Tijuana Christians and visiting mission teams gather at Selah House and sing worship songs, while designated representatives go out to minister to the prostitutes.Įach group Friday night consisted of a translator, three women appointed to speak with the working girls and a male whose sole job is to look out for the group and make sure they’re not accosted. Selah House is a Christian coffee shop by day but becomes a worship center two nights a week. Selah House is run by Anna, a Mexican psychologist who discovered a calling to help the prostitutes in Tijuana. On Friday night, mission teams from Antioch churches in Norman and Raleigh, North Carolina, arrived at Selah House, just off the Avenida Constitución, one of the prime boulevards of Tijuana’s Red-Light District. Prostitution is legal in Zona Norte – companionship, it’s called.Īnd Zona Norte was our final assignment on the mission trip of adults from Norman’s Antioch Community Church. ![]() ![]() Zona Norte is the most notorious Red-Light District in North America. People come and go out of a Chinese takeout joint – Mexicans love Chinese food, I’m told.Ī family-run food cart sits on the corner, serving up chicken and pork, helped out by a 10-year-old girl who looked like she had come straight from school.Īnd prostitutes leaned against the exterior walls, not 15 feet from any of the everyday activities. ![]() In the barber shops of Zona Norte near downtown Tijuana, Mexicans get their hair cut even though the sun has set. Watch Video: Sooners run-rule UCLA, head to WCWS championship series
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