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Thank you all for your concern for Lola. Some have suggested that we do more than just pray for Lola. We absolutely agree. In fact, the reason we are there is to combine our prayers with practical hands-on help. Sometimes we're able to do so in a dramatic way (for an example, see this blog describing how one of our teams helped one of the bar girls escape).

That is why we partner with the Tamar Center, a ministry that in fact helps girls get out of the sex trade and back to a safe and normal life. In so doing, our teams not only ensure practical followup, but grow in their capacity to actually make a difference themselves.

If you would like to know more about the long-term care opportunities that girls like Lola have, please read about the Tamar Center.

We are committed to the proposition that people like Lola deserve intervention and justice. Sometimes we may feel ineffectual, but we partner with those whose track record of care is solid. They know the bar girls like Lola personally and will continue to meet with them and advocate for them. They do this at personal risk and sacrifice. They deserve our encouragement and support. We will continue to post updates on this story here.
 
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Adventures In Missions

There are a set of parents in the Ukraine right now wondering where there beautiful daughter is. Wondering if she is alive or dead. They probably lose sleep at night, and pray to God that their baby girl is ok...

I KNOW where she is. Her name is Lola. She is only nineteen years old. I have talked to her. She has been trafficked to Pattaya, Thailand. She is not ok!

She works for this cabaret pictured below:
 
She has only been here for three months, and she thinks she gets to leave in 
 three more months when she has made enough money to pay off her debt and
 go home. She rooms with girls from Russia, Moldova, and Ukraine. When we
 asked her if she ever gets to leave that building and go anywhere in town, she
 laughed and said, "Outside? No!"

 When I turned to walk away I couldn't breath. All I could do was cry on a
 teammates shoulder. I didn't want to take another step without Lola with me. I
 wanted to tell her to runaway and come with us.

 The only thing I could physically do for Lola that night was write her a note
 and PRAY God spoke to her through it. This is basically what it said:
            
Lola-
               I hope you get to go home to your family in three months! I will never forget you. If you Ever have a
               day that seems to hard remember I am praying for you, and that there is a God who loves you as
               his beautiful daughter. If you ever need him, he will hear your Voice.
            Your sister from America-
                        Jordan

After this five of us went to the Tamar Center (our ministry contact) to have an all night prayer session in their four-story building in the middle of all these bars and clubs. The following is what I wrote in my journal last night:

December 22, 2009 
         "I feel like I just began a fight in a ring, and tonight (Lola) was Satan's first punch. He got a good hit
          in to my face! But He's going to wish he knocked me out!"

         "This problem is too big, impossible to kill....FALSE! This problem is too big FOR ME, but not for my God!"

         "There is no way to rescue these girls physically...FALSE! My God gave me a hart for them THEREFORE, 
           he has a plan to get them out. I just have to pursue him for the revealing of that plan."
 
         "I can't pick and choose which parts/people I want to love like Christ does. I cant want the trafficked 
           freed (physically, spiritually) and not the men who 'own' them....I either want All of them or None of
           them. I CHOOSE THEM ALL. The end of trafficking will come through 'them'--the owners/pimps."