BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

********** ADVERTISEMENT *********** SWBC HEALING SCHOOL Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Unite in Prayer PRE-SERVICE PRAYER 30 min. before each morning & evening session ************************************************ * * * * * * * article continues * * * * * * * Years before she met Saundra and Renée, Dorothy, who was a schoolteacher, had started watching Brother Copeland when he was on a local station in San Diego County. She had been a Partner with KCM since 1980. Like Renée, she too had experienced a miraculous healing through the ministry of KCM. “I had suffered with migraine headaches for as long as I could remember,” Dorothy explained. “Sometimes they would be so severe I couldn’t even work, and my principal would have to send me home. I was watching the broadcast one day when I heard Brother Copeland say, ‘God is healing someone with migraine headaches.’ I put my hand on my head as he prayed, and I haven’t had a migraine since then.” In 1981, Dorothy attended her first live KCM meeting, a Victory Campaign, which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in California. The following year, she attended the first West Coast Believers’ Convention in Anaheim. In 1986, during the West Coast meeting, Dorothy met Saundra and Renée. Dorothy brought her two sons and two of their friends to the meeting. Because she needed extra seats and didn’t want to be a distraction with the younger children, she decided not to sit in her original section on the main level, and instead moved to the upper level in the auditorium. Meanwhile, Saundra had been reassigned from the first-floor level to usher in a section in the upper-level area. When she told Renée she would be moving to the upper level, Renée responded that she wanted to go wherever Saundra went. “I went up to Saundra and asked if I could sit in her section, and she was so nice,” Dorothy remembers. “She let me hold seats for all of us. I remember thinking that I would have to look for her the next time.” Every year since then, when Dorothy returned for the meeting, Saundra had reserved seats waiting for her—as well as for Renée. Eventually, Saundra introduced Dorothy to Renée and the three became friends. “We would stay behind after the meeting was over and help Saundra tidy up her section, and then we would all go to lunch together,” said Dorothy. “We exchanged phone numbers so we could keep in touch, and started calling each other throughout the year. When the next meeting came, we would see each other again. It just became something we looked forward to each year.” Over the past 33 years, Saundra, Renée and Dorothy have kept their friendship alive and active. Since the last West Coast Believers’ Convention was held in July 2009, their reunions have taken place at the Southwest Believers’ Convention in Fort Worth and sometimes at other KCM meetings. “We look forward to this time each year,” said Saundra. “When we come together, we pick up like we’d just seen each other yesterday. It’s like a pilgrimage. We’re excited about being in the meetings and hearing the Word for six days. But we’re also excited to be back together. It’s a reunion for us. We stay in touch, so we know what’s going on in each other’s lives. We do three-way calls and pray together over the phone. We have each other to rely on to keep us built up in the faith. We can depend on one another for help, prayer or whatever we need at the time.” For more than three decades, Saundra, Renée and Dorothy have maintained their relationship. More than just a friendship, it has become a partnership. A partnership that began when one woman decided to attend and become actively involved in a KCM meeting. V BVOV : 19

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