Eleanor Slator

How I praise God for His mercy to me and how He led me to this glorious way! I was saved and sanctified and sent as an alternate delegate to a Methodist Conference in Portland, Oregon. I lived at that time in a rural community near St. Helens, Oregon. When I came to Portland, I stayed in the Montavilla District near where the Apostolic Faith Church was holding a camp meeting.

When I heard how the Lord was blessing, I went to see what was happening. The Lord spoke to me and said, “This is the old, old way, walk ye in it.” How I thank God! He did bless me. He filled me with the Holy Ghost, and also healed me of the dreaded disease of consumption. I had taken care of my brother who died of it in 1904, but the Lord completely healed me.

When Eleanor returned home from that camp meeting, she told her neighbors what great things the Lord had done for her. As a result, meetings were held in a country church and several families were brought into the Apostolic Faith Church: the Orwigs, Lovells, Marvins, and Eleanor’s own daughter-in-law, to name a few. Several other families went to stay in Eleanor’s community to help build up the congregation. Meetings were held there for some time.

Eleanor moved to Portland in 1914 when her husband was saved. She was just finishing distributing literature one day with Sister Samuels when they saw a house in the distance and decided to go there. Florence and Beulah Krueger lived there and accepted their invitation to church along with Mr. Krueger’s brother and his family.

After Eleanor’s husband died in 1922, she went to help Brother Frost in Southern Oregon by distributing literature and helping with the Frost’s children. Then she moved back to Portland where she died in 1931.