Susumu Kitamura (64) Japan

Kitamura suffered from alcoholism and couldn't part from the addiction with his willpower alone. But after he met Jesus Christ, he cast off his idol-worshipping and he was born again as a new being by receiving prayer with faith.
In May 2007, my wife met Pastor Marco Kim while visiting her neighbor. Pastor Kim was ministering Maizuru Manmin Church. Afterwards, he visited our family and prayed for us. Pastor Kim asked me for help in church's interior work because I had worked in the construction business for a long time. I helped him with pleasure and began to go to church. I was happy while attending services on Sunday. And, it was great joy for me to have fellowship with church members who visited my home.
Since I liked drinking so much, I never started to work without drinking. At last in 2006, it got to the point where I could not even walk properly without drinking. I became totally addicted to alcohol. I fell into the incinerator and was severely injured and burned after drinking at work. And I even fell down and broke my collar bone. When my wife asked me, "Why do you keep drinking?" I shouted at her and said, "I don't want to either, but something within me makes me drink." There was a voice inside that kept saying to me "I don't want to do this."

Pastor Marco G. Kim visited me and helped me realize how detestable idol-worshipping was to God. He advised me to live by the word of God and to receive blessing. Then, he prayed for me with the handkerchief that Dr. Jaerock Lee had prayed upon in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 19:11-12).
I was raised in a family that worshipped idols, and my mother was a shaman. My wife also used to earnestly worship idols before she attended the church. So troubles, diseases and difficulties kept coming to our family. We burned the platform in our home for idol-worshipping and replaced it with the Bible and the Cross. The following day, we saw a beautiful circular rainbow appear in the sky. I could have an assurance and hope.

In January 2008 I broke my right arm while getting out of my car. It did not seem serious at first but it became worse and worse until even surgery was impossible. Because my bone had a bacterial infection, it first had to be disinfected and recover immunity by injecting antibiotics before surgery.
Even in this serious situation I kept drinking secretly. One day I was caught by a nurse and was forced to leave the hospital. Later I became very weak and was hospitalized again under the condition that I would not drink. But my body did not seem to get well and 4 months had passed.

In the late May 2008, my wife flew with my picture to Seoul Korea to go to Manmin Central Church and receive the prayer from Dr. Jearock Lee. He prayed for me twice laying his hand on my picture. Pastor Marco Kim also received Dr. Jaerock Lee's prayer on my picture whenever he visited Seoul.
My body got better day by day and I was able to leave the hospital in July. I had complaints while staying in hospital, but I realized the love of God and gave thanks to God. God gave me a good chance of being set free from drinking while I was staying at the hospital under the medical treatment. Afterwards the craving for drinking went away from me and I did not even want to drink any more. By the grace of God I was set free from alcohol.

Now my family including me is in peace. We go to church and attend the services on Sundays with joyful hearts. We give all the glory and thanks to the living God!