Stories From Hell's Hill: Miracles | Scott Hord

A Call to Sidewalk Counseling at Hell’s Hill

And all those things came together in that moment to where I realized, okay, I'm called to do something in this fight against abortion. The abortion mill was located on a hill, and I would soon find out that that hill would be called Hell's Hill.

On Hell's Hill, we had a time where a young lady and a young man were going in to abort. It was a very tense situation. We know that when you're on Hell's Hill, you've got to discern things really quickly.

And there's times to speak, and there's times to be quiet. Because if you keep speaking, you might die. And today was one of those moments where this young man was with a young lady, and as they were going in, he was making threats towards us.

And I looked at the people around us, and I said, don't say anything else because he will kill us if we keep talking. And the young man went in, but the young lady heard the words that we spoke to her, the encouragement we spoke to her, so she snuck out.

And she snuck to her car to hear more of what we had to say. And so when she was out there, we got to talk to her just for a few minutes more. And it was enough to change her mind. So she goes back into the abortion mill, and she tells the guy that she's going to keep the child.

He's really angry towards us. And I look at everybody around us, and I tell him, don't say a word to him, because we will die today if we say anything to him. And so they get in their cars. She gets in her car, and she drives away.

He gets in his car, and he's pulling out of the parking lot. He's in a rage, and he's lost. And he rolls down the window, and he screams at me, and he says, can you tell me how to get back to the interstate at the top of his lungs?

I tell him to go down to the bottom of the hill, turn right, and you'll find the interstate. And so that was on a Friday. Sunday, I get a call, and a friend calls me and says, hey, I have a friend that's struggling.

Can I give this guy your number so he can call you? And I said, sure. So on Monday, I get a call from Birmingham, Alabama. And I'm talking to this guy that's hurting, and I'm trying to understand who he is and what's going on.

As we begin to talk, I realize that there's something strange about the conversation. And so I speak back to the young man, and I said, hey, you're in Birmingham. You live in Birmingham, but were you in Nashville on Friday?

And he says, yes, I was. I said, were you at an abortion facility? He said, yes, I was. And I said, I'm your guy. He goes, what do you mean, you're my guy? How do you know I was there? I said, I'm the guy.

He goes, what do you mean? I said, I'm the guy that you wanted to kill. And there was a silence on the phone, and I said, man, before you hang up, can I ask you one question? He goes, yeah. How is that possible that you're at the abortion meal on Friday and you wanted me dead, but you're the one calling me on Monday from Birmingham, Alabama?

And he said, God. I said, yeah, let me tell you about my God. And so I told him about the Lord, shared the gospel with him, and he listened. And I asked him, I said, do you have any questions? He says, no.

And it's interesting how it ended, but he said, I appreciate the conversation. I'll never talk to you again, and he hung up. But what an incredible miracle. What's the chances of that guy leaving that abortion meal on Friday, not having my number or knowing who I was, and he called me on Monday?

Following the Lord’s Leading in the Diaper Box Story

God's amazing. I had a situation one time where we had a guy and a girl, and they were in a car really far away from us, about 50 feet, and we couldn't get their attention. Their heads were down. We could tell that there was a lot of heaviness in their car.

And in that moment, I began to pray and say, Lord, would you give me something that would get their attention and that they would look at me? And so I said that prayer, that simple prayer, and I felt like the Lord gave me something.

I knew I had a box of diapers in my truck, and I felt like the Lord wanted me to go get the box of diapers. And so I go get this box of diapers. I'm standing next to a lady named Kathy, and she goes, what are you doing?

I said, I felt like the Lord wanted me to get the box of diapers. So I'm standing there with this box of diapers. It has a picture of a beautiful African American child on the box, and I'm sitting there holding it, and I felt like the Lord said, put the box on your head.

So I put the box on my head. And Kathy looks at me and says, so you're telling me that the Lord told you to put a box of diapers on your head? And I'm like, yep. And so we're kind of laughing a little bit.

But then all of a sudden, the couple, the guy would never look at us, but the young lady looks down, who's been looking down for 20 minutes, looks up, and she looks at me holding this box of diapers on my head.

She looks down, and then she looks back up, and she can't take her eyes off the box of diapers, and she begins to cry. She gets out of her car and she walks over to us. That would begin a conversation that would lead to an amazing rescue, and we would eventually throw this couple an incredible baby shower up in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Devin’s Heart Condition, the Pregnancy Decision, and Billy’s Birth

Had a woman named Devin. Devin had a heart condition. Only 25 of her heart was working. She became pregnant. She went to a doctor, and the doctor told her, you have to abort the child, or if you try to have a child, you will die.

Your heart will give out. She was devastated by that news, but she planned her abortion appointment at Hell's Hill. That day, she drove two hours from Parsons, Tennessee, to abort her child. As she was driving in, she was praying to the Lord, and she said, Lord, is there a way out?

And the Lord gave her some words, and the Lord told her, if you hear these words, there's another way. Don't have your abortion. So Devin pulls in that day. I happened to be at the abortion meal at Hell's Hill.

She gets out of her car. She's walking down the sidewalk, and I'm praying to the Lord, what words do you want me to say to this woman that's walking into the abortion meal, I literally have one option to say something, and I say the words, hey, there's another way.

She looks at me, and she's emotional. She's an emotional wreck. She's crying, and she comes over, and she tells me about the drive-in from Parsons. She tells me about the prayer, and she looks at me, and she says, you know, the doctor says, I will die if I have this child.

And I looked at her and said, man, what a great way to go. If you're gonna die, why not die for somebody else? Why not die for this child? And so she took my advice, and she carried the pregnancy. And we began to walk with her.

We threw her a beautiful baby shower. I remember the day when she had her child. She had it in Nashville, Tennessee at Centennial Hospital. I remember being in the room that day with her. I knew the risks that were involved, that she could possibly die during the pregnancy.

I remember walking in that room and seeing her family all there, and they were wondering, who's this guy in the room? Devin never told her family about our relationship and how we came to know each other.

And so Devin went in to give birth, and she almost died. She did, but she didn't. And she had this beautiful baby boy named Billy, and we rejoiced. And Devin went home to Parsons, Tennessee. But a year later, Devin would die.

Her heart would give out. Her family finally found out about our relationship and how we met. They found out, they just heard the story, and they sent me this incredible letter and said, thank you. Devin's legacy now lives on through Billy.

Isn't that amazing?