Healing through prayer
By Jen Waters
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
March 7, 2006

The Rev. Nigel Mumford said he is preaching the kingdom of God and healing the sick, as Jesus instructed his followers to do.

"Some churches preach the kingdom; even fewer heal the sick," said Mr. Mumford, director of healing ministry at Christ the King Spiritual Life Center in Greenwich, N.Y. "For some reason, the healing ministry has had a bad rap."

Because of scandals involving television evangelists, most Americans discount prayer for healing as nothing more than wishful thinking, Mr. Mumford said, but some Christians are trying to restore dignity to the notion that Jesus is a healer. In 2003, he said, he spoke to more than 400 physicians at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

As a former drill instructor for the Royal Marine Commando in Britain, Mr. Mumford said, he has seen man's inhumanity to man, but he also has seen God's healing grace to man. He describes his experiences in the book "Hand to Hand: From Combat to Healing."
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