Susan Cooper and I had a great Outreach to the Visions club last Good Friday. I can’t think of a better day to visit the lost than the day Jesus gave up His physical life in this world for the sins of all! Her husband, Kelly chaperoned us in prayer in the parking lot. We felt the prayers of many because the ladies were very receptive to us. I believe God gave us real concern for them individually and we mentioned a few ‘outside the club’ services we would like to help them with and they seemed open to that.I hope to take some of them to lunch together to continue ‘chatting’ with each and getting to know their lives better. Susan loves to baby sit small children and one dancer has to take her child out of town for a quality sitter on the nights she works. Susan graciously offered to help her in that area and opened her home to this young mom. Ki…., the mom, seemed surprised but said she would call if she needed her.Ro…. was in the dressing room before anyone else when we arrived and we got to talk alot with her. I feel like she drew us into herself without fear of being judged. I have her number and plan on calling her and Ka…. about have lunch some day hopefully in the next 2 months. Please pray for me that I can find the right time for this because my schedule is so packed! One other dancer Gy…..was so sweet and said she actually thought of me that day wondering if we would be coming in. She is such a precious small young girl and I would like to get to know her better and serve her needs.Vi… was a new dancer we met and she was very friendly as well. El…. was a dancer I met at T.O. , the other club that has closed and not reopened. She looked familiar to me and she said she had met me there. There were also two barely 20 year old sisters who actually looked like twins but they were not. One had the bright red color this generation uses for their hair. They were very friendly as well but have just moved back to this area from West Texas. They are trying to do some courses at the junior college.One of the ladies we always see, Pe…. and I had a great conversation about church and the bible. I had explained to the ladies that if they were interested in going to church on Easter that the card we included in the gift bags had names of churches our volunteers go to and cell numbers if they wanted to go. Pe… told me that she used to read the bible and go to church years ago but doesn’t do that anymore. I told her we don’t talk much about church when we come into visit them, because its not about church, its all about Jesus. The important meaning of church is not known to very many ladies who live life outside the church, and if women will give their lives to Jesus they will see ‘church’ in the right perspective. Church is important to people who know Him! One of the ladies I didn’t see there, whom I took to get groceries during the pandemic , was home with pneumonia as told to me by Pe….I actually got a text from her this week and I think she wants to go to lunch. Please pray that we can work that out! Lots of things going on with people! Please pray for Ni…. and some of her friends with whom we have done bible study. She is overcoming a lot of baggage from the past and making new commitments and boundaries for her life to be free from the past lifestyle. She has had some more trauma recently and is so excited about living the overcoming life with Jesus! Recently she sent me her testimony so that I can type it up and give it to a local pastor to use in his ministry.We also had a very generous gift for this young woman from GABC’s missions department. They paid to fix her car brakes and included 4 new tires!!! Many thanks to Jason and the church because this woman is also on disability and although she has no car note for her vehicle, these items were in bad shape making it hard for her to do her supplement job . I am so pleased to see churches reaching out to our East Texas community and helping with the needs of the lost and believers who have lost their way!Please pray for Ma…, Ho…. and Sa…. These are ladies I am trying to have some prayer and bible time with. Sa…. just moved to Jacksonville and hasn’t made a decision to follow Jesus in her life but has thought about it. Also, pray for Christy who is going to be taking some medical courses this summer. Wings volunteers have given some funds to be applied to this cause and we are glad to help her be able to increase her job qualifications to get better paying employment.I will post again with some more reports from the Outreach and with some pics from our sweet friends at CCF church who supplied us with the cutest gift bags ever!

Blessings!

Karen and Wings