Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

very thing. That He created her to sell her body on the streets and bring a moment’s pleasure to whomever would pay the price. The pimp decided they would leave New York City and come to Hollywood. He wanted his stable of girls to work the streets of Hollywood. Carol told me that she had laid in her bed and cried the night before I met her. She said that she cried out to the Lord to send a Christian to help her out of the mess she was in. She was so ashamed of what she had become. Never in her wildest imagination did Carol think she would ever sell her body. She knew it was not pleasing to the Lord. She was desperate and saw no way out of her dilemma She knew that only the Lord Jesus Christ could rescue her. It broke my heart to see this beautiful young teenager selling her body on the streets of Hollywood. She never knew from one “trick” to the next if she would live to see tomorrow. She didn’t know if she would ever see her mother again. If she did go back home to Ohio and her mother discovered how Carol’s life had changed, could her mother ever forgive her? Could she ever be her mother’s little girl again? I could not keep my mouth shut! I told her that I knew we had a divine appointment. God had sent me! All the hundreds of Bible studies I had attended and the teaching tapes that I had heard suddenly had new meaning. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The ministry had recently opened the House of Magdalene, so we had a safe place to take Carol to. The House of Magdalene was a home for teenage prostitutes to come to be restored. Carol eagerly jumped into the van with us and we sped away, making a clean get away from her pimp.

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