Woman's Faith Raises Her Cow

"Missionaries were urging their newly baptized converts to seek the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and His Spiritual Gifts, including the gift of speaking in tongues, and pyhsical healing was being emphasized by the missionaries.  One elderly woman carried this beyond their original intentions.  She was totally dependent on her cow for ploughing her field but one day it fell down sick and couldn't get up.  So, she poured oil on its head and prayed fervently.  Immediately it got up, healed and ready to start ploughing again!"  (The Liberating Gospel in China, 150)

Tibet & Demon Possession

"Christie, a pioneer missionary with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, recounts how a husband brought to him his wife, handcuffed and restrained by four strong men.  Christie prayed for her in the name of Jesus for one hour, and the demon-possessed woman was liberated and went on to walk faithfully in the Way.  The pages of The Alliance Weekly were filled with many examples, more than recorded in any other mission publication, of people healed from a variety of ailments"  (The Liberating Gospel in China, 78).

Possessed Woman Tells Of Jesus

"On at least one occasion the gospel light penetrated to areas where neither the missionary nor Lisu evangelists had yet gone.  Isobel Kuhn related the story of the small village of Goo-Moo-Ka on the Burma side of the border.  Here in 1924 a woman who was demon-possessed told her astounded neighbors that they should no longer worship demons, but must submit themselves to "God the Father, Jesus and God's Daughter."  The people of the village did as she directed, setting aside one day of the week for worship.  Agreeing with her exhortation, they also gave up the use of wine and opium.  When this group of worshipers learned that the Lisu in Yunnan also worshiped Jesus, they tried to send some of their number to seek out these Yunnan groups.  After two failures, they finally managed to get over the high mountains, "biting the snow," and came to the area where the Cookes and the Kuhns were working.

Meanwhile, the woman who had given the original revelation announced that Jesus was coming and urged her neighbors to build a home to welcome him.  At about this time, "Jesus 'arrived' in the person of the Christian teachers and the Deputation of Three.  Then, the study of the True Way was started enthusiastically."  In 1935, the first missionary arrived on the scene, fully twelve years after the small group had been organized.  With further instruction, these converts were baptized and a church was formally organized.  A rational human explanation may exist for such a phenomenon, but, if so, the Lisu and the missionaries never discovered it.  God had reached out, even beyond the bounds of the Lisu churches aggressive evangelism, to prepare this village for his message"  (The Liberating Gospel in China, 147).

Covell, Ralph R., The Liberating Gospel in China: The Christian Faith Among China's Minority Peoples, Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI, 1995.