“Faith.”

 

To: Sun Automotive and Hope Community Church,

It is something to learn to live with a new HC one that is very socially isolating, and if you by chance find some where you fit in and are accepted the minuet you step across the door step, well that is something. It was Mothers Day when I first met every one at Hope Community Church and Pastor Bill White, his Wife Judy, their daughter Paylin in services. Everybody knew each other here, and they as a team made the Pre-School and Church run. Everybody took time into giving what they could in way of help, if they could, and I wanted to be a part, I gladly would volunteer my service when help of any form was needed. One day I walked up to Bill and Judy and said, “God said for me to put all my energy here for a while. If that was okay with them” Soon I was a part of it all, creating an on-line presence with pictures, videos tours, weekly sermons, graduation, and daily working on the garden. I made appointments with SCORE and we compared notes on marketing strategy, and everyday I get to do something, mean some thing to be a part using my talents, in video, marketing strategies, and writing. Meanwhile I’m often falling, having spasms, pacing, a twitching we shall go, to say it lightly, dealing with 911 calls as usual, but I was working a few hours every day. I had to move suddenly and was thrown into turmoil about what to do about the work I had started with marketing the Pre-School. I had got us a pic in Springfield Times paper with by-line during the yard sale we had; I baked too many cookies, but found a Chef swinging a pies back and forth sells. I wanted to make some grand gesture to Hope Community Pre-school for what they had put back in my life, dignity of self. It was then I saw your commercial and just said to my self. “I’m going to win Bill that Sun Automotive van.”  giving the Pre-School & Church a much needed van & free media exposure. I set out and believed, I had seen something coming in the church a few days before when I found out we were in the top ten and vocalized as such “We are going to win.” And then referring to an scripture “Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.”

We won, Hope Community Pre-School & Church won, Bill White won, Sun Automotive won for a few seconds on KMTR everyone in Eugene & Springfield saw a winner not just Bill White, everyone involved, at some point it becomes like the stone in the water, and the ripples of “Hope” outward ever increasing wave of good. This “Hope” now lay in the reality of a group of people many who are suffering, fighting for a better life, a homeless mom, and her kids living out of a parked camper, or anyone within the walls of Hope Community Church, hope and faith had become tangible.  I kind got the feeling this resides also in Sun Automotive in Springfield and the guys put the hands in the job and the owners who made it happen. In this writer’s opinion it kind of meant the world to him, and was honored to be a part.

 

Thank you,

Chef John Ernst