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 By Court Wood
Praying for Brother Toto at his home
Alex leading us in prayer for Toto during our visit to his home
  
During my last visit to the Southern Philippines, Alex, our godly director, took me to visit the home of Toto and Tonia Popera, a wonderful Christian couple who live with their children in extreme poverty. Their home is a shack built right over a sewerage drainage ditch. During my visit, Alex and I prayed for Toto who was suffering from ulcers and lung cancer.
  
Yesterday, I received word from Alex that after some remission from his illnesses, Toto became acutely ill and was taken to the hospital.
  
Following is Alex's report of the remarkable last hour of Toto's life. 
  

"Dear Dad Court,

Doorway to Brother Toto's home
Doorway to Brother Toto's home

Do you remember the brother whom we visited whose house was in the middle of the sewerage drainage? He was sick at that time with ulcers, and he also had lung cancer. He was healed and serving the Lord, but lately he had been bedridden with illness for days. When he became much worse, he was rushed to the hospital. At the later end of his dying moments his blood pressure was zero and his pulse rate zero for more than hour, but he still keep preaching to his family encouraging them to serve the Lord. Calling other children and grand children as he talked as if he had no illness at all. They could not confine him to ICU since they did not have the money to pay. The doctors and nurses were baffled how a man without pulse rate and zero blood pressure could talk like that. They could not believe it and they keep pacing the floor frantically as they wanted to revive his vital signs. But Brother Toto refused it, thanking the doctors, but saying that he was prepared to meet God. The doctors could not understand how a clinically dead person could talk to them like that. About an hour went by with no vital signs but he still kept talking as a normal person who was alive. The people around him were so amazed they asked our sister Tonia what's their religion. She said "we are Christians" and that's the very first time that they had seen a person who was so ready and confident to face death and could give exhortations preaching to serve God.

At the last moment he just closed his eyes as if going to sleep with no signs of struggle as he faced death and met the Lord. To God be the glory that at his last moment he preached the word of God.

 

Please pray for the Popera family, especially for Toto's wife, sister Tonia. She is one of the very faithful and very zealous workers in the Gospel. She has such faith that had influenced her husband to be restored back to serving the Lord.

 

In Jesus Christ,   Alex and Emma"

 

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."  The Apostle Paul, Ephesians 3:20-21

 

Court with Brother Toto's son and daughter
Court with Brother Toto's nephew and niece, the day we visited their uncle Toto's home. Please pray for these precious young Christians. Below, the alleyway leading to their home.

 Alleyway leading to Toto's home 

 

 Dear friends, please join with me in praying for Toto's wife and family, and for the tens of thousands of godly Christian families in the Philippines who struggle each day to feed their children. Please pray for Alex and his dear wife Emma and their wonderful church which is reaching out in these poorest areas, and in the mountains, facing great danger from the enemies of the gospel. I cannot be too specific because of the risk to Alex, but having been in this part of the Philippines on several occasions I know the danger and great needs he and his co-workers face every day.

 

I can assure you that your gifts to the brethren and work in the Philippines will store up for you abundant treasure in Heaven, rather than on earth were rust and moths will consume, and thieves will  break in and steal. As your steward, in Christ's stead, I am not appealing in order to pay someone a large salary, or build a fancy church building, I am appealing on behalf of Christ and His people, that we minister to the living temple of God; that we "lay down our lives for our brethren"; and that we "love one another."

 

100% of gifts designated to the Philippines will be sent to our brethren. You may also designate your gift to help Toto's widow Tonia, and their children.

 

Thank you for having a caring heart, for praying, and as you are able, for helping - for loving "with actions and in truth."  

 

Gratefully your servant in Jesus Christ,   Court Wood   

 

Alex and Emma
Alex and Emma

 

 

 

Left: Alex and Emma saying goodbye to me at the airport at the conclusion of my last visit the the Philippines.

 

They are two of the most humble and Christ-centered leaders I have ever met. I encourage you to partner with them in reaching the Philippines for Jesus Christ. They are reaching the poorest of the poor, and the young people, in the city and in the mountains in a very needy country. Please consider supporting them on a regular basis. They will keep you well updated on their faithful and extraordinary ministry. 

 

 

 

"May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me"   Our Lord Jesus Christ

 

 "And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.  Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us."  The Apostle John - John 3:23-24 

 

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."  The Lord Jesus Christ

 

 

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