Update on Thailand Trip-When words say it all!

Right before Resurrection Sunday (my preferred name for Easter), I sent you our newsletter updating you about the most recent plans for our upcoming trip to Thailand. In the days following this newsletter, many exciting developments have occurred that I would like to share with you.  These e-mails were sent to me from the ministries we will be working with to design & develop new products to help prostitutes get out of the bars and work their way into freedom!

 

Garden of Hope, Chiang Mai writes to me today~

I read abbot your idea about helping the ladies with a jewelry business and like the potential this offers.  I’m wondering if you might like to expand to others as well.  At the GOHI home, the girls there recently told me how and they are dreaming of learning how to make jewelry and do other handicrafts.  We believe making practical things like this (and hopefully finding a way to market them through supporting churches, etc.) could “redeem” other girls there from an otherwise very negative future.   

 

SHE, Phuket, the director writes me today~

The jewelry making will be for girls coming out of the bars to make part time and earn money to send home whilst on the Hotel training course. If your orders are large we may also like to work with at risk young ladies in Isaanl in their own villages to prevent them from entering the sex trade, but can talk more about that when you come. Our Catering manager recently left with out any notice and so took her bakery skills with her without passing them on so we would love for your Husband to teach bakery to one of our ladies.

 

Nightlight, Bangkok, writes in their most recent newsletter folowing the recent strife in Bangkok~

We have accepted 10 new women. 4 started already and the other 6 have been given the opportunity to come after the Songkran break. We continue to grow on faith. We need your support. Please pray for more jewelry sales to pay the women’s salaries.

 

These e-mails I share with you are just parts of the puzzle I am presently working on here at G42. It is a leadership academy giving us the tools we need to go forward and help these women and truly impact the world and bring life! If you would like to partner with us, we could use your support! I need people who know jewelry design to help me with some new creative jewelry pieces for the fall. We also need to raise several thousand dollars to support the upcoming month long vision/development trip. The money we raise will go towards sending us to the Garden of Hope, SHE, and many other organizations in Thailand and Cambodia to develop products that WILL give women alternatives to their lives in the bar!! 

 

I know sometimes the problems of the world feel SO overwhelming and you
think to yourself “What can I possibly to do to help these women?” One
way I am confident you will touch their lives is by sending us! We are
ready and willing to go and help these women start new lives, but we
need your help financially to get there and your PRAYERS for covering as
these are dark places and we plan on bringing the light!

 

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