The call to missions begins with the cross. Because of Jesus’ love for me, I want to tell others, that they might share in it.
So I went to Thailand (I just got back). While there, I came face to face with human trafficking. For four days I spent most of the day in poor villages where girls are trafficked away (either voluntarily or forcibly) from their families for financial gain. I saw the store fronts where those girls live & work. I saw transactions take place.
Reflecting on this heinousness, I saw the need for workers to rescue & rehabilitate these girls. To provide a means of escape to those trapped by the industry (there are those who are fighting this battle).
But rescue is not enough; the girls need a paradigm shift. To be taught that their lives are more valuable than that, that their bodies are sacred, and to be given purpose. These are fruits of the gospel, so we’re back at the cross.
I saw the need to decrease supply of trafficked girls. That if policies and enforcement would rise to a certain level, trafficking would decrease (there are those who are fighting this battle). But…
Supply exists because demand exists. The root of the problem is that creepy men want to buy girls. The marketplace exists in Thailand because it exists in the heart of evil men. So in order to fully solve the problem, these men need a conversion. They need a change of heart. We’re back at the cross again.
