
Filipino: 
Sa gitna ng hating gabi...
Sa liblib na lugar ng isa sa mga isla sa Pilipinas.
Ilang araw bago ang pangyayaring 'yun, nagkaroon ako ng mga panaginip na ako'y namatay at,
nagtaka at napaisip ako ng,
"Oh wow! Bakit ako nanaginip ng ganun?"
Kaya't nanalangin ako, "Panginoon, ano pong nangyayari, hindi ko po alam bakit
ako nagkakaroon ng mga panaginip na ako'y mamamatay at papunta sa langit!"
Naramdaman kong napakaseryoso nito, at talagang kailangan kong ipanalangin,
pero hindi ko malaman kung paano akong mamamatay.
Pakiramdam ko naman malusog ako...
hindi ko alam kung anong puwedeng mangyari dito.
Ang naalala ko, bago ang araw na 'yun,
talagang kinakausap ko ang Panginoon...
Sabi ko, "Lord, alam Mong gusto kong pumunta
sa langit isang araw.
Gusto talaga kitang makasama, at ayaw kong
isipin Mong ayaw kong pumunta sa langit...
pero kung okay lang sa Iyo, gusto kong manatili pa rito."

English: 
Well, a couple days before I had a couple
different dreams that I died and,
I was so amazed by it and I thought,
"Oh wow! Why... why did I have that dream?"
And so I began to pray and say, 
"God, what's going on? I don't know why
I'm having these dreams about dying 
and going to heaven!"
And... I felt very serious, like I really needed to pray and intercede,
but I couldn't figure out how I could die.
I was like, I feel like I'm healthy and...
I don't know what could happen out here.
I just remember, just that day before,
 talking to the Lord over and over and over...
And I said, "Lord, you know, I want
to go to heaven someday.
Of course...I want to be with You and I don't want 
You to think that I don't want to go to heaven...
but if it's okay with You, I would like to stay here longer."

English: 
You know, and so I... I was just praying 
and just crying out to God. And,
so when the guy came in to our room in
the early morning hours I thought,
"Oh no! This is what the Lord was warning me about."
And I thought,
"It's very possible I'm gonna die, but the Lord... 
Lord you know.
We've already talked about it all day yesterday. 
We talked about it and
I'm willing to go if that's what You want,
 but I think my kids might have a
hard time understanding... if something
happens like this.
I think they're gonna feel really bad.
So, I just remember... in the midst of all 
this stuff going on
I just remember thinking, "Lord, I just-- I'm surrendered to You, but... if it's okay with You, Lord,
I'll stay here on earth a little bit
longer before we go to heaven."
So, it was kind of an interesting experience for me.

Filipino: 
Alam mo 'yun... Nanalangin at talagang umiiyak
ako sa Panginoon. At,
nung dumating ang lalaking iyon ng madaling araw,
bigla kong naisip,
"Eto 'yung babala ng Diyos sa akin."
Sa isip ko,
"Posibleng mamatay ako, pero Lord... Alam Mo Lord.
Pinag-usapan na natin ito nang buong araw kahapon. Pinag-usapan na natin at
handa naman akong umalis, kung 'yun po ang gusto Mo, pero naiisip ko ang mga anak ko...
baka mahirapan silang unawain...
kapag ganito ang sitwasyon.
Palagay ko'y talagang sasama ang loob nila."
Kaya't naalala ko... sa gitna ng lahat ng nangyayari
Naalala ko nun na naisip kong, "Lord, sinusuko ko lahat, pero... kung okay lang po sa Iyo, Panginoon,
mananatili pa ako sa mundong ito, nang 
ilang panahon pa bago ako pumunta sa langit."
Kaya't isa itong kakaibang karanasan para sa akin.

