Today we are taking time to pray for the millions of people who are sexually trafficked worldwide ea

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• Today we are taking time to pray for the millions
  of people who are sexually trafficked worldwide
  each year.
• In Canada, women and children are being
  trafficked internationally as well as internally
  (from towns or reserves to city centres).

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• Trafficking victims are usually women and girls.
• They are our mothers, sisters and daughters.

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Our Father
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Our Father
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Our Father
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When we are followers of Jesus, we are part of a
large, Christian family.

• People everywhere who cry out Our Father are
  our family members.

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Which means we have mothers, sisters and
daughters all around the world.
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We all have life because of mothers.
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Ideally, mothers are strong, protecting us from
harm.
They are resourceful and provide for our needs
and spiritual foundation.
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Our Father, help me. Rescue me.

• Some of our mothers are being sexually
  trafficked bought, sold and used for sexual
  slavery.
• Used as property, they are not treated as people.

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Often families live in such desperate poverty
that mothers are willing to do anything to put
food on the table.

• They are vulnerable to the fraud, deception,
  coercion and abuse of power found in trafficking.

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• While mothers are being trafficked, we need to
  pray for them
• We need to honour their dignity and strength and
  show them respect because they are our mothers

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We share life experiences with our sisters
worldwide.

• As Gods children, we all have siblings or
  friends to share lifes joys and trials with.

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• Ideally, sisters are there for us in good times
  and bad times. They listen to us and try to
  understand what were going through.

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Our Father, restore me!

• Some of our sisters are being sexually
  trafficked.

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• Many move to the city or to a different country
  because of a promise of employment or marriage.
• When they arrive, it is a different story. They
  are often isolated, chained/tied up, drugged,
  denied food, physically and psychologically
  tortured.

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They dont really believe there could be a
different way of life.

• Often they have been abused in the past, so they
  are vulnerable to exploitation. They have been
  told they are garbage, worthless, unlovable.

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• While our sisters are being trafficked we need to
  pray for them with empathy and compassion
• We can do this by listening to their stories
  rather than saying, I cant imagine

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Children are our hope for the future

• Our daughters are beautiful, and should be our
  pride and joy.

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• Our daughters carry possibility. We want the
  very best for them.

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Our Father, rescue us!
Some of our daughters are being sexually
trafficked. There are young girls trying to pay
off family debts that have lasted for generations.
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Any person under 18 in the commercial sex
industry is considered to be trafficked.

• Many young women and girls are forced into
  prostitution, pornography, brothels, massage
  parlours or strip clubs servicing 30-40
  customers per day.

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• While our daughters are being trafficked, we
  need to pray for them. They need our protection,
  rescue and restoration.

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• Sexual trafficking is not only a womens issue,
  it is a global and family issue.

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• Men play a vital role in fighting sexual
  trafficking. They do this in the way they treat
  women as
• mothers (with honour, dignity and respect)
• sisters (considering them as equals, listening
  and trying to understand)
• daughters (wanting to protect and rescue
  victimized women and girls)

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• Men and women can provide examples of healthy
  relationships and marriages
• They can avoid pornography (which portrays women
  as objects)

• They can teach their children to
• respect themselves and others.

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• Let us join in prayer for our mothers, sisters
  and daughters.

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• The thief comes only to steal and kill and
  destroy
• I have come that they may have life, and have it
  to the full.
• John 1010

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Pray for people vulnerable to trafficking

• Safety and protection
• Wisdom
• Hope to see economic alternatives
• International development
• Supportive families and churches

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• But this is a people plundered and looted, all
  of them trapped in pits or hidden away in
  prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to
  rescue them
• (Isaiah 4222a)

Say to the captives, Come out, and to those in
darkness, Be free! (Isaiah 499a)
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Pray for trafficked persons

• Safety
• Miracles
• Rescue and freedom
• Restoration, hope and peace
• Access to adequate services (health, shelter
  legal services, counseling, training/education)

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• Repent then, and turn to God, so that your sins
  may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may
  come from the Lord. (Acts 319)

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Pray for traffickers and all those involved in
the sex industry

• Repentance and change
• Justice
• Healthy relationships/marriages
• Redemption
• Closure of brothels, strip clubs, pornography
  shops, internet sites

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• A bruised reed he will not break, and a
  smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he
  leads justice to victory. Matthew 1220

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Pray for people fighting sexual trafficking

• Faithfulness in prayer
• Wisdom and understanding
• Cooperation and unity
• Compassionate hearts
• Good legislation and support from government
• Passion and patience

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Isaiah 611-3

• The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for
  the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to
  the poor.
• He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and
  to proclaim that captives will be released and
  prisoners will be freed.

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