Fighting Cambodia’s Sex Trafficking
Bethlehem Baptist recently helped to fund a project through Agape International Ministries. Holly Andrews, who heads up the anti-trafficking task force of the Global Diaconate, visited the work and helped us connect with this amazing ministry. AIM is an anti-trafficking ministry based in Cambodia that seeks to prevent child‐sex trafficking and restore hope to its victims by providing holistic aftercare to rescued victims, equipping and mobilizing Christ’s church to take action and building church‐sponsored community centers in communities where sex‐trafficking is prevalent. The Global Diaconate project focuses on supporting the counseling services of 20 rescued girls for one year. The funding will support the restoration of rescued girls who are counseled by a primary counselor and an assistant counselor who use biblical counseling approaches and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy adapted to the Cambodian culture. The funding also includes the cost of counseling materials.
More information can be found on the AIM website. ABC Update had a feature story on their work.
on October 13, 2010 on 5:51 pm
Thank you for the update, and for staying connected to the needs world wide…
My friend, Amanda and I took a road trip this summer to Mexico and visited an organization called Breaking Chains. It is an amazing ministry similar to the one in Cambodia that is seeking to bring the Light of Christ to the dark world of sexual exploitation. The leader, Steven, has an inspirational story of God’s grace and mercy, and he has such a heart for the latino world (and has a ton to connections). He also feels like God is moving him to start a home in Haiti and is looking for contacts to begin working there… I would love to go! As I wait for God’s lead, I want to help with connecting this awareness of needs, of what’s happening in this world, to move me to action from afar.
Check out the ministry: http://breakingchains.ning.com/
breakingchains.org
Praying! Praying for Bethlehem’s team and ministry as well. May God go before us…