Hey Everyone,
So Christmas is going to look different for me this year. No cold. No snow. No mom. No dad. No Pat. No grandmas and grandpas. No cousins and aunts and uncles. No charlie brown Christmas tree. No gifts from Santa. No ham and turkey and mashed potatoes. No staying up all night playing games.
My Christmas will be spent in Thailand. Here’s what we’re doing:
We’re cleaning the streets, mowing grass and killin weeds and lovin on communities. Some of us are also working with these statistics:
Tonight 20,000 – 30,000 street children are impoverished,
hungry and in danger of being exploited on the streets of Bangkok,
Pattaya and Chiang Mai.
Tonight girls,
age 13-15, who were sold to pimps by their parents for 5,000 – 10,000
baht ($160- $325), are working in bars and brothels of Chang Mai.
Tonight
a rural family will eat thanks to the 300 million dollars transferred
yearly by women engaged in prostitution in urban areas.
Tonight 18-20% of all Thai women aged 18-30 are in sexual slavery
Tonight
the streets are walked by men who sell sex because it is the only work
they know, the work they have been doing since they were children.
Tonight the industry is booming and 2.8 million sex
workers, including 800,000 minors under the age of 18 are available for
purchase in Thailand.
We are not here to stop Human Trafficking and the Sex Trade Industry. Its too big. But we are here because God sent us here and He is doing big things. We are here to tell these women that there is a way out, that this is not life, this is not who they are, that people love them, that God loves them. The thing is, God sent all 43 of us to do big things in Thailand and big things all over this world. We have our last financial deadline in 6 days. If we are not all fully funded, people are going home.
My Christmas wish this year:
That I would not have to list any of these teammates names on my list of things I will not have this Christmas. I need them all fully funded. I need them all here with me. The world needs them here doing what they are doing. The world needs more people with the heart of God’s servant like they have.
I am posting a list of everyone on my squad who is in desperate need of financial support. I am fully funded, praise the Lord a million times over. My prayer request is that you would look at this list, pray about it and if God calls you to help, please don’t ignore it. It may mean one less Christmas gift this year. It may mean 1 less woman being sold on the streets of Bangkok. Just go to their page listed and click donate. In the words of Jack Bauer, “we are running out of time”.
Thank you.
Tom and Casey Kowatch, Colorado -$4,446: http://thomasandcaseykowatch.theworldrace.org/
Rachelle Uribe, California-$3,575: http://rachelleuribe.theworldrace.org/
Lili Mejia, Texas– $2,515: http://lilimejia.theworldrace.org/
Anna Matthews, South Carolina– $2,100: http://annamatthews.theworldrace.org/
Kris Tippett, Maryland– $2,088: http://kristippett.theworldrace.org/
Carrie Campbell, Florida– $2,000: http://carriecampbell.theworldrace.org/
Nathan Salley, Colorado– $1,800: http://nathansalley.theworldrace.org/
Dan Montenegro, Texas– $400: http://danielmontenegro.theworldrace.org/
Sarah Hogan, Oklahoma– $390: http://sarahhogan.theworldrace.org/
