Christ Satisfies Ministries

This evening I had the most blessed experience of my life. I went along with the Christ Satisfies Ministries on their Prostitution Out Reach. We were mostly on the Penn-Lowery area. We were able to minister to 5 ladies that were selling their bodies or buying drugs.

This ministry is trying to help the North side not just to get the prostitutes off our streets, but to lead them to the Lord. We had with us the ladies from Northland Bible College and they watched while me and Diane talked to "Lost Ladies of the night" We were accompanied by James M. founder of CSM, Dan and Johnny (not northside) who were our body guards, in case we had a problem with a pimp or another male companion.

While I was talking to the ladies from Northland, I explained the downward spiral that we are in, Northside is considered the "Holding Pond of Minneapolis" hence the name of this blog. We read the things that Johnny Northside talks about in the issues that he sees or that others sees. CSM is out there monthly doing their missionary work. Each month has a different out reach, this one happened to be the prostitution.

This is what Northsiders (or like johnny northside calls it NOMI) should be doing, reaching out to the drug dealers, the prostitutes, the gang bangers your neighbors to make this a better place. Yeah, we have MADDADS but, to minister to the people to change their life was, life changing to me. If more people took the time to reach out to people, Northsiders would be able to walk their dog at night, leave a window open for the cool Indian summer breeze. But, instead we complain about it, gripe to the police about it and it remains the same.

I am not saying that you should put your self in harms way, and I know that I barely am posting on here. That I will work on. I am saying that, the effect that we had on some of these women, people could have that effect on too.

When I first started working on my house, even as a believer I shied away from confrontation or speaking to people. We had a prostitute on our corner; one day she was standing there and her bicycle pimp was close by, and I walked up to her and said..."It is bad enough that you disrespect your body as you are, but you are disrespecting the neighborhood. I then told her that this was MY corner...all these corners was mine, and if I see you standing at anyone of them I would call the police." Needless to say, I have not seen her or her pimp since.

I hope that you enjoyed this post. I know I did and do while I was writing it. I will post a picture as soon as I can.