English: 
Yeah. It was about 4 o'clock or 4:30, early in the morning.
We were asleep there in a new construction
 building at our mission base on the island,
and we heard an explosion of a gun, and
it woke us up and we were trying to figure out
what was going on, then we heard another explosion.
And pretty soon the door where we had a barricade,
the door was knocked over, and a gunman entered.
He had a mask on, with a loaded gun
and he was threatening to kill us.
So, that was obviously quite a rude awakening!
And the scenario was that there was no
electricity on the island at that time.
So it was just pitch black, but he had a light--
a headlamp on--so there was some light from his headlamp

Filipino: 
Oo. Mga 4 o'clock o 4:30, ng umagang 'yun.
Natutulog kami sa bagong gawang gusali,
sa aming mission base sa isla,
bigla kaming nakarinig ng putok ng baril, at
gumising ito sa amin at sinubukang alamin
kung ano ang nangyayari, matapos ay nakarinig kami
ng isa pang putok ng baril.
Sumunod nito, ang pintuan namin na may harang ay...
natumba at pumasok ang taong may hawak na baril.
Mayroon siyang takip sa mukha, baril na may bala
at nagbantang papatayin kami.
Talagang hindi ito magandang panggigising.
At ang senaryo pa... walang kuryente sa isla
ng mga oras na iyon.
Sobrang dilim, ngunit may ilaw siya--
isang headlamp--kaya't may ilaw siya mula rito

English: 
so we could see his gun and we could see that he had
already shot one of our fellow teammates.
He went into a nearby building, demanded
for our pastor, one of our pastors, to come 
down from the loft where he was sleeping--
shot him in the foot and said,
"Take me to the Americans!"
So what could the pastor do, but just 
come at gunpoint there.
And here we found ourself in the middle 
of the early morning, dark hours,
looking down a loaded gun with a guy saying
he's going to kill us if we didn't give money.
What did that feel like to you?
Well, shocking for sure!
But I just remember thinking that..
I don't want to be kidnapped,
and I... don't know what to do.
It's one of those moments when you just
really don't know how to handle a situation.

Filipino: 
at nakikita namin ang kanyang baril, nakita rin naming
nabaril na niya ang isa sa mga kasama namin.
Pumunta pa siya sa kalapit na gusali, at pilit na
pinapababa ang isa sa mga pastor na kasama namin, kung saan siya natutulog--
binaril niya sa paa at sinabing,
"Dalhin mo 'ko sa mga Amerikano!"
Wala siyang ibang magawa, kundi pumunta...
habang may nakatutok na baril sa kanya.
Nakita na lang namin ang mga sarili namin
sa madaling araw, sobrang dilim,
nakatingin sa lalaking may baril at nagsasabing
papatayin niya kami
kung hindi kami magbibigay ng pera.
Anong naramdaman mo nun?
Talagang nakakagulat!
Pero naalala ko lang na naisip kong...
Ayaw kong ma-kidnap, at...
hindi ko alam ang gagawin ko.
Isa 'yun sa mga sandali na... hindi mo talaga alam
kung paano at anong gagawin mo sa sitwasyon.

English: 
You don't know... how to fix it,
and we just needed God.
So we just began to pray and just
prayed as loud as we could.
We just prayed loud and just cried out to God
to help us because we really needed Him.
The gunman got a little confused and,
rather than shoot us, he went over to the
suitcases nearby and he started
rummaging through them to try to
find something, and tried to still keep us at gunpoint.
There was another pastor nearby who had
already been shot by this gunman,
that when he got a reprieve from gunpoint,
he grabbed a chair nearby and he broke it over his head,
and started wrestling him for the gun.
And as he pulled him away, the gun kept
going off several more times.
As it went off, the pastor said that the gunman
pointed back towards us and shot.
One of those shots went through my arm

Filipino: 
Hindi mo alam kung paanong aayusin,
at ang Diyos lang ang talagang kailangan.
Kaya't nagsimula kaming manalangin ng malakas.
Nanalangin kami ng malakas at umiyak sa Panginoon
upang tulungan kami,
dahil kailangang-kailangan namin Siya.
Ang mamamaril ay medyo naguluhan,
at imbes na barilin kami... tumungo siya sa mga
maleta na kalapit at sinimulang halukayin ang mga ito
naghahanap ng kung ano, habang nakatutok pa rin
ang baril sa amin.
Ang isa pang pastor na nabaril na ng mamamaril
ay nagkaroon ng pagkakataon, dahil hindi na
nakatutok sa kanya ang baril
kumuha ng upuan sa malapit at hinampas
ito sa ulo ng mamamaril,
at nagsimulang makipagbuno sa kanya para sa baril.
At sa kanyang paghila sa kanya, ilang beses na
pumutok ang baril.
Sa pagputok nito, sinabi ng pastor na ito'y
tumutok sa amin at pumutok.
Isa sa mga putok na iyon ay napunta sa aking braso

