Let’s Call Her Sunshine

Let's call her Sunshine, for her face lit up when we spoke.

It was the end of the night on East Colfax. She was the last woman we approached. We brought the gift bags you filled, the drinks you provided, and as always, an offer to pray. Before anything else, Sunshine lit up at that invitation to pray.

She told us she had been in Colorado for three years, but before that, she was in Houston. Houston, where our team first trained on how to do outreach with Elijah Rising.  She spoke about two people — Dawn and Bob — who used to come out to the streets and do exactly what your support makes possible here. They showed up. They prayed. They cared.

As she spoke their names, it clicked.

Dawn at Elijah Rising. And Bob was someone well known to the women there — a steady, trusted presence for many years as a missionary to all those who work the streets. The kind of person whose name alone opened doors and softened guarded hearts.

Sunshine shared that Bob had recently passed away from cancer. And then she told us something we won't forget: Dawn and Elijah Rising flew her back to Houston so she could attend his funeral.

She pulled up his obituary and showed us. She told us how many women came — women from the streets, women whose lives had been touched simply because someone showed up consistently and cared.

It was a quiet, sacred moment standing there on Colfax.

Different city. Different street. Same kind of love.

Sunshine looked at us with gratitude — not just for the gift bag, but for the prayer. For the familiarity and the reminder that she had not been forgotten; that long before we arrive on a street corner, God is already there, weaving stories together, connecting people across cities, across years, across loss and hope.

Because of you, we are exactly where we need to be: late at night, on East Colfax, showing up for women who are too often unseen. Offering something small that opens the door to something much bigger — a conversation, a prayer, a moment of dignity.

Would you join us in praying for Sunshine?

Pray that she would continue to encounter people who remind her of her worth. Pray for protection, for her to encounter God, and for the courage to take the path out. It's miraculous that she has survived the streets as long as she has — and we are believing that God is not done with her yet, he is still calling her home, and to a new life with him.

Thank you for standing with us.

Because of you, we get to be there.