After I left Evergreen in 1991

After i left Evergreen...went on mission trips to guyana..s..america through the pentecostal church where i was a sunday school teacher and asst, pastor..youth pastor...then to the Philippines 6 times where i was a missionary and lay minister in the catholic church at st. michael church..argao..cebu..philippines and different parts of the country.....but i am still here on this earth..like a man who refused to die......after no longer could run..my passion before...because of 10 knee operations..more involved in missionary work in the Philippines...i became a workaholic..work as a maintenance man..for school district in Minnesota..and a self employed cleaning contractor working from 6 am to 2 am deep into the next morning 5 days a week and on the weekends 8 hours a day...over 100 hours to 110 hours a week for 20 years...people said i would crash and burn..i said no i am invincible...then one cold dreary snowy Minnesota winter night jan. 6 th..2009 i came home at 2 am..showered and ready to bed..in living room..my brain exploded and heart stopped..blood everywhere..coming out of nose..ears..mouth..dialed 911..went unlocked front door..operator said stay with me...then fell in slow motion in between sofa and coffee table..the ambulance came..my neighbor Ardean locked up my house...i learned 3 days later after waking from a coma..i had a heart attack..brain aneurism that burst..a stroke..they clipped aneurism..put stents in heart.. 5 days later another heart attack and stroke..coma's..seizures...could not hardly walk or hardly talk...brain damage 1/8 brain whited out..dead area..a lot of cognitive damage..speech apraxia..vision..hearing..left side of body nerve damage...left sided paralysis... stayed in ICU 30 days and over 50 days in hospital..then 2 years of physical therapy..occupational therapy..speech therapy..but i made it back through the grace of god..about 80 percent better..but the rest permanent damage...altogether 20 operations..died 5 times..yet i live....brain tumor - which they surgically removed...suffered complete renal failure..kidneys shut down for 10 days..jaundice..yellow skin..gave me dialysis and 22 paks of iv solution...Dr. told my kids..I was dying..asked if want one wanted to donate a kidney to me..my then 11 year old daughter Jessica..crying said i love my daddy..but i need my kidney for me..please pray for him..the next day another medical miracle...getting better..angels with me again...god be the glory...through all these things i cling to the word of God..believe in his goodness..kindness ...moved to the Philippines in 2011 for financial reasons and all my ailments and having raynauds syndrome.diabetes..fluctuating bp....could not bear the cold minnesota winters......... 6 months ago i was deathly ill..host of ailments..Flu..Strained lower back..left lung infection..acute respiratory illness..could not breathe at night..already have severe sleep apnea..fear i would die in my sleep.. 6 weeks..but i survived........ then one month ago..flu..pneumonia..left lung completely filled with phlegm and mucous....edema in my lower legs and ankles..feet..swollen...pain and discomfort..not able to walk...fluid oozing out and running down my legs and once again on my death bed...but my Savior Jesus Christ would not let me die once again....Healed..another Medical Miracle and legs..feet..ankles back to normal size and the most unbelievable of all things..my weight dropped from 270 pounds to 210 pounds...in 3 weeks time...yes..impossible but true.....my body battered..beat up and abused.......but thankful and blessed to wake up every morning.. another simply amazing thing happened in 2015 when i went back to the USA for my 10th. knee operation... which shocked my Doctors and nurses was at my pre op physical my BP was 280 over 180..they told me i should be dead..not functioning normally..but i am..they kept giving me meds to lower BP..4 hours there...then the next morning during surgery..my BP bottomed out 30 over 0..they said like that for forty minutes..dead..scared the crap out of them...call me the walking alive..walking train wreck..the bionic man....me i am just truly blessed..a child of god..