Prayer amid Pandemic

Episode 12 | 17 min

Even Fellow Believers Didn’t Understand Her Love for AIDS Patients

Little was known about the epidemic. But Philomena Percival’s love for God prompted her to take risks for the sick in Guyana.

June 11, 2020
Share
- Facebook
- X
- WhatsApp
- Telegram
- Email

Philomena Percival has counseled and cared for hundreds of AIDS patients in Guyana for more than 25 years. She joins Prayer amid Pandemic to discuss how an ectopic pregnancy led her to care for those afflicted by AIDS, how witnessing this suffering up close changed her faith, and why Christians should spend more time with the sick.

This episode’s prayer is from Miguel Castillo, the coaching coordinator for M4 Spain, who resides in Madrid.

Read Christianity Today’s latest coronavirus coverage

What is Prayer amid Pandemic? Read more

Rate Prayer amid Pandemic on Apple Podcasts

Follow the podcast on Twitter

Follow the host on Twitter: Morgan Lee

Music by Urban Nerd Beats, Prod. Riddiman, and Oliver Dúvel

Prayer amid Pandemic is produced by Morgan Lee, Mike Cosper, and Erik Petrik

Our Latest

The rapper Flame with stained glass church windows in the background.

Flame Raps the Sacraments

Gretchen Ronnevik

Now that he’s Lutheran, the rapper’s music has changed along with his theology.

Glasses that have the reflection of athletes running in the lenses.

Review

Becoming Athletes of Attention in an Age of Distraction

Christopher Benson

Even without retreating to the desert, we can train our wandering minds with ancient monastic wisdom.

A collage with a blurred woman in the background and computer images of a bitcoin and code on top

News

A Mother Tortured at Her Keyboard. A Donor Swindled. An Ambassador on Her Knees.

By Erin Foley in Mae Sot, Thailand

Meet the Christians ensnared by cyberscamming and the ministries trying to stop it.

A throne with a crown of thorns on it

Christ Our King, Come What May

This Sunday is a yearly reminder that Christ is our only Lord—and that while governments rise and fall, he is Lord eternal.

The Bulletin

Something Is Not the Same

The Bulletin talks RFK’s appointment and autism, Biden’s provision of missiles to Ukraine, and entertainment and dark humor with Russell and Mike.

Rend Collective standing with instruments in the forest

Play Those Chocolate Sprinkles, Rend Collective!

Haley Byrd Wilt

The Irish band’s new album “FOLK!” proclaims joy after suffering.

A foggy image of a deer and trees.

The Still Small Voice in the Deer Stand

Brian Reisinger

Since childhood, each hunting season out in God’s creation has healed wounds and deepened my faith.

Black woman behind a ripped blue paper

The Black Women Missing from Our Pews

America’s most churched demographic is slipping from religious life. We must go after them.