This August, I will be returning to India to work once again with a small group of survivors of human trafficking and the amazing people who serve them.
Our plan is to go with training and tools that we can pass onto the "house moms" and the other people who work with the girls on an all-day daily basis.
My initial excitement about returning to my favorite country has all too quickly changed to anxiety about going.
I'm scared. Last year when we went, the heaviness and the dark reality of human-trafficking became a reality, as names and stories turned to faces and hugs. The more I have learned about the deep rooted (an understatement if there has ever been one) problem of human-trafficking, the more I feel entirely useless about the whole thing.
As I have mentally debated with myself and God about whether or not I should go back this year, here is what I have felt God saying to me.
I have created you be a person of action. I did not make you to sit on the sideline afraid. I made you to move for me when I ask. I have prepared you for this and I will do what you see as impossible.
God rarely asks His people to do what is easy.
So here is the honest answer if you asked me how I am feeling about returning:
I'm scared.
I'm scared to step back to the front lines of this counter-human-trafficking war.
I don't want to leave my sweet babies.
I love India and my heart and prayers are constantly with the people I have met there.
I get motivated to move with the idea that I could possible make a dent in the battle against human trafficking.
I want to be an encouragement and support to the women and men who daily are pushing back the evils of slavery in this world.
So I am going. Lord willing. I am going.
I ask you to join me in two ways.
1. I, along with the rest of our small team, need prayer. The spiritual battle has already begun and I would love any prayers on our behalf (for provision and protection specifically) as we step toward this trip.
2. If you are able, I could use your financial support. The trip will cost around $3,000. A small portion of that has already been covered through a fundraiser run through our church, but the rest is on me. In a fun twist, our final adoption payment is due about the same time that the final trip payment is due - this, admittedly, has me stressed a little.
If you can give, you can make a check our to Bay Pointe Community Church and send it directly to me. I will get it to the right place. Or you can give online through my fundraising site: gofund.me/wcukc48
Our plan is to go with training and tools that we can pass onto the "house moms" and the other people who work with the girls on an all-day daily basis.
My initial excitement about returning to my favorite country has all too quickly changed to anxiety about going.
I'm scared. Last year when we went, the heaviness and the dark reality of human-trafficking became a reality, as names and stories turned to faces and hugs. The more I have learned about the deep rooted (an understatement if there has ever been one) problem of human-trafficking, the more I feel entirely useless about the whole thing.
I have created you be a person of action. I did not make you to sit on the sideline afraid. I made you to move for me when I ask. I have prepared you for this and I will do what you see as impossible.
God rarely asks His people to do what is easy.
So here is the honest answer if you asked me how I am feeling about returning:
I'm scared.
I'm scared to step back to the front lines of this counter-human-trafficking war.
I don't want to leave my sweet babies.
I love India and my heart and prayers are constantly with the people I have met there.
I get motivated to move with the idea that I could possible make a dent in the battle against human trafficking.
I want to be an encouragement and support to the women and men who daily are pushing back the evils of slavery in this world.
I ask you to join me in two ways.
1. I, along with the rest of our small team, need prayer. The spiritual battle has already begun and I would love any prayers on our behalf (for provision and protection specifically) as we step toward this trip.
2. If you are able, I could use your financial support. The trip will cost around $3,000. A small portion of that has already been covered through a fundraiser run through our church, but the rest is on me. In a fun twist, our final adoption payment is due about the same time that the final trip payment is due - this, admittedly, has me stressed a little.
If you can give, you can make a check our to Bay Pointe Community Church and send it directly to me. I will get it to the right place. Or you can give online through my fundraising site: gofund.me/wcukc48
“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”
