Episode 73

#73. Human Trafficking: There IS Something You and Your Family Can Do | An Interview with Rescue1 Global

Christian families wanting to be the hands and feet of Jesus will find such hope and direction in this powerful interview with Daniel and Lacy Tolar of Rescue 1 Global. These stories are truly difficult to hear, but the church is needed to "be who she was called to be".

It is our prayer that listeners come alongside to support Rescue 1's efforts in prayer and in deed, and that we all gain eyes to see how we can serve in this area.

In the future episodes, parents will also gain valuable insight in ways to prevent their own children from becoming victims.

Listen. Break for them. Then move as God leads. Let's look back and be able to say we were a part of stopping slavery, not standing by while evil was rampant.

Rescue 1 Global

Verses Referenced:

James 4:17

Proverbs 31:8-9

Matthew 28:18-20

Acts 1:8

Books Mentioned:

The Princess and the Kiss

The Squire and the Scroll

Transcript
Stephanie:

They're the joyful agains our children.

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Shout on the swings, the exhausting

agains of cooking and laundry and

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the difficult agains of discipline.

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So much of what we do

as mothers is on repeat.

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So what if we woke up with clarity,

knowing which agains we were called to.

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And went to bed believing we are

faithful in what matters most.

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We believe God's word is

the key to untangle from the

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confusion and overwhelm we feel.

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Let's look up together to embrace a

motherhood full of freedom and joy.

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Welcome to the Again podcast from

Entrusted Ministries, where we

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want you to know that what Moms

do over and over matters to God.

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I'm Stephanie Hickox, and I'm your host.

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And today I have the absolute

privilege of sharing part one of

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an interview in which author Betsy

Corning and I sat down with Daniel

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and Lacey Toler of Rescue One Global.

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We are sure that you're just like us and

that your heart breaks when you hear the

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realities of human and sex trafficking.

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But you've wondered, is there

anything that I can actually do?

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Gratefully, I'm here to tell you that

Daniel and Lacey shared just how the

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church can come alongside and rescue

others out of this horrific situation and

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how we can support them in their efforts.

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From the moment I laid eyes

on their website, I felt my

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spirit breathe a sigh of relief.

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Thank you, Lord.

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There's something I can do.

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They clearly lay out what individuals,

families, and churches can do.

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They'll probably make you cry several

times in this interview as they did for

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me, but they share with such hope and

conviction, painting a beautiful picture

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of how the Lord is moving through those

that will not stay still or stay silent.

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You may be wondering, what does all of

this have to do with again, but we believe

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that a godly mother has eyes to see

those whose Jesus' heart is breaking for.

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And she teaches her children

to have compassion and see

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the needs of others Justice.

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Matthew 25 tells us how you treated these.

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You treated me for these episodes.

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You won't wanna have

young children around.

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I recommend listening to them and

then deciding what would benefit

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your children as there are definitely

warnings that would be beneficial

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for teens and those that have

access to technology to listen to.

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In this part of the interview,

you'll hear the backstory of how

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the Lord called Daniel and Lacey

Toler to serve him in this way.

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It's shocking and powerful and you

are going to be rooting for them with

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all you've got, and we hope that they

can count on each of you to be prayer

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warriors for their victory in this area.

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This is heavy work and we're so

grateful for what they're doing,

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so let's hear from them now.

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Betsy/Daniel/Lacy: You from

Nashville with some very special

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friends, Daniel and Lacy Toller.

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And they have founded a really important

mission called Rescue One Global.

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And we're going to have just a really

great time discussing what that is, how

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it started but first I want you to get

to know a little bit about Dan and Lacy.

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David and I met them.

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Through a bible study that we have

together and so it was really our

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privilege so much to See this exciting

work that they're doing for the lord.

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Tell us a little bit.

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How many Children do you have this is

pretty intriguing So God has blessed

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us biologically with six children.

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And we have a total though of 13, we have

seven that have come through our ministry.

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I personally didn't plan

on having a lot of kids.

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I was okay with the boy and

girl, two years apart scenario.

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He was a little bit more

I want three or four kids.

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Life definitely, God has a sense of humor.

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Let's just say that.

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Well, I can tell that you are people,

People, I see it in you from day one

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that they love people and the more

the merrier and they just have a huge

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capacity for people, which is really

an awesome thing, especially needed

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in this ministry that you're doing.

