Teamwork in the Red Light District
Posted in The Women in the Windows on 08. Jun, 2010
Today I started thinking about all the people who have come through the Ninth Hour Missions Base in the last couple of months. Then my thoughts went to the BCN ministry center apartment in the red light district of a neighboring city. It is an old apartment that is in desperate need of renovation, updating and cleaning. The vision is that it will be a safe place to invite the prostitutes to so they can learn English or French or computer skills or anything they need.
We have had two different teams work on the apartment in the past month. They have been such a blessing to us.
This is what the apartment looked like the first time I saw it:
Shawn, Drue, and April (women I minister with)
Classroom before the carpet was pulled up & walls redone
Lovely bathroom (dead mouse behind the door)
Nathan putting the wood floor down in the office:
Gary and Courtney wallpapering a wall in the classroom:
A team from Shady Grove Church put together a cabinet for the kitchen:
Gary with Zach and Daniel
Just last week a team came from Gateways Beyond in Cyprus and put some wallpaper up in the office:
Jahi and the team
The girls were about to do a prayer walk around the outskirts of the red light district and a few went with me in the district:
I am so blessed by these precious people willing to work on an apartment for women they will never meet. This is what the kingdom of God is all about. They have made a difference. Their sacrifice of time, energy, and intercession will be felt in eternity. We couldn’t do what we do without teamwork. God never meant for us to be a lone ranger and try to do it all on our own. We need each other, and I am grateful.
