Psalms 107 1O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 3And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south... 8Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 9For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Dear Friends,

I am sorry for taking so long in getting back to you. It was the 18th of May the last time we wrote. Since we saw you last, so much has happened. We went from Marysville Assembly of God to Nooksack Assembly of God, we were there four weeks. This is the church where a deacon named Henry was healed of a bad back while we were at Blaine A/G in August 94. It was at that meeting in Blaine, where we heard the sound of the mighty rushing wind of the Holy Spirit. Henry is still healed and on fire for the Lord. His pastor, Gary Senff, came to the meetings at Blaine. He and his wife, Juliann, are two really special people. God uses men with a humble spirit, ready to pray and willing to be touched by God. To see Gary on his knees so many times, crying out to the Lord, reminded me of another mighty man of God, Pastor Larry Reed. Because so many from Nooksack came to the meetings in Blaine, I knew the Holy Spirit was going to do something special. The Holy Spirit has been so special lately. He had His own special way of letting us know we are on the right path. I was asking Him to please show us what God wanted for this area. Well, He did not waste any time. On that Sunday night, Jesus let me know He was about to move wonderfully. This is how, and it started the very first day in the 28th of May 95.

An 11 year old boy, named Steven, who had cerebral palsy, was

	Above: Steven had never done this before.

at the service. He is pictured (on right) with his mom and brother. He was at the morning service, and the Lord told me he would be healed. In the evening service, before I even had a chance to really get into the message, I looked over at Steven while he was sitting in the pew, and asked if he wanted to be healed. The Holy Spirit had me say, ;Son, Jesus wants to heal you. Do you believe that?; He looked up and said ;Yes!; You must understand, he could not talk. Before I could reach out my hand, he got up for the first time in 6 years and started to walk. Here we were in a little country church and Jesus showed up. If only you could have been there to feel the excitement in the air. All the kids in the church jumped to their feet and started to scream. They knew Steven. He was their friend, and they had never seen him walk. Later he had told me he was entered in the Special Olympics, and the coach said he may not be eligible for the wheelchair race next year. Steven said, ;That's OK, I will run the 200 meter race.; No wonder Jesus said we must come as a child! He could not talk, he could not walk, and he could not stand. Now he can! Before, he needed braces on his legs, with weights, just to stand with his feet flat on the ground. Oh, how I love You, Jesus! You came to destroy the works of the devil.
So many people have been touched and healed by the Lord. I had the privilege to meet so many wonderful people. The next person here is a man who was in a meeting in Blaine almost a year ago. He did not get healed then. Sometimes, God needs time to work on us. You know, sometimes we just need to walk around that mountain in the wilderness just one more time, till we will listen to the voice of the Lord. In Hosea, God says He calls us into the wilderness, so He can speak softly to us. Look what Jesus did to him that first night.
Here, is a copy of part of a letter written by him. He is pictured with his wife, Sue.
For seventeen years I was afflicted with diabetes. This truly was a weapon that was formed against me to destroy me. Over the years I had two heart attacks, one heart failure, and two Strokes...I was taking 130 units of insulin per day. No control was dying, and I didn't care whether I lived or died. I had been hurt by men, and I thought God didn't love me. Oh, was 1 wrong. One thing that I like about Jerry is that he calls sin, sin.