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There's something very interesting

about how you named your children.

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So I'd like you to tell

our listeners about that.

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So we have, like I said, we have

six children that God gave us

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and we get to choose their name.

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And when you study the scriptures

a lot, names mean something.

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And so my mom and dad, for me

specifically, always taught

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me , here's the meaning of your

name and how it came about.

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We wanted our children to not only

have a name that had a deep meaning.

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So Daniel, his name is God is my judge.

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That's his and mine is

excellent countenance.

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And so we grew up knowing the

names of our, what our names meant.

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And so we wanted our kids names to mean

something, but we also wanted to give

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them a name that had a biblical reference.

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That they could look at the life of that

biblical character, but then also we

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wanted to give them part of their name

that was someone that was alive and today

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in their life that we could point and go,

Hey, God is not just the God of the Bible.

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But God is the God of people who are

working and living in active today.

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And then we did something cute where his

initials, all the boys get his initials

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and all the girls get my initials.

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And that was great when you had

two kids, that was pretty easy.

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And then we kept adding kids and

Oh, and the other part was the name

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needed to be either have a unique

spelling or it needed to be unique.

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So we pigeonholed ourself.

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No, but each of our kids, we can

tell them like, You're named after

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our oldest is named after their,

his dad and his grandfather.

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And obviously Daniel also was in the

name for the Bible and our second

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Leah Denae, and that was my mom had a

stillborn baby and that was her name.

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Plus we named her Leah and we

spelled it like Nancy Lee DeMoss.

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And so we just, each of our kids,

then our third is Lydia, the first

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female missionary of the Bible.

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And my dad actually picked that name out.

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And then her middle name

comes from a young lady.

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We were leading a small group.

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And we had a young lady who was brand new

to the faith and they got pregnant and

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the baby was diagnosed with trisomy 13.

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And she had a complete unsaved

family and her whole family said,

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you need to abort that baby.

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It's, the doctor said it.

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And so she had to fight against the

world in her new faith that she found.

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They called us one night, came to

our home and we prayed over them.

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And she said, if you'll hold my hand

through this, I think I can make it.

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And I had the privilege of

holding that baby for a lot of

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the 52 hours that she lived.

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And at that same time, I was pregnant

with Lydia and the mom's name was Deanne.

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And so we gave her name.

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And so each of our kids, another kid

was named after Daniel's mentor in his

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youth group that really changed his life.

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And so yeah, each of our kids just have

a unique, different way that we've Giving

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them their names, but all the girls

have the same initials and all the boys

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have the same initials So it gets real

confusing when you're trying to write

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it on Christmas presents And you're just

trying to put initials because it's like

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LD one LD two some of the ones that

we also added was either a missionary

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or somebody that was very special.

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So Dawson we named him

after Dawson Trotman.

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And we wanted our kids to emulate

and strive toward other people

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that made significant impact

in the world for the gospel.

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Dawson Trotman's special to

us too, because we were in the

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Navigators for so many years.

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And of course he was the

founder of the Navigators.

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And right now, what's really unique

about Dawson is again, just like the

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Bible times, they gave their children

names because they wanted them to be

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that or God to use it in some way.

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And Dawson is 17 turning 18 this year.

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And this year he came to us with tears

and I'm gonna cry with tears in his eyes.

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And he said, I think God's calling

me to be a pastor with my life.

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And so, you know, as a godly

Christian parent, your only goal

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for your children is for them to

love Jesus and to follow the word.

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And so to see him potentially even

following the name that he was given,

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somebody who's going to go out and share

the gospel with the world is to us.

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We just thank the Lord and

praise the Lord for his mercy.

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Cause it's not anything we did.

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But all of the grace and

mercy that God gives us.

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So yeah, each of our kids are special.

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If that saying, you can raise the

same kids in the same home and they

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all go in different directions.

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It's true.

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You could totally, I could tell you

stories hours after hours and how my kids

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have gone in so many different directions,

but we're really proud of our kids.

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I was talking to Lillian the other

night and is it Lillian or Liliana?

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Liliana.

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And it had to be a little more

complicated, just teasing.

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But I asked her, how does she like

having so many siblings in the family?

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And of course she loves it, just

having all those people around and

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all the influence of everybody and

always having somebody to talk to

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or do something with Could tell she

really thrives in that environment.

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And Liliana is really special to us.

