As Ann Traylor talks about her ministry in an old school building off Highway 321 between Swansea and Gaston, a woman walks up and asks her about some bed sheets.

The woman has been there before, and at some time in the recent past has had her house destroyed by fire. She just needs a sheet or two for one of the beds in her house.

Traylor tells her where the sheets are, and that she can take whatever she needs.

The woman thanks her, and offers to come back and do some volunteer work, and shares a couple of ideas for fund raisers for the mission.

“Most of the time, people we help offer to do some work here. We don’t require it, but it makes people feel good to feel like they are helping. I don’t think people really want a handout,’’ Traylor explained.

Traylor and her husband Steve, run There is Hope Ministries, which feeds and clothes people. They also try to help people spiritually, but they don’t force their gospel message on people.

The old motel on the side of the highway is slowly taking shape. Traylor beams at the progress they have made in six months and she has great plans for the future of the site.

Traylor is also excited about her own progress over the recent years.

Just four years ago she said she was miraculously healed of agoraphobia, an illness that made her afraid to go outside. Since then she has not only lost her fear of going outside, she now preaches regularly and runs the small mission.

Her recovery, as well as her mission, has caught some attention.

She said she was healed by Jesus Christ, and that came about through her watching the Benny Hinn Ministries television program.

Her story has since then caught that minister’s attention. He recently flew her to Tulsa, Okla., for an interview, and plans to fly her to California sometime in July to have her on his program. He wants to interview her and let her tell her story to the national audience that watches his program.

Until last week when she flew to Oklahoma, she had not flown on an airplane since she was a very young child.

“I was nervous, but I knew that God had not given me a spirit of fear. The flight was wonderful,’’ she said.

The idea of being video taped for a television appearance would have seemed very strange to her four years ago when she was afraid to even leave her house. Now the idea seems exciting to her.

The idea of preaching the gospel and feeding the hungry would also have not been something she would have imagined.

“I would not have thought of this. God has done this,’’ she said of her life as she walked around the grounds of her mission.

They have refurbished four of the eight rooms in the old motel, and hope to eventually finish the other four.

She also wants to have a playground and a garden with benches where people can come relax and pray. She would like to have that garden both for people staying at her mission and for people in the community.

She has also gotten several people in the community involved in her mission. She came up with the idea of having people “adopt’’ rooms. So far Gaston mayor Jim Knight, Todd Mack of Mack Builders and the Red Bank Baptist Church have adopted rooms. She would also like to have people adopt other things around the mission, including her proposed playground and garden.

When someone adopts a room, they agree to furnish the room and take care of it, she said. The people staying in the rooms are responsible for cleaning them each day.