"I'm surprised that everybody came together so quickly to find her place and I think that's a blessing,” Hopkins said. 

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)-- Things are starting to look up for Deangela Celestine, 28, a single mother of seven who was shot several times by her ex-boyfriend before he committed suicide. Now she is paralyzed from the waist down. Celestine now has a new home, and Spirit of Liberty Church gifted her with a gurney.

"I had the shower gurney in my house for about four years and I tried it like whatever to try to sell it, and I never could sell it," Randy Hopkins, the donor of the shower gurney, said. "So I put it in a corner and it stayed in a corner for four years until we had a meeting at church and one of the members stood up and she talked about Miss Celestine and being paralyzed and when she mentioned it right then and there, I knew where the shower gurney needed to be." 

"I'm going to be actually able to take a shower instead of just a bed bath that I've been taking for the last five months," Celestine said. "I'm very appreciative of it. It's going to go well with the new house. I just got."

She told News 10 that she was already in the process of moving into a new home when she was living at the Brook Pointe Apartments. Unfortunately, due to being shot, the process was delayed. Just as Hopkins learned of her story so did the owner of her new home. 

"The home that I just received about two days ago. It is a four bedroom, two bath. I'm extra excited about it because it's more room for me and my kids and is actually a brand new home. It's built from the ground up and it's one of the great blessings to receive after this traumatic event,” she said. 

"I'm surprised that everybody came together so quickly to find her place and I think that's a blessing,” Hopkins said. 

The family still needs much help with finding a physical therapist and mentors for the children. If you want to help, the family has set up a GoFundMe account. 

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