Downtown in the area where we work there is a great number of people who are in prostitution, there are women who stand on the street corners and squares selling their bodies, while others are half naked on the stairs and corridors of three buildings that we visit weekly, they stand there waiting someone to choose them for the next program, all in business hours .... By night, and sometimes by day, are also transvestites, and the boys who are in prostitution also. The women we visit in their "work place", and we meet the transvestites in the streets and arrange visits to their "homes", what allows an approximation, and have deeper conversations about God, salvation, etc. ... , last Friday we did some visits, one of them was for someone I know so many years, A., he must be around 38 years old, but he seems to be much older, he is a transvestite and is part of a group that don’t have many customers, he is HIV positive for quite a while now. I got very sad because five transvestites who were his friends and mine died and they were in the same conditions he is right now, the last one who died (Reginaldo known as Raniely), had the body in the hospital for 10 days, nobody from his family or friends came and he was buried in cardboard box as a homeless; I had a very honest talk with A., as I had with those who died before this happened, I told him about the freedom and hope we can find in Christ, I told him I love him very much and I want to see him transformed by Jesus, he tried many ways to leave this way of life, went to rehab houses, tried reconciliation with the family, but he doesn’t remain in places for a long time, he is very proud.
I have already seen God moving in very unlikely ways, so I ask all of you everyone who read this post to pray for him and for all who are in the same situation to really give their hearts to Jesus Christ and have strength to overcome each step of their rehabilitation and healing.
segunda-feira, 25 de fevereiro de 2008
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