Kingdom Connection Hosted by Jentezen Franklin – Watch : “Christine Caine – The A21 Campaign”
you know when I first got involved in
helping to rescue the victims of human
trafficking I think sometimes you have
this kind of heroic image of what it’s
going to be like when you see a traffic
victim but I’ve discovered that it’s far
more painful than I ever thought I mean
you’ve got to understand that these
girls are often raped you know 20 maybe
30 times every day over a sustained
period for seven years it doesn’t matter
how they feel physically what cycle they
might be in they are just used to the
terror and the fear of being raped so we
work at the a21 campaign with law
enforcement we’re so grateful to work
with great people in great countries and
there is a lot that needs to be done in
order to investigate to find out whether
a brothel is legal or illegal whether
the girls are being kept against their
will one of the great things we’ve done
is instituted national phone lines in
several of the countries that we work in
so that often our tip will come through
the phone line it’s a 24-hour emergency
phone line and we have billboards
everywhere we have it all over the media
so that perhaps it works in one of two
ways sometimes a client might end up
feeling guilty and have asked a girl in
a brothel if she has paperwork to be a
legal prostitute then finds out that she
doesn’t well he doesn’t want to be
exposed so he’ll go and he’ll make a
call one of these calls to out one of
our 1-800 numbers and then say look at
this brothel there’s certain girls and
they are being held against their will
well that’s a tip-off we then would give
that into the hands of the law
enforcement they would organize in their
own timing a raid and then the girls are
brought out now that in one sense we
think well they’re set free in that
moment but the truth is for many of them
a whole nother level of terror and fear
begins right at that point they don’t
know whether they’re being taken they
don’t know if they’re going to be sold
into another brothel they don’t know if
they’re going to be moved into a
different country you’ve got to
understand they have no idea and they’ve
been held against their will in fear and
terror this whole time so when they
choose to come to an a21 transition
facility so they are offered a whole lot
of choices some girls don’t trust it and
they would just prefer to get deported
back to their countries but the ones
that then choose to come with fear
trepidation often they’re often cowering
and you very often see them in a fetal
position just full of fear and full of
terror that’s what drives human
trafficking it’s actually terror and
fear and we have some fantastic the real
heroes if there’s such a word for the
a21 campaign our our house mums
that are on the ground 24/7 literally
just being that first phase of love for
the girls what they will do is of course
immediately we begin to meet their
immediate physical needs many of the
girls have been traumatized that they
need an urgent medical care and so we
make sure that we get food water many of
them have been deprived in those things
so we take care of their physical needs
and we instantly bring a social worker a
psychologist a counselor to begin
post-trauma therapy with them you must
understand so much trauma has gone on in
their mind and then we have faithful
prayer team that prays around-the-clock
for them what we have discovered is you
know that those first couple of hours is
just fear but with incredible love and
grace and a spirit of serving you can
begin to see the barriers slowly come
down now it might take and it normally
takes a first full week before a girl
might even sort of smile in your
direction you’ve got to understand you
are working with people that are just
full of terror and fear and I think
sometimes we think we’re just going to
come in and all of a sudden all the
defences are going to come down and
they’re going to be okay now they’re
carrying so much physical and
psychological wounding as well as
obvious spiritual wounding that there is
a process involved and I think what we
have to understand is we’re not looking
for quick results you know even you and
I that haven’t been trafficked it takes
time for Jesus to renew and restore us
and for us to continue to grow in our
faith well we have to understand these
victims have been so traumatized that it
takes time it’s not just like one prayer
you’re done let’s move on you have to be
committed and I think that’s where you
discover that it’s a labor it’s a labor
of love
you’ve got to daily begin to work with
the victims to build trust and I think
love is what does it more than anything
unconditional love unconditional grace
unconditional mercy and what we have
seen time and time again and now where
several hundred
into this process I think without
exception I have seen greater than
anything is love and grace and mercy
really can carry you very very far as
long as we’re doing all the other things
that are a requirement as well you can
with the love of God love people to
wholeness and freedom and I’ve seen
girls that have come in carrying in a
fetal position absolutely laughs and I
think of the scripture in Proverbs where
it says she smiles at the future I have
seen that fear become just a laughter
with a strength and confidence that says
yet God’s got a great future for me and
whatever has happened in my past God has
redeemed it and that I can have a great
future in through a relationship with
Jesus Christ it works the gospel of hope
works