Rev Gary & his wife

On Sunday, May 28, 1995 Jerry came to our church. That first Sunday he was preaching, and this fat man with bad feet and bad breath had the nerve to say that sickness was because there was sin in my life. Now I have been a preacher for 25 years. I have been saved for 38 years, and I have had the baptism of the Holy Spirit for 24 years.
The Holy Spirit convicted me and showed me that I had let pride, idolatry, unbelief, anger, lust, covetousness into my life. I had grieved the Holy Spirit. I fell to my knees and said, ;Oh God, forgive me, and cover these sins with your blood and take these sins away from me.; Immediately I felt a great lifting of heaviness from my soul. I felt a great cleansing. I was clean for the first time that 1 can remember in about 23 years. I felt such a joy and love that my Father had for me.
That Sunday night Jerry prayed for a healing of my diabetes. ... This night May 28th, 1995, God touched me and healed me. For the last four weeks I have had no shots, (no insulin) no drugs, and no pain medicine. I feel like a new person. My blood sugar level is running 95 to 100 every day. God is restoring my ministry, and I have fallen passionately in love with my Lord and Savior. Your Brother in Christ Rev Gary B
I love you, Gary and Sue!
This is how the Holy Spirit started to move just the very first night. Can you imagine what it would be like the next four weeks. To be set free from a life of pain and sorrow? Gary was just one of many who were touched by the mighty hand of God.
Oh Lord, we are not worthy to see such wonders as this. It is by Your grace, and grace alone, we are allowed the privilege to see so many touched by You.
Night after night they came. Night after night they filled that church in Nooksack. Night after night they ran to the altar. What is it that calls them? What is it that keeps them coming? Is it the big-name stars? Is it the large choirs? Is it the variety of different shows and programs? Why no, it is exactly what someone said during the Azusa revival. It's the preaching of the simple gospel. One day a man named Paul jumped up and said ;I don't believe this, I just can't believe this. You just preached for over two hours and it seemed like ten minutes!;.
To hear the people sing out in the spirit for over an hour is like hearing a choir of angels. To see the children pray for one another makes me cry. To see old and young alike hunger and thirst for more of the Lord, and be filled, brings joy you can't find any where else. Oh Lord, if this is so sweet and so good, what will heaven be like?
Paul and Janelle Gamlin were a gift from God. They led us to the throne room in worship night after night. As most of you know, I can not sing a lick. All I had to do was look at Paul, and he already knew what the Holy Spirit wanted to sing. I had never been so in tune with a worship leader as that before. I can't imagine what it would be like to get them together with Eldon and Cathie Officer.


On May 28th a young girl, age 24, named Beth came to the meetings that night. She gave her heart to the Lord the very first night. She had a very bad knee, and could not bend it or straighten it out all the way. She looked like an angel when Jesus healed her. She got saved, delivered from stuff, baptized in water and the Holy Spirit, and healed in these meetings. When her mother came forward for prayer a few days later, I had never seen such great faith. I knew what Jesus felt like when he saw the faith of the Syro-Phoenician woman.

Here is her letter to me and Jan.
I am a 48-year old conservative, reserved, reality-based, levelheaded Free Methodist. On May 28, 1995, I received a call from a lifelong friend telling me about meetings at her Church in Nooksack. I immediately felt that unmistakable nudge from God that I needed to be there... And that I should take my daughter Beth, age 24, who for the past year had been living away from God. I carefully asked her, and miraculously (believe me!) she said she'd go.

As we sat there in the service the first night, we were overwhelmed and looked at each other with a combination of fear and amazement at what we were seeing. Occasionally my daughter mouthed at me in that fist hour, ;You owe me for this, Mom.; However.. at the end of the service, Jerry approached her ... spoke with her privately ... and Beth recommitted her life to Jesus! The change in her was instantaneous. Life returned to her eyes that I hadn't seen for more than a year. As we left that night, we realized we had been there for three hours ... yet it seemed like a brief period of time. Beth and I began attending regularly during the evening services. And I began evaluating whether or not I thought what was happening was really from God. As I sat contemplating that, Jerry walked by and said ';This is real...; Obviously God had clued him in ... blew me away! And I continued to watch the ;phenomenon; happening night after night with curiosity ... being a bit skeptical of things like falling on the floor.. especially the laughing going on by those prone on the floor. On Thursday, June 1, Beth was prayed for and received healing of her severely injured knee. And she fell on the floor!!! Mercy!! We 're Free Methodists! She encouraged me to go up for prayer for depression ... but I wasn't ready ... I was so frightened! But on Friday, the Lord made it clear I was to do so ... and I did and yes, ended up on the floor ... what an amazing experience!! And wonder of wonders ... I began to laugh! God does have a sense of humor! I lived with depression daily my entire life...it was a continual battle to overcome it even for brief periods. I have not been depressed since the moment I hit the floor ... without Prozac! It's been replaced with songs of praise! Attending nearly nightly, I listened to what the Lord was saying to me through Jerry and the Holy Spirit ... absorbing these new concepts like a sponge ... growing more and more each day in the Lord. I didn't want to miss a thing! I was not going to let fatigue (which I suffered from chronically) prevent me from hearing what the Lord had for me. I was on a journey and I was determined to reach the destination! During the course of the services I experienced a mass anointing for ministry, the baptism of the Holy Spirit (WOW!!!), as well as prayer for healing of back/hip/knee arthritis, rotator cuff tendonitis, chronic high blood pressure, my thyroid (nuked out many years ago), irritable bowel syndrome as well as chronic fatigue and lack of energy. I took 6 daily Rx medications plus pain relievers and antihistamines. I truly believe the Lord has healed me ... and I praise Him for that. I have witnessed many healings (including the healing of my friend's son with cerebral palsy) ... I have seen many people get saved... I have watched as God transformed teenagers into beautiful creations ... these three weeks have changed my life and my relationship with the Lord ... I love You Jesus! Thank you Jerry & Jan, for allowing the Lord to use you. Lorna

