Trafficking News from the Summit VI

While at the Summit of the Orphan, I listened to Tom Davis who is the president of Children's Hope Chest and the author of Fields of the Fatherless, Red Letters, Confessions of a Good Christian Guy, Scared: A novel on the Edge of the World and Priceless. He's been all over the world and seen a lot of truth regarding how evil our world is - and he talked a ton about sex trafficking.

1.2 million people enter into sex trafficking every year. 800,000 each year are sent to a foreign country. 30 million have died as a result of being trafficked for sex.

When I think of sex trafficking, I think of red light districts in Cambodia or somewhere in Asia. Reality is that AMERICA is home to A LOT of trafficked boys, girls and women for sex ~~ any where from between 14,000 and 17,000 people a year are trafficked into the states for sex.

1/3rd of Craigs list revenue comes from sex ads. Many of these ads offer young girls for sex.

Atlanta is home to more sex trafficked individuals than any other city in America. For example, 3 different massage parlors were shut down in Macon, Georgia recently for trafficking girls.

Sex trafficking is the #2 business in the world - second only to drug trafficking. Sex trafficking brings in $32 billion a year.

1 Peter 5:8 says that "our enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." I'd argue he's prowling around looking for 3 kinds of people:

1. helpless kids -- over 90% of which are ORPHANED children to traffic. for example 70% of russian orphans today eventually get sex trafficked

2. insecure adults who are willing to make a few dollars by trafficking kids and promote prostitution

3. individuals who are willing to PAY MONEY to buy SMALL CHILDREN for sex

if you ask me - the enemy is doing pretty well as of late in his attempts to traffic and destroy children, dont you think?

Less than 1% of trafficked children ever get out alive. Thus, PREVENTION IS KEY.

Imagine if you or your neighbors or your community group or someone you know from church adopted just ONE CHILD from say... russia. That's one less defenseless kid who will be trafficked. and that my friends is VICTORY and prevention and flipping awesome.

Interested in doing something? Check out:

International Justice Mission

Children's Hope Chest

Love 146

Not For Sale

She is Priceless

We can:

1. Educate ourselves

2. Educate others

3. Give opportunities to help through prayer, financial donations to organizations at work, write senators and congressmen for funding and legislation to make it more difficult to traffic kids into the states, the media