My team and I have been completely heartbroken as we walk the streets of this city. I have never seen anything like this is my 
life! Everywhere you look, you see foreign men with young, pretty Thai girls. The sexual perversion is so openly displayed here. It’s disgusting, heartbreaking, appalling, and infuriating all at the same time.
Monday night was our first night in the bars. As I strolled down Walking Street (a most popular street of bars), I was so overwhelmed. Everywhere you look there are women and lady boys (the name given to transgender prostitutes in Thailand) covering themselves with layer after layer of makeup- a mask they wear so easily to cover their brokenness and emptiness.
A man enters the bar where I am seated and the girls are instantly flirtatious, vying for his attention, but in a moment of unrestrained honesty I catch a glimpse of one of the girls’ eyes and all I see is sadness and shame. In that moment I want so badly to grab her by the hand, to lead her out of that bar, off of that street, and into the glorious freedom that only comes through Christ. However, in an instant her look of desperation has disappeared, replaced once again by this confident provocativeness. She quickly returns to this dance she feels she must dance. But I know the truth. I have seen a glimpse of what lies beneath the façade. This is why we come. We will continue to come to the bars and we will proclaim freedom and hope to any who are ready to listen.
