This is a picture from around four years ago. The woman that Eileen is praying for was an is still a crack addicted/alcoholic prostitute and at that time the wife of a pastor. Earlier that Sunday morning she fell to her knees outside of a church in East Durham, located at the corner of Juniper and Hyde Park. She cried out to those entering the church to help her but it fell on deaf ears. I was a couple blocks away as she came toward me with another prostitute that I knew. When they walked up to me I began talking and ministering to them and this woman would finish every scripture I started to say. I asked her how she knew the Word so well and that is when she told me that she was the wife of a pastor. This lasted most of that day but it ended with her husband picking her up and going home.
She returned to the streets again and I believe now that they have divorced. I have ministered to her many times throughout the years. I have ministered to her inside and outside of the Durham County Jail. She looks twenty years older today because of the extreme rough life she has lived. She has lived as a prostitute, addict, and even ventured into lesbianism while in jail. The devil is destroying her life!
John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;
This week I was driving down Holloway Street and was led to make a turn I did not intend to make. It is something how the Lord will lead me to where he wants me to be. After I had made the turn onto Spruce Street who was there but this woman again put right in my path. She immediately started waving at me. We have developed a friendship over the years. As she came to the passenger window I put it down. She came up and greeted me, along with the greeting came the smell of alcohol filling the van. It was 10:30 in the morning!
I began talking to her once again about how the enemy is trying everything to take her out because of the potential that she has to do things for the Kingdom. I looked into her eyes and said "one day if you do not repent and get right with Jesus you will lift your eyelids to find yourself in hell for all eternity". I told her that she knows what the Word says about knowing and not doing.
2Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the Holy commandment handed on to them.
This woman could be the poster child for the above scripture. Each time she has fallen then got on track only to fall again her condition and circumstances have gotten worse. I told her that she had to get out of East Durham before the devil was successful in totally taking her out. She knew some of the prostitutes that have been murdered. She actually broke down in tears telling me that she is now to the point that she has nothing left. She has no family members that have anything to do with her. She said that she has lost everything that she owned. I told her that all she has to do is make the decision to go and get help and we will help her. She asked for another one of my cards. I also gave her a McDonald's card and a pair of gloves to cover her freezing hands. Several days have passed now and I still have not heard or seen her. Please pray for this woman! Her name is Carmelita.
She returned to the streets again and I believe now that they have divorced. I have ministered to her many times throughout the years. I have ministered to her inside and outside of the Durham County Jail. She looks twenty years older today because of the extreme rough life she has lived. She has lived as a prostitute, addict, and even ventured into lesbianism while in jail. The devil is destroying her life!
John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;
This week I was driving down Holloway Street and was led to make a turn I did not intend to make. It is something how the Lord will lead me to where he wants me to be. After I had made the turn onto Spruce Street who was there but this woman again put right in my path. She immediately started waving at me. We have developed a friendship over the years. As she came to the passenger window I put it down. She came up and greeted me, along with the greeting came the smell of alcohol filling the van. It was 10:30 in the morning!
I began talking to her once again about how the enemy is trying everything to take her out because of the potential that she has to do things for the Kingdom. I looked into her eyes and said "one day if you do not repent and get right with Jesus you will lift your eyelids to find yourself in hell for all eternity". I told her that she knows what the Word says about knowing and not doing.
2Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the Holy commandment handed on to them.
This woman could be the poster child for the above scripture. Each time she has fallen then got on track only to fall again her condition and circumstances have gotten worse. I told her that she had to get out of East Durham before the devil was successful in totally taking her out. She knew some of the prostitutes that have been murdered. She actually broke down in tears telling me that she is now to the point that she has nothing left. She has no family members that have anything to do with her. She said that she has lost everything that she owned. I told her that all she has to do is make the decision to go and get help and we will help her. She asked for another one of my cards. I also gave her a McDonald's card and a pair of gloves to cover her freezing hands. Several days have passed now and I still have not heard or seen her. Please pray for this woman! Her name is Carmelita.
This is an example of how much better it is going to be when we get into our store front space on Holloway Street. Instead of having her stand at at the van window in the cold or heat we will be able to have them come into a comfortable place and give them something to eat and drink. We will have clothes and hygiene products. We will have brochures with information of sound rehabilitation centers so they can actually read about the program and success stories of the rehabs. Most of all we will have the UNCOMPROMISED WORD OF GOD to share with them. We will be getting the contract later this week for the building! We are getting very close! What an awesome much needed asset to the ministry this is going to be! We need your help in getting this up and running. We need monthly partners! It will cost us over $1000 with utilities just to get in the building. This will be an additional $500 a month plus utilities for the ministry each month.
If you would like to help with this you can send your tax deductible check made out to Bull City Outreach to 5114 Huxey Glen Ct. Durham, NC 27703 or you can donate by PayPal on our website by simply clicking on the donate button.
If you would like to help with this you can send your tax deductible check made out to Bull City Outreach to 5114 Huxey Glen Ct. Durham, NC 27703 or you can donate by PayPal on our website by simply clicking on the donate button.