On this special episode of Life Today.
TAMMY: Now imagine hope because we've seen
the mighty work of God do what only he can do with
a shattered, broken, wrecked life over and over again.
And it is that hope that keeps us in the fight
when they can't fight for themselves.
It is that hope that takes us around the world
to help one life at a time, especially right now.
I've said it before and I'm going to say it again,
yes, pain is real but so is hope.
Next on LIFE Today!
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TAMMY: Hello everybody.
I'm Tammy Trent
and I'm so glad you're here.
Welcome to LIFE Today.
This is a special day for me
but it is a hard one.
I want to share some things
with you that are heavy
on my heart.
I know it is hard to hear
some of what I'm about
to share with you.
But could you imagine
for a moment a little girl
right now sitting in
a dark, dark room
that's probably filthy dirty,
hot, and humid,
and the conditions
are absolutely horrible?
She's broken and abused
with no sign of real life,
someplace far away
from home and all alone
and she's scared.
Now imagine she is praying
that someone will come for her
and give her a way out
of that place.
She is crying out for freedom
and a better life,
the one that she was promised.
Wondering if someone
would hear her.
Will someone care enough?
Asking if there is anybody
out there that can help.
The horror and reality
of human trafficking and
the nightmare that it is
for literally millions
of children all around
the world is very real.
The thought of a scenario like
that is almost unthinkable
for us to imagine.
The darkness swallowing
the light, minute by minute
one child at a time.
Human trafficking is
a $150 billion industry.
An estimated 4.8 million
women, girls, and boys
are currently victims of
sex trafficking right now,
and it is the fastest-growing
crime worldwide.
The effects are severe
and long-lasting,
including long-lasting
physical, emotional,
and psychological trauma
and disease and addiction.
Now would you believe me
if I told you that
it is possible to rescue
that beautiful little girl
and restore her back
to life again?
It is!
Through our reach, rescue,
and restore efforts,
our team and mission partners
are there on the ground
right now
and they are well trained
and fully equipped,
many surrounded by
law enforcement,
and they are not afraid
to knock down the evil
wicked doors of hell
if they have to
to get to that child.
And today, you have
the opportunity to be
a part of that with us.
Now imagine hope.
Because we've seen
the mighty work of God do
what only he can do
with a shattered,
broken, wrecked life
over and over again.
And it is that hope
that keeps us in the fight
when they can't fight
for themselves.
It is that hope that
takes us around the world
to help rescue, reach,
and restore one life
at a time, especially for
the many that feel hopeless,
helpless, and trapped
right now.
Watch this.
JOHN: I'm here in Asia on one of the borders
between two countries where children and women
are being trafficked every day.
We have mission partners at this border crossing
that are trained to intervene.
They are trained to recognize
and know what to look for when it comes
to potential children being victimized.
Can you imagine waking up
thinking your child was safe in her bed
only to find out that that child is gone?
JOHN: Listen, we can all agree it is our job
as humans, as Christians, and as church
to stop this industry of human trafficking.
We have mission partners on these borders.
We need more of them.
There are more borders that need our help.
So I'm asking you right now, go, help us make a difference
in the lives of little girls.
Help us prevent the pain of a mom and dad
waking up to the horror that their daughter is gone.
TAMMY: Your daughter is gone.
Your son is gone.
Your granddaughter is missing.
Your niece has been taken.
Your grandson disappeared.
I think if any one of us
got a knock on our door today
and heard those words
spoken to us,
our response would be
tell me what to do.
How do I get to them?
Where do I go?
Where do I start?
We'd lay down everything
to save them.
We'd jump into the fight
and do whatever it took
to get to them.
And that is exactly
what our mission is here at
LIFE Outreach International.
We can't just sit back
and allow the enemy
to steal children.
He might have the power
but he has no authority.
This is why I'm incredibly
grateful for our mission
partners standing guard
at those borders right now.
They have pulled away
2500 girls from the arms
of traffickers.
But we need more of them.
More of them to help stop
potential trafficking.
There are so many
unprotected borders
around the world right now
and we can't afford to sit
back and let that happen.
