The Girls in the Headlights
Sean
The driver of the car had named a price, and the span of his headlights was quickly filled shoulder to shoulder with girls who have been told that this is what they are worth. Many of these women, no.... girls is still the most apt description, were Moldovan.
This brought a new dimension to this visit to Moldova this past week. I spent a large part of the week there teaching English with, and spending time with, Moldovan youth. Many were girls the same age as the ones I'd seen in those headlights in the forest outside Moscow. The girls were part of an after school program run by Beginning of Life (BOL), an organization we made an educational fundraising video for last year.
It is exciting and enlightening to be reminded of, and to participate in, the things BOL is doing on the prevention and rehabilitation side of the modern-day-slavery coin. Culture is being transformed in schools and through after-school programs. In their rehabilitation rescued women are being shown their true value, maybe for the first time. They are worth more than a laying down a few hundred rubles for; as Jesus demonstrated at the cross, they are worth laying down our time, our lives, for.
In addition to spending time with Moldovan youth, it was great to catch up with the another YWAM team on outreach in Chisinau, as well as staff from BOL. The founder of BOL told us that he was able to use the video we made, 40+ times, with great success on a fundraising tour in Canada. He will soon take the video on a tour in the UK. We consider ourselves privileged to be able to support them.
We are now back in Moscow and will continue to work with and support the ministry here until the end of January. As we undertake a video to support the ministry here, please pray for our team's creativity, and plenty of opportunities for shooting footage so we can provide them with an awesome support video to continue their work here.
If you are interested in supporting the work I am doing as part of HopeDiesLast, you can donate via PayPal using the "Donate" button on this page. If you are interested in supporting me on a monthly basis, you can email julie.sinke@ywamtyler.org to go about setting up a monthly auto debit.
This brought a new dimension to this visit to Moldova this past week. I spent a large part of the week there teaching English with, and spending time with, Moldovan youth. Many were girls the same age as the ones I'd seen in those headlights in the forest outside Moscow. The girls were part of an after school program run by Beginning of Life (BOL), an organization we made an educational fundraising video for last year.
It is exciting and enlightening to be reminded of, and to participate in, the things BOL is doing on the prevention and rehabilitation side of the modern-day-slavery coin. Culture is being transformed in schools and through after-school programs. In their rehabilitation rescued women are being shown their true value, maybe for the first time. They are worth more than a laying down a few hundred rubles for; as Jesus demonstrated at the cross, they are worth laying down our time, our lives, for.
In addition to spending time with Moldovan youth, it was great to catch up with the another YWAM team on outreach in Chisinau, as well as staff from BOL. The founder of BOL told us that he was able to use the video we made, 40+ times, with great success on a fundraising tour in Canada. He will soon take the video on a tour in the UK. We consider ourselves privileged to be able to support them.
We are now back in Moscow and will continue to work with and support the ministry here until the end of January. As we undertake a video to support the ministry here, please pray for our team's creativity, and plenty of opportunities for shooting footage so we can provide them with an awesome support video to continue their work here.
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If you are interested in supporting the work I am doing as part of HopeDiesLast, you can donate via PayPal using the "Donate" button on this page. If you are interested in supporting me on a monthly basis, you can email julie.sinke@ywamtyler.org to go about setting up a monthly auto debit.