Week 23

It is appropriate that this is the 23rd week I have been here. God is faithful, He has clearly told me the past few weeks that I need to be here. I have been praying that He would give me a sense of purpose because I felt so useless but KNEW that He had/has me here to get to know Him. I am here for a reason.

I don't really want to write the details because it is so incredibly evil/sick/twisted, but my roommates found a dead baby in one of our other coworker's room. We didn't know she was pregnant in the first place so we thought she had just miscarried and was ashamed when it was found Friday. However, as it turns out, she murdered the baby 2 months ago and it's body has been in our dorm.

We are all in shock. We are very unsure of what this will do to the ministry. Most of the students do not know the details of ANYTHING they only know Jessica (the mother) was fired and that she had been pregnant. One of them found out yesterday and her mother pulled her--PLEASE be praying for her. This would be SUCH a traumatic thing as a student to find out about a staff member you trusted. There really is no way we are going to be able to keep this from our girls. The story is spreading via press very, very quickly.

Please pray for the safety of my girls since the exact location of the school has now publicized all over the country and their pimps would very easily be able to find them.

To add to all of it, we are incredibly low on funds and staff. Two of my program's coworkers are quitting this week and so there will be one staff on each shift and an intern for five days a week. Please pray that God would call people to come up and work with us, it will take a specific call from Him to do this. I know I would struggle to accept the job with all of this going on.

Please be praying for the mother of the baby, Jessica Bradford. Pray that Jesus gets her. Pray that she is surrounded by people that realize that ANY of us is capable of the same thing and that GOD loves her and desires for her to come to Him. Pray for her family and her boyfriend--they did not know she was even pregnant.

Please just pray. We need it.