Hosive

i’ve been blogging about my friend’s work, making films to combat human trafficking. he left this week to do a short piece in bankok. There is no fiction
that will truly fit the situation. he’ll be documenting every detail, every conversation he has access to too.

last month he wrote me this:

“Human trafficking – it’s something you’ve probably heard or read about. This practice affects millions worldwide and is, unfortunately, thriving.

The reality of it: a fifteen-year-old responding to a job offer to work at a restaurant in Bangkok instead trafficked to Malaysia and forced into prostitution. A ten-year-old in New Delhi made to beg for money from morning till night and given only one meal a day. Two Indonesian women hired by Long Island residents to be housekeepers subjected to beatings and confinement.*

It’s atrocities like these that lead my friend Troy to form Speak Up, a non-profit dedicated to fighting these injustices and to providing opportunities for those who are vulnerable. It’s a relatively new organization, and I’ve had the chance to watch it grow and gain in momentum.

Speak Up has invited me to travel as part of a small team to Bangkok, Thailand in April. I’ll be filming and creating videos to help promote their ongoing efforts, and I also hope to make a short documentary about Speak Up’s work and capture a bit of life in Bangkok.

My trip will last 10 days, and I’ll need your prayers and encouragement.”

if you are the praying type, please lift these up in your hearts:

- protection for our group
- recovery from being under the weather so I can be 100% for this trip
- productive time for my friend Troy as he meets with government officials and contacts to set up programs
- that our electronic equipment (laptops, camera) would function properly and wouldn’t get stolen!
- sensitivity to God and what he wants to accomplish

if you are the giving type, please check out:

speak up for the poor

and on facebook…..here.

more updates and pauses to come…..