Walking down the streets in the red light district physically makes me ill.
-Looking into a bar and seeing an older man, probably late fifties, with his shirt off and a young Asian girl massaging his shoulders and he’s got this stupid grin on his face.
-Looking into the next bar and seeing a man with two young Asian women all over him and seeing the look of enjoyment on his face.
-Going for dinner and looking over to two older men with gorgeous young Asian women eating with them, the girls are on their phones, hardly talking and occasionally look up and give a fake laugh while the guys just talk to each other and have their hands on the girls upper thighs.
-Walking down the street and seeing an older man and a young Asian woman holding hands and walking into a hotel.
-Looking into the eyes of an innocent little girl on the street and wondering if it will be next year that her family runs out of money and decides to sell her.
-Looking at men walking around this area and wondering what kind of sick man would ever want to sleep with a young 6 or 7 year old girl.
-Wondering how a family could even consider selling their daughter to make money.
It honestly breaks my heart every time I walk down the street. I actually find myself getting more and more mad every time I walk down the road, and I didn’t understand why but its because of all the trafficking around me and all the prostitution. I mean I can even describe to you what it feels like to walk down the road here. One girl told me that 66% of the men who are in the Bangkok airport are there for sex. How horrible is that?
We went out one night and did some bar ministry, and I was with my mom. So I got to talk to this one girls named Minie, she was 23 I think. She had an older brother and a younger brother and she had two kids back home, a boy and a girl. She said she had been working in that bar for about a year and a half and she was able to go back and see her family every Monday. I asked her if she liked working there and she just got a nasty look on her face and just said, “I need t support my family back home”. That just about broke my heart, and then she told me that all she really wants is to get married. I am assuming that it is because she wants someone to take care of her instead of her always having to be the one to take care of everyone else. And it was cool to hang out with her and play pool and connect 4, [she whipped my butt at pool and I killed hers in connect 4] but it was just so heart breaking to hear her story. I mean she obviously doesn’t want to be there but this country has made prostitution one of the best paying Jobs. I mean This girl obviously wasn’t trafficked, she chose it and probably because she didn’t have any schooling to get a better paying job to support her family. Such a sad thought and such a humbling thought. We take for granted so much at home. And you watch movies about trafficking and places like this, but that all you do is watch a movie, you wont understand it until you have actually walked the streets and seen these women and these men. It’s something that will be burned into your memory! God is just so needed in this place, I know I have been praying for this city everyday. The song “God Of This City” was written in Thailand, and now every time I listen to it I will be singing it for Thailand and I hope you all will look it up and give it a listen and hopeful sing it for Thailand because this country needs your prayers more than anything!
