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Texas Sex Trafficking
Obliteration [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
www.houstonrr.org
A project of Concerned Women For America funded through Houston
Rescue and Restore
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Global Reality
[email protected]://tstop.cwfa.org
600,000 – 800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across
international borders each year. (U.S. Department of State …)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Global Reality
[email protected]://tstop.cwfa.org
80% are women and girls and up to 50% are minors. (U.S. Department of State)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Global Reality
[email protected]://tstop.cwfa.org
1 in 5 Pornographic images is of a minor. (National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Global Reality
[email protected]://tstop.cwfa.org
1 in 5 youth who regularly uses the Internet has been sexually solicited or approached (Center for Crimes Research, University of New Hampshire)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Global Reality
[email protected]://tstop.cwfa.org
“The average age of entry into prostitution is between 11-14 years old.”
(Demand by shared hope international. Pg 86)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Global Reality
[email protected]://tstop.cwfa.org
Human Trafficking is now recognized as the second largest criminal
industry in the world.”
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Local [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
The I-10 corridor between El Paso and Houston was identified as one of the main
human trafficking routes (Children at Risk)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Local [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Houston is recognized as one of the main hubs and destinations for
traffickers (Children at Risk)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Local [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
“Houston is well known as a set up for ‘training brothels’”.
http://www.cahthouston.org/news_and_resources
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Local [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
25% of all human trafficking victims in America are in Texas
(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Local [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
30% of all human trafficking tips to the National Rescue Hotline came
from Texas (Polaris Project)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Local [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Human Trafficking Defined:
Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor, services or a commercial sex act induced
by force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary service.
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Supply and [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Human Trafficking is a supply and demand issue
If no one is buying sex, traffickers have no need to find a supply.
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Supply and [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Are we getting the results of what we glamorize?
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Supply and [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Are we getting the results of what we glamorize?
No Demand = No Victim
Mommy’ a M.I.L.F PIMPFANTSPimp Squad Lil G
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Supply and [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Round Table discussion:
(Choose one of the following – more if time allows)
Were you aware of this reality?How does our culture fuel the demand?
Discuss the modern day phenomenon of “pimping”
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
God’s Supply is enough to meet the created demand
Psalm 36:5-7
“Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O Lord, you preserve both man and
beast. How priceless is your unfailing love!
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Round Table discussion:
Discuss the seeming contradiction between the abundance of God’s love, grace, mercy,
compassion, and Justice and lack of it in the context of human trafficking.
Where is God’s love in the midst of pain and suffering?
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Question:
How does God’s endless supply of love get from His storehouse to the
need in our world?
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Pure Religion:
James 1:26-27
“If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he
deceives himself and his religion is worthless.” (NIV)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Pure Religion:
James 1:26-27
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself
from being polluted by the world.” (NIV)
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
True Love:
1 John 3:16-18
“this is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us and we ought
to lay down our lives for our brothers.”
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
True Love:
1 John 3:16-18
“If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?”
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
True Love:
1 John 3:16-18
“Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.”
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Living Faith:
James 2:14-17
“What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?
Can such faith save him?”
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Living Faith:
James 2:14-17
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Living Faith:
James 2:14-17
If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Living Faith:
James 2:14-17
In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Round Table discussion:
Discuss the idea of “Pure Religion” in a “religious culture”
Discuss “True Love” in a culture flooded with “love” ideas.
Discuss “Living Faith” in a culture consumed with “Faith Debates” and Theological arguments
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Making a [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Avoiding Guilt
There is a plethora of opportunities in our world to traffic God’s love. In the end it is not about TSTOP – it is about God’s love
flowing through you somewhere.
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
Making a [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
TSTOP
Project Overview and OpportunitiesImmediate Response Materials
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration
Project
God’s [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
Round Table Prayer:
Spend time praying for
The victims The counselors & non governmental agencies Law enforcement The church & your personal response
No Demand = No Victim
Texas Sex Trafficking
Obliteration [email protected]
http://tstop.cwfa.org
www.houstonrr.org
A project of Concerned Women For America funded through Houston
Rescue and Restore