English: 
and so I yelled, "I'M SHOT! I got hit!"
And Colleen goes, "Where?? Where?!"
It's a terrible feeling. To have your husband hit--shot!
And you know, of course it's totally dark
so we didn't know...
And so he says, "In my arm!" So,
I was so thankful it wasn't in his heart
or in his lung or something.
But we just, you know, grabbed a pillow case
off the pillow and just put a...like tied his arm,
while the guy's still shooting towards us,
you know, to stop the bleeding and of 
course we can't see how bad it is!
You don't know anything.
But I'm thankful!
It was miraculous that his gunshot
didn't break a bone and it didn't...
you know, that he didn't bleed to death 
before we could get to a hospital.
So we were just so thankful for that.

Filipino: 
kaya't sumigaw ako, "NABARIL AKO! Tinamaan ako!"
Nagtanong si Colleen, "Saan?? Saan?!"
Napakahirap sa pakirandam na ang asawa mo
ay tinamaan ng baril!
At alam mo 'yun, sobrang dilim
at hindi mo talaga alam...
At sabi niya, "Sa braso ko!" Kaya't,
nagpapasalamat talaga ako na hindi siya nabaril
sa puso o banda sa baga...
Kaya't biglang humablot na lang kami ng punda ng unan
at itinali ito sa kanyang braso,
habang nag-aagawan ang mga lalaki sa baril.
Para mapigilan ang pagdurugo, dahil hindi namin makita kung gaano kalala ang tama niya!
Hindi mo talaga alam.
Laking pasasalamat ko talaga!
Isang himala na ang tama ng baril
ay hindi bumali sa kanyang buto at hindi...
naging dahilan upang siya'y maging duguan
bago pa man madala sa ospital.
Kaya't laking pasasalamat lang talaga namin dahil doon.

Filipino: 
May ilang bisita na kasama namin
ang nasa kabilang kuwarto, ito'y secure na kuwarto.
'Pagkat nakakandado. Ang aming tinutulugan nama'y hindi secure
dahil nga ito'y parte ng bagong gawang gusali.
Ang isa sa mga bisita'y lumabas ng kuwarto.
Narinig niya kaming nananalangin at inakala niyang
may prayer meeting, kaya't gusto niyang
sumama sa panalangin.
Lumapit siya at nagulat ng husto ang mamamaril,
at sinabi kong, "BUMALIK KA SA KUWARTO!"
Nagpapasalamat kaming...
sumunod siya agad, dahil baka nga mabaril siya.
Nasa harapan siya ng panganib.
Kahit na nabaril ako sa braso,
ang bala'y lumusot sa akin,
pero wala namang natamaang buto.
Sa wakas, nakarating kami sa ER
matapos ang 16 na oras
at higit pa, dahil walang ER o ospital sa isla.
Nung nandoon na kami, namangha ang mga doktor
at itinuring itong isang himala.

English: 
We had several guests with us that
were in another room, it was a secure room.
It was locked. Where we were sleeping was unsecured
because it was a new construction portion of the building.
So, an older lady came out of the room. 
She'd heard us praying, and she thought we were
having a prayer meeting, and so she
wanted to come and pray with us.
So she came and the gunman was so surprised,
and I said, "GET BACK IN THE ROOM!"
Yeah, we're so thankful that she was very
cooperative because I think she would have gotten shot.
She was right in the line of fire.
Even though I was shot in the arm, 
the bullet went through my arm,
yet there was no bone fracture.
Finally we got to the ER which was about 16 hours
or so away, 'cause they didn't have an ER 
or hospital on that island.
When we finally got there, the doctors were just commenting, they were amazed 'cause they
considered it a miracle.

