Human Trafficking

Lately, God has been working overtime revealing much to my heart and I know my life will never be the same.  I have been asking Him to show me what I am supposed to be doing to further His Kingdom.  I recently attended a Lisa Bevere conference in Joplin, Mo.  My eyes were opened to human trafficking.  Her family's ministry is Messenger International.  Human trafficking prevention is one of the things Lisa is passionate about.  They are working to free  women and children enslaved in Cambodia, Thailand  and India.  Human traffickers uses women and children for bond-servants, and more often for sex slaves being forced into prostitution, selling them sometimes a dozen times a day.  How could this happen in this day and age I wondered while Lisa was showing photos of her latest trip to Cambodia.  What horrible country would allow this to  happen?  What kind of government officials in those vile countries could sleep at night knowing their own women and children were drugged and tortured and sold in prostitution to foreign business men. I was sickened and angry!  Then...she said that there are hundreds of thousands of women and children enslaved and sold into prostitution in the United States.  What?  Did I hear that right?  We have human trafficking going on in this country?  The United States?  The greatest country in the world?   My country? My first thought was that the same human traffickers are bringing some of these foreign women and children to our country to be sold as prostitutes in exchange for their eventual freedom.  That is not the case. Some are kidnapped and some of them are brought her thinking they will be working towards their freedom only to find that the work was sex and there would be no freedom, no hope.  Lisa proceeded to tell us that over 100,000 of them are young American girls, boys and women.  My knees went weak and I had to sit down.  I felt like I had been punched in the stomach.   All evening the thought kept coming to me that somebody has to do something about this.   

As I said,  I have been praying and asking God to show me what he would have me do, what was my mission?  The human trafficking in America kept coming back to me at odd times during the day, in the middle of the night, even in my dreams.  But I knew that God wouldn't have me tackle this.  I kept thinking that it's just to dirty and evil for me.  I don't have the stomach for it.  He knows that, so that can't be it.  I just kept praying and asking and pushing the human trafficking thing away.  But...it won't go away.  It's there.  So...I give up Lord.  OK.  Now what do I do with it?  

I have been searching the subject and find mostly statistical government reports and lots of international organizations for foreign countries, but I am being led to keep it right her in the U.S.  I have found the blog Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation which has several links to various organizations, so I am going to look some of them over and try to find out more.  If you know of any good Christian organizations that work here in the U.S to free our women and children, please leave a comment or contact me.  I'd like to know what you think.  Please click on the comment link below this post and give me your feedback.

Be Blessed,
Celene