Have you ever met someone that you could sit and hear speak for hours without growing restless? Someone that from the minute they started talking, you just knew they were real. Someone that walked what they talked. I have told you before about my friend Doug. He and I have gotten to know one another a little over the past few months through email. I first met he and his wife Shirley while they were visiting our church back in the spring, and this past Sunday Doug was back and our church group had the privilege of hearing him share his heart again…and it’s a good heart.

Doug is the director of Tiny Hands International, and he and his wife are their only state-side employees…all others are serving in Nepal, Bangladesh and India. They are literally the hands and feet of Jesus, serving His most abused and repressed children. They are serving the young women, girls and boys of the sex trafficking industry. They serve children as young as 5 years old that are trafficked from Nepal to India each year as sex slaves. They fight to intercept these women and save them from a life of abuse and torture. It is a dark and evil industry and it’s only hope is the mercy of our great God.

Less than a year ago, Tiny Hands had been able to intercept 48 trafficking victims to date, but longed to reach more. They started looking very carefully at what worked and what didn’t work, they looked at other organization’s successes and failures to better grasp the monster they were up against. There are so many groups involved in this work around the world, many of which are non-Christian organizations. Millions of dollars are spent to help end sex trafficking, and yet the problem rages out of control. So how do you fight such a battle? How do you attempt to make a dent in such a beast. The servants at Tiny Hands decided to begin fasting every Wednesday and asking the Lord to go before them in their efforts. They realized it was a battle that raged in the heavenlys and should be approached accordingly…on their knees.

And so brings me to why I am writing. Since their fasting began less than a year ago, they have intercepted 1,000 young women being transported over the border from Nepal. Did you read that…I said 1,000. 1,000 young women that will not spend the rest of their days raped, tortured and imprisoned in a cage. 1,000 young women that are being shown love and mercy and offered the good news of the gospel. Can you deal with that? I absolutely cannot. I am ever amazed at the power and might of our God. He hears and He is moving.

“The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective” James 5:16. Don’t you want to be counted among the righteous people that God will indeed respond to? Scripture tells us that He will respond and that our prayers are indeed effective. Tiny Hands is searching the globe for 10,000 people that will join them in their prayer effort to rescue 10,000 girls. I beg you to click on over to the One Girl campaign and see how you can join the prayer effort to stop sex trafficking…may it soften all of our hearts.

PS- Sweet Michelle left a comment and asked if she could link to this post on her blog. What an idea! Please do, what a great way to try and spread the word. You can link back to my post or even better, just link straight to Tiny Hands International. Love you guys!

Though I had not intended to link up with Emily today, after reading her post, I now think this is indeed a Tuesday gift worth unwrapping with her and her readers.

My heart has been broken this week. While I sit in the comforts of my air conditioning and pick out tile for my new bathroom, there is an orphaned baby named Yaavesh who was lying alone in a shack because his mother is a prostitute in the streets of Nepal. She did not name her child because she said there was no point, “no one would ever be around to call him by a name”. While I got in my SUV and drove my children to school, a preacher in Nepal traveled 12 hours on foot to bring two orphaned boys to a home for children and begged that they take them in. Their father was killed and their mother is too impoverished to care for them. Though the home was at capacity, the “father” of the orphanage could not turn away the weeping man and children and so he took them in.

How is someone to process such knowledge? How can anyone fathom such atrocities? I have a hard time even grasping the concept that anyone lives under such conditions. I suppose it is because I am so far removed from it, it is so far from my sight. It is not however, far from the sight of God. He is not far removed from the injustice of it all. In fact, He’s right in the middle of it. He does not miss one unjust act committed to a young girl. His eye does not miss the young boys that live orphaned on the side of the road begging for food. He does not turn His watch from the baby that lies abused and abandoned. Isn’t He an awesome God to draw near the suffering of His people. He is a God that came to earth to set these captives free….and I want to be a part of that, don’t you? I don’t want to have a heart that is so hard that I do not react when I hear about such things.

This week, I met a man that is walking what he is talking! His name is Doug and he is the director of Tiny Hands International. I could sit and listen to he and his wife talk for hours. They are the kind of people the bible says ‘the earth is not worthy of’. They have committed their lives to serving God by freeing and providing for His children. Tiny Hands International is a small group that helps rescue woman that are being trafficked into slavery and orphaned children in Nepal. I know there are like hmmmm….4 people that read this blog, but I urge you to click on over to http://www.tinyhandsinternational.org/ and see the good fight they are fighting. You can link up there to Doug’s blog and get more specific information about the homes they are running in Nepal. You can send Doug an email and he will quickly respond with lots of ways you can make an eternal difference in the life of a desperate soul.

Blessings!