Detroit Adult Entertainment: Event equips, encourages missionaries
August 20, 2010 at 11:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsEvent equips, encourages missionaries
Posted on Aug 20, 2010 | by Carol Pipes
CHICAGO (BP)–”Our church plant is in the middle of one of the most dangerous areas of our city,” said John Smith, a church planting missionary in Pontiac, Mich.
Less than 25 miles from Detroit, Pontiac is a mini version of the city that often ranks as one of the top five most dangerous cities in the U.S. “We minister to people who are homeless, involved in prostitution and addicted to drugs. But our greatest area of ministry is to the city’s teen population,” Smith said.
Smith and his wife, Kia, are not strangers to the challenges of growing up in the inner city. Both grew up in Pontiac.
“Our mission field is right at home,” said Smith, who planted Shepherd’s Fold Baptist Church in the high school he attended as a teenager.
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