Imagine you are a 10 year old girl living in a village in Thailand. Your family is poor, you are frequently hungry, and you have seen the desperation in your parents’ eyes. You have heard whispers and know that you are going to be sold. You will be taken to the city, away from your village, and be sold to the brothels. Your virginity will be sold multiple times, at a high price, because you will endure surgeries where your hymen is re sewn. Once you can no longer be re sewn, you will work along side the other girls who have walked the same road. You will be threatened and instilled with fear, so that every night you will give your body away… And all of this so that your family will eat dinner.
I have been waiting for Thailand. I have been looking forward to the ministry which this country offers. And yet, I am not doing what I thought I would be… I am doing something better.
You may know that Thailand is the hub for sex tourism in the world. Men and women come from all over the world to sleep with prostitutes, many of which have families in Europe or the States. But what you may not know is that the prostitutes working in Thailand are really children, children who have been sold by their families to the brothels so that they can survive.
There are many ministries which deal in intervention: Going to the bars, buying the girls’ time, and sharing Jesus with them. They help to get them out and teach them a trade so that they can survive making a living another way. This is what I thought I would be doing in Thailand and was so I was really excited to love on some amazing women. But God had other plans for me.
This month, I am working with an organization called Remember Nhu. It is a prevention organization, which sees that the children who are about to be sold to the brothels, never actually make it there. Imagine you are that girl from earlier; And now imagine that someone comes to your village and convinces your parents to let you go with them to a wonderful home, where no one will ever touch you.
I am not working in the bars this month, but I get to live in a home of girls who have been rescued. I get to see the love of my Daddy, as He saved them from slavery. When I see them playing with Barbies and sweetly giggling, I think of all the innocence they have retained, and the goodness of the Father. Ninety percent of these girls will never enter the bars, where as sixty percent of the those who leave the bars, will return. The success rate is so much greater with prevention, and I have loved seeing this side of the mission.
You can pray for Thailand! There is so much need for warriors here, people who will fight for those who can’t fight for themselves. Pray for more workers in the fields, because there is so much deliverance to be had!
I love you all! God bless you,
Kaitlyn
Little Cindy (One of the girls in the home. Yes, they are even sold at this age).
Changing the roof of the outdoor kitchen from thatch to tin
A Buddist monk at the biggest temple in the Northern part of Thailand (Wat Doi Suthep)
Whining with Ronald McDonald. Sawatikap!
