A smiling face skips across the lawn; a beautiful picture of child-like innocence. Her hair is long black silk;
eyes the shape of perfect almonds. Her smile is wide with animation. Her laugh
carries the power to move mountains. Her pink Hello Kitty pajamas are rolled to
her elbows. She takes my hand in hers and leads me to a table. She loves arts and crafts. She colors, she
draws, she could sit and make a bracelet for hours. I am reminded of myself at
thirteen; young and free. But quickly my mind wanders, I know this hasn’t
always been her reality.
Empty promises
eXpecting for a better life.
Thirteen years old.
Rights revoked.
Abused and threatened into cooperation.
Fragile, she breaks.
Forced sexual relations become her occupation.
Innocence stolen. Youthful dreams forgotten.
Coerced into drugs which numb the senses.
Karaoke girl; an object in this adult world.
Incapable of escape.
aNother knock at your door.
Guest no. 30 forces you onto the floor.
Our last week in Cambodia we spent our days in a safe house
with girls who had been sexually trafficked and then rescued out of sexual
slavery. When I say girls I mean children, ages 13-17! God used this time to
break open the box in which I had compartmentalized the sex trafficking
industry because I was not emotionally ready to go there with them. But as I
lived life with these girls, God opened my heart to them, and I began to feel like I was made for this!
I am thankful for God’s timing. He knew I needed that month
in Cambodia
to ease my way into the reality of the sexual slave trade industry. This month,
my team along with Team Ridiculous is traveling via 12 hour bus ride to Phu Ket, Thailand.
We are about to cross enemy lines. God has been preparing us and confirming in
us that He is going to work out the miraculous through our teams in order to
bring freedom to women bound by sexual slavery. We are working with SHE Ministry. By day we will be building
relationships, having lunch dates with bar girls and speaking into their lives.
By night we will be entering the bars, ministering to the women, maybe confronting the men, prayer walking, listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit and then being obedient.
More than ever before I am feeling a healthy helplessness
that leaves me utterly dependent on God to sustain and strengthen me in ways I
have never realized I needed.
We need your prayers! Pray for:
1. First and foremost, for
protection against any attack of Satan. Pray we can recognize his lies, and
deny them in the name of Jesus. Pray for heightened sensitivity to activity
going on in the spiritual realm!
2. Pray for unity for mine and Hope’s teams. We are sooo excited to be
ministering together and we are a powerhouse of 12 amazing women coming
together for the sake of freedom in Christ.
3. Pray for divine appointments. Pray that God would begin to give us visions
and dreams of places we are supposed to visit, and pray that God would begin to
show me the specific faces of people I am supposed to talk to.
4. Pray for the men who are there to reap the “benefits” of the sex
slave trade. Pray for conviction in their hearts. Pray that their dark deeds
would be brought to light. Pray for heart transformation. And pray that we
would see who the real Enemy is and not project God’s righteous anger towards
them, but recognize that God loves them just as much as he loves his baby
girls, and that His heart breaks for the lostness of those men just as much as
his heart breaks for his baby girls. They also need a Savior!
