October 14, 2011 - Hi all, We are having a great time in El Salvador -- salvations, healing, deliverance, counsel to pastors and filling of God's wonderful Holy Spirit. See the two video testimonies of healing -- one lady's hand didn't work and another man was healed from sever sinus problems. More later.... pat

Lady's finger gets healed

Man's sinusitus healed

October 12, 2011 - Well we just completed our first day of ministry in El Salvador, and what a day it was! It started early with our first service at the House of Prayer Church at 9:30am. Daniel Howell and Jarred Bess gave a greeting and did a great job helping me minister at the altar.We enjoyed the two-guitar worship team that played in amazing latin style as we worshiped our Lord Jesus.

After the worship, they had testimony time with many people getting up and sharing what God had been doing in the last few days. Fantastic time! Next we were called to a time of prayer and the whole church kneeled and prayed for about 25 minutes. We walked around and prayed over many. By the time everybody had soaked in prayer, the preaching time was wonderful and I found everyone was engaged and ready to respond to the Holy Spirit's prompting at the altar. Salvation, repentance, filling of the Holy Spirit, deliverance and healing were all part of our time.

Jarred and Daniel both had many people healed, as did I during our prayer time. I got two of those on video testimony. One was a lady who couldn't move her fingers on one hand, and the Lord healed her! The other was a man plagued by very bad sinus problems who was now able to get a full breath. He was excited!

	Shok sharing in Ecuador, Marcel (r) translating.

Dr. Byron ministering at free medical clinic in Orquideas, Guayaquil, Ecuador

	Shok, Tony & team praying for lady on radio in Guayaquil

Everywhere we went, we would preach the Gospel, I gave my testimony and Pastor Tony and Chris had a wonderful message for the people and then we ministered with an altar call and dozens would come forward for salvations, recommitments, healings and that God would use them. People were hungry for the Holy Spirit and for the Fire of God and we prayed as the Lord led us. There were many healings that took place.  One lady came to the Radio station and got healed and left her cane there and walked by herself freely when she left, another got healed and felt better as she left. People were released of demons and twisted backs were healed. We have many stories to tell but I urge you to go to www.heartoftitus.org web page and click on Ecuador report for more details and there are some pictures.

This report was posted by Tony Nardella on August 28, 2011:

I am writing this on the flight from Panama to Orlando with Shok and Lionel across the aisle and Chris across the aisle behind them.  Here’s what happened in the last few days, working back from right now.

Just a few hours ago we were at the Guayaquil airport with Fernando, Byron, Leonora, and other faithful members of our team.  We had some fun at the airport - the guys who had lugged our bags to the ticket counter were

Chris, Shok & Fernando helping to sort gifts for the churches & poor

surprised when they heard me speak in Spanish to the attendant.  I saw an open door so I told them about how the Lord gave me the gift of better Spanish 6 years ago.  It turned out they were both evangelical Christians who go to a Baptist church in Guayaquil. They were impacted that the Lord gave me that gift.

Intrigued, the attendant behind the Copa Air counter then asked me about who we were and what were had been doing there.  I told her about the incredible miracles our team had seen this trip, including the lady who got healed of all of her bone pain, threw away the cane and danced before the Lord before the service was over.  The attendant was quite excited, said she was very sick and needed help so I not only told her about the Evangelistic Center of Guayaquil and Pastor Loor but took her hand at the counter and prayed for her to be healed in the powerful name of Jesus.  She was visibly affected, and we exchanged contact information so she could know when we were going to return to Guayaquil. 

Team ministering to woman at radio station in Guayaquil

We had a fun time at the large “Indian” market downtown before we went to the airport. We were working with Christian vendors and the ones we bought most of our stuff from were 2 guys, father and son.  We prayed for them right there in their booth, especially for the son to reconcile with the Lord and get back to church.  We also prayed for his 1 year old son at his request.  We then went to another Christian vendor and one sister asked us to pray for healing for her other sister.  We prayed and I don’t know if she got healed but she was crying. I remember praying for the Lord to take all the hurts in her heart away.