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Our kids, if you take our adopted

kids, plus our biological kids, and

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put them together, we have an age

range from 31, is our oldest, to eight.

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And Liliana is actually seven

years younger than the youngest.

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So really we would've been almost

being empty nesters in this next couple

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of years, but we still have Liliana.

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But her story is in 2016,

I was diagnosed with some.

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Um, And I was told I had three to

five years to live without really

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big medical interventions.

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And we had prepared our family

and we'd walk through, we had two

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hard, holidays through that year.

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And then.

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I went to a doctor's appointment

and my doctor was not a believer of

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the specialist that I was seeing.

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And we got to witness to him through

this, but he came in and he said, I

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did some medical research and women

who are still in childbearing age.

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And he goes, I know you're already at

geriatric pregnancy age because I was

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hitting 40, and I'm like, no, he's right.

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And my pregnancies are really hard.

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He said, but I did some study in 30

percent of women with what you have.

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Sometimes the baby stem cells and things

can go in and I, and heal the places.

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And I say look at God isn't that cool that

a pregnancy, a baby that you give life

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to actually could give life back to us.

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And again, we know our God is a

miracle working God that way, but.

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In my little moment there, I was

like, no, I don't want any more kids.

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I have had all that I need

and we're overflowing.

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Just give me the medication

that you've been giving me.

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And he also said that it would

have to be a male child as well.

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That would help heal your heart.

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So we're like 30 percent chance.

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And only if it's a male child, I'm

not sure those risks are taken.

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The funny story is I was already

pregnant at that doctor's visit

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and didn't even know it and I had

been bedridden for almost 18 months

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straight had to have a friend come

over when Daniel wasn't around so that

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I could just make it to the bathroom.

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And all the time we were trying to do

our ministry of rescue one and Daniel

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was bearing the load of most of that

during that time and I had a friend

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who worked on at a desk next to my

bed so that we could keep working on

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behind the scenes administratively.

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But Liliana was born on January 1st.

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We say new year, new day, new life.

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Because on January 4th, three days

later was our 20th wedding anniversary.

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And I have not had one single

pill medication since that day.

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And God just gave me my strength

back and now I'm able to

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thrive and live for the Lord.

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So as much as Liliana is the annoying

little baby sister that my kids

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always say, no, but mom, we probably

have you still because she is here.

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And so she's pretty special.

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So we call her our little.

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But God's little miracle and she was

a girl and she was a girl, not a boy.

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So yeah, that was Daniel was really

sad when that happened, he, when we

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got to the ultrasound, he thought,

Oh, I'm not going to get to keep

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my wife after all, even after this.

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Anyway, but a girl power.

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Yeah.

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And, uh,

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And Leah was named after

Nancy Lee DeMoss, as you said.

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And how did you pick that name?

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Like I said earlier my mom had a baby

and I didn't have any other sisters and

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that would have been my only sister.

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And that was the name that Leah Denae

was the name that my mom had given her.

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And who is your mom?

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My mom is Susan Henson.

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She has worked for Reviver Hearts before.

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She's been a major conference speaker.

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She ran a conference called Pure

in Heart for many years really.

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diving deep into the hearts

of purity with our children.

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And her heart was for that to share

the gospel, but also talk about

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something that really wasn't talked

about 10 or 15 years ago when she

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first started and talking deeply

with our children about how to guard

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their purity and parents had a talk.

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Cause sometimes the problem is.

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We're not really talking

about these things.

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We don't know how we're uncomfortable

as parents talking about those issues.

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And so God really put

that on my mom's heart.

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And she co wrote a book called

the squire and the scroll.

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That was a sequel to the

princess in the kiss book.

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That was out during that time.

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And I admire my mom.

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I love my mom.

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She's an amazing woman.

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Speaker and teacher and sometimes

my dad jokes, even though he was the

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pastor and the one out in front of

people that my mom may have been the

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better teacher speaker than he was.

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But then Denae, the way we spell both

her first name, Leah is like Nancy Lee.

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And then Denae is D A N A E.

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And Dana is my, is a cousin that I have

who has been a missionary for 30 years

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to the Blackfoot Indians in Canada.

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And so that's, again, every one

of their names or the spellings of

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their names have a unique, something.

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You have so many fascinating things

in your life, so much background

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that we could discuss, but let's

delve a little bit more into.

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What we invited you for, but I could

go on with this for a long time

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because I love names and my, all my

kids named their firstborn son, David.

