We need your prayers....

If you are the praying kind, we could use your prayers. It is very hot and humid here, we start our days at 7am and often end at midnight. Most of the team only get 4 hours of rest a night or so... so, needless to say, we are tired and need strength to be able to handle the long days and emotions of what we are seeing.

We have been in Pattaya for 2 days and it is like Las Vegas on crack... to compare it to anything that could give you a sense of what we are seeing. Last night was one of the most difficult nights for all of us. We saw hundreds of Thai girls, many of them 13-15 yrs old, walking hand and hand with white men in the 50s-70s biding time until the inevitable events of the late night. We see girls that have been kidnapped from E. Europe. and forced into sex slavery. We saw Thai boys that were trafficked at the early age of 5 years old because they looked more feminine than the other buys their age.... and were forced to become transvestites and prostitute themselves., usually to gay men. These boys are called "Lady Boys" and often kill themselves at an early age because of what they have lived through.

Words cannot express how bad my heart hurts [as well as our whole team]. I have never felt so burdened like this. We have now seen the full circle from the starting point of the small villages and then seeing the women and men in the bars in Pattaya and Bangkok. It feels like I have walked through the worst nightmare you can ever imagine.

We are spending our last night in Pattaya tonight and catching a flight at 5:45am to Chaing Mai for more business meetings all day. We will arrive back to Bangkok at the Christian House around 10pm.

Please pray for strength for the team.... we need it.