Philippines - The gamecock was more important

City Mission - Father’s House
The staff of the City Mission is visiting kids on the streets of Manila regularly to help them in their desolate situation. If possible, they take the kids to the Father’s House, where they can grow up in a save environment. A young lady named Lilibeth, a former street kid, grew up in the Father’s House and is meanwhile on staff there with her small family. Not long ago she had the following special experience:

The relationship with her father was quite unharmonious, since he spend more money on his gamecocks (which are very valuable here) than on his kids. Once Lilibeth nearly died because her dad didn’t want to buy the necessary medicine.
When he was put in prison, due to a robbery, Lilibeth ended up living on the streets until we took her in.
After starting to believe in Jesus she felt that she was supposed to forgive her father, who was already out of prison back then.

Lilibeth was able to forgive her father and was set free from the hate and bitterness against him. However, that doesn’t meant that he was going to change. Later on he became very ill, he had water in his lungs and bleeding gastric ulcers among other things. One Saturday after the church service Lilibeth felt compelled to visit her father. Till then she actually had no clue how seriously ill he was.


When she and her husband arrived at her father’s shack he was sitting inside miserably, not able to take in any food. Lilibeth’s young husband took heart and prayed with his father in law who just then gave his life to Jesus, prayed himself and cried. After that they went out to look for Lilibeth’s siblings. When they came back to the shack Lilibeth’s father had already died.
Lilibeth is very glad, in spite of her grief, for the reconciliation with her father and that he made peace with God at the very last moment!