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So we know how this could go.

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Of course, I think they chose

the simple route and you

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chose the more difficult road.

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All of our biological kids, our

oldest is named after their dad.

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And then Liliana's middle name

is Danielle after her dad also.

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So we bookend it with dad's name.

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Okay it's very interesting.

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You were on the mission field before

you decided to start this ministry.

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And so tell us a little bit about that,

in:

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into full time ministry and we actually

weren't quite sure where we wanted to go.

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We had several organizations

invited us to the Philippines,

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to Azerbaijan with a team.

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And India.

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And so we were really seeking

the Lord during that time.

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And I was actually serving as

the missions chairman at the

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church that we were at that time.

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And one of the guys came in to

lead our he was a missionary.

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He was actually leading an organization

and he came to the church to

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facilitate our missions conference.

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And the first thing he

said when he saw me is.

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Why are you still here?

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You should be on the field somewhere.

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And we really expedited from 2006

to:

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felt like the Lord was calling us to.

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And in that process we had a decision

to make your Bajan or to Thailand and

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the church that we were at at the time.

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I had a major role in starting

ministry back in Thailand in the

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Esan area, right beside Laos.

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And there was a lot of ministry into the

persecuted church in Laos and through

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education and orphanage building.

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And so we were able to be

a part of some of that.

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In the process of learning the language,

though, we lived in Chiang Mai, and

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while we were in Chiang Mai, our oldest

daughter experienced an attempted

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abduction right in our neighborhood, and

through the process, I chased the car

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out of the neighborhood, got my daughter

and her best friend out of the car.

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And reported it to the guard shack

and the guard shack called the police.

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Three days later, the police came over

to the house and said you have stumbled

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on to a human trafficking ring okay, I

have to stop you right there because.

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This is so shocking.

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You're in Thailand doing

ministry and your daughter is

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abducted or attempted abduction.

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We got her into the

car, but we got her out.

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Oh my goodness.

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And how old was she?

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She was your oldest.

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When she was how old?

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So she was nine at the

time when that happened.

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Yeah.

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And for me as a mom, you, first of

all, I've just sold everything I had

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moved to the other side of the world

because I have faith that God called

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us to be there and to do the things.

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But that fear and anxiety set in as God,

you didn't bring us here to leave us.

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So we have a choice to make, do we

hightail at home where we could be

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safe in Nashville, Tennessee, or do

we stay on the mission field where we,

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through our research, we begin to find

out we lived in a city that had 3, 500

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brothels that the country we were serving

in was known as the world's brothel.

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Like it is.

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sex industry was 56 percent of the tourism

dollars that were coming into the country.

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And we're like, God, we had no idea.

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And we had been there for several months.

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I was pregnant with David,

our youngest son at the time.

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And so I'm like, I'm about to give

birth in a second third world country.

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And This is scary enough.

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We weren't with anyone that we knew.

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We had no connection.

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The people that we were going

to live with for the rest of

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our life is what we thought.

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We're 18 hours away.

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Cause we were doing language and cultural

acquisition training when this happened.

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And God kept reminding me of

something he taught me as we made

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the decision to go to the field.

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And that was you're never more safe

than you are in the will of God.

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And it doesn't matter where you are.

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And probably a story for another day

that I'll give a brief tidbit as.

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As we were making the decision to come

to the field like he shared a minute ago,

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that man who came to our church and said,

why are you guys still sitting here?

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God has clearly called you

into full time mission work.

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Why are you still on

this side of the world?

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And we shared with him at that

time that we felt some of our past

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mistakes held us back from doing that.

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And maybe we had disqualified ourself.

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And he encouraged us and said you

don't have the ability to disqualify

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yourself because God qualifies you

and he matures you and he grows you.

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And just because you made mistakes,

doesn't mean that he doesn't want

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to redeem those things in your life.

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And so as we were making the decision

to go we had our very first stillborn

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baby about two months after we

made the decision, yes, we'll go.

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And we went through a whirlwind of

a time there and it was during that

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time and then shortly after about two

months after we lost that one, we found

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out we were pregnant with Dawson and

then Dawson was given to us and when

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he was and he was only about seven

days old, he clinically died himself.

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And then about seven days

later, it happened again.