The night before ended with a great pizza party at Pastor William’s church downtown at 9 de Octubre and Tulcan for all of our ministry members and friends of the ministry.  We probably had about 35 people there and many of us exchanged gifts.  I am so thankful of the love of this group and their faithfulness for all these years.  I think of Pastor Miguel and his wife Judy, now about 80 years old, with whom we have been friends for 13 years. We are rich in friendships and in the love of God as expressed through his people.

Lionel preaching with Dr. Byron A. translating

That night I had preached on marriage and gave my testimony of how the Lord rescued Emily and I from matrimonial disaster many years ago.  Lionel was with me and had shared a short but profound anecdote about how he learned during his early years to serve the Lord with his wife of 47 years, Earline.  He described his relationship with her and the Lord as a triangle with the Lord at the top.  As they each grew closer to the Lord they grew closer to each other!  

Many couples had come to this meeting for marriage ministry.  After we spoke we invited people to come forward if they wanted prayer for their marriage to be better, and especially for restoration and reconciliation.  Many couples came forward and many couples were restored with tears through forgiveness of each other and repentance from hurting one another.

Dr. Byron and Leonora were there and during the altar ministry they had a powerful time. Chris and Shok ministered to Freddy’s Medicine in Christ group that evening. They also had a powerful time in the Holy Spirit with many healings and fillings of the Spirit. One gentleman was there who the team had prayed for on Monday night.  

That afternoon we had driven back from Cuenca, a beautiful city about 1.5 miles high in the Andes Mountains.  We saw absolutely beautiful vistas.  We left Cuenca about 11:30 that morning after visiting Bolivar Ramon’s CLIF foundation where he runs an after school program.  We then went up to

	Canopy of clouds blocked by Andes Mountains near Cuenca

Turin, which is the place where you can get a vista of the whole city at one time.  Up there I had great conversations with a couple of the pastors from the city. They graciously invited our team back to the city to minister.

While in Cuenca I spoke with Pastor Alicia about our service at her church the night before. At that service our whole ministry team of 9 people shared.  That included Leonora  sharing 15 minutes about prayer.  We talked about how the variety of people from different callings and countries helped demonstrate God’s desire for the church to work together, with everyone expressing their spiritual gifts and talents, even though the team is comprised of people from different cultures, genders, age groups and walks of life.

It was an interesting message the Lord had me give to the church.  I shared about my childhood and my relationship with my father.  I brought in Hebrews 11:6 and spoke about how true faith expects God to reward us because we know deep in our hearts that God is a Rewarder.  The Lord moved in power in that service, with all team members praying with great anointing. Many were filled with the Spirit and/or healed.  I remember praying

Lionel & Eric, then Chris, ministering at Evangelistic Center of Guayaquil (CEAD)

with one couple who forgave one another, reconciled and embraced in tears right there in the church.  I also remember seeing Leonora and Gardenia praying with some young sisters for inner healing regarding the abandonment of their father. Horrible as it is, everywhere we go we find women and children who have been abandoned by their fathers/husbands and are suffering intense emotional and financial pain. Thank God for Jesus, who came to “bind up the broken hearted” and give us a “garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness.” Isa. 61.

Earlier that day we arrived from Guayaquil and had a late lunch with Pastora Alicia and a couple that had recently been saved. Another old friend of ours, Pastor Bolivar Ramon, showed up and we had a great long discussion together. 

Our trip to Cuenca only took about 3 hours.  The last time I was there about 5 years ago it took 5 1/2 hours. Thank God for the improvement in the road.

Tuesday night we were all at CEAD.  At the last minute Pastor Loor asked me to preach the main service but I felt as if Chris should give the word. So I shared for a while during the greeting time, maybe 10 minutes in all but I let Chris share. 

Chris gave a short but effective message.  He gave an altar call for those who wanted to receive the fire of God.  Many hundreds of people came forward – I am so thankful for our experienced Ecuadorian team of ministers who helped us pray for the people’s needs.  Many were filled with the Spirit and healed. 

