Project Matthew has ministered and partnered with Lucy and Hope Literacy for years, please pray for this ministry and this prison in Dallas.
From: Hope Literacy
Subject: SHARING THE GOOD NEWS!
Hi all,
Last Thursday in the Mizpah Dorm at Dawson, 9 of the women new to HOPE gave their lives to Jesus after watching "How Great Is Our God."
Tonight in the Agape Dorm, 10 women were saved; 1 rededicated her life…another, fell to her knees in the middle of the DVD, weeping… all she could say was, "I believe… I believe."
We are claiming Dawson State Jail for Jesus Christ this year… staff and the inmates. Pray for the staff who are believers. They walk a fine line between security and witnessing. They do the best they can to help the women and still balance all of this. A lot of the staff is lost.
We are calling on you and your prayer partners to pray urgently over Dawson… that God will be glorified in this facility. Blessings,
Lucy Smith, MEd, CALT, QI
Texas HOPE Literacy, Inc.
www.hopelit.com
New Friends – New Life helps women trapped and victimized in the sex-industry find conventional careers and build healthier lives for themselves and their children. Find out more information about this wonderful resource at their website for New Friends – New Life ministry.
[AP - Jan 5, 2010] Dallas is taking a new approach to the world’s oldest profession. Police treat prostitutes as sex crime victims, offering many a chance to clean up and get off the streets.
Nine new friends took a journey from Dallas, TX to Nashville, TN to spend the morning with the Thistle Farms community and learn about the program, the message and the method. Among these guests were a judge, a county commissioner, a vice squad lieutenant, a police sergeant and the director of a women’s treatment facility. They were all here because they are looking to start a similar program in Dallas.
Elisabeth Holland, a nurse practitioner and Director of Project Matthew, had been looking for a way to create stability and establish community for women who had been on the streets and eventually in jail. She found that most women she worked with had no other ways of surviving.
After talking with friends in her own community, Bob Mason, a missionary in Dallas, put her in touch with a friend who is friends with Becca Stevens. Good news for Lis — she didn’t have to create this kind of community from scratch, it already existed!
Lis gathered people working on a project called New Life Opportunities (or Prostitution Diversion Initiative) and set up a visit to Nashville where they could hear and see how the Magdalene program operates and runs. We look forward to helping this organization out by sharing our own experiences and as one of the women in the circle said this morning, "let the women in Dallas know they have sisters in Nashville that are here for them."
Reposted from The Voices of Thistle Farms.
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June 5, 2010 9:17 pm | 
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