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And I remember the second time watching

him lay in the hospital with tubes and

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wires, coming out of every part of his

little five pound body and praying and

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angry at God, I just said yes to you I

told you, you could have my life in a

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way that not everybody is willing to do.

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What more do you want from me?

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And he reminded me that I had nightmares

for several years before this about how

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I would just in my dreams or whatever

I would see in a hut somewhere and

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there would be a snake and a baby

and I would have these recurring

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nightmares over and over again and

God kept trying to get my attention

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of What are you going to do for me?

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What are you willing to

sacrifice for the gospel?

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And when we lost our first son, I was

like, God, this can't get any worse.

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Like, why would you take someone from me?

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And then a year later, take

another baby for me, right?

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When I'm doing what you

really asked me to do.

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And we know that it was

Satan playing a role in that.

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But as I was sitting over Dawson's

body, as he was laying there, I had

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some friends come to the hospital and

they had brought some oil and they

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wanted to anoint him with oil and

pray over him with one of our elders.

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And they started praying.

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And the truth is that, as.

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Godly or as much as we want

to be godly and love Jesus.

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My faith at that moment was probably

at the lowest it had ever been.

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And so they wanted to pray.

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And I was almost angry that they wanted

to pray because I'm like this, God keeps

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taking things from me when I'm trying

to give, why do I want to pray to him?

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I'm somewhat ashamed to say

that's just where I was as a mom.

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And that night laying over Dawson's body.

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I, I was told by the people in the room

that I was actually clenching my fist

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when they were praying and I was mumbling

and they asked me what was going on.

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And when I shared with them what was

happening afterwards, I was holding

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on and they were praying and I don't

remember what they were saying because

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God and I were having a conversation

and he was asking me, do you trust me?

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You're in the best children's hospital

in the United States of America.

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I am the giver and taker of life.

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Have you not learned that?

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Go where I tell you to go and I

will take care of your children.

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And long story short, as warred with

God, literally with my physical body fist

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clenching and then okay, God, I will.

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But, but, but, But, as I clenched

my fist angry again, but I

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can't, don't take another, and

then he said, do you trust me?

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I want to with open hands, it was, I

want to trust you, but this is hard, God.

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And immediately after I finished

that warring with God, I just

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fell on my knees and I said okay.

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If his life brings someone else to

Jesus, then we'll give him up too.

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And the next day, about the same time, 24

hours later, we were carrying our little

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boy home with no wires and no tubes.

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And he has not had any

struggles since then.

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But I say that to go back to the

story about Leah, because in that

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moment when I had the same question

for God, why did you bring me

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here to put my children in danger?

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God, I don't understand.

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And for me as a mom, I said, but you

taught me that I can trust you there.

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Which means I can trust you here because

you're the God in the entire world.

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You're the same God, your same presence

and powerful, and I do trust you.

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And he told me, I'm going

to use this for your good.

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And for the kingdom's

good, if you'll trust me.

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And so for us, he had

his own same experience.

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And I, it was like, this is what I

wanted you to do with part of your life.

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I didn't show you this for you to just

go, Oh, a bad thing happened to us.

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I showed it to you because I

wanted to open a whole world to an

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unreached people group that nobody

in the world is talking about.

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You know, In 2008, 2009, 10,

the church was not talking about

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the topic of human trafficking.

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It was not a known topic.

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And so that's where God really birthed

it in our hearts, even though it didn't

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have a name, it didn't have a plan.

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We just did it.

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It seems did we just not know about

it or because of technology, the

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way it is exponentially grown and

awareness, are we just more aware?

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I think it's both.

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I think it's grown exponentially

just because of the networking

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that's been allowed to happen.

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But Daniel, you could

definitely speak to that.

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But before we get quite there, tell

us a little bit about Your fatherly

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instinct when you saw that Happening

and you saw your you heard it.

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Is that what you're saying?

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Yeah, I heard the girls screaming out

by the park and as they were playing

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riding their bikes What I noticed when

I ran out of the house was a Brown SUV

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pulling both the girls into the car.

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Leah was able to get out of that,

but then he had the other girl.

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He had taken two missionary

girls, our daughter and another

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missionary's little girl.

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And so when they noticed that I was

coming at them, they started driving

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off with one of the girls in the car,

but Leah stayed and pulled them out.

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Pulled her friend out of the car.

