They Walk Among Us They walk among us - title

"A member of the Dutch Reformed Church heard the story at his bible class : a motorist picks up a hitchhiker along the motorway. A conversation develops on spiritual matters and the subject of the future Kingdom of God crops up. The hitchhiker then announces that Jesus will appear again soon and dissapears in the same way as at the supper at Emmaus. The motorist is so shaken that he parks his car on the hard shoulder to recover from the shock. Here he is approached by some traffic policemen to whom he tells the story. They reply, 'You are the eighth motorist who has told us this'." ( Source: Trouw, The Netherlands, March 1991)

"He disappeared before my eyes", a letter from Share International

"The Vanishing Hitchhiker", from the Share International gophersite




Time For Angels

A 1994 cover story of Time magazine called it a "grass-roots revolution of the spirit". The article, 'The New Age of Angels,' states: "69 per cent of Americans believe they [angels] exist. What in heaven is going on?"

Writer Nancy Gibbs explores the questions many people are seeking to answer about the nature and role of angels in the universe. Gibbs states: "By scriptural tradition, angels pull back the curtain, however briefly, on the realm of the Spirit. [And in] offering a glimpse of the larger universe, they issue a challenge to priorities and settled ways." Angels, she claims, seem to be a universal idea that cuts across cultures and spans centuries. Fifty-five per cent of adult Americans believe that angels are higher spiritual beings created by God with special powers to act as his agents on earth.

Whether an angel appears in a dream, as a comforting presence, or a physical person, there exists a remarkable similarity among reports of such encounters. Two angelic experiences are related in the Time article:
A woman with uterine cancer is visited by a tall, dark stranger with deep blue eyes three days before she is to enter the hospital for surgery. The stranger states: "I am Thomas. I am sent by God." He proceeds to raise his right hand and the incredible heat coming from his hand and a strong white light passing over her body convinces the woman she is cured of the cancer. In fact, test results prove negative, prompting her doctor to acknowledge he had "witnessed a medical miracle".

Another woman reveals that her husband, in the throes of lymphocytic leukemia, was visited by a pale, white man with icy blue eyes. After the visit, the terminally ill man seemed "lit up, just vibrant", according to his wife. He died two days later, but with what his wife called extraordinary peace of mind.

The encounters with angels seem to provide in some cases the extrication from danger, but in others they allow for the removal of the fear of that danger -- a change in attitude, not circumstance. The common thread is a profound change in the lives of those who have had an experience with angels.

The article concludes: "For all those who say they have had a direct experience of angels, no proof is necessary; for those predisposed to doubt angels' existence, no proof is possible. And for those in the mystified middle, there is often a growing desire to be persuaded. If heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen." (Source: Time magazine)




The Man In White

"Nothing in the past can compare with the heightened activity of God's work in the world in the last 10 - 15 years - it is of far greater scale and magnitude than anything we have seen so far"

Dutch television viewers watching a programme entitled Healing and Faith, made by the Evangelical Broadcasting company, were recently given the opportunity to hear eyewitness accounts of miraculous healings and of many places in the Middle East where "the man in white" is known.



Africans pray for angel's vision of peace

Hundreds of South Africans prayed for peace at the bidding of an angel who spoke from a pillar of light, according to a senior policeman who says he saw the vision. Lieutenant-Colonel Johan Botha says he organized Wednesday's prayer day after the heavenly messenger appeared to him in March and asked that South Africa pray for peace. "A silhouette of a man against a tremendous light from the back ... A person in a white robe of about 40 years old, with a very deep, very gentle voice appeared before me," Botha, an elder of the Dutch Reformed Church, said. (Source: Reuters; published in Share International, June 1994 )



Saint Charbel appears in Sweden

Several Swedish newspapers and the UK The Guardian carry the story of a 15-year-old girl, Samira Hannoch, who says she has experienced a miracle. The holy Lebanese Saint, Charbel, she says, appeared to her at her home near Stockholm, dressed in dark clothes and with a cross in His hand. Samira, He said, would put out the fire which divides the church in Sodertalje in two: Syrian and Asyrian. Thousands of pilgrims flock to her family's apartment where she blesses them with holy oil which flows out from the picture of the Saint. There have been miraculous healings as a result.
( Source : Share International, May 1992 )


Heavenly Hospitals

A former Ambulance Service manager tells of his extraordinary experiences when on a convoy delivering aid to war-torn Croatia.

"Journey to Croatia" by Peter Kingsley-Ducane
( Share International, March 1997 )



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