Elia Vesikula

In the United States, an estimated 5.4 million people have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This figure is growing rapidly with the ageing population. One of them was Steve Newport. His wife, Mary Newport, was a doctor. Dr. Mary learned that her husband had severe Alzheimer's disease. When the doctor examined her husband at the hospital, he asked Steve to paint a clock. Instead, he drew a few circles and then drew a few figures without any logic. It was not like a clock at all!. The doctor pulled her aside and said: "Your husband is already on the verge of severe Alzheimer's disease!" It turned out that it was a test of whether a person had Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Mary was very upset at that time, but as a doctor, she would not just give up. She began to study the disease. She found out Alzheimers disease was associated to glucose deficiency to the brain. Her research says: "The dementia of the elderly is like having diabetes in the head ! Before...

8/1/25 On our way to Suva with my grandson Tu, we distributed food to three families in one of the settlements in Lautoka. They are very very poor families living in tin houses with mud floor. One of the ladies was telling us the story of his son burning down their family home during the Christmas period. We had visted the grandmother and her 3 grand children just a few days before Christmas and prayed with her. We also met her 3 grand children with ragged clothes. When we visted again afrer new year their home was burnt to the ground. No one was injured. The son is addicted to ice and loses his mind some times and always fights and threatens to kill her mother. The grandma is a widow and about 70 years old and looking after his sons three children as they are her grand children and find it hard to abandon her grand children to there drug addicted father. We tell this story to encourage evryone to please to pray about this evil of drug in our communities. We ask families to ask for...