True healing through prayer and community ONE
BY JENNIE ROSIO
WRITER
If you drive to a little home on West
Olmos Drive located six minutes from
the Alamo Quarry Market, you’ll find a
place of quiet and rest and connection –
and maybe even a miracle. When you
enter, you might be offered coffee or
green tea, smell the scented candles and
hear soft strains of Lauren Daigle singing,
“When I can’t stand, you carry me…”
Best of all, you might feel like you
are in the home of a good friend you’ve
been missing for a long time.
This ministry had been called “Christ
Healing Center” since its inception in
2004. The small beginnings are chronicled
on ONE’s website. It all began when
Jack & Anna Marie Sheffield, Bitsy
Rubsamin and friends knew that San
Antonians were looking for a place to
experience and process the power of
Jesus to heal body, soul and spirit.
The movement’s name now is
simply, “ONE.” The name is new, but
the mission is the same.
The name “ONE” comes from
John 17 – what Executive Director Cayce
Harris calls, “The most powerful prayer
ever prayed: that you and I would be one
in the same way that Jesus and God are
one. This is the foundation of everything
that happens at ONE." Cayce says,
“We all know that life can be noisy and
complicated. Everyone wants a safe
space to process life and hear God’s
voice clearly.” At ONE, anyone can
practice two-way conversations with
God – talking to and hearing from God.
This kind of prayer brings healing and
freedom, according to teams at ONE
who pray with hundreds weekly. “We are
uniquely focused on helping people
hear God’s voice and live Jesus’ prayer
(John 17). We do this through prayer
and classes on prayer and leadership,”
Cayce explains.
Yet for locals, its reputation for
physical healing tends to be quite
overarching. Cayce says, “Some people
call and say, ‘Can you guarantee that
I’m going to be healed?’” Guests of ONE
file in so regularly and in such numbers
– about 200 a week – that when Cayce
voiced her ministry needs to the
Beacon, she did not hesitate to say,
“we just need a bigger staff.”
Cancer patients come; those who
are processing daily life come; troubled
teens come; little children come with
their parents; broken-hearted wives
and husbands come. In the various
sessions offered throughout the week,
the chance to work
closely with
trained volunteers
and paid staff
through real-life
problems in a safe
place draws a
diverse crowd. Its
non-condemning
environment draws people of all ages,
colors, and denominations; the rich
and poor; the unchurched, the
de-churched; the convinced and the
skeptical.
Cayce Hariis, Director of ONE.
Jesus, it seems, is attracted to these
people. Dramatic healings happen so
often, Cayce says, “we really need to do
a better job of keeping track of the stories.
Every day someone tells us something
“ I am privileged to have been connected for a
number of years to ONE, originally through Jack
Sheffield and Bitsy Rubsamin. I have been
blessed to get to know Cayce Harris and I love
her heart and her leadership. I have been
served personally by this ministry through one
of their leaders, Rosalind Hervey, and I am very
grateful. ONE touched my life
and I am happy to support
this amazing ministry so that
they can touch others in our
community.“
Scott Barr
Steward of Southwest Exteriors
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