Provide rescue and shelter for some of the 100,000 women (and their children) involved in sex slavery and prostitution in this city of twenty-two million. Most of these women were trafficked into prostitution when they were children and do not believe in a God who loves them personally. Their children also need to experience the unconditional love of Christ.
Your gift will help oppressed women in the red-light areas with pressing needs, especially related to leaving the red-light area, and enable the children of the red-light women get into hostels so that they are not living in the brothels. Partnering with the team of long-term workers that leads this project will enable them to share Christ with those still in the trade and teach life skills and a new trade to rescued women. Pouring time and positive attention into these women helps them understand the love the Father has for them. Give today to share the gospel and incarnate the love of Christ with these women so they will run to Him as their Comforter, Healer and, most of all, their Savior.
Because of your gifts, our team has seen three women leave prostitution and follow Jesus over the past 18 months! National partners consistently reach out in love to women in the area. Through the friendships they create, these believers pray and share the gospel with women, simultaneously helping them provide for their children’s needs. Your giving enabled 12 children to attend boarding school to keep them away from the red-light district where their mothers live.
The outreach center you support faithfully serves women’s needs and brings the gospel directly into the red-light district twice weekly. We see an average of 35 women at each church service. We have four ladies who used to work in the red-light area before becoming baptized believers, attending church services to encourage women to consider leaving.
Our team is working with several women who have left prostitution to find new lives. Your generosity helps these ladies find housing in a different area of the city and offers job training so they can provide for their families. Whether by learning to sew or preparing for the civil service exam, we want to equip each for a future career.
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We are currently discipling three women as they work towards leaving the red-light district permanently. Their love for Christ is growing, as is their trust that God will take care of them even if they leave everything they have ever known.
Each week nearly 50 women gather to hear Christ proclaimed in the red-light area. Along with teaching the Bible, our local partners talk with them about what it would look like for them to create lives outside their current darkness.
Many of these women have children who live in hostels outside the red-light area to attend school. About 25 children recently returned to visit their mothers for their May school holidays, and we will soon take them to a special camp where we can encourage them to know and follow the Lord Jesus.
We have the precious opportunity to communicate regularly with hundreds of ladies in this area. We help meet their needs and boldly point them to the One who can meet their ultimate needs, Christ Jesus, who loves them and gave Himself for them.
We are excited to install a new team of local believers as the leaders of this life-changing work. During this transition, the project does not need additional gifts. Please continue to pray for God to move powerfully through this effective ministry.
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South Asian peoples live within a kaleidoscope of colors, a cacophony of sounds, and a buffet of flavors that ignite the senses and warm the soul. This enigmatic region is the birthplace of four world religions but is also home to the world's highest concentration of lostness.
The 1.6 billion people of South Asia are concentrated in an area less than half the size of the USA. Muslims and Hindus comprise the overwhelming religious majority. Every week 225,000 South Asians die, most without Christ. Yet there are glimmers of gospel hope. Through the work of local Christians and foreign workers God is bringing South Asians to faith in Jesus, the church is growing, and stories of Christ’s redeeming power are emerging from the field.
More than a billion South Asian eyes are searching for hope. Pray for long-term workers and their local partners who share the love of Christ daily. Ask God to use their efforts to create a movement of his Spirit across the city and throughout countries and islands of South Asia!