Clarification

Jonathan and I have had something on our heart for sometime, that through a lot of prayer, processing and quiet time, it became something with the desire to be mentioned. God has given us a powerful call, one that humbles us daily... we are inadequate, weak, selfish people that God sees the gold in, that, which is our Savior who gives us whatever greatness and good that we possess. He has redeemed us from the pit and made us new, and we serve a God who is a Father passionately in love with His children. We know He understands our weakness, but does not measure us by it. He sees in the greatness we all can be and all that we can accomplish, if we give our trust to He who gives us life and pursue after the hope that our lives if anything, honor, glorify and establish Him in places where His name was not known.

God has shown us the issue of Human Trafficking.... but to take it out of its title... He has shown us the enslavement of children, women and men. People who in their greatest venerability are exposed and become helpless slaves to the command of great wickedness and evil. He has shown us the reality of shattered people who were never given a voice, but He has also shown us the hope that lies within them... the very hope and light that has kept them surviving. He has also shown us the deep affliction man would face to become the oppressor, and how they too need saving by a tender Savior. He has shown us this reality, and shown us our responsibility to it.... mostly, He has shown us the avenue that through this deep darkness, He can powerfully be the light within it.

The struggle we have been facing, is the fact that we feel that Human Trafficking has become a bit of a "hot topic" right now. One that can tend to get thrown around as the words, "human trafficking" instead of the actual realities of it. Jonathan has been exposed to people around him who joke about this reality and even about selling babies on the black market. The stories of it have brought great pain in imagining how deeply as His people it digs into our hearts... but how much more would it break the heart of our Lord? This indifference... this lack of heart. People have heard the WORDS, "Human trafficking" so frequently lately, that they stop considering what it actually is. So this is a problem. The other difficulty for us is feeling like people have tended to turn our life call into fighting the issue of human trafficking alone.

We have nothing but honor over the fact that Jesus has called us to take part in His holy work regarding this, but the clarification lies here.

We are not missionaries going to tackle and issue...
We are bond servants of Jesus Christ.
We are moving out into the part of the world He has called us to be.
We are pursuing the people He has laid on our heart.
We are moving forward to see His hands and heart revealed to them.
We are not people who are thinking we can change the world.
We are hoping we can serve Jesus by loving people one at a time.

We are not fighting the issue of Human Trafficking as our sole role.
We are going to see Jesus magnified and preached...
We are not fighting an issue.
We are praying to through an issue our hearts have been broken by,
see Jesus's light shine onto it.
And see people changed and transformed through His holy power...
ALONE.

We claim no greatness.
We do not call this OUR ministry.
We are not going to fight the issue of this devastation.
We are pursuing this call to fight the war against the enemy.
ENTIRELY.

So to clarify again... please see that this is something that God has called us to be a part of... and we by no means mean to make it seem less important than it is, because we are in fact going to give our life to this because of how important it is. But the point we need to make abundantly clear, is that we do not want to be identified with the issue..... we want to be identified with Jesus Christ alone. And the fact that he has called us all to tend to the orphan and the widow in their distress... to be a light in dark places, to make disciples of all nations and to become the least of these.

A HUGE part of the path we are following, is working to see those oppressed through this vicious cycle of trafficking freed and redeemed. To love on them so deeply that one day they can begin to see their worth in Jesus Christ. But even with dealing with this issue, we do not just speak about trafficking in Thailand... we want to vocalize the travesty of this force against people worldwide. We never want to appear as though Thailand is the only place dealing with this reality... and we would ask all of you who support us in this endeavor to also remember that truth. We need to pray for Jesus's children everywhere, in the many ways they are all oppressed.

We have been called to Thailand and will give our heart to the people of Thailand, but we know that God sees the whole world in its suffering and want to grow to be more like Him by daily doing the same.

We have been called to be a part of the issue of human trafficking, but we were not called to just fight the issue itself. We do pray that this horror of trafficking will be stopped one day, but Jesus has to be the center of everything we do and our hearts need to daily remain humble in the truth that anything accomplished for the Kingdom, is Jesus THROUGH US.

So please remember us daily in your prayers and pray for our strength as His children, His followers and His servants... and with us pray in remembrance of the evil penetrating the world that CREATES the issue of human trafficking, war, genocides, slavery and every bit of oppression in existence. Let us not work to stop issues, but labor to see light cast into darkness, everywhere through everything, through Jesus Christ.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel."

“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not true."
-John 5