One of the most important
parts of this mission
to me is to reach
these children before
they are turned over
to the enemy.
The enemy of their souls,
the enemy of their innocence,
the enemy of their futures
and their hopes
and their dreams.
We need to get to those
children with educational
outreaches to train them
in how to watch for the signs,
for the lies, and the tricks
of a trafficker
before they're taken.
But if they are, we will fight
to get them back.
Once that rescue takes place,
there is a long road ahead
back to healing again.
But we are committed
to walking that out with them
to do whatever it takes
to restore.
I've been there.
I've been in one of
our Rescue LIFE centers
recently in Central America.
I've seen the girls
who have life
in their eyes again.
I know they felt safe there.
They were thriving
just like they are
in all of our LIFE centers
around the world.
They're learning new skills
to earn a living.
They are being taught
the Word of God and who
he says they are --
and so much more.
I wanted them to know
how sorry I felt
for everything they've carried
their entire short lives.
It is so much more than
I could ever imagine
carrying myself.
They inspired me.
They were the real heroes
because they chose to walk out
every single day,
walk out this healing process
in hopes of finding
wholeness, wellness,
and healing again.
I'm praying for
every mission partner
and every child that enters
one of our LIFE centers;
that every little girl
who comes into those places
would come to learn
that she was made for more,
that God sees her
and is for her and he promises
to make all things new again.
Jesus is faithful to restore.
So our Rescue LIFE strategy
has three steps:
To reach, rescue, and restore.
This is what we do
and this is what we need.
We need people just like you
to come alongside us
in this enormous fight.
And right now if God
lays it upon your heart
to give, your gift will be
matched by amazing friends
of our ministry with
a $320,000 match.
So that means that your gift,
whatever you can give,
will be doubled!
So $64 now begins
the process of reaching,
rescuing, and restoring
one child.
$128 now begins
the process of reaching,
rescuing, and restoring
two children.
And $1280, now begins
the process of reaching,
rescuing, and restoring
20 children.
We can all do something
today to stand up
against such evil.
We can't just hope
that someone else will
take care of it.
We have to extend hope
ourselves right now.
Just be faithful to respond
and trust in God and in us
knowing that together --
together we will
and we can make a difference.
Watch this.
Sex trafficking of young women and children
is one of the darkest and most depraved activities
of humankind on the planet today.
There are nearly five million victims
who have been forced into prostitution,
and the majority of those are women and children.
DAVID: These are kids that have been forced
to have sex with people and they're being abused
and they're being photographed
and doing things that no child should ever have to do.
Mission: Rescue Life was born over a decade ago
to do our part in helping shine the light of God's love
into these dark and depraved areas.
We are partnering with missionaries around the world
who are rescuing those bound in slavery.
Even former trafficking victims like Bella
are helping those in need.
DAVID: So when we look at these big numbers
of statistics that are just demotivating,
what we choose to do is we just focus on the one.
We work alongside law enforcement
and so we rescue one today,
we rescue one tomorrow,
we rescue one next week
because every single child matters to God.
And so then they have to matter to us.
TAMMY: Every single child
matters to God
so they have to matter to us.
It's true!
From the beginning
to the end of God's Word,
he speaks about the importance
and worth of children
because they're so important
to him.
He was talking to
the disciples.
And these are precious,
beautiful children
made in the image of God
their creator.
And I believe also,
as God's children, we have
the responsibility to do
everything we possibly can
to rescue the vulnerable,
the weak, the abused,
and the exploited
before it's too late.
I can't imagine what
that might look like
and I don't want
to imagine that.
I just know that we have
to get to them
and get to them now.
I know this is big.
It is so big.
And it is a growing problem.
And many may even say how can
I even make an impact?
But you can and you are.
Together we are making
an impact.
Lives are being changed
at our LIFE centers.
It is powerful.
Our redeemer is powerful.
Recently, while on a trip
with LIFE Outreach
to Central America,
I was taken to a private home
with our mission partners
where I sat at the feet
of a girl in a small room.
She had been so mentally
beaten down for years
and her heart was guarded
and a little hard.
