Hi Friends,
I just wanted to send out an update on how things are progressing for my upcoming trip to Bulgaria and Greece to work with anti-trafficking ministries. We leave in 12 days which is so exciting!! I'm very eager to go and visit again the ministries that we worked with two years ago on our first trip. There have been such amazing developments in the ministries, and I can't wait to see how God is pushing back the darkness of trafficking in these places.
In Bulgaria, in addition to prayer walking, helping with outreach, and learning about sustainable livelihood projects, we'll also have an opportunity to go and visit a Roma village in the countryside. Bulgarian woman are trafficked outside of Bulgaria, generally to western Europe. Within Bulgaria, Roma (Gypsy) women are sent by their husbands/boyfriends into the city to earn money so that the men can sit around and gamble instead of work. We'll have the opportunity to do prevention work alongside our partners there. We're going to be able to work with the children in the village - to hopefully bring them joy and hope and acknowledge the worth that they have as children of God. Please pray that these little lives will never know what it is to be sold by those who should cherish them.
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| Artwork in the MTW Bulgaria Office to represent freedom |
In Athens, we'll be able to do many of the same things as in Bulgaria such as prayer walk and learn about sustainable livelihood, but we'll also have the opportunity to do an Ikea trip to help outfit a brand new home that will serve as transitional housing for women who have been freed from slavery. Also, just today we learned of an exciting possibility, so would you please pray with us that it would come to fruition? We've been told there may be an opportunity to go and work in one of the refugee camps for an afternoon. Already, traffickers have started working and volunteering in these camps in order to identify the vulnerable and easily exploited. Please pray for the protection of the vulnerable in these camps. Prevention is so critical in this battle.
Thank you so much for your support and encouragement along this journey. Your prayers are incredibly precious to me. A huge praise is that my financial goal has almost been met. I'm short of my target by just $110. Additionally, excess funds that are received can go towards things games and crafts for the Roma children or nail polish and lotion for outreach care packages for women in brothels. The information on financial contributions is below.
Please let me know if you have any questions. And thank you so much for walking alongside me in this endeavor!
Blessings,
Jen
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
