look out strip clubs, Jesus is comin'

No, I'm not joking and I haven't lost my mind!  Well, that may be debatable :)
  Here's the deal.  My youngest sis went to some training at her incredible church.  Two Saturday nights ago, she and 5 other women, who had all been trained, went into a strip club in the city to minster and befriend the girls working there,yes with the managements approval.  They gave the women pedicures and basically treated them with dignity and worth. Katy and Jess's sweet hubbies sat in the car waaaaay in the back of the parking lot and prayed for them for 2.5hours.  Katy said it was just amazing, exhilerating, very dark spiritually, and the women so undressed! But, despite outward appearances and the fact that these women are selling sex to make a living, they were just like any other young women.  Katy and Jess made friends and promises of more time spent with them.  That is exactly what Jesus preached.  He didn't stand in the middle of a new sparkling church gym or sanctuary and wait for people who needed him to come.  He went TO them!  I'm so excited.  Katy said I can go to the training and come too!!!  One special young woman that they really connected with is a mom of 3 young children.  The next time Katy and Jess visit the club, they are taking diapers and baby supplies for the young woman, I'll call "A".  Please pray over this ministry as the powers of darkness would love nothing better than to sabotage and keep the women who work there under oppression and hopelessness!  Their goal is to show the women the love of Christ, help them get out of working at those places, and be whole and healthy women and mothers.

Now, I know what many are thinking.  Is that safe?  Why would young Christian women want to go to strip clubs and make friends with those girls?  That sounds weird, radical and risky. 
Glad you asked my bloggy friends(to coin a term used by one of my favorite bloggers  aplacecalledsimplicity.blogspot.com)  To answer, I'll just type in a long quote from my new fav book  "Radical, Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream" by David Platt
      How many of us are embracing the comforts of suburban America while we turn a deaf ear to inner cities in need of the gospel?  How many of us are so settled in the United States that we have never once given serious thought to the possibility that God may call us to live in another country?  How often are we willing to give a check to someone else as long as we don't have to go to the tough places in the world ourselves?  ...................We live decent lives in decent homes with decent jobs and decent families as decent citizens.  We are decent church members with little more impact on the world than we had before we were saved.  Though thousands may join us, ultimately we have turned a deaf ear to billions who haven't even heard his name.