English: 
Of course we know God is a miracle-working God!
And by the next weekend I was already up in church,
playing the guitar and singing,
"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Whom He has
redeemed from the hand of the enemy."
Around that time the Lord just...
put a real heavy burden of prayer upon
our daughter and some of her friends.
And... so they prayed for us, and you know...
if God puts somebody on your heart it's really
important to pray for them and to
intercede, because you don't know what
they might be facing.
And God was faithful and answered their prayers, and
we believe that...
there very possibly could have been a 
different ending to the story.
But we just thank God for His mercy in giving us a few more years to serve Him and to
you know, proclaim the Gospel.
So we're thankful for that.

Filipino: 
Alam natin na ang Diyos ay gumagawa ng himala!
Sumunod na linggo, nasa simbahan na ako,
naggigitara at umaawit ng,
"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Whom He has
redeemed from the hand of the enemy."
Noong mga oras na iyon, nilagay ng Panginoon...
sa puso ng isa sa aking mga anak, ang bigatin
sa panalangin, kasama ng kanyang mga kaibigan.
Kaya't ipinanalangin nila kami...
kung may inilalagay ang Diyos sa puso mo, napakahalagang ipanalangin mo sila
at mamagitan, dahil hindi mo alam 
ang kanilang kinakaharap.
Tapat ang Diyos at sinagot ang kanilang dalangin, at
naniniwala kaming...
kung hindi sila nanalangin maaaring iba
ang magiging kahihinatnan ng kwento.
Ngunit nagpapasalamat talaga kami sa Kanyang habag at sa ibinigay Niya pang panahon para pagsilbihan Siya
na ibahagi ang Kanyang ebanghelyo.
Kami'y nagpapasalamat doon.

English: 
It's interesting, before this happened I was impressed with a verse from Psalm 107:2,
"Let the redeemed of the Lord (or the rescued
of the Lord) say so, whom He has
redeemed or rescued from the hand of the enemy."
And I was laying there that morning, even
before this happened and
I was kind of fading in and out of sleep
and I was thinking about that verse
and I thought, "Well that's a great verse--
a real special Rhema word from God
for today, we'll talk about that our devotional time.
And so when we were able to gather with our group
after the gunmen finally went running away
after our pastor had wrestled the gun away from him,
and we were safe, we gathered in a room nearby and
we were just praising God. Even though there were injuries,
we were thankful to be alive, and we considered that
Word from the Lord, that the rescued of the Lord say so,

Filipino: 
Nakakamangha lang, bago mangyari iyon
nilagay sa akin ang verse sa Awit 107:2,
"Sabihin ninyo ito, kayo na iniligtas Niya
sa kamay ng mga kaaway."
Bago pa man mangyari iyon,
nakahiga ako at
pabalik-balik lang sa pagtulog
at iniisip ko ang verse na iyon
at naisip kong, "Mahalagang verse--
isang espesyal na Rhema na salita mula sa Diyos
ngayong araw, pag-uusapan namin ito mamaya
sa oras ng debosyon.
Kaya't nung nagkaroon na kami ng pagkakataong magsama-sama
matapos nang tumakbo't tumakas ang mamamaril
matapos na ang isa sa mga pastor
ay nakipagbuno sa kanya,
at kami'y ligtas, nagsama-sama kami sa kalapit na kuwarto at
pinuri namin ang Diyos. Kahit na may mga napinsala,
nagpapasalamat kami na kami'y buhay, at kinilalang
ang Salitang iyon ay galing sa Panginoon,
na Siyang nagligtas

Filipino: 
sa amin mula sa kamay ng kaaway.
Labis kaming nagpapasalamat na iniligtas tayo
ng Panginoon!
Sumagot Siya sa ating dalangin, at kami'y buhay,
at maaari pang pumunta sa isla para ibahagi
ang Ebanghelyo!
Hanggang ngayon, taong 2019, sina Dan at Colleen Jaquith ay aktibo pa ring nagbabahagi sa Pilipinas
Pinupuntahan pa rin nila ang isla,
kung saan nangyari ang lahat ng ito.

English: 
whom He's redeemed from the hand of the enemy.
And we're so thankful that the Lord did rescue us!
He did answer prayer, and we are still alive and,
still able to go out to the islands 
and keep sharing the Gospel!
