Our first day in Nepal our contact sat our team down for a cultural briefing. He began telling us about his experience from when he went down to Mumbi, India. He had gone to rescue women that have been sold from Nepal like cattle to be used until they die from murder, aids, or suicide…. Within minutes of his story we were all in tears.
Welcome to Asha Nepal, our ministry is showing Gods love to these women and children who have been sold into sex slavery. Two of the children here have HIV and the majority of the women are also carriers. How do they get there and why does this happen? The most common story is their father, uncle, or brother sold them to pimps in India for some extra cash. They don’t expect to ever see them again. Here in Nepal, women are the definition of objects, most families don’t consider women to be apart of their family.
(Archana and me)
I’m going to share with you about what God is doing in my life. Off the back these children have my heart. Both Jamie and I love kids, but this, this is a new way of looking at God’s children. Right away I formed relationships with the women and the little girls, and for some reason they like me. Every moment I get to talk to them, pray for them, or just play a game with them, God gives me such a supernatural love for them. A love I can’t describe through words. I have seen Jesus’s face through Archana and Esther, two twelve year old girls, orphaned at young ages.
Esther and baby Abibria
A week into ministry God gave me a vision of me washing all the womens feet. I had a peace about it that somehow this little act of honor and love would somehow heal some of their scars that were still there because of men. I woke up and knew God was talking to me. Somehow I had to do this, but the older women don’t touch men, let alone want some strange white guys washing their feet. The little girls give me hugs all the time but there is so much fear of men in their hearts. What can I do as a man? I want to avenge their tormentors and cause them a glimpse of what these women have gone through. I want to take these girls home and show them what a loving father, a loving brother and a loving man of God is.
(the women of Asha Nepal)
We are coming up on the time to move onto a new country, and I feel like the biggest part of my heart will be left here. God I want to thank you, thank you for giving me a chance to love these kids, to love these women, thank you for choosing me. Thank you for the grace you give us, its not because of our works, but through faith, though I fall short all the time, Father thank you. God has shown Jamie and I a new definition of love this month, we fall down on our knees and cry out to God. Love, thats what we can give these children and women, love from the Father.
