Last week three members of WOGA: LA joined the regular LA Trafficking Outreach group. One of the members, Kelli, shares her experience below:
It was an hour of my life that I spent walking into the problem instead of driving around it. We didn't know exactly what we were doing, but were challenged and needed to ask for God's help and guidance. All we knew was that something corrupt is happening in our city, to our sisters and to God's children, and it must stop. We talked to small business owners in massage parlors, grocery stores and restaurants. We discerned what to ask and how. Human Sex Trafficking is vaguely defined and understood in Los Angeles; a city that is home to people from more than 140 countries, who speak at least 92 different languages. Trafficking is well-hidden and no one can cure a disease that doesn't have a name. Outreach members hit the streets of several ethnic enclaves seeking to define the silent injustice of human sex trafficking and, in the process, becoming the solution. I left that evening feeling that in all the unknowns, we did exactly what God asked us to do, and I experienced a sense of purity in purpose that I haven't felt in more than 4 years living in Los Angeles.
These outreaches take place weekly - email us if you want to come.
Friday, December 7, 2007
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