Imagine being in a small room, filled with fog, blinking colorful lights and girls who are dancing with blank faces all around you. That was what ministry was the other night while going out and witnessing to people at all the different dance bars in Themal. Nepal. As we walked into the first club that night my mind went flashing back to the days of entering a club, ready to find a way to escape life. As we went and sat down in the booth and order our sodas, I couldn’t help but to laugh at the irony, how it was only about two years ago that I would be that girl dancing, drinking and trying to find other ways to block my mind and my heart from what my life really was, a cluster of sadness ignoring God calling me out of that life. As we sat down at the first bar, it was filled with smoke, and was quite loud. We didn’t get to converse with the girls that much; because it was so empty that the managers were making sure that the girls were dancing. We went to the next bar and as soon as we sat down we were greeted by two girls who were 19 years old. They were young, fun, and stuck dancing in a bar where they were thought of as property. We met a few other women as well. Near the end of the night one of the girls on my team asked one of the dancers the most important question, if she liked working there, and if she wanted to get out. The girl said yes, but there is so much more to it than saying lets go. This brings me back to where I stood a few years ago, where I came face to face with the Lord, when he asked me the same question, where he wanted me to see the satisfaction of his love overflowing in my cup, instead of liquor. Going into the bars that night was a mix of so many emotions, but the biggest emotion I felt was joy. I was brought out of a life that was filled with darkness and searching the world for things to help get me high and happy for a short period of time. I am no longer a slave to those days, I am set free out of that lifestyle, and now I am living a lifestyle where I want to set people free through the name of Jesus.
