Vegas Life...

I work for Youth With A Mission located in the crazy city of Las Vegas. YWAM is an organization that trains and sends off missionaries to all parts of the world in countelss different ways. I am apart of the Mission Adventures staff here. Mission Adventures is a program that is designed to moblize the youth and introduce them to how God wants to move through them.

I am now the director of MA.

YWAM Las Vegas' main building now is called the Pier which is located in the poorest neighborhoods in Las Vegas; it is also where me and five other YWAM staff live. We are in this community to provide for the physical needs for the residents who live here as well as the spiritual needs.
http://www.ywamlasvegas.org/


Thursday, August 13, 2009

Praise God!

So yesterday was one of my fuller more positive outreach experiences. We split up the groups in half, free prayer and surveys at the Bellagio…We did free prayer first. I was with JC, one of the leaders, and at first we seemed to just get rejected, but we pressed through. At one point, I, Beth, JC, Tangerine and Bree were around the sign and this boisterous woman came over to us and screamed, “praise God I got custody of my kids today!!” She sat down on the ground with us and told us her story. She had been a prostitute (third generation), on heroin, and an alcoholic, she came to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ a couple of years ago and God had been cleansing her life of that stuff ever since, she feels like a new creation; you could just feel the emotions, she was crying, her mascara was running, so passionate, we prayed for her and she just sc reamed out for more deliverance, because she still deals with alcohol, cigarettes a little bit, and she still deals with prostitution, more so in relationships than for money. I told her it looks like she needed to give over relations with men for a bit and just focus on God so He can have her full attention, she said well that’s just not gonna happen she wanted to, but she doubted that she could just because she has had men do so many bad things to her; she has always thrived on the adoration and physical attention of other men, so can’t see a way around that. Me and Beth told her that we have actually been praying for the prostitutes and that God would be bringing them to Him, she cried some more…and she said “that’s why I’m here…” it was soo powerful, then she was talking about karma and Christian Science…so yeah, I know a little bit about it, kinda weird stuff, she gave Beth a book on it, we’re gonna study it and be better able to lead her to the truth. We told her about the church of the way and Mrs. Levi Cooper and her heart for the prostitutes and I told her that I think that God might want to use her to help Mrs. Levi minister to prostitutes.

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