Annie Dieselberg founded the Nightlight Ministry that reaches to sexually exploited women and children in Bangkok. We were blessed to be able to see her vision and heart to see an end to the sex trade.
Nightlight is a ministry that offers women in prostitution a way out by making and selling jewelery, learning English, and offering business classes. They offer women housing and each nightlight employee is required to attend a church/worship service every morning. The people involved in the ministry visit the bars located in Nana Plaza (one of the red light districts in Bangkok) and build relationships with the women in the strip bars.
I have never been in a strip bar before, and so all of us received a bit of a shock when we first walked in! It was incredibly sad to see so many girls, and with such blank looks on their faces. I know that they must have thought completely wrong throughts of who we were when we walked in.
The amazing thing to see was the women from nightlight ministry knew a lot of these girls in the bars, and the girls immediately tranformed once they saw them. They were so receiving and exciting to meet us once they knew who we were with. I saw immediate hope, and that was a blessing. We shared with them about Nightlight and their options.
We wanted to do what would be the most help to them and their ministry and they asked us to run kids programs for the children of the employees at nightlight. So for a couple of weeks we shared the gospel with the kids, played with them, even joined in the nap time! A couple nights a week we would go into the strip bars with Annie and her crew and build relationships with the girls in the bars.
I love this ministry and so if you would like to check out more about it, read stories, or even buy some jewelery off their website:
www.nightlightbangkok.com
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