Gillette, Wyoming …What would it be like to be a survivor of human trafficking? Thirty-five women from the Gillette community joined the Gillette Church women’s ministries team to hear survivor Dormalee Wood share her story of being kidnapped and held for a year while attending college. Through God’s providence, she was rescued!
Together with the Gillette women’s ministries team, Karen Fettig, who leads a ministry that provides awareness about human trafficking to Wyoming communities (“Beneath Our Wings”) Karen shared statistics, provided safety tips, and helped educate on ways to be vigilant and aware, to do everything possible to prevent or intercept trafficking.
For helpful tips and more information, check out http://beneathourwings.com/
10 Days of Prayer – During the Gillette Church’s observance of 10 Days of Prayer, the yearly initiative of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, giving opportunity for corporate prayer, Gillette members had a unique opportunity to pray for and to help a stranger who showed up on the third night of the series. Having reached out to Pastor Lester Bentley, the man was invited to attend the meetings that night.
He had attended a Bible study for a different denomination the previous week, and realized, while studying, the truth of the seventh-day Sabbath. That’s when he began to look for a Sabbath-keeping church. In the process of traveling home to Quebec, however, the man’s ride had not materialized, and he was stuck.
Church members prayed with him and provided a bus ticket for his trip home. They continue to pray for him and his walk with Jesus.
—DeeAnn Bragaw; photo by Raelyn Wortman