Later another altar call for salvation was given.  About 10 came forward to receive Christ. Then someone pointed us to a 16 year old teenager laid out on the floor under the conviction of the Holy Spirit.  He was wearing very tight pink pants and we were told he was a homosexual. He prayed with us to receive Christ and repented of his sins. His father then came to him, forgave him, told him he didn’t condemn him but loved him.  The whole family hugged and embraced with tears, including the 15 year old sister who had also given her heart to Christ that night.

Earlier that day we did another hour on the radio during their 50 days of miracles campaign (that was day 40).  The previous day we spent 3 hours on the radio, preaching, sharing and praying for the prayer requests that people were phoning in.  Each one of our team members, 2 translators, and Pastor Fernando Ubilla were squeezed into a 4x6 studio.  We prayed for a woman who showed up at the station with great pain in her abdomen.  We prayed for her on the air and she experienced considerable relief from her pain and testified.

After the Tuesday radio time we split up and prayed for workers of different ministries.  So we had to split up our team. Where I was nearly all the women were dealing with problems at home, with problems or difficulties in their marriage or just abandonment.  Heart breaking.

...he said he had been to the doctor, had blood tests done and that all came back completely normal.

Monday night we were at Pastor William and Pastora Maribel’s church which meets at October 9 street in downtown Guayaquil.  The whole team was there and helped pray for everyone, including a man who could hardly talk due to throat cancer.  By the time the team finished praying for him he could talk and pray freely.  We saw him again on Thursday night and he said he had been to the doctor, had blood tests done and that all came back completely normal.  He believed he was totally healed of cancer, and I saw no evidence to disagree with him.

Well, that’s all for now.  Our God is an awesome God.  He loves his people and proves His love by doing everything within his power to make our lives better.  He is clearly a Rewarder to those who diligently seek Him.  

What we have seen God do for people in Ecuador he wants to do for you wherever you are. As the Scripture says, “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Why don’t you stop and ask Him right now to save you from whatever trouble you are in?  

 ³⁰ Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. ³¹ But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.  John 20.

This week Pat McGuffin is leading a team back to El Salvador.  This Saturday morning we have a 3 hour meeting with at least 90 pastors.  In the middle of next week, July 12-14, our team will be putting on a 3 day conference with the theme "Mighty to Save."

Pat and I (Tony Nardella) went to El Salvador for the first time in April of this year. While there we could se that the Lord was opening an effective door of ministry for us, so we are happy to return.

Dr. Mateo Moria has arranged these events with the help of Pastor Herman Turcios Hernandez.  We are looking forward to seeing the friends we met in April along with meeting new friends there.

Dr. Byron Lopez and his son Marcel from Ecuador will be joining us.  Dr. Byron is the teacher of our Heart of Titus team that meets every Monday night. He is prophetic and has traveled with us throughout Ecuador and to Peru in the past.

Marcel Lopez is a 4th year medical student who has been translating for us and for other English speakers visiting Ecuador since he was 17 years old. Marcel is a mighty man of God through with huge faith.

Daniel Howell from here in Orlando is travelling with us as well. This is his second trip with Heart of Titus.  He has a burden for souls and has been active with street evangelism.  Lately the Lord has been using him more and more prophetically.  We are looking forward to him and Marcel ministering to the youth of San Salvador together.

I am a last minute add-on to the trip. I'll be coming back early but I am so glad to be able to return to El Salvador and have an opportunity to be a blessing along with the rest of the team.

Please pray for us that the Lord will give us great boldness and faith, and that the people of El Salvador will be blessed, encouraged and refreshed by the power of the Word of God and the Holy Spirit.

