“If Charles and Frances Can Do It, You Can Do It Too!”
In 2020 Stephen Strang wrote an article called Remembering How Healing Evangelists Charles and Frances Hunter Impacted the World for Jesus. He said:
Do you remember the "Happy Hunters"? I know I do. I was 25 years old when I first met Charles and Frances Hunter, both of whom were healing evangelists for the Lord with a passion for walking in the Spirit's supernatural power. I first saw them at an event they hosted in Kissimmee, Florida. That night, I watched my friend, Gene Lilly, get healed of multiple sclerosis. The Hunters' ministry made such an impact on me that I wrote about them in one of the first articles I ever did for Charisma back when I founded the magazine in 1975.
I remember the Hunters too. In 1980-1981 I attended the very first year of the Hunters’ school of ministry, and my mother and I bought a house that was practically next door to Hunter Ministries, where the school was held. During the years we lived almost next door to Hunter Ministries I had the opportunity to see many healing miracles in the big blue dome where the Hunters held their healing services when they were in town.
One summer--I think it was the summer right after I graduated--the Hunters started a summer school, and I invited two of the summer school students to lunch. Summers are very hot in Texas, our air conditioner wasn’t functioning very well, and I don’t do well in hot weather, but I went ahead and cooked the very small eye of round roast I’d bought for the occasion. Lunch was almost ready when the two students arrived--along with their entire class. I said, “Hmph! I suppose I’m going to have to lay hands on this roast (whereupon I smacked the roast) and command it to multiply in the name of Jesus!” I didn’t think I was praying. I thought I was venting. I went ahead and made the largest salad I could make with what was in the refrigerator, cooked whatever frozen vegetables I had in the freezer, put the food on the counter between the stove and the living room and and started to carve the roast. And carve. And carve. By the time everyone’s plates were full, about half of that very small roast was left. God had multiplied the roast, and I think my mother and I were the only two who noticed. We still had leftovers after everyone else had gone.
The roast beef miracle wasn’t the only Hunter-related miracle I’ve experienced. Around the turn of the century, there was a lump in my left breast. My doctor ordered a biopsy. According to the biopsy, there were two kinds of cancer cells in the lump--a bad kind and a not-so-bad kind. He ordered a lumpectomy. I got lots of prayer. One of the pray-ers was Frances Hunter. (I stopped by her office.) After the surgeon did the lumpectomy they biopsied the tissue they’d removed, and no cancer cells were found.
Both Charles and Frances are with the Lord now. Their daughter, Joan Hunter, took over the leadership of Hunter Ministries after the passing of her mother in July 2009. (She also leads her own ministry, Joan Hunter Ministries.)
One of Frances Hunter’s favorite sayings was “If Charles and Frances can do it, you can do it, too!” If you want to know how Charles and Frances did it, their 14-video teaching series How to Heal the Sick is available free of charge on YouTube.
Margot Armer
