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