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And then I got on the little moped

motorcycle and chased them out of

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the neighborhood because I wanted

to, I was going to respond with some

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aggression but God did not allow that

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what happened was I was able to get

the make and model of the vehicle, the

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description of the man and the woman in

the car and the license plate number.

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And so when they beat me out of

the neighborhood, that's what I was

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able to give to law enforcement.

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So my fatherly instinct was.

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Respond, protect, and I guess attack,

if that's the right word to use, but it

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was to protect and defend my children.

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I think I could certainly see that would

be my husband's response to oh, and to

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think that your daughter actually was

able to save another little girl also.

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This has had to have a really

profound effect upon their lives.

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Yeah.

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Leah has struggled.

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But because of the small amount of

trauma that she experienced that day,

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she personally has struggled with some

after effects of trauma and also it

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was more traumatic even afterwards.

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When that police officer came back to our

home and they shared with us that I don't

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know that Daniel had just has said this

yet, but that they had taken 19 children.

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That group had, when we,

when the police uncovered it.

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and because of Daniel's.

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Give us quick thinking and reporting

ability of getting the information.

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They were able to rescue nine of the

19, but the other ones were already

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had been sold to countries like

South Africa and the Philippines

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and probably never to be seen again.

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And when we began to look

around after God, created that

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divine appointment for us.

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We realized that we were beginning to

see it in the city, whereas we had been

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living there for months and didn't see it.

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But God had given us a whole new set of

eyes and we were watching these little

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beautiful Brown girls walking down the

street with, white, Western older men,

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and now we understood what they were doing

or, just the danger that the national

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children were in because they were so

impoverished in the lack of education.

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It was so easy for someone to come into

their life and go, let me take your child

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and give them a good education, or let

me get them a good job that they can

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send money back to you or your family.

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And that country is, mainly Buddhist.

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And that's where we were going to

serve and to love the Buddhist people

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and to share the gospel with them.

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In that sitting, we were like,

okay, God, you have opened

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our eyes to something else.

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And once you see, you can't unsee.

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True.

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And, the verse in the Bible that God

continued to pour over both of our

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hearts was to him that knoweth to do

good and doeth it not, to him it is said.

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And I'm like, I think we would be wrong

if we don't speak up, cause again, and

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in Proverbs three, one, eight, nine,

speak up and see that they get justice.

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And we're like, God, your word is

already actually telling us what to

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do about this, but then we began to

research and go, but there's nobody else

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the church isn't talking about this.

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There's not many mission

organizations, if we could even find

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them that we're talking about this.

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So it was so daunting and unknown that

the first year or so, like I said we knew

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it, but it was more of a research stage.

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And as we found children around the

country, we were trying to get them help.

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But a lot of the nationals were

afraid because when you get in those

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type of countries, a lot of bribery

and the police are corrupt and the

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government officials are corrupt.

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And so even our national missionaries

that we were going to go live with.

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They were afraid to take

this on as a mission.

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And so rescue one didn't actually

get a name and get started until

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after we left that first initial

mission that we were with and gave

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it its name and mission, yeah.

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And actually we had a one track mind.

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Our first thought was protect

our kids and Chiang Mai to learn

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the language and the culture.

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And then we were going to move to a new

location where we were going to, what

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we thought would be engaged in ministry.

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We moved there, built a house,

and we thought we were going to

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live there forever like Lacey

said, but we found a brothel, a

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family owned and operated brothel

a mile and a half behind our house.

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And this is the conversation pretty

much that happened with the owner.

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I can only harvest rice

three months out of the year.

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There's no other way to make money.

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So we bought this built this little

restaurant where you can have food

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because there's no McDonald's it's

the fast food of that culture when you

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see rice's stand on the side of the

road Yeah, right That's your fast food

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you stop and eat and then behind it

was six little huts big enough for a

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single bed and a fan With a door on it.

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And the purpose of that was you can

purchase the waitresses or any other

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girls or women in the neighborhood.

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And that's what they knew.

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So the other nine months out of the year,

the brothel was operating from 16 year

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old girls to as old as they wanted to be.

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And the organization we were

with almost forbade us for having

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any conversations with them.

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And I just knew that.

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I don't think that's what Christ would do.

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And so I, I started having conversations

and through that, we actually want

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to, this is a tongue in cheek.

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We want to be careful that

nobody misunderstands this.

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There was a girl that was being

solicited to work there and Lacey and

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I just, we paid For her to not have

to do that, gave money to the family.

