After reading a recent letter to the Major of Seattle, “Hell Starts Here, 145th & Aurora”, posted in the Aurora Seattle Blog (which does a great job of keeping ‘eyes’ on Aurora Ave. N.), my cranium started into a grey matter tsunami about the people I have encountered on Aurora, which Richard, the author of the letter [...]
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Hell Starts here
Posted: September 8, 2011 in Of Spiritual ThingsTags: Aurora Avenue, Aurora Avenue North, circle of hell, Dante, despair, dreams, eyes, gasoline alley, guilt, hell, helpless, homeless, hopeless, involved, judgement, prostitution, Seattle, stones, transformation
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Prostitutes on Aurora
Posted: January 13, 2011 in random thoughtsTags: aurora, girls, John 10:10, ladies, motels, pimp, prostitution, Seattle, sex trafficking, user, walker
I have recently learned some information from the Seattle Police North Precinct about the prostitution on Aurora. In the past few years prostitution has been decreasing in numbers of “walker.” There has been a concerted effort to clean-up the Avenue, which supposedly has lead to a lesser number of ladies on the streets. But recently [...]
All the Way Back Around
Posted: September 9, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Ben Carlson, College, H2O, ministry, navigators, Seattle, South Africa, Winona, WSU
It was twelve years ago that God snatched me out of the business world from a company who didn’t like me and thrust me into ministry from the ground floor. Heck there wasn’t even a ground floor, God used me to design the ground floor. Kristine and I were in the small college town of [...]