Prayer Walking and Learning to Love
Once upon a time in college, God invited me and some friends to prayer walk a neighborhood. We started by just walking the street once a week, praying for the homes and the people we encountered....
View ArticleGod Loves Me in all the Small Things
Lately I’m exhausted, and I feel like I’m doing the job that never ends… “This is the job that never ends/yes it goes on and on my friends/some people started doing it/not knowing what it was/and...
View ArticleWhy did the streets seem especially sinister?
It was the same red light area, the same bars, the same music, some of the same faces I see night after night after night, so why did the streets seem so sinister as I walked home on Sunday evening? It...
View ArticleOne of my birthday presents this year…
For my birthday, I enjoyed this medley, performed by the prodigy on the piano. He is an incredibly talented young man. But, I would have loved it even more if he would have collected $27 admission and...
View ArticleOne week into the month of exploitation…
Dear friends, We’ve been exploiting my birthday for a week now, and already, we have raised enough money to buy one woman’s plane ticket home! WOW! Thank you to everyone who has given! However, we...
View ArticleShe asks you, “When I am going back home?”
This is her handwriting and her question. Not mine. What’s your answer? Give to my birthday fundraiser and help NightLight send this woman home. Remember – $700 pays a trafficked woman’s visa fees and...
View Article27 Million Stones
Reposting this video from Matt and The Exodus Road gang. Tagged: end human trafficking, human trafficking investigation, India, Thailand
View ArticleA Love Song
I witnessed a gift on Monday afternoon. A priceless gift. The setting was a nursing home in Tasmania, Australia. Thirty-odd elderly men and women were seated in a common room, some sleeping, some...
View ArticleFive more women went home this week!
Day by day or week by week - Meeting the women who walk the streets at night. Meeting again to hear their stories – to learn why they come out when it’s dark Stories of poverty, deceit, betrayal, fear,...
View ArticleA Power Stronger than Voodoo Curses
Yesterday, I spent some time with one of my African friends here. She was trafficked to Bangkok several years ago, and she’s lived under threats and fear for much of that time. Especially real to her...
View ArticleThis Indescribable Rest
Reposting this devotional by Aletha Hinthorn — One day when Rosaline Goforth and her husband Jonathan were missionaries in China, she overheard two Chinese women talking about her. “Yes, she is a hard...
View Article“I have hope again.” -Trafficking victim #humantrafficking #hope #story #quotes
Reposting this from Annie Dieselberg’s blog. — In my book, they are heroines. Listening to survivors of sex trafficking tell their stories, often for the first time, is a privilege that I don’t take...
View ArticleMy Faith Story
Good morning, Church! I wanted to share my faith story today because God has done a deep heart change in me that I never could have done on my own. I was raised in a pastor and missionary family, so...
View ArticleOne Drawer at a Time
Reposting this entry by Leslie Chambers, from Speak. Love. — One day, only a few short weeks ago, I had the strangest thing happen. I found myself with nothing pressing to do. The kids were at school...
View ArticleEducation is a Powerful Weapon
Many weapons have been used against the people of the Nuba Mountains since 1983. Anatov bombers, machine guns, landmines, starvation, isolation, and ignorance. Ignorance? In the 1990s, the central...
View ArticleWherever You Are, Cry Out to God
Miriam Alexander, shares her powerful story of living a life of sin while crying out to God for deliverance. She finally found freedom through the power and grace of Jesus Christ. Her encouragement to...
View ArticleBuild Your Kingdom Here
Earlier this week, this song was stuck in my head all day at work. It’s also my prayer this morning… Build Your Kingdom Here by Rend Collective [chords] [iTunes] Come set Your rule and reign In our...
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