HOOKERS FOR JESUS

So i couldn't sleep last night & was flipping through the channels & heard "blah blah blah "hookers for Jesus". I stopped & it was some Nightline story on a former prostitute in Las Vegas. Her name is Annie. She had been convicted by the Holy Spirit, turned her life around-BUT COULD NOT FIND A CHURCH WHO WOULD ACCEPT HER! Oh how sad!

I just kept thinking about what Becky asked us in Bangkok "How would we feel if a night girl came into our church & sat in our pews? Would we accept them? How would we feel having them around our husbands?"

Annie started a "hookers for Jesus" program to reach out to girls on the strip in Vegas, invite them to church & turn their lives around. Here is a link to the story (it's kind of lengthy-sorry) but it moved me & it was so excited seeing the girls pray before outreach! What touched me most was her last comment:

For Lobert, bringing these women of the night off the street and into church is her life's calling. "They are still daughters. They are still sisters. They are human. They are real. They are not some rejected tramp or some rejected leper that can't be loved."

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=7061434&page=1

We can still be Jesus' eyes here to all the people we see. They ALL need LOVE!!

Again-the story is kind of a long one, but it broke my heart to hear of the struggle Annie had to go through just to be loved and accepted.