Carrie

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Very soon, Carrie, an acquaintance of mine will be heading overseas to Southeast Asia to get involved in the counter-human trafficking movement. She will be serving with an organization called “Ezekiel Rain.” (To read more about this organization, click here.) While many of the details of what exactly she will be doing are still open, she definitely will be praying for and encouraging children rescued out of sex slavery. I have asked her to share some of her story with me so that I can share it with you. My hope is that this brief interview will bring the work of rescue and restoration closer to you as a real person shares her real story of getting involved in this movement. She shares how you, too, can get involved in even the simplest ways.

What is “human trafficking”?

It’s the exploitation of people, usually through sex slavery or forced labor. Victims are bought, sold, and rented out as if they were possessions rather than people.

How did you first hear about human trafficking?

I first learned about it in June 2005 while editing a document for the IHOP-KC marketing department. I came upon the term “sex slavery”. Having never heard of such a thing I looked it up online, and I was horrified by what I found.

What’s your approach to responding to human trafficking?

As the Lord has shared His heart with me concerning these ones I’ve spent many hours weeping for them, and He has shown me that his greatest desire is for them to know and love Him. This must be the focus of whatever I do. I’ve felt called to full-time missions for over ten years, and once I began to feel God’s heart for these ones I started asking Him to send me to SE Asia. For several years I’ve felt confident He would do so one day, and that it would be with a ministry deeply committed to prayer and seeing Jesus receive His inheritance.

In October the Lord made it clear He’s sending me to Thailand to work with a prayer and counter-human trafficking ministry called Ezekiel Rain. Their vision is to set up homes for children who have been rescued from human trafficking, where they can come to know and love Jesus in an atmosphere of prayer and worship. I will be serving in their prayer room, serving the ministry in various ways, encouraging the children, and doing anything else the Lord opens the door for. My heart is also to build friendships with as many women and children stuck in prostitution as I can, in hopes of bringing them to Jesus.

How can others get involved?

Pray. Ask Jesus to reveal Himself to those enslaved in human trafficking throughout the nations. Ask Him what role He would have you play. Find out about ministries, organizations and missionaries that are working to put an end to slavery, and if Jesus puts it on your heart to get involved with any of them pursue that. Most likely there are such organizations near you. Pray for these ministries, organizations and missionaries, and if the Lord puts it on your heart, financially support them. If we ask Him for His heart He will definitely share it with us and give us outlets for displaying it to others.