Georgia & Marlene – gone, but not forgotten

“Heal my heart and make it clean; Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you, have loved me; Break my heart for what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdom's cause”               (Hosanna lyrics)

These words were so powerful to me tonight in our worship time at the meeting we were at.   Our journey began three years ago when Aaron read an article about a farmer near Vancouver who had been kidnapping prostitutes, murdering & dismembering them and feeding them to his pigs.  Three years ago, this was just a story that Aaron read.  Today it became real.  We met Trisha, a former prostitute, now an advocate for trafficked women.  She was a friend of those girls, she was one of them.  By the time this man came to trial, she had left the lifestyle, well on her road to wholeness.  She was asked by a news agency to cover the trial as a journalist, from the perspective of a former prostitute.   She helped the families with their grief process.  She brought life to an article, helped us see these victims as a sister, daughter, friend.  All they found of Marlene was a hand, of Georgia, her jaw.  These images may be too graphic for most of us to bear.  They bring me to my knees in humility.  I feel it an amazing privilege that the Lord asked Aaron and I to come and be a part of the solution that He has.  A solution that will draw these women out of a life of poverty and destruction into a life of health and wholeness.

I would like to ask you to pray for a woman named Grace.  She has been clean (off drugs/alcohol) for six months.  She has been ministered to and helped thru the Salvation Army, gone back to school, restored to her children & grandchildren and is working.  She asked for prayer because she still struggles with thoughts of going back to that lifestyle on the street, the temptation is so strong.   She has health issues as well.  Please remember her in prayer.