Rev. Richard Denny Regional Director for the Pacific

Re: THE PHILIPPINE CRUSADE March 20-31, 1998

Dear Bro. Denny,

A dream team of twenty-two led by Pastors Richard Kielley of Oconomowoc and Pastors Frank and Tony Tamel of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, ministered in four churches in Manila on Sunday, March 22, 1998 and the Lord filled 35 with the Holy Ghost. Early Monday morning, the dream team visited the Manila American Military cemetery where over 17,000 of those that gave their lives for their country in W.W. 2 are at rest. The group conducted a brief service at the grave site of Elmer Biel, a Pentecostal who paid the supreme price with his life on Luzon in 1945. He was the brother of Carol Barnes, a dream team member.

The visit to the cemetery was followed by a seven hour bus trip to Baguio City in the mountains of northern Luzon where a full week of activity began on Tuesday, with three days of seminars, choir practice and a three day crusade at the beautiful 3,000 seat Convention Center. The dream team passed out over 300 pounds of sheet music and tapes, Sunday School literature and teaching syllabuses, conducting classes for pastors and leaders in the section and whenever time permitted, hit the streets with Pastor Eugene Banez and the Baguio saints with handbills and invitations to the crusade. The caravan of cars led by 3 motorcycle policemen through the city on Saturday, with sirens, sound system and horns blaring was awesome. Baguio knew the dream team was there.

The Conference choir of Filipinos and dream team members taught by Jay Guzzetta and led by Rich Garcia brought some new music to Baguio that thrilled the crowds. The meetings were well attended and on Sunday, the Convention Center was packed with over 4,000 in attendance. The Baguio saints gave up their seats and went outside so that their guests could hear the anointed preaching of the Word of God and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The Lord honored their faith with a tremendous outpouring of His spirit, physical healing and the miraculous raising one man from the dead. At the end of the week, the Baguio church conservatively and carefully recorded 723 receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost, 237 claiming physical healing and one snatched from the jaws of death.

The notable miracle took place when a man was electrocuted in the kitchen of the Concorde Hotel where the dream team stayed, an hour and a half before the Sunday afternoon service. Dream teamers Carol Barnes and Nadine Gorniak left their table in the restaurant when they heard the noise of the man’s fall and went into the kitchen and found the man on the floor with a large charcoal black hole burned in his right wrist, where the man received 220 volts of electricity that went through his heart and leaving a black hole where it exited on his right shoulder. Unable to get a pulse reading, they prayed for Jesus to bring him back and Glory to God, the man sat up. When the dream team was leaving Baguio on Monday morning, the man was in the hospital for observation and the hotel staff wept and applauded as the crusade teamers boarded their bus. Some of those that worked at the Concorde Hotel had received the Holy Ghost at the crusade and pleaded for the Americans to come back again. God is doing great things in the Philippines.

The Dream Team thanks Gen. Supt. R. M. Navallo, Presbyter S. Markos, Missionary Cecil Sullivan, host Pastor Eugene Banez, Manila Pastor Martinez, the sectional pastors and Philippine saints that were in attendance and helped in making the crusade a memorable event and tremendous success. It had a life-changing affect on those that ministered and those that were ministered to and the dream lives on.