Fmr YWAMer's Midwifery Mission

CharismaNOW -- Christian News : "Filipino women are experiencing 'new birth' through the midwifery ministry of a 20-something woman from Texas. Since September 2003, Hilary Overton's Glory Reborn Organization (GRO) has provided free maternity care to the homeless and poor mothers of Cebu City, located 365 miles south of Manila.
Overton, 24, said GRO has delivered more than 400 healthy babies and helped many more women in the community through medical care and services. Expectant mothers are offered prenatal and postnatal checkups, vitamins, health teachings and a feeding program, as well as weekly prayer and worship sessions before their babies are delivered.
Overton estimates that at least 200 women have accepted Jesus. 'It is amazing to see the many lives that have been transformed not just physically but spiritually throughout the course of pregnancy and delivery, and how many little lives will be impacted to live for Jesus,' Overton told 'Charisma' magazine in the September issue, out now. The full article on GRO can be found in the magazine.
A native of El Paso, Overton is part of a family of ministers. Her uncle is popular worship leader Tommy Walker. Her aunt and uncle, Janey and Sam Stewart, head a worldwide feeding ministry called Charlie's Lunch. Another uncle, Dale Walker, is founder of Heart for the World Mission Organization. And her father, Steve Walker, was founding pastor of Jesus Chapel West in El Paso.
Overton said she fell in love with ministering in Cebu during a June 2000 missions trip with Youth With a Mission. In September 2000, she moved to Cebu and lived there for 15 months while working on her midwifery degree through a New Mexico school.
She went back to Texas for five months to plan her June 6, 2003, wedding to David Overton, also 24. 'I came back to Cebu in September 2003 to start Glory Reborn in my apartment, where we delivered our first baby,' said Overton, noting that her husband is GRO's clinic administrator and 'fix-it' man."

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