Testimony of Healing June 9, 2014 ISSUE

Emergency responders, armed with prayer

Lauren Blake Crandall

This testimony was originally read during an online Wednesday testimony meeting of The Mother Church and has been adapted for print.

I so enjoy these meetings! Last week, a testimony about praying in an emergency situation reminded me of an experience my family had together many years ago.

When I was about six or seven, my mom, brother, and I were in the car, when we had to stop because the street was blocked. There were flashing lights, and someone was being wheeled into an ambulance. I remember that my brother and I were transfixed by the lights and noise, and by what was going on. 

My mom, on the other hand, was telling us that this was an opportunity to pray together to know that the people involved were safe. She started to do just that—we said together the Lord’s Prayer, and also “the scientific statement of being,” found on page 468 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and read aloud each Sunday in Churches of Christ, Scientist, and their Sunday Schools. By the time we were finished praying with those, the ambulance was gone, and we went about our day.

A few days later my mom took my brother and me aside. She had been talking with a member of our Christian Science church and found out that our church organist, who was not a Christian Scientist, had been unwell recently. As the conversation with the church member progressed, my mom realized that this organist was the person we had seen being taken away in the ambulance. 

Apparently the organist had passed out and her husband had called the paramedics. What’s more, the organist had told the church friend my mom was speaking with that when she had been helped to the ambulance, she had remembered the passages read every week in our church—the Lord’s Prayer and “the scientific statement of being”! 

The organist had said that as she’d thought of these inspiring words, and had said them to herself, she’d felt a great sense of peace. The medical staff at the hospital could find nothing wrong with her, and she returned to her home later that day. She didn’t miss any church services and never had a recurrence of the problem.

As you can imagine, this experience left a strong impression. From that day to this, when I see emergency vehicles rushing to a scene, or see the scene itself, I know that my prayers and those of other witnesses can bring immediate comfort and healing to everyone involved.

Lauren Blake Crandall
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US

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