Frances Hunter Dies

Frances Eileen Hunter
May 8, 1916 - July 14, 2009

I was saddened to hear of Frances Hunters death on July 14, 2009~she was 93 years old. Not sad for her, but for he beloved husband of 39 years--Charles, and her children/grandchildren. What a pistol! A more exuberant woman I have never known, I seen her in person once and wrote her a few times, but read many of her books. She was a part of the "Happy Hunters" a husband & wife team who for year went from country to country, State to State, and province to province with the sole reason to share the love of God. I was a mere child when I first heard of the Happy Hunters, they would have been in their 60's~they had come to Abbotsford, BC from their home in Texas to the Pentecostal Church. My dad was in very bad shape, had been going into traction on a weekly basis--they would put weights at the end of the bed, and he was on two different pain killers, one was called Blue Heavens. Mom was convinced if dad would go and get prayer--he would be able to throw away the pills and never go into that traction bed again. Charles called up anyone who had a bad back, dad went up and he prayed over him that his back would align and his leg would "grow out" (the term used when it appears the leg grows out, when alignment occurs and both become equal again). Dad walked out of there, and the pills got dumped down the toilet, free from back pain and traction. Dad is now 83 and he has never had a back/traction issue since.

There is much mocking of "faith healers" today, and some rightly so, selling miracle water for $100.00/24 pack and prayer cloths for money~ but Charles and Frances were the "real" deal. Money was the last on their minds, and they once told us they prayed for 10,000 people before they seem one miracle--but when that first miracle occurred--they were off to the races! They just had "faith" plain and simple and they never focused on the thought "What if.." they said they were called to pray, and it was up to God the rest. They wouldn't take the credit or the criticism. Awesome, wonderful people of God, who loved people so much, and that love just oozed out of them.

I am sad she is gone, but I am happy for her, as she is "resting in the everlasting arms"....