The woman behind the name.
The Bette Farrer Foundation was established by Bette Farrer’s grandchildren in honor of a woman whose Christian faith left a lasting imprint on her family.
Bette was known as an intercessor—a person committed to bringing the needs of others before God in prayer. In 2012, as filmmaker Lauralee Farrer’s Praying the Hours project was taking shape, its prayer producer wrote that the production was being built on a legacy of prayer: for years Bette, Lauralee’s mother, had prayed continuously for the film. After Bette’s death, that commitment to prayer was carried forward by others involved in the project.
Lauralee later wrote about following her mother’s practice of speaking people’s names before the throne in prayer. That simple image captures something essential about Bette’s legacy: faith was personal, persistent and directed toward the needs of other people.
