What We Envision

“Who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29)

• To help desperate and voiceless women and children, particularly street children and the victims of the sex-trafficking industry.
• To call the Church in the developing world to always remember the poor, and to seek justice for all the oppressed, as we are directed by scripture.

Street Children
There are millions of street children in the world who have been abandoned by their parents, forced to leave home because of extreme poverty, or lost their parents to disease or war.  All over the world these children face similar fates: without parental guidance, provision, or love, they quickly turn to sniffing glue, doing drugs, and crime.  Their life is usually a spiraling cycle of despair, headed for death on the streets by HIV or other disease.  Our sole goal in working with street children is to place them in an environment where they receive nurturing love and learn of God's truth.  Rehabilitation of children who have spent significant time on the streets is not easy and requires prayer, innovative thinking, and persistence.  Despite the great challenges facing this work, it is critical that these children are not forgotten or abandoned by the church or society.
 
Sex Trafficking
The sex trafficking industry is one of the most devastating inhumanities in the world today, and it is growing.  Young girls are kidnapped, sold by their parents, or lured by false marriages and false offers of employment.  They are then smuggled to another country where they are forced to work as prostitutes.  These children, some as young as seven years old, are forcibly detained in a strange land, and made to service several clients a day against their will, usually until they contract HIV or another disease, at which time they are turned out on to the streets to die.  Many women will have had several children by that point born to them by sex clients.  Our primary strategy for fighting the sex trafficking industry is to monitor national borders, and to intercept these girls before they arrive at their destination.