Almost all of these blessings came the first night. From that day we were placed into the hands of the Holy Spirit in ways few have ever seen. I just don't have room to tell of Brandon and Rob, two young men who gave their hearts to the Lord, and now are turning that part of the world right side up. Of my son Shawn and his friend Belinda as they gave their testimony one night on what God was doing in their life. Of Benny Perez coming and sharing the word of God with us. To see John Taylor preach his first sermon was a sight to behold. He had said God didn't speak to him. I asked when was the last time he heard Him speak. John said seven years ago, God told him to preach. I asked if he obeyed, he said no. The Holy Spirit then asked me to ask him if he would obey now & preach that next Wednesday, he said yes. It took Him seven years to do the last thing God asked him to do. Many were touched by God as well as him. To see the light of the Lord shine on the face of a girl named Onda when she was reading from the Bible, was something no one could forget. She is about I I years old and it was such a blessing to see her cry as God spoke to her. She said she would pray for me every day and Onda I Know you are. Henrys wife's finger, that was stiff and could not bend for years, was healed. On the 6th of June when almost all the kids in the evening service fell under the power and they saw visions of heaven and angels . They will never be the same. People were saved, healed and filled with the Holy Spirit every night. Some of the services lasted till after midnight. Then they were there at 10:30am to start all over again. To walk in and see Lorraine and Gary and Paul interceding for the lost is something I will never forget. Some people were there all day and almost all night just to sit in the presence of the Lord.

I must tell you of one more girl: Christine E. from Langley, BC. Canada. Pictured below. This is just part of a letter she sent to me. She could walk when she came to the meeting but God started to finish the work He already had begun. Dear Mr. Gaffney My name is Christine E. Since I was born, 1 have had cerebral palsy. I am now 24 years old. When I was small, I was told I'd never walk ... I have been operated on 13 times to correct malfunctions in my hips, feet and legs. My family did not believe in Jesus, or attend church. When I was 17 I began attending a Vineyard church. I did not seek prayer for healing. I felt that if I was to belong to God's family, I wanted to be accepted the way I was. My family was against healing.... I didn't believe that Jesus would physically heal people. ... I had a major dream about being totally healed. .... Later God told me how he wanted to heal me in each specific area. ... When I first attended your meetings in Nooksack, you told us about the young boy, Steven, who had come out of the wheelchair a few days before. That was exciting to me because Steven had CP and he couldn't even hold up his head or talk before.. I was so glad to meet him .... When you
prayed for me at first, you didn't pray for healing.. You mentioned I had been trying to achieve healing on my own. I thought, ;This guy is tough;.....Finally there was the evening you met me in the aisle, and we began to walk around the sanctuary together. You called it running. You said I was walking down the aisle to meet Jesus. You yelled, ;Lift up your knees! Lift up your knees!; We went all the way around the church, two times. You sat me down and prayed again for my legs and feet. Then you got me up, and we walked again. It was then that I felt ;NORMAL; in my walking. I had NEVER felt that before. It was awesome ... I am so grateful for your heart of compassion and your willingness to be used as God's servant to set so many people free.

Thank & Love Christine
I just want to cry when I read these letters, I will tell you about Central Park in the next letter. A man in a coma for five years healed and the lady with the withered hand for 81 years...
I want to thank all of you who have been supporting us on a monthly basis. It says in Philippians 4:15 .... no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. ...4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. 4:18 ... having received ..the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Again thank you for listening to the Lord. I know your hearts are with Jan & I and that you really would like to be at the meetings. Just remember, you share in the reward. You share in the hundreds who are being saved and healed and filled with the Holy Spirit, just as if you were there yourself. We have already had over 250 services this year and almost 2,000 people have been saved just this year alone. Please write us and let us know what God is doing in your life.
We will be at the Quinault Valley Chapel, by Lake Quinault in Neilton, WA on 20 Aug

May the Commanded Blessing of God be upon you and yours.

Jerry & Jan Gaffney
Jerry Gaffney Ministries
PO Box 1020 Centralia, WA 98531
360-807-9180
http://www.anointed.net/ E-mail jerry@anointed.net