Thank you for the prayers, everyone.
A young friend of mine was not much different about 8 or 9 years ago. Members of that same ministry found her on Bourbon Street, going to work as a stripper. When they talked to her about Jesus, she listened. She asked Him to change her life, and he did. The head of the ministry legally adopted her, even though she was about 19-20 years old. She lived with his family, then got an apartment with my daughter. Even though there were some rocky spots, because she had a lot of emotional baggage, she grew in the Lord.
She went on to marry a young man from Texas. They now have a little boy named Elisha and are expecting their second child. They live in Texas near his family, where he is studying to be a nurse and she teaches piano. They go out together with his father to do street ministry.
She will tell you today that if Jesus had not come into her life there on Bourbon Street, she'd be dead by now.
IF you are willing & obedient , you shall eat the good of the land: But if you refuse & rebel, You shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Isaiah 1:19, 20