Rescue Is Sweet

Sometimes my mind has a hard time processing the bits and pieces of information I receive on a given day as I interact with those who are caught in a life of prostitution. A life that is light-years away from the world I was raised in. I never knew a world like this existed. I grew up in Small Town, Texas…a good little conservative, Baptist girl who never lacked love and acceptance, and who thought that getting drunk or taking drugs was the worst a person do. Prostitution & sex slavery was only a subject in movies…movies I never saw but knew existed.

Today one of the prostitutes that I am friends with (for her safety, I’ll call her “Fran”) told me the whole story of something that happened just one month ago. Through an interesting series of events, she became friends with three women from her home country of Romania. They had been beaten, starved and forced to prostitute themselves, sometimes locked in rooms for days at a time. In Romania they were told they had been given jobs in Belgium picking crops and working in fields. When they arrived here, they discovered that those jobs never existed. When Fran first saw them, one girl especially was skin and bones. You could see every bone in her body.

Fran realized what was happening to them and, to make a long story short, brought them up to the ministry center so we could help them get out of the country and escape their pimp. They had been trying to save money to buy airline tickets by holding back 5 or 10 Euros from every “client” and hiding it from their pimp. They hid the money in condoms in a particular body cavity until they could get by themselves to hide it in a better location. When I heard her say that today, I almost burst into tears, but held it back because I didn’t want her to stop talking. Those three young women wanted to be free of their pimp so badly that they were willing to do anything….whatever it took.

Fran crossed their path at just the right time, and, because of our relationship with her, Breaking Chains Network and Cherut were able to help the three women. Today they are in another country and free of their captor. Fran skyped with them last night, and they were laughing and had light in their eyes again. It makes her happy that we were all able to help them, yet Fran is still trapped in prostitution herself.

Please pray for Fran. She knows we love her. She feels safe with us and comes up to the ministry center quite often, but making the break from prostitution seems an impossibility to her.

Lord, reveal Your unconditional love to Fran. Show her Your deep, abiding affection for her. Give her dreams and visions of You. I want to be Your voice of love to her, Your arms around her, and Your smile when she looks at my face.

“But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!” Romans 5:8