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PROPHETIC WORD TO A YOUNG ORPHANED GIRL - It was 1929, the Great Depression in Los Angeles.
Sister McPherson was to impact a little girl's heart with a prophetic word
-- Dr. Allan Hamilton recalls --
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At the age of five, little Dorothy Fern McKeever had gone into Angelus Temple and sat high in the upper balcony. Sister McPherson
preached a sermon about the lost lamb. She gave the invitation and Dorothy found her way down to the front. The only place
she could find to kneel was at a big chair on the platform. She was praying and giving her heart to Jesus, when suddenly
she felt somebody praying for her and lifting her up. It was Mrs. McPherson, and she told the ragged little girl that God
was going to make her a minister's wife.
Thousands were in desperate need in Los Angeles. Aimee had opened a soup kitchen where anyone could get a free meal, clothing,
and blankets with no red tape or questions asked. The local business people contributed, and the police department referred
the destitute to Angelus Temple knowing they would not be turned away.
Dorothy and her sister, Neva, lived with their father just a few blocks from the Temple. Their mother had died, leaving the
grieving father with two little girls to care for. He had lost his job and could barely feed the girls. Each day he sent
Dorothy to the Temple commissary. She always asked for a loaf of bread and a can of peas.
A very nice worker at the commissary had noticed Dorothy and befriended her. Dorothy's father saw that a friendship was developing.
It was Christmas and the distraught father felt hopeless to care for the girls. He found out where the lady lived and on
Christmas eve, left his girls on her doorstep and disappeared into the night. When the lady came home with her husband, they
found two tired hungry girls just as they had been left. They took them in and found a place for them to sleep; then stayed
up all night making Christmas gifts so the girls would have a Christmas.
This wonderful couple cared for both girls like their own. They went to school, grew up surrounded by Christian love at Angelus
Temple, and Dorothy graduated with honors at LIFE. Had it not been for the commissary and the Godly love of Mr. and Mrs.
Whilhite, who knows what might have happened to them.
And so Sister McPherson's prophecy came true. Dorothy would fall in love with Allan Hamilton. Allan would become a preacher,
and the young couple would pastor, go to the Philippines as missionaries, return to pastor the Portland Foursquare Church
until the day God called Dorothy home.
You are who you are for a reason,
You're part of an intricate plan;
You're a precious and perfect unique design,
Called God's special woman or man
The parents you had were the ones He chose,
And no matter how you may feel,
They were custom-designed with God's plan in mind,
And they bear the Master's seal.
-- Russell Kelfer
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