NEW YORK (BP) -- Student missionary Season Helms can pinpoint the day
last year when she began to look at New York City and urban ministry
differently. Traveling with friends on the subway, Helms spotted a young
woman dressed less than modestly.
As Helms looked beyond her
clothing to the puffy eyes, scrapes and bruises, she saw a girl
obviously in pain. Helms and her friends soon learned the girl had been
attacked at Coney Island and her phone, money and extra clothing had
been taken from her, leaving her with only a swimsuit. Helms and her
friends helped the girl find more clothing to wear, connect with her
friends and begin to heal her wounds.
"Then we got an
opportunity to talk to her about God," said Helms, who later wrapped up
her term as a North American Mission Board student missionary. "She told
us that God couldn't love her. She had done too many bad things. Her
perceived absence of the Lord in her life had led her to believe He
wasn't there and He didn't love her."
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