Ministry in Amsterdam and Mexicali's Red Light District


(Femke brought cake and coffee to ladies working in the Red Light District 
to celebrate her birthday). 
            
            Exciting things are happening with the people that we serve in Amsterdam's Red Light district! 
            One lady is starting her own business in housekeeping.  I (Femke) am helping her with book keeping and marketing. We found a job in a hotel for another woman. It is exciting getting to help women find new work. We are also helping set up a course where women can learn to sew clothes.  
            Two mornings a week, I work in the office helping them as a social worker. On afternoons and evenings Matt and I visit them where they work and three times a week small groups gets together to eat, worship and study the Bible. 
            We are so excited about this holistic approach to serving these women: we are seeing their practical, emotional and spiritual needs met. 
            The testimonies are exciting: people that walk in depressed, sad and hopeless are now full of life and hope. We listen, encourage, and pray with them and see how we can help practically.  The change that we see even in a few weeks at times is amazing! They start to believe in themselves, they start to believe there is hope and a good future possible for them! 
            Would you continue to lift up these precious individuals in prayer? There are over a thousand people working in Amsterdam's Red Light district and we would love to see all of them free, loved and walk in their God given destiny! 

(Power Evangelism team that went to Mexicali's Red Light District.)

              In June, Matt went to Nevada, California and Mexicali, Mexico to do Schools of the Supernatural. Many healings such as deaf ears being opened and broken bones being healed took place.  We saw many people activated to prophesy, get words of knowledge and heal the sick. We believe many lives were changed. One testimony that sticks out was when Matt took a team to the Red Light District of Mexicali. Before leaving, they had asked God to gives them clues about people they were going to meet. One clue was a camouflage shirt. 
            When Poncho, one of the young Mexican power evangelists, saw someone with a camouflage shirt, he ran to him and began talking to him. That man turned out to be his former cellmate in jail. That young man told Poncho he had been asking God to send someone to him for three days to help him and tell him about Jesus. As Poncho began praying for him, the young man fell into his arms in tears asking God to help him. People are waiting for us to come share God's love and power. 
(Poncho embracing a man who used to be his cellmate in prison.)
           
                 Two days later in Modesto, California, another team went to share the gospel on the streets. A man from the church in Modesto began to share the gospel to someone he then realized had been his former cellmate in jail. He prayed for him and gave him a big hug as well. The same story repeated itself in two different cities. Jesus has called us to set the captives free with his love and power. 

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