The 60-year-old Bishop Balgobin said it has been one week since
his miracle healing and his health keeps improving each day.
“I know how I’m feeling and I am calling on all my brothers
and sisters who got healed on any of those nights to get in touch
with me.”
He said he is now on a mission to document all the healings that
occurred at the crusade.
It’s all an effort to dispel the negative rumours about Pastor
Benny Hinn.
He’s further urging that those who were healed should walk
with medical documents to back up their story.
“I myself will produce my records from my doctors.”
He went on: “Because of prostate problems, I use the bathroom
every five minutes, that’s not the case any longer.
“In April, I underwent lasik surgery to correct the vision
in my eyes but while one healed properly my right eye gave me no
end to problems.”
Balgobin stated that a follow up visit to his doctor earlier this
month showed no improvement.
He heard Hinn was coming to TnT to do a three-night miracle crusade
and booked his ticket to be among the many thousands seated in the
savannah.
“When Pastor Benny Hinn asked members of the congregation
with ailments to place their hand on the body part with the problem,
I put mine on my right eye.”
Bishop Balgobin ministers in the Calvary Cathedral of Praise, Brooklyn,
New York, soon after graduating from West Indies School of Theology
in 1964, he was sent on assignment to Barbados where he spent 36
years serving in various churches.
Speaking with a slight Bajan accent, Balgobin told Mirror the just
concluded three-night affair was his fourth Benny Hinn Miracle Crusade.
He said he is a disciple of the controversial pastor whom many,
including Maha Sabha leader Sat Maharaj described as a fake healer.
Balgobin however, has taken strong offence to the statement.
“I am living testimony of healing and not only at the hands
of Christians, but I’ve been healed before by a Hindu priest
and witnessed several people being healed by him.”
He said while helping his grandfather cut cane as a young boy he
was stung by a big black scorpion and healed by the pundit’s
hands.
Born into a staunch Hindu family, Balgobin revealed that his maternal
grandfather was Kali Mai priest while his maternal grandfather was
a Sadhu.
“My grandfather during Kali Mai worship will kill a goat,
drink the blood, go into trance and heal people.
“I’ve seen both grandfathers bring people back from
death’s door and that’s why I know Hindu priests can
heal, too.”
Saying that he was being groomed from childhood to take over from
his grandfather, Balgobin further revealed that when it was discovered
he had become a baptised Christian, all hell broke loose in Reform
Village, a rural sugarcane area just on the outskirts of Gasparillo.
“I was ostracised by most of the Hindus in the village. I
had no one to play with, they told my grandfather he should put
me out.”
By the age of 16, he was baptised and has never looked back.
Balgobin is still upset that to date the Hindu/Christian conflict
still exists.
“The religions could co-exist,” said the man who often
refers to himself as a Hindu/Christian.
“We must develop an atmosphere of peaceful and harmonious
co-existence.”
Bishop Balgobin said he could be reached by those with healing testimonies
at PO Box 864, San Juan Post Office.
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