The laying on of hands

(from The Sun Times, Thursday, July 23, 1992).

Elsie Burke, of Westbrook, who said she was partially deaf, claimed to have had her hearing restored. After lying on the floor approximately two minutes, Burke was helped to her feet and handed the microphone. She then took her hearing aid out of her ear, waved it in the air, and proclaimed that she was miraculously able to hear.

………..One by one, Kelly laid his hands on each person in attendance, and led them in a repentance prayer. Moments after placing his hands on them, most people fell backwards, appearing to have fainted.

Another woman, who had been suffering from severe pain in one of her ribs as a result of an automobile accident, said her pain was gone. "I was a skeptic before tonight," she said. "But now I know I'm a believer". "It really works. I've been taking 1,000 milligrams of Motrin a day for the pain, now the pain is gone."

A Westbrook woman, who said she had suffered from painful arthritis in her legs, struggled to make her way up to Kelly. After falling to the ground, being prayed over and rising to her feet, she jumped up and down in joy. "It's all gone," she shouted, claiming to be totally cured.

Out of the 70 people interviewed, not one said they did not feel anything out of the ordinary. Every person interviewed said they felt a warm powerful, peaceful
sensation, or a feeling to that effect. Some claimed to have smelled a strong aroma of roses when they came out of their trances, which Kelly said marks the presence of the Holy Spirit.

They have been staying with Jim Gerry and his family for the past month at their home in Limerick. Gerry, an automobile dealer, opens his home to them when they are in the area, and even lends them a car to use. He met them when he attended a meeting they held in New Hampshire, where Gerry said Kelly healed him of chronic arthritis that he had suffered from since he was 13 years old.

Powers of Faith Healing are aimed at bringing Mainers closer to Christ

The SANFORD NEWS – August 4, 1992.




Five Fold note: At all times Paul continuously points out to those whom God heals that there is only ONE healer, Our Living God, Jesus Christ. That they are NOT healed by Paul but THROUGH him by the Grace and Power of the Holy Spirit.
SANFORD: Eyesight, chest pains and an extremely high blood sugar count of a diabetic are just some of the many illnesses people said that they had been cured of since the Five Fold World Revivalist Healing Ministry, a Christian healing team from Dublin, Ireland, came to the United States just three weeks ago.

Five faith healers came here to heal the blind, the lame, the sick, those with ailments, and those with terminal illnesses. But more importantly to them, they are here working to bring people to a closer relationship with Jesus Christ…………………..

……………….. people attended Thursday night’s meeting, travelling not just from around Sanford, but Hollis, Waterboro, Biddeford and Farmington, N.H., to be healed.

……As Kelly said a prayer over each one, many of those fell straight back into the arms of someone prepared for their fall. They then laid on the floor almost in a trance for several minutes before getting up……

“After Kelly said a prayer for me, he touched me and I fell back,” said Ralph King of Hollis. King, who has diabetes and had a blood sugar count of 400, an extremely dangerous level, was recently healed by Kelly, who brought his level down to 150, at a meeting the ministry held in Hollis. Since then, King has been attending all the ministry’s meetings he can make it to, he said.

Eleanor Delrymple of Waterboro also travels to many of their meetings, after she was healed by Kelly at a meeting held recently in Waterboro.
Delrymple said she had been almost blind for some time but right after Kelly prayed for her two weeks ago she could see again, and has had good vision ever since.
Thank God I can see” she said.