OUR MINISTRY MODEL

For over a decade, our local team has served women in the sex industry right here in Greater Cincinnati. Throughout this time, we have developed a reputation for several key distinctives of our ministry model. This is because our local team has always desired to serve the women because of the love we have received from Christ! Who better to model our ministry work after than Jesus?

Relationship-Focused

Jesus was relational. He could have sat on a throne and preached his entire message, but instead he chose to walk with others and intentionally pour into twelve men. We have a similar relational model, where developing long-term relationships with women is the pathway to sharing the hope of the Gospel.

Gospel-Saturated

Jesus cared about physical pain, but was primarily focused on spiritual development. He did not ignore the realities of a broken world and healed, fed, and restored people as a means of pointing them to a spiritual reality. We help meet physical needs while holding the sharing of the Gospel as the primary mission of our organization.

Compassion-Driven

Jesus was moved with compassion (Matthew 9:36). Jesus saw the crowd, knew every sin in their hearts (even the hidden ones) and knew they didn’t yet love Him. He was filled with compassion and called His disciples to pray for laborers for the harvest. We see the hardships of the women we serve and serve with compassion, not judgment. We pray earnestly for laborers for the harvest.

BUT WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY DO...?

We are often asked, “What does ministry to women in the sex industry look like?” To protect the women, we are careful not to share too many details about the day-to-day operations. We know this is frustrating, but we work hard to not re-exploit the women by talking too closely about the details of the ministry.

But we can share some general overview information about how we show up for the women! 

  • First, we simply build relationships. The church has done a bad job in the past of loving women in the sex industry. We want to be the sweet aroma of Christ to them! We live life with our friends. We have no hidden agendas. We aren’t there in judgment. We are there to share the life-changing love of Jesus! 
  • We usually bring food. Food is the way to just about anyone’s heart! We all need it and often don’t get enough of the right kinds of foods. So we show up with a tangible representation of the lavish love of Jesus! 
  • We offer tangible help to women in crisis. As we encounter women in crisis, we are able to connect them to local resources to meet their most critical needs. 
  • We pray with them and for them. We know the God who created the heavens and the earth and calls us by name! This same God tells us we should come before Him with prayer requests. That’s what we do for our friends.

Sound simple? It is! And yet the broken hearts we encounter and the deep roots of pain that have led many of our friends to seek survival sex as their means of income mean that this simple work is a long-haul effort to establish the foundations of trust that will hold the weight of truth.

 

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PROVIDE RESOURCES

We meet physical needs as a means of sharing the hope of the Gospel with women in the industry.

GO ON OUTREACH

We have both strip club and street outreach as a means of meeting women where they are and offering the hope of the Gospel.

CONNECT TO COMMUNITY

We partner with the local church to connect women to Christian community as they explore and embrace God’s Word.