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f you met Lucy at church, you
would probably think she was
Isomebody's innocent, dear
grandmother. She is the kind of
woman who will come and give
you a huge hug and then
introduce herself. prostitution. It is common
You would never guess that Lucy knowledge on the streets that if
is an ex-prostitute. When she was you need anything, you can
in her teens and early twenties, come to Lucy's house. She
drugs and prostitution dominated doesn't have a lot, but her home
her life. Through an older Chris- is always open.
tian woman who reached out to Prostitutes, pimps, drug users,
the prostitutes, Lucy met Jesus dealers, and anyone else who
and her life was completely most people avoid - Lucy invites
transformed. them in. This is her way of loving
To this day, almost forty years people who are in desperate
later, Lucy lives near the same need of the hope and love that
streets where she once worked as she found forty years ago.
a prostitute and consistently [Crazy Love, Francis Chan,
opens her home to other young Published by David C Cook,
women who are caught in Colorado Springs, USA, 2008].
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