WIS-TV, Columbia, S. C., Senior Reporter Heather Hoopes was interviewed by a newspaper reporter Thursday [Feb. 2002] on the eve of her last day at the station.  “Faith has become a big part of your life,” interviewer Doug Nye asked Heather.  “How did that come about?”  “When I came here in 1994,” Hoopes replied, “I watched Dawn Mercer in the newsroom.  She was cute and never gossiped.  I couldn’t stand her then,” she laughingly confessed.  “But then the guy I was dating started taking me to church.  The things I was hearing from the pulpit were some of the same things I had heard Dawn talk about.  I began to understand.  It changed my life.   I had never had a relationship with the Lord, but I began to realize there were more important things in life.”  (The State newspaper, 2/7/02, p.D5)

            She saw.  Then she heard.  What she heard helped Heather Hoopes to understand what she had seen.   A life-changing transformation took place in her.  

(posted 7 October 2002)