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History of Heaven Bound.....
Heaven Bound started in Lubbock, Texas. Shane and I saw that in the apartment complex we managed were poor, broken spirits, with no hope of a future. As we got to know the people we started to understand that even in the US there were people who didn't know who Jesus was and most of them felt forgotten. Our love for the people grew as we started to meet the personal needs of the community. We picked up at least one full bag of trash every day, we planted plants and flowers. I started pulling my resources from churches, friends from our Sunday School Class to gather furniture, bedding, and food to give out as needed. Then we called the police station and started a Neighborhood Watch program. The residents immediately responded and as we kicked out the drug dealers and prostitues from our apartment complex, we saw others helping in keeping the commintuy clean and picked up. Their attitudes changed and we became very close to many of the residents. After six months, it was christmas and we started planning achristmas party. Through word of mouth, many of the residents were adopted by the body of Christ and gave gifts to the residents. One particular morning, a young lady came running into our office and asked us to protect her from her boyfriend. The man came in, very angry the girl ran around to a corner behind our desk and I went with her to keep her seperated from the man. By the powers of God the man never saw me, he kept trying to hit over me to reach the girl but never once tried to strike at me. I was yelling at the man and pushing on his chest, but he never looked at me or touched me. Shane then came around to where we were and touched the man as he told him to leave. Shane had already called the police. The man turned around and started assualting shane, punching him in the face and on his chest and Got shane right in the temple and as shane fell to his knees, the man continued to punch his chest. The whole time he was hitting shane, I was hitting the man and yelling at him to leave and to stop. He abruptly stopped and walked out. The girl ran through our apartment and escaped. I chased her down telling her we could not protect her if she left. But she didn't stop running. The man came back and I was able to lock the front door with the deadbolt and he broke the door but he didn't get in. The man ran off. Shane went to the ER in an abulance while I stayed in the office. I called some church friends that found someone who could come and replace the door. ( this was a business and we couldn't leave it with a broken door). The kids were at school that day so they didn't see anything happen. I finally picked up Shane from the hospital with a concussion and bruising. He asked me if I wanted to leave, i said "NO WAY! Satan will have to fight harder than that to get rid of us!" The Battle was on! The next day the girl came to the office to say sorry that she got us involved. She had let the guy back in her apartment and I was Livid! As I was telling her off and giving her a peice of my mind, God soften my heart and instantly my words changed to love. She asked me why I cared, so I shared the love of Christ with her and prayed for her right there in my office. We cried together and she said she just didn't understand. She said she was sorry again and walked out. I just sat there, really didn't know what just had happened. I knew that God had used me, Spoke through me, loved her through me. It was AWESOME!
There were many attacks in the next four years. Many were personal to our family and I'll share them later. God is Good!