Prostitute Outreach…
This weekend has been a quick (too short) and busy one. I am getting ready to go to bed, but I wanted to share a bit about this weekend and outreach, and to please ask for prayer.
On Friday when we went out, we only saw a few girls out, but we did get to talk to them. We spoke with one particular girl – G***** – who ran into a donut shop and Julia and I went after. Daryl and Ty were in the car waiting while we went to talk with G***** and give her a gift bag. She shared that right before she met us, she had been at gunpoint by some Mexican guys who wanted to rob her. She ran and was able to get away.
As we were talking to her and ready to pray for her, a cop car pulled up and asked what we were doing. I went over to talk to the cops, and Julia stayed with G*****. The officers name was Flores – please pray for him. He asked if Julia and I were friends of G***** – he knew her and said that he’s given her a lot of breaks. I shared with him why we were out there talking to G***** and how we were going to pray for her when he pulled up. I shared that I used to be a heroin addict and that I prostituted to support my habit. He asked how long I had been clean, and wow – actually TODAY 3-9-08 is my SEVEN year clean/sober birthday!!! Praise God!!! 
I told him this weekend is seven years and he said, “Wow, how’d you do it?” and I was able to share Jesus with him. I asked him if He believed in God and he said no. I asked if I could pray for him right then and he said no. So I told him that we’d put him on a prayer list and pray for him after he left. He was a pretty cool guy – pretty young too. So please pray for his salvation!
The rest of last week was crazy busy too – and most nights I was up till after midnight. Please pray for the woman who God delivered from hearing voices… the enemy is ruthlessly harassing her and condemning her so we’ve spent hours on the phone talking about spiritual warfare and trying to teach her how to fight… the enemy is such a liar and he tried to isolate us and keep us in shame, believing that we’re “the only one” who’s ever made mistakes or certain mistakes as a Christian. HA! If being a Christian was about being perfect or even CLOSE to perfect – I would have given up a LONG time ago. I PRAISE God that He is so merciful and that His love does not depend on us, or on what we do or do not do.
Anyway, I really want to be able to go to court on Thursday – but I can’t seem to find a ride – it’s by the airport.
The rest of this month is very busy – I’m teaching the “Reaching out to Pimps and Prostitutes” class twice this month and have a team coming out here from South dakota that I’m really excited about.
Please also pray for this other young lady who I’ve shared a bit about with some of you – she had to testify against her pimp in court last week and the whole time she was reading her statement he was mouthing threats to her. To top it off, he was only sentenced to two years… which means he’ll probably only do like 6 months or so. She’s having a hard time sleeping, throwing up and basically living in fear. I am going to tell her about coming here and maybe going into discipleship at either the Dream Center or the Walter Hoving Home if she can – right now it’s difficult to ‘pin’ her down cause she’s got two jobs and I haven’t been able to talk to her much at all.
We also are in the last process of completing the paperwork to get our 501c3 status and we have to pay the IRS $750 when we turn in the forms.
God is speaking to me a lot about things that have to be done and about delegating and about focusing on getting certain things done which may mean that I need to take a break of going out on the street… which is my favorite thing. But it’s not about me or what Laurie wants to do – I just want to be obedient and do what God wants me to do.
Please continue to pray for God to give me wisdom and discernment. Thanks so much.
