One thing that struck me while we were on the streets the first week is that the women there look out for each other. Most of them stay in groups or near each other, and the older, more experienced ones make sure the younger, more vulnerable girls aren’t conned. It’s strange to me that in this lifestyle I saw one of the most sincere pictures of family ever. I mean, yeah, what they’re doing is still wrong and obviously we need to help them get out of it, but even the pimps care about their girls. Carmen, the woman I mentioned in my last blog, wants her girls to be educated. She took care of one of them when her boyfriend died leaving her with a newborn baby. When we were talking to Sheila Joy, Lani came up and told us that she looks out for her because she’s vulnerable.
We girls were talking later that night and this was brought up. We see it as a great example of what the 
Body of Christ should look like too. Are the older, wiser Christians looking out for the younger, more vulnerable ones and helping them, or are we judging them? Are those who have “been there, done that” and been redeemed using their past mistakes to spur others on and also to have compassion for those who fall, or do they “forget from whence they’ve come” and fail to use the testimony that God has given them for the benefit of the Body? Are the shepherds and leaders among us as concerned about the welfare of the least of the flock as they are about the greatest? Are we willing to even sacrifice our own comfort and desires, and maybe even lives, to help our brothers and sisters in need?
We want to be able to use what we’ve seen in these women as an example to them of what the Church should look like, but the question is, can we?
