Dr. Julie Ma, a Korean missiologist at the Oxford Center for Mission Studies, notes that Pentecostal Christians in northern Luzon in the Philippines, where she previously worked, experience healings as in the book of Acts. Others also note that experiencing or learning of healings has been a major cause of Pentecostal church growth in the Philippines. Most converts among the Kankana-eys in the northern Philippines, Ma reports, “have come to Christ through the experience of miraculous healing.” She points out that healings are a regular phenomenon in charismatic and Pentecostal churches and home meetings in the Philippines. Ma goes on to illustrate her claims with a number of more specific examples. One of these is a church elder whom she knew who had medically incurable cancer; the pastor regularly visited and prayed for him until he was healed, greatly affecting those who knew him. The pastor of Cathedral of Praise notes that during a church service his wife was fully healed from tuberculosis in both lungs; another member recounts that during a crusade his dying wife, who had a toxic goiter, was healed. A sympathetic popular writer who observed healing meetings in the Philippines reports how a doctor attending one of the meetings confirmed that one of his own deaf patients had just been healed. A close friend of mine from college also reports to me witnessing numerous instant and obvious healings in the Philippines. Ma tells of events surrounding the beginning of the Christian movement among the Kankana-eys through Elva Vanderbout, a single woman missionary in the 1940s and 1950s. (Ma’s dissertation involves the history of this movement.) Vanderbout helped the needy get medical help where possible but also prayed for the sick. Ma notes the account of “an old man who had such a critical spinal problem that he could only crawl on his hands and knees like an animal.” In 1958, the man’s friends carried him to a revival meeting conducted by Vanderbout; at the close of the service, he was “instantly healed and he stood up and walked away,” testifying of God’s works. Among the many persons healed of deafness and muteness was a young woman deaf and mute for twelve years, and on another occasion “an old man who had been deaf in both ears since he was a young man was instantly healed.” Instant healing through prayer also came to a twenty-eight-year-old who had been deaf and mute all his life and was instantly healed. People were healed of blindness and tuberculosis, and “one famous woman in the city [Baguio] was healed of a very large goiter,” which shrank when people prayed and was entirely gone by the next morning.   (Keener, Craig S., Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011)