 This video is so good I wanted to post it again:

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 It is about 1:30 in the morning and we are packing to leave here at about 8 a.m. to start our trip home.There is so much to tell about our trip, we don't have time to write it all down now.  But let me tell you just 2 stories that happened tonight:

 I wrote most of this starting at 2:20 a.m. Friday morning.  We got back here to the "Christian Embassy" about an hour ago.  We were at a church in a poor area of Guayaquil. There were about 40 people in church and all 3 of us shared the Word.  Emily shared about women of noble character, referring to Ruth.  Paul shared about how tired we can get spiritually and how the Lord wants to give us rest.  I also shared on that theme and quoted from Matt. 11 where Jesus says, "Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest."  For the altar ministry time after I spoke Emily and I took one side of the room, and Paul and our translator Marcel took the other side and we went out to where the people were standing at their chairs and prayed for each of them there. Emily and I ministered to many women in particular.  Quite a few times Emily would just hug them and love on them and the next thing you know they are crying, and filled with the Spirit, even though she wasn't always able to speak Spanish. Paul had a blast, the highlight being that he got to lead 2 people to the Lord!  Afterwards I got a chance to speak privately with the pastor about his financial and marital struggles and by God's grace was able to connect him to some practical human resources that are equipped to help him in both areas. 

Sunday morning we all travel together to a city about 2 hours north of here called Vinces.  Vinces is where our team leader started a home group less than 2 years ago just for teaching about biblical marriage to 9 couples.  It grew and grew until they became a church which now has 400 members and over 700 in attendance every Sunday.  We will minister there in the morning, then we'll minister to their church leaders in the afternoon, and then on the way back to Guayaquil we will stop at another church plant about 30 minutes north of Guayaquil for an 8 pm service.

Our first ministry opportunity was Wednesday afternoon when we ministered to some of the employees of host church.  It turned out that the messages we all shared were right on point with some of the troubles they are facing together that we didn't know about.  God is good. That night we ministered in a church meeting designed around improving marriages.  Paul shared briefly, Emily shared from 2 Kings 1 about how Bathsheba encouraged the prophet Nathan to speak into her husband's life as a friend (King David) and analogized that to wives today who should encourage their husbands to have godly friends. I then shared on how men have the authority in the home but the authority is to serve and not be served, as Jesus taught in Matt. 20.

A highlight of that Wednesday evening service was the healing of a man born with a congenital birth defect in his back which caused him constant pain.. After some prayer and counsel it was revealed that he had some deep wounds from his childhood in connection with his disability. We then prayed through some of those issues and he got some help, and then the Lord healed his back!  All the pain was finally gone after so many years.  We serve an awesome God!

It was also a blessing to see the couples who got reconciled that evening. Couples came forward during the invitation to seek help for their marriages.  At our urging many asked for and received forgiveness from their spouses for various things they had done to hurt them.  It was wonderful to see a couple married for 42 years crying and embracing at the front of the church after asking each other's forgiveness for various issues.  Our team also dealt with a younger couple in which the man went forward and repented of adultery.   Somehow the wife found the strength after prayer to forgive him.  There is so mudh to report, but more on that later..  

This video was taken at Dios Es Amor Church, and they had a dance team of children that danced during worship. Toward the end of the video there is a lady in a red shirt, it is the same lady God healed of deafness. It is amazing to watch how she worships the Lord. You can see such a hunger in her face. This church was full of people like her, hungry to hear the gospel!

To see the video click here ==> Children Dancing

Pat and Marcel at Dios es Amor (God is Love) Church in Guayaquil, Ecuador, sharing about what miracles of healing God has done. Click here ==>

Testimonies

Check out these videos from Pat ministering in Ecuador! The first is a short clip of Pat preaching with energy to over 1000 people in downtown Guayaquil:

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What an impassioned altar call for salvation!  Too bad the video doesn't show what happened afterward. If you want Pat and Daniel to tell us what the response was to the altar call, send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

The second is a snapshot of praying for people who come forward after the message:

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I'm not sure this is the Baptist Church in Duran although that's what the title says. Looks like CEAD to me. 

Pat and Daniel got home yesterday. We can't wait to hear from them directly the awesome thing our God did for our friends in Ecuador!