Volunteer Opportunities: Yes
History:
The founders of After Hours Ministry are Laurie Ishii and Daryl Bargy. Laurie comes out of a background of heroin and cocaine addiction, prostituting to support her drug habit. God saved and delivered her and since then she hasn’t stopped reaching out to people that share her similar past of drug addiction and darkness. One of the people that God touched during one of her outreaches was Daryl. Daryl had a history working for a pimp and had been arrested for prostitution.
It was their desire to see people who are living similar lifestyle they came out of: sexual bondage, drug addiction, criminal activity, addiction to money or pornography, those in gangs, pimping or prostituting or any other type of bondage to be delivered and set free by the power of Jesus Christ.
In 2010 Laurie and Daryl stepped down. They asked Jen Cecil and Julia Speck to prayerfully consider taking over the ministry. Jen and Julia agreed and have been running After Hours Ministry every since.
Mission & Vision:
Our mission is to love until the last lock breaks by finding unique ways of building relationships with the men and women we meet on the streets of Los Angeles involved in street prostitution who are hurting and searching for a God that passionately desires to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes.
December is Universal Month for Human Rights. Appropriately enough this month contains International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10th). Honor this time of year by reading and sharing the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created over 70 years ago this month.
Hear about the conditions and processes that perpetuate cycles of exploitation.
Recently, John Stewart from The Daily Show challenged Bill O'Reilley to acknowledge white privilege, and the legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
