Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Dream... Into Reality?

I was at Urbana 2012 in St Louis, MO. It's a Christian Mission Conference geared towards college/university students but anyone could join. There was about 16,000 people there. During that time, God has reignited a passion that was sleeping in my heart. I had a passion for broken people that are victims of sexual exploitation.

Sex Trafficking. It's a form of Human Trafficking. Which by definition is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation includes sexual exploitation, forced labor or services and/or slavery.

My passion is more focused on Child Sex Trafficking. God has given me a path to follow. He gave me a strong passion and a strong interest in Psychology. To study it in a biblical, spiritual perspective. And move in to counseling, healing and restoration of the victims. I don't have any money to pursue this. I have been in debt before and I don't wanna take a student loan. Even if I did, when I move into the field of counseling, I don't wanna do it to pay my living expenses. Besides, the places where healing is needed most are places that can't even afford a counselor. I wanna do counseling because that's what I want to do, and whether or not I get paid, I will do it because the victims matters. I would do full time volunteer counseling, healing and letting victims hear the Gospel, that despite of the horrifying traumatic experience they've gone through, there's Someone that loves them unconditionally. Sees them as beautiful. That there is hope.

I also wanna build facilities around the world that would house victims of sex trafficking. A place they would feel safe in. Where they can get counseling. Seek Godly advice. Build life-long relationships. Develop skills and learn and study. A place of worship. And equip them with the Gospel so as they enter back into society with Christ centered in their hearts and life, they'll be able to share their powerful testimony of how God transformed their life.

These are all in my head… Is it wrong to dream so big? Are we not able to bring our dreams into reality? If God is the center of all your dreams, is it wrong to keep asking and praying for Him to turn it into a reality and take steps towards it? I believe it's possible to dream big with God… and we can be sure that He will turn it into reality and His glory will shine as it happens. Fix your eyes on Jesus, dream big, surrender it to Him, place Him in the center of it and watch Him as He turns it into reality.