God’s Giant Hands: The Near Death Experience of Rick Defer
Introductory statement This story was written by a remarkable Spirit-filled woman named Kaitee Lusk, who interviewed former firefighter Rick Defer and added the account of his near-death-experience (NDE) to the collection of miracle stories in her book Eternal Makeovers , Pleasant Word, Winepress Publishing, Enumclaw WA, 2006. Rick told me about her when I met him at church one day in Citrus Heights, California in 2007. Several of us listened to his first hand account of the day he was electrocuted at work in 1980 and was clinically dead for a full half hour. He showed us the scars. There was a clear dent in his chest, and his hands still bore witness to the burns from that unfortunate day. He also told me Kaitee’s amazing story, so I contacted her by email and she sent me the narrative below, copied and pasted from her book manuscript. She added her own account of receiving a call from God to go to the Philippines. Her stunning story of leading Philippine dictator Ferdinand Ma...