One night saved her from slavery
(Marysol writes) She approaches one of our staff in the bathroom, shy but curious. "I'm communicating with this guy I have never met on my phone. Its going really good. He wants to meet me and have us go away together to work overseas. What do you think?"
The girl adds, "The thing is, I need to know. I'm meeting him tomorrow night."
Our staff takes a deep breath in. This sounds like classic human trafficking about to happen in less than 24 hours. She shoots her straight.
She's a young vulnerable South African girl from a local township that's hoping for a nice guy and a new life. Most girls like her only see a potential future by leaving the country. She has no idea the hell she could have been tricked and trapped into in less than 24 hours. A drugged up, forced prostitute most likely with no escape.
Essentially, that bathroom conversation at most saved her life.
At the very least her innocence.
The team was sharing that night in her youth group about human trafficking awareness. Teaching the most at risk, the most vulnerable how to protect themselves and how to spot when they are about to walk into a trap. Grassroots human trafficking prevention in a country where it is rampant. She heard their message and put the pieces together. No longer naive and blindly walking into a trap. She got suspicious and brave enough to pull someone aside in the bathroom. Little did this team know that scheduling it that night was divine in this girl's life. What if they had postponed it a week?
This story was shared yesterday in our YWAM staff meeting with a few details changed for privacy sake. Just one of dozens of stories untold every week about the simple, diverse, one-on-one ministry happening here with our team of YWAM missionaries.
We are linking arms with human trafficking prevention.
This weekend in fact we are staying in a local township just like hers for a few days to start passing on this life saving message and teach the Bible. Pray for us. More on that coming soon...
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