Bao

20/March/2008 01:15 Filed in: Updates from HG students

About 4 years ago, one night, I started crying about children in Cambodia. By that time, I didn’t really understand what was going on. I was crying for peolple that I didn’t know, had never seen and was knowing very litlle about Cambodia, just that they were poor, sad, mistreated and desperate. I know now what happened that night, why I was crying so bad. God was laying a burden upon my heart, His heart for the poor and the desperate, like He does when He finds a place available to stay.

In the meantime, He was calling me to give up everything that was important in my life, my securities, friends, church, comfort, to follow Him wherever He would lead me. I said yes, because that was my commitment to Him when I met Jesus to follow Him wherever He would go.

So I went a first time in Cambodia from 2005 to 2006, talking about Jesus’s love to street kids and in poor communities. I went in Mozambique and Brasil for Holy Given Schools. After one year in France, where God carried on working in my life and testing my choices.

I’m heading back to Cambodia in few days (March 10th), still to reach street kids and poor communities, and to teach in a day-care center opened by an Indonesian friend. I have no mission agency with me, find back some friends over there. But my main target is somewherelse, this is kids who are trafficked in prostitution, sex slaves. I know there has been a 3 days fast and prayers in IHOP Kansas city from 3-5 of March for Cambodia for the end of sex slavery. I was so touched to see that I’m not alone in that vision and that God is raising people to pray for the light comes in the darkest places in this world.

During the time I’ll stay in Cambodia, I’ll make some checks in Pattaya, which is a worldwide capital city for prostitution. I have already been overthere, several times. This is city could be compared to Sodom and Gomorrha. I saw ugly things, old Western men with young thai teenagers, you wonder what both do together, old men with little girls, about 8 years age, strongly hold in their hand by day. And by night, very little girls from 3 to 7 years old with a pimp beside them, hanging around and trying to attract clients in the main street full of prostitution bars. It’s about the same on the beach even by day, if you watch carefully, you can recognize clients, young men prostitutes, pimps, children and teenagers. The first time, I got really scared about all I saw. But in the meantime, I felt a love for that place and a peace like I never had before for any place, so I know it comes from God, because He passionately loves those people and that place, He wants them to be saved and know the light.

So, please pray for wisdom from God, protection and the ability to hear clearly His voice in order to know what to do. And pray that His glory comes upon the earth, that His kingdom come and the darkness step back, that His will be done on earth like it is in Heavens,

Thank you very much, lots of love, may God bless you abundantly,

Bao.