This weekend I (Kerri) will head back to Thailand and its northern neighbor. I will spend two weeks visiting women and girls who have fallen victim to the sex trade. Although GRI has not had anyone on the ground on the Thai-Burma border for several months, the people there are constantly on our hearts – and even more so – they are on God’s heart. I will be traveling with a friend who works with trafficked women to provide them vocational training, and ideally, an income on which they can live. This is the kind of work we want to be a part of – solutions and not just band-aids. And we want the people along the border to know that they are most certainly not forgotten nor forsaken by their God, although they do not acknowledge Him and give their worship to idols. The joy of telling even one hurting woman that she is loved by the Creator of the universe is almost too good to be true. But I am praying that I get to do that many times during these next two weeks in Thailand and Burma.
Above is a picture of some girls who God placed in an incredible God-loving and God-fearing orphanage near the border. Praise God that they did not end up as so many do being trafficked to brothels in Chiang Mai and Bangkok.
I will post to the blog as often as possible, so please check back for updates and for ways you can be praying for the people of this area.
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