Laurie Ishii and Daryl Bargy

Originally we (me, Jen C. and Jen U.) had planned on meeting at our place before 11:30pm, praying and hitting the street after midnight. Turned out that we met earlier, ten thirty. Went to 7-Eleven and prayed in the parking lot (good place to pray) there were LOTS of cops out tonight in Hollywood (South Central too) – we saw one cop (who was wearing a wedding band) looking at a porn mag…sad. We prayed for him…

By the time we finished praying and headed out it was almost midnight. We got off the freeway and onto the track. We drove quite a while before we even saw a single girl. We finally saw a few girls, pulled over and parked. We were only able to talk to one of them, a young lady (she said she was 19 yrs.) named T*z* She was so cute… and very sweet. The other two girls from across the street must have thought we were cops because they took off running.

T*z* even hugged us right away when we introduced ourselves. I asked her how long she’d been working, and she said for about a MONTH. I asked her if she had a pimp, and she said “No, he’s my husband, not a pimp.” I asked if he was watching her nearby, that we didn’t want to get her in trouble – and she asked if we’d walk with her, so we did. After talking to her a bit more, we found out that she had only met her “husband to be” a month earlier – and he had gotten her a wedding ring. She said that he wasn’t a pimp, didn’t hit her – that he was nice and that “you would like him.”

I tried to test the waters and plant seeds of doubt in the relationship without tearing her “husband” down. She let us pray for her and sincerely thanked us.

While we were praying, a cop car pulled up next to us (driving on the wrong side of the street). I told them that we were praying and that we’d pray for them too. He said “We always need prayer out here. We’re gonna pray for you, that the pimps don’t see you out here.”

Then they drove away. We parted ways with T*z* – unfortunately, she didn’t have a phone (she said that her “husband” had it) so I gave her my number and told her to call me if she ever needed to talk…

The next girl we saw was a girl we saw last week – she wouldn’t even give us the time of the day – both myself and Jen tried to approach her and then again, Daryl and Julia tried to approach her. She would not even look at us. Tonight – she ever so briefly looked up at us, and I was able to give her some tracts and a gift bag. She looked like she was trying not to smile, as I handed her each tract individually, one by one.

The hope is that we will see her again, maybe next week – and each time she sees us, she’ll trust us more and more.

Next we saw “T” – she was intoxicated, energetic and very friendly.

We gave her a gift bag and then she crossed the street – a John pulled up and she was in his car window when a squad car pulled up and flashed it’s lights toward the John’s car. T stepped away from the car and the John started to drive away until the cops pulled him over.

Unfortunately, they didn’t take him away, but it at least gave us an opportunity to talk with her some more. She saw my “Devil’s a pimp, don’t be his Ho” shirt and started laughing… said she was gonna tell her pimp about us – and asked if we were trying to recruit! (NOT) She said she’d been with her pimp for two years as she thanked us and walked away.

We drove around some more, stopped to try to catch up with one girl (but not following her when she went down a side street), and drove up and down the track to find more girls.

We saw a girl on a corner and tried to approach her – she wouldn’t even look at us – she looked nervous and scared – and YOUNG. After we walked away, another girl walked up to her and it looked like she may have been ‘schooling’ the scared girl.

When we started to drive away and head back home, we saw a Freemason hall/temple where all these people were filing out of – people who had obviously been partying and dancing. Very strange. Then we saw four YOUNG girls standing on the corner – they just popped out of nowhere – so we pulled over and went to talk to them.

Two weren’t into talking to us – the other two, A*h and Sha*** we gave gift bags to , and after A*h walked away, Jen prayed for Sha***. She warned us that if she saw the cops she was going to run… she also said in response to my question of how old she was (19) and how long she’d been tricking (4 years) if she was sick of it yet – she said that she wasn’t sick of it. Personally, I find that hard to believe…

Okay I’m fading fast… yawn…

Driving away we saw two girls again on a corner. We parked and went to talk with them. One was older, and she was obviously GACKED out. She could hardly talk and could hardly grab a gift bag, she was shaking so much. (Crack). Then we heard a guy say, “Who wants a rock” and then, “Oooh! An Asian!” Lol. I introduced myself and he said thet his name was DiDi. He had obviously been sucking the pipe as well… very trippy guy. Funny – he kept smiling this huge smile… he said that he loved seeing us, that he liked seeing different nationalities in the ghetto and that he didn’t know where we were from but that he was happy to see us… but that he didn’t know if we were cops and he didn’t want to be arrested… then his face switched and he got very serious, and said “You guys need to get off of this block. Seriously. I don’t know if you’re cops or not.” I laughed and said that we were not cops, that I used to be a ho and Jesus set me free, that’s why we were out there showing the love of Jesus…

Then he started laughing again and said he was talented and did some rapping and dancing/popping for us… and we thanked him for his talent and went our way…

The last woman we saw was named Ar**n* – she was very receptive, we were able to give her a gift bag and pray for her. Jen U. prayed for her and when we finished praying, Ar**n*’s face was streaked with tears. She thanked us and said that she had been praying before she’d seen us, that we’d made her night.

All in all, it was a blessed night – we were able to talk to a number of girls who thought that we were nuts for being out on the street. It’s all because of the love for Jesus and love for these women that we go out there. Thank you so much for your prayers… man I’m getting pretty delirious. Going to bed now… Thank You Jesus…