His plan....her vision...my commitment

I wish that I could type out a precise detailed plan of what I have committed to, but at the moment I cannot.
Since my time in Thailand and Cambodia, God has only grown my heart for the women caught in sex trafficking and prostitution. Just last week I was sure that God wanted me to surrender my heart for them and so I committed seven weeks in Darwin instead of my selfish want to go to Thailand and Cambodia. Evidently God had it planned for me to take a team there this whole time. I guess in giving, we receive.
On this base I am not the only one who has a heart for the women caught in it all. Catrina Pennington (another staff on base), an advocate for Destiny Rescue, has been praying about what she could possibly do to take a step in seeing this trade stopped. God gave her a vision to start a clothing company. Since it was such a big vision, she wanted confirmation. She felt like she was supposed to make herself a dress (she doesn't even know how to sew) and if she succeeded than God wanted her to take a hold of this vision. There was success and so a new ministry has birthed here on the base.
Destiny Rescue already has a sewing factory In Thailand which employs women coming out of prostitution and so, currently, it would just be a matter of having patterns and samples to take over there to start a simple fair trade clothing line. Catrina would like to have a line out by 2010. Now it all sounds elementary, but the vision is much bigger than we can even dream and this is just the beginning. Eventually, she wants to see the clothing line have it's own factory in Thailand (possibly more than one location, or even different countries) where the women coming out of prostitution will be employed. This would mean the possibility of having housing for the women, restoration counselling, christian fellowship, and english lessons, and so much more. The plan is to open stores worldwide to sell the products, but also to create global awareness.
God had been working on our hearts separately, and now I am excited to say that I will be partnering with her vision. I had been asking God what I could do to see this trade demolished and the world to be aware of it. I had ideas of using business for missions (like Nightlight Ministry), but no specifics. I was just trusting that God would just reveal to me my direction. Then one day in lectures, Catrina shared her vision for the clothing line. I was so moved and excited about it I felt like I was going to be ill!
So now what? I will be returning to Thailand to work with some of the same ministries in December, but also to do some scouting for this ministry yet again in June (after my return from seeing my best friend get married). I will be studying fashion design here in Australia most likely beginning next year, and weeding through all the details with Catrina, and Natalie (student from Germany). It is a long term commitment, but I have such a peace and incredible excitement about it all.
God is faithful, and nothing goes without reason.