Accountability - We are accountable to Pastor Tim Chaddick and the people of REALITY LA church in Hollywood/Los Angeles, California. (link: www.realityla.com)
Laurie went through the BADD (Born Again and Delivered Disciples) discipleship program and graduated in March 2003, where she went on to serve at the Los Angeles Dream Center. (www.ladreamcenter.org) She led the Prostitute Outreach there with Hope for Homeless Youth for over 31/2 years.
Daryl served at the Los Angeles Dream Center with Hope for Homeless Youth under Pastor Clayton Golliher as staff and assistant Intern Director before God called us to start our on non-profit organization/ministry.
Mission statement - Our mission is to reach out and minister to hurting individuals involved in criminal activities as well as their family members and friends. Our focus will be on Los Angeles first but not limited to this area. We hope to grow and expand to the nation.
Examples of the individuals we will reach out to are prostitutes, pimps, gang members, and drug and substance addicts. Also those involved with habitual criminal activity, their family members, loved ones and friends.
We will bring the gospel of Jesus Christ and the message of salvation to where the people are at - the streets, alleys, and jail cells - and also reach their physical needs as well as their spiritual and emotional needs.
To educate, train and inspire people to get involved and make a difference - taking back what they have learned from us to their community in an effort to combat criminal activity with networking ministries and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Testimony- My name is Laurie Ishii ( I wanted to keep my Japanese name) and my husband's name is Daryl Bargy. We are both born-again Spirit Filled believers in Jesus Christ! He is our everything - He is the reason why we do what we do and for who we are today.
We reach out to people who are living a lifestyle similar to the ones we were living before we surrendered our lives to God.
Daryl has done just about everything - addicted to alcohol, pornography, drugs, (mainly methamphetamine) dealt drugs, worked for a pimp, hustled on the street for money and dope, been arrested for prostitution, weapons, went to prison for dealing drugs - these are to name a few. He has also experienced very close calls to death; including being beat, tied up, gagged and had a shotgun to his head.
I was a suicidal heroin junkie, crack whore who sold my body both for drugs and money, addicted to pornography, masturbation, been in homosexual relationships, been to jail numerous times for drug possession, stealing, being drunk in public, been in a gang, shot and almost died attempting to commit suicide numerous times - including jumping off the roof of an 8 story building and survived.
The point in saying all of that is NOT because we are proud of any of it, but to show you how FOOLISH we were! We were both such hard-headed people who didn't know God or even care to know God - but despite of all of that - He loved us, saved us and gave us new lives. We now have purpose and destiny - and that is to grow in our love and knowledge of God and to bring others to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ! We are SO GRATEFUL to God and love Jesus so much - we want other people to know Him too!
It is our hearts desire to see people who are living a lifestyle of sexual perversion, drug addiction, criminal activity, (of any or all kinds) addiction to money, music, pornography, the homosexual lifestyle, gangs, pimping, prostituting, stealing, death and suicidal thoughts or obsession, masturbation, violence and any other type of sinful lifestyle - to be DELIVERED and SET FREE by the power of Jesus Christ!
We know from PERSON EXPERINCE that WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! "If you abide in My word, you are my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:31b-32)
Before we got married, I went through two discipleship programs - one called BADD (Born Again Delivered Disciples) and after I graduated from BADD I volunteered at the LA Dream Center for two and a half years (a year and a half of that time leading the prostitute outreaches)…then I met Daryl at a tattoo parlor on Hollywood Boulevard while sharing Jesus with the artists and body piercing artists. Long story short - he got saved, threw away all his music CD’s, got rid of all his tattoo equipment and before we got married moved into the Dream Center across the hall from me!
After we got married we moved off the campus of the Dream Center into a house we rented while we continued serving the Dream Center still leading the prostitute outreach and also by ushering at Angelus Temple (which we still continue to do on Thursday night services). About a month before our one year anniversary we both felt like God was calling us back to the Dream Center so God worked things out and we threw out, gave away or sold most of our stuff (including a motorcycle, bed, couches, appliances etc.) so that we would be able to fit everything into one small room on the Dream Center campus! By this time Daryl had started going on the prostitute outreach with me.
After our year of volunteering we felt God calling us to start our own ministry and outreaches to focus more on specific areas and people - and especially those in the Hollywood area. Along with the people listed above we would also like to reach out to musicians, actors and people in the entertainment industry.
To hear more of Laurie’s testimony go to the 700 Club Amazing Stories: http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/Laurie_Ishii030607.aspx
Or to her website: www.laurieishii.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/laurieishii
Vision - Is to reach out and minister the gospel to lost people - pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, gang members, homosexuals, transgenders, convicts and the homeless in our inner city.
Is to train up and raise leaders, educate them effectively in evangelism and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of people.
Is to create teams through an intern program that will reach out to the people in their inner cites, and create ministry satellites across the nation.
Outreaches - Currently we reach out in many different areas of Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Fernando Valley, and Long Beach. Most outreaches go out at 3 am Saturday morning and on Wednesday at 11pm. Hours are subject to change. Call for more information, schedule and meeting places. To go out on any of the outreaches you must be over 21 years of age. We would also like you to attend the class on “Reaching out to Pimps and Prostitutes” before coming out with us. See classes. (bold meaning link)
Short term missions - Our staff would like to take you and your missionaries out on an outreach that you’ll never forget. We reach out to pimps, prostitutes, transgender, drug addicts and homeless on the streets of the inner city. We have ongoing relationships with many of those involved in these lifestyles. We invite you to come and share the love of Jesus and be a light in the darkness. For more information on schedule or to make arrangements for bringing your team to Los Angeles contact us.
Interns - We have a passion for teaching other Christians how to reach out to people and would like you to join the team! If you have a heart for reaching the lost and would like to learn more about how to do so, then internship is for you! We want to train and equip you to teach other missionaries to reach out to the lost. Learn how to do outreaches to pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, transgender, homosexuals and homeless people. For more information about internship contact us.
Speaking engagements - Both Laurie and Daryl are available to share their testimonies, lives and ministry with you at your church services, meetings, retreat or youth group. Please contact us for availability.
Classes - We teach an educational class (from a spiritual perspective) on how to reach out to both prostitutes AND pimps. We truly believe that these young women and men have such a calling on their lives. We share how many of these people get involved with the pimping and prostitution “game” and the rules and regulations of the “game.” We tear down some of the stereotypes of the pimps and prostitutes and their culture, and how they are both victims who need the restoring power of Jesus Christ. This class is free and anyone is welcome to attend. We ask that you attend this class before coming out on an outreach with us. You do not have to be 21 or over to attend the class, but you must be 21 or over to come out on an outreach with us. Please contact us for more information.
Resources - For sale:
PIMP TRACTS T-shirts (not available yet) Stripper matchbook tracts
Contact - Telephone: Laurie Ishii (213) 399-0057 Daryl Bargy (213) 361-7763
E-mail to: laurieishii@yahoo.com
Write to: AFTER HOURS MINISTRY PO Box 93275 Los Angeles, CA 90093
Donations Make checks payable to:
AFTER HOURS MINISTRY PO BOX 93275 LOS ANGELES, CA 90093
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