She didn't know even
who to trust anymore.
I told her,
"You matter to God,
and you matter to me,
and you matter to us."
I sat there
and I listened to her story.
We both spoke in different
languages but understood
broken English and broken
Spanish enough to know
that there was real pain
and hurt and disappointment
and anger and brokenness,
and a longing for
a better life.
Her abuser didn't even know
she was there and she was
so scared to be there
talking to us.
But I'll never forget
after hearing her story
I said to our mission partner,
"Can I just say something
to her?"
And as I reached for her hand
she immediately reached back
for mine.
And with tears running
from my eyes, God gave me
a word for her.
And I began to speak peace
and calling out every
good thing inside of her,
every gift and dream
that God had given her
and to not lose sight of that,
to not lose hope.
That she was brave
and she was courageous.
And that God had a destiny
for her beyond this.
And I believed it was
possible for her
to one day walk in those gifts
and change the world
around her.
I promised her that
I would remember her
and pray for her often.
By this time, we were
both crying and hugging.
And I whispered in her ear,
I said, "Jesus loves you
and so do I."
I actually wondered how
she'd receive that having
so much fake
counterfeit love in her life
and touch in her life.
But she looked at me
and she kissed me on the cheek
and she said, "Thank you!
Thank you!
I love you too."
And it was at that moment
I knew what she was feeling,
the love of God.
And I can see renewed love
and hope in her eyes.
I had to fly back home
but I knew our mission
partners are there
on the ground to continue
the healing process with her,
and many just like her,
who need to be rescued
from horrific situations
and brought into one of
our Rescue LIFE centers
for support and love
and restoration, and
to learn about their
Heavenly Father who will
never leave them
or forsake them
and is for them.
So let's do this.
Let's help give them
a better life.
Let's not be silent.
Let's help them dream again.
Let's take back what
the enemy stole because
they've already been bought
and paid for
by the blood of Jesus
and they belong to him.
They are nobody's slaves.
Would you stand with me today?
Would you stand with us today?
Would you go online
or call us right now
and give a gift
to Rescue LIFE?
Remember the $320,000
matching gift allows
your gift to go twice as far.
So $64 will now begin
the process of reaching,
rescuing, and restoring
one child.
$128 now reaches, rescues,
or restores two.
And $1280 will now reach,
rescue, and restore 20!
We would love to hear
from you, to let us know
that you're able to come
alongside us to help bring
this darkness to light
to set the captives free,
to reach, rescue, or restore
one child at a time.
Let's send a resounding
message to the enemy
that we will not stop
until every child is safe.
Innocent children and young people
longing to be loved and cared for
are being abducted and sold
at the hands of violent predators,
forced into the evil industry of human trafficking.
Through Mission: Rescue Life
you can reach out to warn children
who are at risk for sex trafficking,
rescue those already enslaved,
and restore young lives,
and give them a future.
With a generous $320,000 matching gift,
now your gift of $128
to help rescue one child
can be doubled to help two children.
Your $64 gift will be matched
to help save one child
from the horrors of human trafficking.
And a $32 Mission Rescue gift
will be doubled to $64.
With your gift today, we'll send you
the brand-new book from James Robison and Jay Richards,
Fight the Good Fight.
This book will open your eyes to what's at stake
and the unwavering truth that God isn't finished with our nation
It's time to fight the good fight
and return to unshakable biblical principles.
With your gift of $128 or more,
you'll receive the NIV large print Thinline Bible.
This easy-to-carry and easy-to-read NIV Bible with comfort print
allows you to take in more of God's word
each time you open your Bible.
Finally, please consider a gift of $1280,
which will now help save 20 children.
And you may request our inspiring bronze sculpture,
"A Cup of Water."
Please call, write, or make your gift online.
TAMMY: God's Word tells us
that Jesus cares for and values little children.
While statistics tell us
that human traffickers could not care less for them.
The only value to them is the money they can make
for the traffickers who exploit them for sex
and forced labor.
This was the case of two little girls,
Abini and Belli, who were 5 and 7 years old
when our mission partners in south Asia rescued them.
