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As the race comes to an end I’m plagued with the question What’s next? I’ve been praying for months that God would show me what my passions are and that he would direct me somewhere I can continue making a difference and continue growing closer to him.

My heart was broke in Thailand when we stayed at a sex-trafficking prevention home where 90% of the young girls would have been sold into prostitution had they not been able to live at Remember Nhu. Not to mention the endless amount of brothels in Thailand. Business’ hang twinkling lights outside to let people know that they have prostitutes ready for service. Streets in Thailand are practically lined with twinkling from all the brothels and at first it was hard to believe they were really brothels because there were so many of them.

In Cambodia we stayed at a guest house which is like a hotel but cheaply priced like a hostel. As soon as we got there we could feel that spiritually it was a very dark place. The guest house had hourly rates for quest’s to stay and it wasn’t unusual to see prostitutes coming in with different men and we would hear the clacking of high heels down the hallways throughout the night. Every night after ministry we would pass bars filled with prostitutes and it never ceased to amaze me at what was going on right in front of my face.

In Eastern Europe girls are lured to work at restaurants or promised good paying food service jobs in Italy and then are forced into sex-trafficking. Suddenly they are trapped in a nightmare of a life that is no longer their own. Often times these victims don’t have anywhere to turn, they have no where to go and no one they can trust. In America we ask why they don’t just go to the police? But too often the police in other countries prove to be corrupt and actually offer their help in trafficking the girls. Sometimes they will rape the victims themselves before sending them back to their “johns”. Imagine how powerless it must feel to be the target of a crime and have nowhere to turn for justice.

$12 billion a year goes to organized crime from trafficking women.
1.4 million victims are in servitude in the commercial sex industry.
90 percent of victims trafficked into the EU go to the sex industry.
2 percent or less of all victims are rescued.
1 in 100,000 traffickers in Europe are convicted in court.
 
To think of all the injustice taking place in the world and to get even a glimpse of what young women face every single day is horrific. Most of the time it feels overwhelming to think about. Will there ever be an end to sex trafficking and how can I possibly make a difference?
It would be so much easier to just turn the other way and choose not to do anything about it. But I am always reminded that even ONE rescue makes the difference of a lifetime. What if only one person is rescued? It might not sound like much of a difference, but what if that one person was YOU. Or your daughter, niece, sister or brother?
 
I think about how much easier life seemed before my eyes where opened to what’s really going on in our world, a time when I could just live my life minding my own business. But the world is full of people crying out for help and living as victims who need others to fight for them. I don’t know what my future holds but I do know that I want to spend the rest of my life devoting my time, prayers, and gifts fighting for this cause. Sometimes it might mean donating to a cause, praying, or maybe helping overseas with an organization, or maybe even finding a way to help in my own State. Sex trafficking is taking place in America, the land of the free. Portland Oregon has a growing reputation as a national hub for child sex trafficking. This is a growing problem around the world and in our own country. I hope that people will begin to take notice at  what’s really going on in our world and in our own backyards.

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