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A Letter of Hope

I had permission to bring Faith, Hope and Love to my apartment complex. I just wanted to give you the follow up on what happened during that week of local missions (FHL Week, July 22-26,2007) to my neighborhood.

I had asked my personal dentist to donate toothbrushes so I could give them out to my neighbors. I asked my daughter and her friends, who are atheists, to help me pass out the toothbrushes to my neighbors. We only passed out toothbrushes to neighbors who were standing outside. We did not go knocking door to door disturbing anyone. My neighbors were glad to get the toothbrushes, so glad in fact that we ran out very quickly. I was only able to give out toothbrushes on my street and the next street over. My dentist only gave us 72 toothbrushes and they went like hotcakes. One poor boy cried because we ran out.

On Sunday night I had three friends from church walk around and pray over all of the property. We ended up sitting on the steps to the rental office where we prayed for the staff of the office and the maintenance men. One maintenance man saw us and he couldn't believe that four single women would walk around praying in such a rough neighborhood. As we prayed I realized for the first time how hard it must be to work in that rental office. Most times living at the complex for 22 years now it always seems the rental office and the residents are at enmity with each other. We prayed for peace and reconciliation between the staff and the residents. My daughter and her two atheist friends also helped pass out small packets of Propell. It's a drink mix to put in bottled water. Once again we only went to neighbors who were standing outside. No door to door knocking and disturbing my neighbors. We also did not pass out any fliers. So we saved the rainforest by not using any paper and we did not tax maintenance with any extra work passing out fliers. While we were passing out Propell and toothbrushes, we invited my neighbors to come to the prayer trailer on Thursday of that week.

That Thursday the semi tractor trailer (FHL Prayer Trailer) pulled up and parked at the corner. They have a new (to me) pastor who is a woman and she is doing an incredible work to help out the neighborhood. The trailer had just pulled up and we didn't even have the stairs up yet when we got swamped with people wanting to come inside and get prayer. We were so swamped with people they had to wait in line to get prayer. The entire preschool came in to get prayer. My neighbors came in to get prayer. I personally picked up and drove my next door neighbor to the prayer trailer. We prayed and prayed.

Well God has answered our prayers.I am pleased to report that I have not heard any gunfire since July of this year. The horrible oppression that used to be over my neighborhood is gone. I am no longer afraid to live here. The atmosphere in my neighborhood has turned to bright hope.

I have wanted to do an art outreach when the weather got cooler. I simply want to put an easel outside and paint on the sidewalk as I would if I were in Paris at springtime. Only it would be in Fall. The weather is much cooler today and I'm getting the outreach ready. I hope to involve children passing by to participate in painting.

Merlin Gonzales, my friend who heads up Faith Hope and Love told me the biggest response to the prayer trailer that went all over the city was at my apartment complex. So with 72 toothbrushes God has moved the mountain of fear off my neighborhood. I would call that a miracle. I sleep at night like a log.

Thank you for letting us bring Faith Hope and Love to my apartment complex. We hope to get an RV to bring a prayer trailer more often than once a year. The semi tractor trailer is only donated to us one week of the year. We also hope to partner with the local church and bring a food pantry to my neighbors. We have bright hope for the future.

Love,
Susan Eudaly

posted by fhlinternational @ 7:14 PM