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

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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: 2006

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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: 2007

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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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: 00:28:17

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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: 00:29:02

He only spoke Thai.

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: 00:29:03

He did not speak English.

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: 00:29:05

He was so scared of white people.

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: 00:29:06

We landed in the American airports

and he was just terrified.

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: 00:29:09

He's Oh, and then for the first

few months, he wouldn't eat.

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: 00:29:12

We were in Nashville,

Southern food, right?

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: 00:29:14

And we were enjoying being home, but

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

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: 00:29:19

my rice, and he was so confused.

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: 00:29:21

He stopped talking for almost six months.

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: 00:29:23

This is our youngest son, David.

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: 00:29:24

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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: 00:29:37

She goes, can I tell you

that it's happening here?

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: 00:29:40

And I thought, I remembered back to

that conversation I had with God of,

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: 00:29:44

can I just go home to my safe Nashville?

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: 00:29:46

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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: 00:29:51

And it happens all over our country.

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: 00:29:53

And so we just did a deep dive.

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: 00:29:55

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

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: 00:29:58

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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: 00:30:03

And we had police and other organizations

saying, you need to focus on this.

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: 00:30:10

And it was, what was unique about it

was that we found a whole new mission

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: 00:30:13

field that we had never dreamed of

before because, typical missionaries,

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: 00:30:17

you think I'm going to go work in

an orphanage or I'm going to teach

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: 00:30:20

English or I'm going to plant churches.

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: 00:30:22

And that's what we originally went to do.

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: 00:30:24

We also went to go work with the

underground persecuted church.

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: 00:30:26

So our main mission, we lived on the

Mekong river and in the, on the Mekong

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: 00:30:31

river, the Lao border is right there.

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: 00:30:34

So you could go out our village and

throw a rock and hit another country.

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: 00:30:38

And we were going to work in that country.

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: 00:30:40

And some of our people had

been burned and killed.

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: 00:30:43

While, and that's what we

were supposed to go do.

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: 00:30:46

And those are typical thoughts

about being a missionary.

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: 00:30:49

Now all of a sudden we recognized that

with this topic of human trafficking, God

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: 00:30:53

was going to actually put us in places

that Christians might not be able to get

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: 00:30:57

into like government buildings, government

conversations police stations social work.

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: 00:31:04

People that are non believing and they

were the ones who looked at us and said,

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: 00:31:09

there's something different about you

and the world needs you to do this thing.

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: 00:31:14

And so that's when you smile and you

go, look, God even uses non believing

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: 00:31:19

people to call out the God things.

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: 00:31:22

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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: 00:31:29

do some of the things that we've done

because people all the time are like,

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: 00:31:32

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

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: 00:31:34

And we're like, I don't

always know how to teach you.

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: 00:31:37

Because God actually just must have

given me the instincts and the know

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: 00:31:41

how to do the things that we've done.

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: 00:31:43

And so when we came home and we

realized it was happening here.

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: 00:31:47

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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: 00:31:55

the uttermost parts of the earth.

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: 00:31:57

And God said, most missionaries,

I pick one of those and send them

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: 00:32:00

there, Jerusalem or Judea or Samaria

and, or send them around the world

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: 00:32:05

to the uttermost parts of the earth.

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: 00:32:06

And he said, Lacey and Daniel,

I want you to do the and.

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: 00:32:10

And we were like, and okay we thought

we would just come home and go

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: 00:32:14

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: 2012

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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

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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.