stood up and danced - kicking her former painful leg wildly. The cafeteria was filled with loud applause and one could feel the levels of faith increased by a few notches.

The second person chosen to be healed was a Baptist church leader who was a former rock star and now working at the mayor's office. His healing was fast – in two rounds, his back pain was gone. As the evening was getting late, I invited them to attend the training the following day and learn about the healing and evangelistic approach of Elijah Challenge. On the way out, I met one young man who had indicated earlier in the meeting that he had pain in his heart. I had joked with him and asked whether his girlfriend had left him. Since we did not invite him to be healed, Dr. John Tayoto, Pastor John Nathan (the "conservative" Baptist) and I decided to heal him there and then. The young man said that the pain was not in the superficial chest muscles but deeper inside. We suspected that it could have something to do with the heart and so took authority accordingly. Within two authoritative commands, the pain was gone. Those who gathered to watch gave glory to God. We did a couple of distant healing but so far we had no confirmed verifiable results. We did hear that one young child who was in intensive care at the hospital, had recovered after the healing-at-a-distance.

 

21 July, 2007
9.00 AM to 5.00 PM

Organizer: Dr. John Tayoto, President of ACLEAD – Asian Center for Leadership Education And Development, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija

Training Location: Muñoz Christian Church, 1331, Bantug Science City of Muñoz, 3119 Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Healing At Elijah Challenge Training Session

The Asian Center for Leadership Education And Development (ACLEAD), being a part of Munoz Christian Church, shares the same compound as this 34 years old church. Dr. John Tayoto was the former pastor of this church. The present pastor is Rev Joy S. Gabasa who can be considered as an "eagle". He shows great potential in becoming an Elijah Coordinator in Muñoz.

We had only one full day to train the fifty plus pastors and church leaders. This time, the organizers provided us with an LCD projector. With eight hours of solid training in front of me, I braced myself for the challenge. I had slept only four hours, after familiarizing myself with The Elijah Challenge PowerPoint and training notes to the wee dark hours of the night and early morning.

At nine in the morning, the worship started. After introduction from Dr. Tayoto, the training began. I was glad that Grace was managing the laptop. She seemed to know the materials better than I did. The church was warm and we were perspiring profusely. The participants were amazing because they seemed totally unperturbed by the heat. They were paying attention and taking notes. As I took my time to go through the PowerPoint, verse by verse, they remained attentive. We took a lunch break at noon with the promise of a demonstration of healing in the afternoon. By one o'clock, the enthusiastic participants were back.

When the slide showed the word, "Demonstration", it was time for the real thing! Getting those who had pain to sit in the front row, I proceeded to do a mass healing. The pastors and those who had faith to heal were asked to stand in the front with me. There were many amusing contorted positions as the patients, who were in the front row, tried to place their hands on the different affected areas of their bodies. I told those who had pain in many parts of the body to simply place their hands on their heads. Together all the Christians and those leaders in the front raised our hands and with a loud voice, I commanded all pains to leave and diseases to go in the name of Jesus. There was a slight pause of silence as we all waited for the results. I was relieved when a sister testified that her painful shoulders and neck were healed. Then a man with a painful arm testified. Another lady testified in Tagalog of being healed of pain. I then taught the leaders how to lay hands. As they laid their hands, I asked them to follow me in uttering the commands. I had invited Pastor Joy to join me on stage and he took over the commanding in Tagalog. The testimonies started to pour in. A woman with tearing eyes was healed. The tearing stopped immediately. A few patients with chest pain also found immediate relief. A veterinarian who is a professor at the local university was healed of his shoulder pain. A lady with numbness in her toes was healed after a few rounds of commanding. There were some stubborn cases where simple neck and shoulder pains refused to be healed. For example, one man was not healed of his shoulder and neck pain in spite of much effort in commanding. Another man almost gave up hope as the leaders tried to heal him of his intense back pain. I almost gave up too because after more than three times of commanding, nothing seemed to work. I was literally getting angry with this stubborn pain and commanding at the top of my voice. Then the mountain moved. To my and everyone's great relief, the man broke into a shy smile and gladly walked to the stage and testified. An elderly lady was healed of her ankle pain. A middle-aged sister testified about being healed of migraine headache. Another difficult case was that of a young sister who had pain in her right shoulder, arm, hand and leg. I told those who were taking command to do so stage by stage. The shoulder was healed instantly, followed by the upper arm and hand. However, the right leg refused to be healed. It was not until the following day, during the healing rally, that she was completely healed. Even Pastor Joy commended that this was truly a difficult but amazing healing case.

The testimonies kept coming and I lost count. People were weeping in joy and speaking excitedly in Tagalog. I had to ask another pastor to interpret so as to fully comprehend the situation. People were healed of sinus problem, eye problem, ear problem, lung problem and all kinds of bodily pains. Strangely, there were quite a number of people suffering from infection of the throat and tonsillitis. An elderly lady whose right blind eye could see light.

 

Luke 10:9 "Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.’"