Prostitute/Addict Recovery Stories
Stories
from the front lines. The names and some details are missing or changed
on purpose but the story is true.
LEARNING
TO PRAY
"From
the beginning of the year we've sensed a new urgency and importance to pray. For
everyone to pray. For the 'newly believing' to pray. And for 'our
group' that means ex-prisoners, ex-addicts, and ex-prostitutes who have newly
believed. They've never been to a church service. Never been to a
prayer meeting. So they were 'shocked' when they started praying and
things happened! Then their shock turned into faith. These are the
things that have happened: a cancerous tumor vanished in a subsequent x-ray;
several AIDS sufferers in the advanced stage 4 of the virus were able to get up
from their beds, start walking and resumed normal lives again - one of whom had
gone blind but now can see again; several families came and burned their
magical charms; and several deliverances from demons happened (we call our
deliverance ministry 'Ghost Busters')."
FROM
BED TO BED
"As
we would go in teams to the hospital to pray for AIDS patients, people laying
in beds nearby would listen and then ask if they too can be prayed for.
As a result we have seen 6 new fellowships started since the beginning of
the year due to this prayer ministry. And what used to be a twice a week
visit to the hospital is now a daily ministry among the sick with a 24 hour
hotline where anyone can call for immediate prayer."
CHURCH
PLANTING PIMPS
"One
of the AIDS patients who was in stage 4 and was healed, then invited us to her
home. It turned out that she was a Pimp with a stable of gals working out
of a local pub. So she naturally planted a church in the pub! And
her gals were her church members! It all began with an inductive Bible
study twice a week in the pub during the slow hours. She not only started
a fellowship in her pub, she has reached out to other Pimps, three of whom have
now decided to follow Christ too. They too are preparing to start
Bible studies in their establishments. And she now is going into the
narcotics prison to ministry to prostitutes and pimps who are in jail and she
has started another fellowship for them in the prison."
CAUGHT
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
"One
night our team was on the street talking to gals when they came across Tina.
She was just 16 and it was obvious this business was a little new to her.
She quickly started pouring out her heart as to why she was on the
street. She explained how her father had died long ago and her mother had
recently had a stroke and could no longer walk so Tina was forced to find money
any way she could. While talking with Tina, she all the sudden asked if
we could come to her house to pray for her mother. Even though it was way
past midnight, we headed to her house. While praying, her mother stood up
and began to try to walk again. And she kept on walking. And she is
still walking to this day! Totally normal again. Tina is no longer
selling herself on the street and has joined one of the ex-prostitute
fellowships run by an ex-pimp. Her mother has testified to the entire
family about what happened to her and as a result a fellowship has now been
planted in her home too."
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