SPANISH FORT, Ala. — When you scroll through on-line photo album, Faith Stewart is wearing pink cowboy boots to go with her blue two-piece outfit.

The photo journey includes images of her laughing, wearing hats or funny sunglasses in different poses.

The camera clearly loves her — she just doesn’t take a bad photo. It’s only when you look more closely at some photos that you realize that she is hooked to a ventilator.

The 3-year-old is paralyzed from the neck down from a car accident — and the Masonic Lodge in Spanish Fort wants to raise money to help her.

Masonic Lodge #916 in Spanish Fort heard about Faith when a lodge brother met two men who had built a utility trailer and wanted to donate it for a raffle to raise money for the little girl. The Free Masons is the “oldest fraternity,” Danny Phillips said.

Phillips, who is in charge of the Mason’s raffle tickets, said that Faith’s grandmother was posting regular reports on a Web page. He said all you had to do was read one or two postings to want to help this child.

“It is such a tragic story, and as Masons we are proud to lend our credibility to this endeavor,” he said. “I look at her and see my granddaughter.”

Faith’s situation really hits close to home for Spanish Fort officer Steve McGough. His daughter, who will turn five soon, has had three open heart surgeries.

“Any time a kid needs help, you have just got to help them,” he said.

On July 11, a driver ran a red light and hit the car Faith was traveling in with her mother, Celena Sprinkle, and aunt, Tracey Stewart.

The trio was coming back from a trip to Daphne to Faith’s home in Bay Minette, and Faith was sound asleep in her car seat when the crash occurred, said Patricia Stewart, Tracy’s mother.

She said without her daughter — who performed CPR on Faith and helped Sprinkle from the wrecked car — she would have lost both her granddaughter and her daughter. Sprinkle was injured and now has to deal with memory loss.

Stewart stayed with her only grandchild for almost three months at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, which helps children with medical conditions, such as spinal cord injury free of charge.

The impact stretched Faith’s spine to level C1-C2, the first two vertebrae of the spine, Stewart said. To date, Faith is a quadriplegic, is on a ventilator and has had a tracheotomy.

“Faith is having to learn a different life,” Stewart said.

She can talk, do memory games and still likes doing puzzles. She is learning how to get around in a “sip and puff” wheelchair. She requires 24 hour care and has no sensation, but some family members and nurses are hopeful that she may be getting a little sensation back, Stewart said. Doctors said she has a 5 percent chance of recovering, “but there is always hope and prayers,” Stewart said.

Typically, it takes approximately 18 months for initial recovery to get most of the recovery back and then it slows down, Stewart said. It has been four and a half months since the accident.

“She still has a lot of room for improvement,” Stewart said. She said Faith can eat anything she wants, “but the trick is getting her to eat.”

Three days before the accident, Faith had just learned how to drive circles in her motorized ‘gator’ car. She was mastering holding her breath while swimming and liked to catch rings in the pool and happily went on horse rides with her mother or grandmother.

Despite her injuries, Faith is still a typical 3-year-old, Stewart said. She still likes Dora the Explorer and the Little Mermaid, and her favorite color is pink. McDonald’s chicken nuggets, French fries and Gummi Bears are her favorite treats. When she meets strangers, Faith often closes her eyes and won’t talk, but will sneak a peak at visitors. She still asks to walk or ride the horses.

“She will talk your head off,” and sings her ABCs, Stewart said. “Fortunately, because of ‘No Child Left Behind,’ Faith will be able to go to an early preschool program.”

Her grandmother hopes her “bright and smart” granddaughter will mainstream into kindergarten.

“We have had a really good outpouring of support,” she said.

Faith’s aunt is putting up auction items on e-Bay and needs a nonprofit organization to sponsor it. One hundred percent of the money will go to the trust fund. more than 100 items have been donated including autographed items from the Jeff Gordon Foundation and NASCAR. Angel Ride and the Mason’s have also put on fundraisers.

A generator for the house was donated by a family member in New York. The family received a low interest loan from the Alabama Rehabilitation Center to buy a van to transport Faith, but it will take the family 10 years to pay it off, Stewart said.

Faith’s family puts in regular updates under “OurFaith” on Carepages, a community of free Web sites for patients and their families to share information.

Donations can be made to the Alabama Trust Fund at any Wachovia Bank, Stewart said. The Masons are selling $5 raffle tickets for the utility trailer and the drawing will be held on Dec. 15 at 11 a.m. at the Spanish Fort Lodge, which is located two miles north of Hwy. 98 on Hwy. 31. To purchase tickets contact Danny Phillips at 625-0444.