While living on Greenfield Ave. in San Rafael, the Methodist Church down the way let us have a Bible study in their fellowship hall across the street from the main church. This during the Jesus People Movement though no one called it that or even knew there was something incredible going on, and this all across the country.

      The year would have been 1970 when something I will never forget occurred. After the Tuesday evening Bible study, anyone wishing prayer would come to me while I was seated on a chair. A young person, about 18 or so, was in line and she asked to be healed from a problem with one of her eyes. I laid hands on her head, my usual way, and prayed that she be healed. 

      Two days later I got a telephone call from her father, who I found out later was a higher up with the city of San Rafael. He was upset with me, but for a strange reason. The morning after his daughter asked for prayer for healing, she was scheduled to have her right eye operated on. When the surgeon was set to begin, he stopped as he could see the problem with the eye was no more. After she awoke from the medication, she recounted how I had prayed for her to be healed.

      The young woman’s family were Jewish but were not involved with a local synagogue. Later on, the healed girl began working with Jews for Jesus and her sister, who had some sort of disability, actually moved in with my family when we lived at 671 Knocknabul Way in Terra Linda.