Things are not always as they seem…
In
the rain, in the snow…snow?
Our
outreach teams were out visiting one day when it began to snow. We laughed with our ladies-in-waiting friends
at the wonderful cold white flakes falling.
Then we began to look closer and realized that it was tiny balls of
pollution that falls from the sky here in France after it has risen and
accumulated in the clouds. So what we
first thought was snow, was pollution instead.
Another evening we went out to visit; we drove by one of the largest
mosques in France to reach the road by the river where the ladies were
waiting. As we offered them hot tea,
coffee, and chocolate, it began to rain.
The ladies would offer to let us stand under their umbrellas as we
visited with them.
The
Ladies-in-waiting outreach teams go out during the day and in the evenings to
visit ladies on the street. The world
sees these ladies as prostitutes. Many
people don’t understand that many of these ladies have no choice in this
“profession.” They have been coerced,
forced, and/or trafficked into this life.
They are ladies who want a friend; ladies who will gladly share their
umbrella. They are people like you and
me. People who need to know of Jesus’
love. Things are not always as they
seem.
Please pray for the authorities in France and Bulgaria as
they seek to break up the Bulgarian human trafficking ring in Strasbourg.
