"We can't do everything, but we HAVE to do something."

I'm inspired and amazed by this girl speaking. I'm shocked at the statistics. We have to do SOMETHING.

Broken for Moldova...sex trafficking

Moldova is coming up soon..only about a month away. So I've started just researching the country and trying to find out as much as I can about Moldova and the Moldovan People.
I randomly came across a page about child trafficking in Moldova. I don't know how I've missed this until now but this thing is huge. As the poorest country in Europe it is also one of the biggest sex trafficking areas. These girls think they are getting a better life. They answer ads in the paper for waitressing jobs or for an apartment and they end up in the middle of a sex trafficking ring. Trafficking deals happen in broad daylight. I was reading a blog where these girls were being taken and sold from a cafe in the middle of town. I can't even describe what is going through my head. I'm angry and incredibly broken and sad for these girls that are pulled into this. Moldova isn't very big...slightly larger than Maryland. The same city I'll be staying for a while is where this is all going on. It will be right in front of me. It kind of scares me...going to this place where I know sex trafficking is happening on a daily basis... but it's definitely started to get me thinking.

I read this article from UNICEF. I think like the girl in the article, most kids are left with their grandparents while their parents go find work in a nearby country. This scenario has probably happened a million times. At the end of this page it says that the girl is ready to start her new life and go to school to be a hairdresser. hmmmm....this starts some things going in my head.

God definitely has me going here for a purpose. I'm so excited to see how He will use me while I'm there. He's got it all under control.

So on a different note, I'm taking my practical at Vogue tomorrow and will be officially graduated! yay. It's so crazy how God has brought me through this and completely provided financially. When I first started school there was no way I thought God could use hair to glorify him and further his kingdom. I was so wrong. I think because of knowing how to do hair, God can use me in different ways that wouldn't be there if I hadn't gone to school. It's such a ministry just to talk to clients and I'll be able to encourage the missionaries that are presently at the base in Moldova. I'm so excited to go on the bus4life for a couple weeks and cut hair...guess I better get movin again on my Romanian lessons haha. As I was reading the articles today on the girls in Moldova that have been in this whole thing of sex trafficking, a picture came back in my mind.
At the winter retreat with the senior high this year,God just gave me a picture of me where it started with just me, grew to a small group of girls, then "the groups multiplied" and there were tons of girls. My first thought was.."Oh goodness, God, please do not make me speak in front of all these girls." My recent thought is...maybe it's teaching. Teaching hair to girls who's past is broken and need a good job to get out of prostitution or sex trafficking or whatever they've gone through. I don't know. I really have no idea where God is going with that mental picture, but it just keeps coming up. So I'll keep praying as I get ready to leave for Moldova. It's coming up faster than I know! :-s haha