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And she went into the orphanage

that we were being a part of, and

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that changed her life forever.

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And then that created a new, a new passion

where the rescue came in of at all costs.

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We're going to stop kids from being

used manipulated, exploited, and

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have their future stolen from them.

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And we knew that's what we had to do.

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And in that country, we found that

you could pay anywhere from 500 to

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1, 500, basically and buy a child.

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And kids in that country

were thrown away so easily.

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And, but we thought we're in a country

that's known as the world's brothel.

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It's supposed to be happening here, but

what we didn't realize was after our

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almost two years of being in the country,

we came home for our first furlough and we

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left with four kids, came home with five.

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So our son was actually born

in the country and he had

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never been to America before.

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He only spoke Thai.

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He did not speak English.

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He was so scared of white people.

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We landed in the American airports

and he was just terrified.

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He's Oh, and then for the first

few months, he wouldn't eat.

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We were in Nashville,

Southern food, right?

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And we were enjoying being home, but

he was like rice, rice, rice, where's

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my rice, and he was so confused.

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He stopped talking for almost six months.

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This is our youngest son, David.

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But when we came home to Nashville

and we began to share our hearts

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and what God had taught us, we

had an older lady that we didn't.

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She said I can just see passion

in your heart and mind for this.

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She goes, can I tell you

that it's happening here?

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And I thought, I remembered back to

that conversation I had with God of,

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can I just go home to my safe Nashville?

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And here the first week or two, I'm

home in Nashville, a lady's telling

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me, did you know what happens here?

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And it happens all over our country.

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And so we just did a deep dive.

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How, where, when, what do we do about it?

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And that's when God And that

deep dive did not take long.

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It was maybe a month

and a half, two months.

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And we had police and other organizations

saying, you need to focus on this.

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And it was, what was unique about it

was that we found a whole new mission

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field that we had never dreamed of

before because, typical missionaries,

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you think I'm going to go work in

an orphanage or I'm going to teach

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English or I'm going to plant churches.

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And that's what we originally went to do.

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We also went to go work with the

underground persecuted church.

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So our main mission, we lived on the

Mekong river and in the, on the Mekong

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river, the Lao border is right there.

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So you could go out our village and

throw a rock and hit another country.

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And we were going to work in that country.

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And some of our people had

been burned and killed.

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While, and that's what we

were supposed to go do.

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And those are typical thoughts

about being a missionary.

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Now all of a sudden we recognized that

with this topic of human trafficking, God

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was going to actually put us in places

that Christians might not be able to get

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into like government buildings, government

conversations police stations social work.

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People that are non believing and they

were the ones who looked at us and said,

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there's something different about you

and the world needs you to do this thing.

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And so that's when you smile and you

go, look, God even uses non believing

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people to call out the God things.

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you know, Daniel uses the word all the

time that he likes genetically encoded.

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And he's like, I know we, we do know

that God genetically encoded us to

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do some of the things that we've done

because people all the time are like,

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Oh, teach us how to do what you're doing.

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And we're like, I don't

always know how to teach you.

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Because God actually just must have

given me the instincts and the know

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how to do the things that we've done.

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And so when we came home and we

realized it was happening here.

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God took both of us separately

to the verse in Matthew and the

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verses where it talks about going

to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and

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the uttermost parts of the earth.

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And God said, most missionaries,

I pick one of those and send them

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there, Jerusalem or Judea or Samaria

and, or send them around the world

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to the uttermost parts of the earth.

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And he said, Lacey and Daniel,

I want you to do the and.

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And we were like, and okay we thought

we would just come home and go

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back to Thailand and live in Asia.

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And God said and so that's how

rescue one first got started

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was Right here in Nashville.

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We said, okay, we're going to put

a base in our home city in middle

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Tennessee, and then we're going to

also put the base In Asia and the

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different countries that God puts us in.

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Now God's allowed us to expand

into multiple countries and we

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are not lacking for places to go.

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People are begging us to come there,

but it's all about people, resources

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and financial resources to expand it.

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So what year was this that

you actually made the decision

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to start Rescue One Global.

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So we actually started in 2010

as a campaign to raise money

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for us to go back to Thailand.

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And in January to start

prevention efforts.

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There were, we discovered about six

homes in Northern Thailand that were

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homes that were closed down now.

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And then we're no longer

taking care of kids.

