This Indian man waves as a parachute floats down from the airplane.
Mercy Wings has distributed thousands of radios by air and on foot. Gradually, the pilots will hear scattered reports of salvations and healings as a result of the airdrops. Some natives will make pouches for the radios and wear them around their necks. “I ran into a non-convert Indian going down a trail with his radio hanging around his neck going full blast,” Witt says. “When you hear the Word day after day you get results.”
Witt heard about a 62-year-old woman who was healed from
An elderly Indian lady was healed immediately through the power of God.
disease after listening to one of the radio broadcasts. The program instructed anyone with an affliction to lay a hand on the radio and the other hand on their body. Listeners were told Jesus would heal them if they had faith.
“She received healing instantaneously. This is no-man’s land,” Witt says. “She suffered for 40 years and tried to get healed by witch doctors. So now she understood this little book (gospel of John) was a portion of a book they talked about on the radio called the Bible.”
Reportedly, the woman found a Bible and – even though she couldn’t read -– asked the Lord to teach her the Scriptures. Within nine days she was reading her Bible in Spanish and inviting relatives to hear the gospel.
