Christian party animals

Do these gals look like missionaries to you?

Evangelizing to the young and wasted in party centers around the globe, members of the 24-7 Prayer team hope to bring Jesus to the raving, godless masses.

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By Kimberley Sevcik



Dec. 10, 2004 | IBIZA -- By their eighth night in the West End, Ibiza's low-rent nightlife district, the members of the 24-7 Prayer team don't flinch at anything they see: not at the woman lifting her skirt to ask a group of men what color panties she's wearing; not at the guy with papier-mâché breasts strapped around his waist, standing beside a sign that says "Dexter has the clap"; not at the guy mooning the girl who just spurned his advances, or the one across the street, pulling his dick out of his pants and flopping it on the table for the viewing pleasure of two horrified, delighted young blonds.

They press through the crowds, four sober people among the drunken masses, looking for openings: a friendly face who wouldn't mind a little unsolicited conversation; a swerving body that could use a steady arm to help it home. The bar promoters are the easiest ones to approach. They'll talk to anyone -- most of them work on commission, and every conversation is a potential sale.

A guy with spiky blond hair in a "FCUK" T-shirt calls out to two of the missionaries, Lorraine Joslin and Charli Franklin. "Hey ladies, what you doing later? Stop by for a drink?"

"Sorry, we're not drinking tonight," says Franklin, a throaty-voiced 21-year-old with a tiny rhinestone stud in her nose. This elicits protests and confusion from the tout.

"We're praying," she says.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/12/10/evangelicals/index.html

I was a *Godless*, burnout, party girl at their age and even I didn't look that -- gee, what is the word..."girl's gone wildish"

On edit: sober my ass...what club serves iced tea (unless it is of the long island variety?)

Wonder if they do baptisms?

...and it was interesting. That kind of day. This morning, on NPR, Diane Rheam <sp> had on one of the Indigo Girls and her father. Touched on GLBT issues, UCC ad, faith, blah blah. And the kids in this article don't seem that far removed from another group I've dealt with. Some people are made better by faith & religion. Religion is a sociological & psychological tool in many ways. It can be weilded by a Hitler or a Bush, or it can be utilized by a Ghandi or a Martin Luther King. If it's going to be there, I'd much rather faith be manifest in love than in fear and vengeance.

Seriously though, if it's not hurting anyone, more power to 'em. They might even save a few lives.