Inspirations:My New Year's Resolution

Hey everyone! This year I have decided to raise $300,000 for the building of the Jessica House, even if it requires me to ask 300,000 people to donate $1 each!

You can check out more on why this is so important to me and how you can get involved at

My Go Fund Me Page (<--- Click here)

But, truly I feel like God has put it on my heart to be an advocate for those who don't have voices that can be heard. There are women and children suffering from this horrendous industry and we need to do every little thing we can do to help them. By building this house we are spreading God's kingdom, taking the Gospel into the dark places, sharing Jesus with the forgotten. Your contribution no matter how small can contribute to God's kingdom.

Pray about it, if God is pressing on your heart to support  freeing women and children who have been in sexual bondage, giving them a chance at eternal life with a Savior and redemption on Earth, then please donate more than $1. But, God sees all generosity do not feel like your $1 cannot do anything because God can multiply it. Let's be a force to be reckoned with, give the Devil a fright. If we come together like an army of ants, we're unstoppable - all working together. Your one dollar can be a part of that!

I'm excited to see the fruition of God's plan and how He involves you! Please share in the comments below about how God has moved you to care about people you've never met :)

I pray that God will take over this Resolution and Campaign, that every bit be for His glory. In Jesus' precious, holy, unstoppable name. AMEN John 14:14 - claiming the promises.

This was Inspirations: My New Year's Resolution. Stay tuned for more Inspirations.

Voice

When I was a child I used to dream of growing up and being the richest of all my siblings. I'm sure I talked about it a great deal. I was going to be a Doctor, because I was going to prove I was the smartest. I was going to have several kids, a giant house, several cars, and lots of land with a barn and horses. Pretty much I wanted to have everything I grew up with, but even bigger. I remember when I thought my hardest decision would be whether or not I should buy a Ferrari or Lamborghini. Obviously I was just a child. But, greed and selfishness was a big struggle for me yet I was so blind to it. I had a hard time giving away my toys and clothes to kids that needed them because they were mine - it didn't matter that I never planned to play with them or wear them again, they were mine. My parents even took my siblings and I on trips to 3rd world countries to visit missionaries. I saw first hand the poverty, I knew that they deserved to have people donate their toys and clothes - I just didn't want them to be my things. While I truly cared about the people, especially Peruvians since I went their twice, I justified my selfishness by rationalizing that they were happy people, they always had a smile - they didn't need my things. But, the truth of the matter is I didn't need my things. As I have grown up I have grown more aware of my selfish ambitions and am grateful that God has truly changed my heart. I no longer want a big house, cars, and an over abundance of things. I want God to use me to help feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the abused, abandoned, and trafficked. This calling came to me even stronger last night as I began to read a new book.

Undaunted by Christine Caine, I only read through half of the first chapter but the power in her writing was immense. Actually it isn't even her writing, but the stories of girls that she shared. She shared some heartbreaking stories of women who were tricked into paying their own fare into sex slavery. While many people choose to ignore the topic because it is just too difficult to swallow or they do not want their children to learn about such evils, it is time that we face the truth - This is real, sex slavery is really happening, it's not a bad movie - in fact those movies do not even show how terrible it really is.

Her first chapter she calls the 'Schindler's List Moment' when Schindler, played by Liam Neeson realizes that if he had just sold his car he could have saved 10 more people, or his gold pen 2 more people. The Holocaust was a terrible time in human history - some people think it was the worst, but they have no idea what is happening right now. What Hitler organized was so terrible, but sadly the war wasn't started to save the victims - No, war was started to keep the Germans from taking over Europe. How sad is it to think that if Hitler only stayed in Germany that the Holocaust may never have ended? How many of you think that you would want to take a stance against such horrifying acts? That you would have been willing to fight or financially support efforts against the Holocaust to save those victims? You have a chance to do that today in 2014. You can make a difference.

How? You can financially support groups who are working to end sex slavery, whether on the large scale or small scale. You can be a voice - share what is going on, encourage those around you to pay attention, to care about people. Pray for those who have an abundance of money that they might be moved to spend it on helping save women and children from their abusers rather than on something affluent they don't really want or need. Like pages on Facebook that are fighting trafficking.



Here are some places that you can consider getting involved with:
Large scale:
 http://www.thea21campaign.org/
http://enditmovement.com/
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org

Smaller scale:
www.abundantlifeforperu.com
https://www.facebook.com/capturedbyadream


Be encouraged to stand up, your small effort combined with everyone's small effort will create a large effort! Christ came to seek and save the lost, go and live your life in the same manner!

This was Captured by a Dream: Voice. Stay tuned for more from Captured by a Dream.

Captured by a Dream: Anti-human trafficking

Several years ago if you would have asked me what the term trafficking meant I would have responded, "I'm not sure, the act of making traffic?"

By the time I graduated college in 2010 I had heard of trafficking - diamond minds in Africa, sweat shops in China, and brothels in Thailand. What I didn't know was how much bigger and more worldwide the industry was.

In 2012, I embarked on a journey that would change my life forever. I moved to a remote Amazon city in Peru - Iquitos. I had been there twice before for missions trips and it was the city my sister was adopted from, but I had no idea what the city had become and how great the need I would find there.

During my stay I was exposed to a culture surrounded by drugs. The church had opened a Safe House for ex-drug addicted men. These men lived on the streets and have done every bad thing a sheltered girl like myself could never have imagined. It was incredible to see how God was changing these men - breaking the chains of addiction in Jesus' name. His grace truly is enough.

The news of the salvations and healings spread and the house kept growing. A young woman named Jessica, a prostitute for over 10 years, sought out refuge from the church - but unfortunately they only had a home for men, leaving no where for her to stay. Months later the missionaries found out she was in the hospital dying from AIDS, at age 29. They brought her into their home where she received Jesus and stayed until her last day.

Before her death Jessica expressed her love for her friends by saying that someone needs to save them by sharing Jesus with them. She dreamed of a house for women and children - believing that if she had been give the opportunity a few years earlier then she might not be dying.

Prostitution is not a choice profession. Many of the women were put into it by their families around the age of 8 or 9. They were trafficked. After coming back to the States I learned that Iquitos is the number one hub for child sex trafficking in Peru and the number one child tourism location on the Amazon River.

Upon a return trip to Peru this past January I learned that Iquitos has bars where they sell children with their beverages, they have 1 sol camps set up for 'in & out' business, they keep children locked up during the day in dark rooms - most on drugs, and they are sending them all over Peru and Brazil almost daily.

In an article I read they explained the extreme poverty of Iquitos is because they cannot export goods and tade easily because they do not have roads out of the city, so they have discovered one 'good' that can be reused and reused and reused and even exported.

The demand for children and young women is growing everyday, with Brazil becoming the lead in the sex-trade industry this past year.

Jesus tells us that when we love one another through giving shelter, clothing, food, water, and the gospel we are loving Him.

The women and children victims of this tragic industry need shelter, clothing, food, water and the gospel. Please partner with us on this project. Let awareness become responsibility - I challenge you to stand up for change - stand up for Jesus.

Check out: abundantlifeforperu.com  and check out Captured by a Dream.