Bob and Charlotte would fight on a regular basis and I don't mean just words I mean actual physical fighting. I didn't start going down there on the pretence of getting her out, not consciously anyway. But in the end that's what happened.

On November 4, 1993 at 9:00 a.m. I got a phone call from Charlotte. I told her to go to my friends house and wait for me there and that I would be there as soon as we could. I hung up the phone and called my friend in Crystal Beach and asked her to please take her in, until we got there. After that I called Kathy, she picked up the phone and some how she knew that we had a mission (as we called it later) to go on.

As I was getting dressed I was worried about the car, it had not been working very well and I was scared we wouldn't make it to Crystal Beach. I got dressed and went downstairs. Before I could say anything about my concerns Kathy told me of an experience that she had that morning.

At 6:00 as my brother got up to go to work, he went into the bathroom, as he did this, Kathy said she opened her eyes and there was a light in the room coming from the window, she sat up and looked out the window and there in the field was a lady all dressed in white and at her feet were children. She said that she laid back down and kind of said to herself 'hey what was that', so she sat up again and the lady was still there. Just then my brother turned on the hall light and she couldn't see it any more because of the glare. She immediately laid down and fell into a restful sleep until my phone rang at 9:00 it woke her up and she knew that we had to do something very important.

We left at around 9:10a.m. To go and get her it is approximately 1 hour and fifteen minute drive to Crystal Beach. On the way there the car spitted and sputtered, Kathy and I just held hands and prayed and the car would coast along a little bit more. We were there by 10:15 a.m. We got there and left with-in 10 minutes, we picked up the kids from school and we left.

We made it back to our house, the car sputtered and coughed all the way home, but we just prayed having complete faith in what we knew to be a mission from Our Holy Mother. As we were coming into the house my phone was ringing, it was Bob, Charlotte's husband, he was kind of confused as to how I could have got home so fast if it had been me that had come to get her. So I shifted his way of thinking, basically lying to him and said that I had just come in from shopping.

                   

Charlotte was going to stay over night with Kathy and I but instead we decided to get her to a shelter. Kathy used to be a councillor at a woman's shelter so she phoned, we were a little worried about whether we would get the penthouse suit. It was the largest room available it could house 3 children and 1 adult. Kathy and I never had any doubts, she called the shelter and it had just become available that morning.

We had some thing to eat and left for the shelter. Where we lived in the country just outside of Hamilton, was about 10 miles to the shelter. We drove there and then back to the house. We never went anywhere else that day.

The next morning as my sister-in-law and I went out to do some shopping the car would not start at all. Emery went out and looked at it as it turned out it was only the points. After he was done changing them he came in the house and showed us them. They were burnt, Emery said that we never should have left the driveway, let alone to Crystal Beach and back, then into town and back.

Conclusion

Kathy and I believe with out a doubt, that we had the protection of Divine Intervention, enter into our lives that day. If Kathy had not seen the apparition that morning we might not of had the faith that we would have succeeded.

We found out later that at the same time Kathy was seeing the apparition he was beating her with her 3 year old son in her arms, it was exactly the same time Kathy saw the lady in the field with the children sitting at her feet. All we did was have faith that God wanted us to do this and he took care of the rest. We rescued 3 innocent children. We were on a mission from God. We felt like angels from God, which is what we feel we were.

November 1997

Unfortunately Charlotte since this time has gone back with her ex-husband. May God be with her and her children.