Roses in the Red Light: The Story of Patricia Green's Work with Women in Prostitution by Eleina G. Erikkson and Patricia Green

Roses in the Red Light is the story of Patricia Green and her work with women in prostitution. A rose says that you are beautiful and I love you. Mai, a young Thai woman approached me one day in a church in Bangkok and said to me: "you don't remember, but you came into the bar where I was a dancer and you gave me a rose and told me that God loved me. That changed my life and was the beginning of hope for me and a new life away from having to sell my body to foreign tourists."

'Roses in the Red Light' is the inspiring story of a New Zealand woman who has worked for nearly thirty years with sexually exploited women. Initially in Patpong, the infamous Red Light district of Bangkok Thailand, reaching out with love and hope for a better future to thousands of young Thai women and teenage girls caught up in the web of prostitution and human trafficking. From Bangkok Patricia Green moved to Berlin Germany, where she started a similar ministry, Alabaster Jar e.V. which offers spiritual, emotional and practical help (and roses) to women working in street prostitution. Many of whom are victims of human trafficking from Eastern European countries.

As you read this book you will be intrigued, you be shocked, you will laugh, you will cry and you will be angry at the injustice and exploitation of vulnerable young women. You will be inspired and encouraged by the stories of many of the women who have been given hope and whose lives have been changed, often beginning with the giving of a rose.

This is the inspiring story of one woman's faith and courage and the story of an amazing ministry to women trapped in prostitution and sexual slavery and God's redeeming love.