Laurie Ishii and Daryl Bargy

Would you be interested in helping us with this? Any other ideas, opinions or finances to contribute to this? I got a really good idea from one of my friends from myspace - I've heard of something similar - a woman used to hand out jewelry, perfume and other personal things to strippers - but what about prostitutes...plus I'm not good at picking out jewelry and perfume - I'm not very girly girl...more practical. What about making very small (like purse size) bags with a teeny new testament, a little stuffed animal or just some small trinkets and our matchbooks with our number - I know there are a lot of cute small cards or knick knacks with scripture… Read More

Wow. What a weekend! It started out with having to meet a film crew at midnight to be interviewed for this documentary LA Loves is filming on Child Sex Trafficking. First of all, I have an alarm on my phone - "Prostitute Outreach" - and it is usually set to go off anywhere from 1am to 4am. Well, this time I set it to go off at 11:15 - and forgot to change the am to pm. Wanting to get a couple of hours of sleep before we went out, we fell asleep around 9:30pm. Daryl woke up and said, "It's 1:53" YIKES! I felt so bad - In all the years of doing the prostitute outreach - I haven't ever over slept - until this time. I felt so bad, but it worked out… Read More

Okay, this one's gonna be a long one. So, real quick - please pray for Kristine, the transgender I spoke with last week, Jackie a homeless woman I prayed with yesterday while waiting for the bus, Ernest a 60 year old homeless man with MS and a vietnam vet and of course, G - and a guy in jail with him named Chuck. Also pray for a guy who goes by Suki - he works with Daryl and he's a bodyguard for strippers. Here's the details... Last night at church (Angelus Temple) I saw Richard, who came up and told me what happened with Kristine. I'm so sad for him but I believe that God has a hold on him. Richard said that Kristine kept calling him and after… Read More

Earlier, I was with a friend at an Internet cafe earlier and we saw at least a couple of pimps (two were 'question- able' but two were DEFINITELY pimps - and two girls were DEFINITELY prostitutes. With a number or escort looking or stripper types. I went outside and introduced myself to one of the pimps - (I saw him pull up and there was no doubt in my mind!) I stuck my hand out and he said, "I don't shake anyone's hand." (Heard that before) and I said, "Oh no, you're another one of those...well I wanted to ask you if you had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and also give you this." (Pimp tract) and he took the tract and said, "What's… Read More