What Does a Power Couple Look Like in the Amazon Jungle? This. 

Amazonian Wednesdays 🌴

January 2019
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“One came vomiting blood uncontrollably. Many others came with cancer. They just kept coming and coming, all day long. I wasn’t even able to find a moment to bathe. They were so hungry for prayer.”

I sat, captivated, listening to Mama Noemi tell about her travels in the depths of the Amazon Jungle. She and her husband, Papa Victor, have spent decades planting churches among the natives. She speaks five different indigenous languages, no less. They have been pouring their lives into the Achuar, Candoshi, Awajun, Wambis, Shawi, and Shapra tribes. They have birthed dozens of congregations through their arduous, passionate labor for Jesus.

Mama Noemi continued. “Many of them traveled five days by boat to get to our meetings. They came to us because they were desperate. The doctors couldn’t help them. God healed them! One dear lady came to me weeping. ‘I haven’t slept in three years because of this cancer,’ she cried. We laid hands on her and prayed. God healed her too!”

Mama Noemi also confided in us about her childhood. “My father was adamant. Only his sons would get to study. He always insisted, ‘Only boys go to school!’ I grew up illiterate. When I came to the Missions School*, I heard the voice of God. He told me to open the Bible to Mark 16:15-17. In obedience, I opened it up. And the Holy Spirit taught me to read!”

“Those words jumped off the page. You know what they say? ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature…. And these signs will follow those who believe… they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover!’”

He was commissioning me right then and there. We were to go into the world and preach the gospel! Those words began to burn into my soul. They have burned there ever since. So when I lay hands on the sick, I apply them. I know they will recover!”

Wow. Her faith inspires me to press on deeper into God for all that He has for us and our region. What an amazing caliber of warriors God has enriched our lives with! 

*Our pastors’ training institute