There has never been an occasion in the ten years of Transforming Truth’s existence when I have made an online financial plea for our own support needs. We trust God implicitly, and approach Him in prayer, and He always has children in the Kingdom who can help us with our media outreach. When we do make requests for financial help, it is on the behalf of our brothers and sisters in need, typically in third-world settings. Today I bring such a need to those of you who frequent this blog.
I have to maintain some very strict boundaries in mentioning the following request. I am both personally and missionally connected to a very successful sex-trafficking rescue ministry. Overseas, this ministry has established multiple safe-homes for girls rescued from sex-slavery, brothels and pimps. The government is corrupt in the particular area where this ministry is established overseas, and they have often demanded excessive bribes not to shut the homes down. Today, abruptly, they have raided and closed one of the safe-homes, arrested the director, laying false charges against her, and will be taking custody of all the girls in this particular safe-home. I learned on Tuesday evening that it is already too late to act to intervene on behalf of this home. There is no telling what will become of the director and the girls. This same ministry, headed up by an American with whom I speak or visit weekly, and have known for over twenty years, has five others safe-homes in the same general area with around 265 girls who have been previously rescued by this ministry from sex-enslavement. These five homes must now be quickly relocated to different parts of the country, and the girls safeguarded from being taken into local custody. This rescue/relocation needs to happen fairly quickly. The total costs for all of these girls to be relocated and protected by the ministry team members will cost between $12,000-15,000. I’m asking you to help me raise this $15K. This current activity is persecution in the most raw form, sexual abuse without restraint and has involved acts that I cannot even begin to describe. The girls have endured the apex of evil from men. These girls are almost assured of being returned to brothels, caged, beaten, raped and abused like they were before being rescued. Some of them are under five years old. If you feel led to help, please do so today via a donation on Transforming Truth. We cannot answer specific questions publicly on social media. We are also seeking to protect the identity of my friend’s ministry, as we learned late last night that the local authorities are pouring through the files of the first safe-home which they raided. It seems that they know that this is a Christian mission, and would attempt to prosecute my friend under anti-conversion laws if he comes back to their country. Because of this, we are seeking to handle the donations via TT instead of posting public links to their own ministry website. If you are unable to give, please do pray for these funds to be completely raised in the next few days. All donations are tax-deductible and 100% will go to the relocation of the 265 remaining children.
I never post things like this, so please know that I would put my name on the line for this need. Feel free to pray, as I will be praying, but I am really asking you to give financially.
UPDATE: Funding is beginning to come in. Some have asked what time frame we are looking at: 2-3 days maybe. Who knows…the ministry team on the ground is trying legal means to stop the process, but corruption is rampant, so we don’t want to cross our fingers and hope it works. The girls’ lives are literally in danger. If the girls are relocated, they won’t be pursued by these local authorities who simply see them as a means to make money. Once they are beyond their jurisdiction, they will know that they have lost their opportunity. All donations are 100% tax deductible and every cent will go to moving the girls. There is also a mailing address on the donate page for those who prefer to send a check.