More on Anti-Trafficking Trip

Hi Friends & Family,

The other day at the office we were discussing reports out of Syria and Iraq about what ISIS is doing to women. As horrible as the many ways these women are being abused are, it doesn't change the reality that women are treated exactly the same outside of war zones while we often stand by silent and complicit. 

Across the globe women from villages to highly developed cities are being forced into prostitution. Whether they're forced by family members, war, drug dependence, kidnapping, violence or simply a lack of viable alternatives to earn a living, the fact remains that these atrocities are a reality of our world. 

Two centuries ago, abolitionist William Wilberforce said "You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know." This is one of the driving goals of our trip to Asia - to increase awareness of this issue so that the women participating in the trip can return home and be influencers within their own communities and that we'll no longer dwell in ignorance of how people are being treated around the globe. My prayer is that together we can actively work to end this evil in our world.

THANK YOU so much for being a part of this endeavor whether it's by your prayers, your financial giving, involvement in your own community, or just asking about the issue and what's going on. To have you on board with me in this journey is an extraordinary blessing. Thank you!!

Prayer Partners

Please let me know if you'd be willing to take a specific day of our trip to pray for the work we'll be involved with in Cambodia and Thailand. We would love to have this trip absolutely covered in prayer. 

Prayer Requests

Ways that you can be praying now include:

Finalizing logistics - visas, flights, lodging

Good health for everyone before and particularly during our trip

The teams that are hosting us as they do much work to prepare for us

For our hearts and minds to be open to what God wants us to see and participate in while there

Giving

Once again it has been an amazing blessing to see how God continues to provide the funds for his work. Of the initial $2750 I needed to raise by November 10, only $500 in needed giving remains. Thank you for being a part of this!!

If you would like to give to help meet the remaining $500 need, options are available below.

Please let me know if you have questions about anything!

Much love,

Jen Miller

Giving Options: 

1.     Click this link  https://donations.mtw.org/donate/AddDesignation.aspx?No=14901 to donate online to account 14901.

2.     Send a check to the following address with 14901 in the memo line

Mission to the World

PO Box 2589

Suwanee, GA 30024-0982

It's Been Awhile...

It's certainly been awhile, and while I've had lots of thoughts of posts (and even started a few), they've obviously not made it to being posted. However, as slack I'm feeling as a blogger, this is still one of the best ways to get info out to folks who may be interested in learning more about an upcoming missions trip I'll be participating in.

Let me know if you have any questions or if you're interested in learning more.

She was 12 years old when her grandmother sold her for the first time. She spent three days locked in a hotel room in Cambodia with a foreign man. And last week, she came to our office, a beautiful college-aged student with a beaming smile, to share the story of her freedom. Now she's a spokeswoman for an organization that bears her name, Remember Nhu. 

 

Nhu now travels the world sharing her story - how after her grandmother sold her again she demanded part of the money and took herself to hair and nail school, how she was adopted by a missionary couple, and how together they've started homes for at-risk boys and girls across the globe so that other children don't ever have to find themselves in the same place Nhu did. 

 

Last year I was privileged to co-lead a mission trip to Eastern Europe to help 10 women from across the US learn more about this issue and more about how, together, we can proactively fight the global issue of sex-trafficking.  While what we heard was extraordinarily difficult to take in at times, it's been amazing to see how the women who participated in the trip have been at work in their own churches and communities to further awareness of this cause. 

 

This year, I've been asked to co-lead a similar trip, but this time to a different region of the world. We are taking 10 women to Cambodia and Thailand November 13-23. This time, we're going to "my" area of the world. For five years I lived in Asia, but so often I turned away from the blatant sexual trafficking because it made me uncomfortable. I never again want indifference to be my response. 

 

To that end, we'll be working with ministries that intervene at all stages of the trafficking cycle. In both countries, we'll be visiting with ministries like Nhu's were they work to prevent the vulnerable from being sold in the first place. We'll meet with ministries that are reaching out to women sold in brothels and bars to try and reach them with hope and freedom. And we'll meet with ministries who are engaged in the long, hard work of restoration and healing for these girls and of providing them with job skills and training for a future free from being sold. 

 

Once again, I need your help. I need prayers desperately because this is hard and big. And it's been easy to look past how hard and how big it is by hiding in the minutia of schedules, and budgets, and visas. 

 

Another way important way to help is by giving financially towards the cost of transportation and lodging. I’ve been asked to raise $2750 to participate in this trip, and having your partnership in this endeavor would be an enormous blessing.  Knowing you are united with me on this mission to those who are immersed in such darkness will bring hope and courage to a seemingly overwhelming situation.

Thank you for prayerfully considering how you can be involved.

Here are the options if you would like to give financially:

1.     Click this link  https://donations.mtw.org/donate/AddDesignation.aspx?No=14901 to donate online to account 14901.

2.     Send a check to the following address with 14901 in the memo line

Mission to the World

PO Box 2589

Suwanee, GA 30024-0982