Mariella and Pedro are a couple who we've known for three years now. Shortly after we met their family, Mariella asked us to pray for her children, as they were plagued by nightmares, and she also was having trouble sleeping. Sometime later, her daughter came running over to our place and asked me to go and pray for her mother, claiming she was dying! It turned out that Mariella had a fallopian tube pregnancy and it had ruptured inside. When I arrived, Mariella a high fever and her face was white. She was surrounded by her family in a small room not much bigger than her bed. After I prayed for Mariella's healing, she immediately opened her eyes and said “I knew you would come, and you brought Jesus with you”. Almost immediately, she regained her color and her fever was down. We took her to the Hospital and the doctor himself said it was a miracle; that by all practical logic she should have died.

Mariella when we first met her

Father and mother of Mariella

A year after this near tragedy, Mariella gave birth to her first son. Her second son has since arrived.

> Gregorio, with his wife Erminda the “Cacique” or Chief of this community.

Crossing the river on the only bridge to their house