Back From the Dead!

In my life I have seen, heard, and been part of some pretty exciting things. However, none quite compare to the story i lived below.
By: Jack Boyd

Travel to our campsite took 30 minutes by public bus. We started the evening meeting with prayer. Before the prayer, Anthony mentioned a special need for a girl named Sue Ying, or Traci which is her English name. It seemed that everyone knew what he was talking about except me. After the prayer, I asked Anthony, "what is up with Traci?" And that is where this story begins…

Traci had shared with people how God had kept her alive throughout her battle with cancer over the last few months. She told how she had had surgery not long before and it didn't work like the doctors had hoped, as the cancer had entangled itself around her spine. They did the best they could but they couldn't do what needed to be done. Traci told them about her upcoming operation and that she was going Sunday on a jet to the United States where she would have a better chance to live. The doctors gave her a thirty per cent chance to live. She told her friends not to worry because she was in God's hands and that if she was supposed to, she would be back to tell them all about it. She added, "Tuesday evening if you aren't too busy, around six o'clock Hong Kong time, can you say a quick prayer for me and the doctors that will be doing the operation?"

At six o'clock Tuesday evening, our group was praying for Traci and her doctors. Afterward we divided into our groups and had individual prayers and then went ahead with the program as scheduled.

Just before ten o'clock, we got a call from the United States. It was Traci's Aunt who had gone with her. She reported to us that at nine-thirty Traci had come out of the operating room. In the recovery room Traci's heart jad stopped as well as her breathing. Once they got her heart going again they found that Traci had slipped into a coma. She had a weak heartbeat, shallow breathing, and was hanging by a thread and it looked as if, at any moment, the thread was going to snap.

We stopped the program and started to pray. That night students prayed that had never prayed before. In that circle, students that had never even thought much about God before were crying out to Him to spare their friend's life. The Spirit was filling that room to overflowing. There was overwhelming peace amid the waves of fear and desperate cries from students and faculty. It really is impossible for me to describe the feelings, the presence we felt, the closeness of strangers, and the love that filled the room.

Not more than fifteen minutes afterward the phone was ringing. Traci had come out of her coma, sat straight up and started talking. Her pulse, breathing, color, everything was back to normal. Almost as if she had not been operated on. Not only did she look well but she sounded well, too. For a few moments they passed the phone around and she spoke briefly with a couple of the teachers. You could see the glow radiating off their faces in the midnight darkness. Not one of these students doubted for an instance that God had heard and answered their prayers.

The next day we were all feeling pretty happy and really felt good about what had happened. We received several reports throughout the day and Traci was shining as bright as we were. At the morning and evening meetings we talked about what had happened.

At the evening meeting we divided into ten groups and were about to start doing skits when the phone began to ring again. It was Traci, she had called to thank everyone for their prayers. She talked for about ten minutes.

After we hung up, we continued with the program. Just before the last skit was going to start, the phone was ringing again.

At 9:40 p.m. after trying to resuscitate Traci for twenty minutes, the doctor pronounced her dead and walked away from the table she was lying on.

At 9:41 p.m. we stopped the program and went straight to our knees. Once again, you could feel the Holy Spirit at work.

At 10:00 p.m. Traci had been dead for forty minutes. The first twenty of which they were trying to revive her. The last twenty of which she was unattended. The last ten minutes had been the unplugging of monitors, tubes, and things of this nature. They were preparing to wheel her out of the room to go to the morgue.

Half a world away we were still praying. The doctors had given up, but we hadn't. We knew that God could still intervene.

At 10:01 p.m.,Traci shot straight up into a sitting position and asked the nurse, "where is everyone, where did they all go?" She not only was coherent but as far as they can tell she hadn’t suffered any brain damage!

Dead for just over forty minutes and the last twenty, definitely without oxygen to the brain. No paddles could start her heart, no pounding with fists could make it beat. The doctors gave up, but God didn't!

After the doctors came back into the room, they too were astonished to see Traci sitting up talking as if nothing had happened.

During the last meeting, I asked all the students to raise their hands. Then I asked the ones who had been baptized to lower their hands. There were about fifteen students that still had their hands up at this point. Then I said if you are not thinking about or do not want to be baptized, lower your hands. Only three hands went down. Twelve out of the fifteen young people that are not Christians, through their
experience in the previous three days, had chosen to be baptized. Amen!

A couple of days later Traci was released and flew back to Hong Kong. They still cannot figure out "scientifically" why she doesn't have any brain damage. Would you believe it? The next Sabbath afternoon, Traci was back at Tai Po and up in front of the church telling her story of what it was like to be dead and live to tell about it. When you see her today and you know her story, you have to believe in miracles.

Update
Traci is doing okay for now. Her operation was not successful. It seems that the cancer is too entwined with the spinal column and nerves to be removed. Apparently instead of one lymph gland, Traci has three that are cancerous. Anyway I am not sure how long they have given her, but unless another miracle happens, Traci will not survive.

As of today, Traci is still attending Ti Po Sam Yuk Secondary School in Hong Kong. Please join with us and pray for Traci and her complete healing!

Jack Boyd volunteered in Hong Kong and will soon be volunteering in Australia.