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And we decided to help them reopen those

homes because we could prevent thousands

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from going into the sex industry and which

opened up other doors to rescue others.

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Cause we would find kids where their

sister or their mom was actually working

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in Bangkok in the red light districts.

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And those just opened up

those opportunities for that.

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So the campaign rescue one started in.

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2010.

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And then we went for about

two years and to:

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that something was changing.

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And some of those verses where Lacey was

talking about in Matthew, we had the,

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what we thought was the great commission.

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We're supposed to go tell

everybody about the gospel.

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And what we realized was the great

commandment was to others like

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you would want to be treated.

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And we discovered that

service to the community.

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Teaching your kids English, doing

sporting events with soccer or feeding,

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or just supplementing some of their

income with some milk and rice and other

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things gave us opportunities to not only

share the gospel, but they trusted us

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and they would tell us their darkest

secrets about what their family was

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doing just to provide for themselves.

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And because we were living in a

Buddhist culture, it was very easy.

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For them to be works based.

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So even though they were committing

egregious sin, because they gave back to

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the temple and they gave back to their

families and they provided for their

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parents and their children then it's

almost like the demerits of sin were

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wiped out by the merits of giving back.

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And so we, God just opened

up opportunities for us to

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share the reality of that.

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And then of course we came back home and

that one, the acts one eight, we felt a

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push and pull between two countries, and

we weren't sure, are we supposed to stay

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in America and do this, or are we supposed

to, again, go back to Thailand, and like

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Lacey said, we knew God just said, Acts 1.

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8, I want you to do it in both.

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I cannot wait for you to be able

to hear the rest of this interview.

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Daniel and Lacey continue to share

riveting heart-wrenching stories,

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but all along the way they provide

hope that there's something we can

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do about this horrific situation.

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In the meantime, I hope you head

to the Rescue One Global website.

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It's rescue then the

number one global.org.

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You'll see plenty of practical steps

that you can take to Rescue one.

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Thanks for listening.

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We'll see you next week.

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Stephanie: We know you're busy, mama.

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So we are truly grateful you joined us for

this episode of again, if you're looking

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for more information about building your

home on the foundation of Jesus Christ,

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head to www.entrustedministries.com

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to learn more about our study for

moms entrusted with a child's Heart.

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This scripture saturated study

has blessed families around the

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world, and we want it for you too.

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Before you go, I want to pray this

benediction over you from Second

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Thessalonians one 11 through 12.

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We're rooting for you to this end.

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We always pray for you that our God

may make you worthy of his calling and

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may fulfill every resolve for good.

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And every work of faith by his power

so that the name of our Lord Jesus

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may be glorified in you and you

and Him according to the grace of

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our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Until we meet again.

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Stephanie has always delighted in God’s Word and in sharing it with others. Whether it is equipping mothers and leaders through Entrusted with a Child’s Heart, inspiring students when teaching at homeschool co-ops or children’s ministry, or homeschooling her own children, Stephanie’s life mission is to encourage others to follow faithfully and joyfully after Jesus—especially if they hold her favorite job title: mom.

Betsy Corning wrote Entrusted with a Child’s Heart in 1999 in response to the needs she saw in families as she and David counseled young parents just a few years behind them. Entrusted has been taught in hundreds of churches nationwide, been translated into several foreign languages, and has made its way around the world. More recently, Betsy received her Masters in Biblical Studies from The Master’s University and is developing a new Bible Study program called Get the Word Out. Her passion for God’s Word, discipleship, and teaching biblical principles as they apply to family life has remained strong to this day. One of the greatest blessings in Betsy’s life are her three grown children, their spouses, and ten grandchildren that keep her constantly in touch with every age and stage.

Jen Freckman Is an incredible wealth of wisdom. She will tell you a natural remedy for just about anything! She is also a voracious reader and she is just overflowing with quotes and guidance that she's encountered through reading and being faithful. She delights in her children and is a devoted mother. She is also an amazingly creative problem solver! Her solutions to manage her home and guide her children are inspiring.

Emily Deyo is such a treasure. She is an incredible encourager and servant-hearted woman. When she has the mic in front of her, so much value comes out! She is a wordsmith and her heart consistently beats for how she can encourage and serve others. She is a truly loving and attentive mother.

Join Betsy, Emily, Jen, and Stephanie as they share the wisdom only Scripture and on-the-job training can provide to help untangle the joyful calling of motherhood.