**The following is from the latest All Nations Family Newsletter. My dear friend Meredith and her mom Mitzi came to visit me and Baby Safe. Below you will see the article she wrote about Baby Safe.
By Mitzi Borel, All Nations "mom" and supporter
I recently visited Capetown, South Africa where I followed in the footsteps of one of our All Nations missionaries, Allison Scarlett. On the plane coming home, God spoke to me through John 11. Just as Jesus called Lazarus to "come forth" from death, so he is using Allison to call young South African women to come forth from "death" into new life in Jesus.
It is hard to paint an accurate picture of where we walked. We saw various levels of poverty: small "homes" with dirt floors and stones holding down tin roofs; tiny apartments divided into a cramped living area and an even smaller bedroom for 4-5 people! Some areas had no plumbing and only a row of outhouses near the shacks. Streets were full of trash and lots of little children and pit bulls. On almost every corner a group of young men lounged around smoking who knows what - drugs abound.
This was a township where almost all the "girls" from age 11 up live a life of prostitution. These young women are so desperate for approval that they endure regular beatings from their gang-leader boyfriends, who also pimp them to make money. These girls are so alone and without hope that if they have a baby they often resort to throwing them into dumpsters, to avoid the wrath of their boyfriends. While I was there they found two babies in the trash in nearby townships, one alive and one dead.
Enter Allison, strong in the word, gallant in her dedication, working day-in and day-out with her "girls" in complete partnership with the Father. I visited in the homes of these girls with Allison, and even sat in on a Bible study with one of them. I was so grateful to see a firstfruit of the harvest: "Teresa," a young girl of 21 with 2 small children, who has left drug addiction and her gang-leader boyfriend. Through her weekly Bible studies with Allison, Teresa is beginning to walk in the Light of Salvation and to share that light with her friends and neighbors.
Allison's ministry is through the "Baby Safe," a program of All Nations that gives young moms an alternative to dumping their babies, as well as counseling and support as they "come forth" from the "dead" and build new lives through the power of Jesus. But this is not only Allison's ministry. We - you and I - can also be part of calling these young women from death to life. Would you join me in prayer and financial support for Allison and others like her? You can learn more about how to join in at www.thebabysafe.org.
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