Abini was living in the brothel with her mother
who was a sex worker.
Her pimp was allowed to molest little Abini.
Belli was found in a remote village with a madame
who was selling her off to an old man
who was already abusing and using her for himself.
His next step would have been to sell her
to the local brothel in a major city.
The good news is, LIFE Outreach,
along with our mission partners
are rescuing trafficked children
through education in their villages,
SWAT team raids that are literally knocking down doors to brothels,
and restoring lives
through one-on-one ministry outreach efforts.
Abini and Belli are now loved,
safe, and cared for in our life center,
getting an education, learning about the Lord,
praying and singing as little children should be doing.
Stories like these would not have been possible
without your help.
But there are still thousands of children around the world
crying out for someone -- someone to rescue them.
At LIFE Outreach,
we have partnered with missionaries on the ground
to reach, rescue, and restore children of all ages
caught in the grip of human trafficking.
We must continue this work
and the time to act is now.
TAMMY: Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you to our
mission partners on the ground
and Jesus for rescuing
those little girls before
they were about to be sold
into a brothel,
Albini and Belli.
When I think of these
two little girls being
truly loved and cared for
right now, and playing
and running in a yard
at one of our LIFE centers
and smiling and singing
and being taught about
the love of God,
and learning about
their new identity in Christ,
I just want to scoop them
up myself and
love on them myself.
It makes my heart so happy
to be a part of giving
back their life
and introducing them to the
most genuine, deepest love
they could ever know,
Jesus who will never leave
them nor forsake them,
who loves them beyond measure
without condition.
It also makes me want to shout
and say thank you --
thank you to you,
our viewers because we could
not do any of this
without your help.
Through your giving,
it made that rescue possible.
And I know all of heaven
was celebrating too.
We're doing that.
It's working but there are
so many more that
need us right now. Why?
Because there are so many
evil traffickers, men
and women in this world
that are getting away with
this crime of using force,
manipulation and fraud
to induce these children
into going with them.
It's hard to wrap my heart
around the thought
of another human being
caring so little about
the well-being of an innocent,
helpless child telling them
that they are less than,
not important, worthless,
without value, dispensable,
someone's property.
That they see no value
in that life.
They use them, abuse them,
and eventually
throw them away,
and it is disgusting to me.
Children are being lied to
every day by human traffickers
and promised the world
that better days are ahead
for them and maybe even
their families.
So they trust the unknown
and they go because
they just don't know
any better.
So do you see why we need
to reach them before
this happens?
Before they wake up
to this hellish nightmare
that will now become
their life?
A life of abuse over
and over again, raped,
and probably beaten
or tortured, told that
if they don't comply
and do exactly what
their traffickers say,
they may even be killed.
They are trapped.
They are enslaved.
They are in prison.
And they have no way
of escape unless someone
can get to them.
I'm not asking you
to get on a plane
and search high and wide
for every child that's been
sold into sex trafficking but
I'm reaching out right now
to ask you if you would
help us raise the funds
so that we could train and
send more workers to those
unsecured borders to reach
those children first so that
we can locate children
and make a plan to secure
their rescue.
And finally, to keep
our LIFE centers
fully operational, so that
we can continue to process
of restoring every beautiful
life that walks through
those doors, one life
at a time, back to life,
back to wholeness,
back to wellness,
and healing in Jesus' name.
So if you've given before,
please know how much
it means to us.
Please give again if you can.
The time is now.
If you've never had
the chance to give to
our Rescue LIFE mission
please consider
doing it today.
Your $64 gift will
be doubled to reach, rescue,
or restore a child.
A $128 reaches, rescues,
or restores two.
Some of you can give $1280
to reach, rescue,
or restore 20.
Just do what you can.
That's all we're asking,
just do what you can.
I've said it before and
I'm going to say it again,
yes, pain is real but
so is hope, and we want
to provide a way out,
the chance to restore
and to give back life again
to these children
all around the world.
Innocent children and young people
longing to be loved and cared for
are being abducted and sold
at the hands of violent predators,
forced into the evil industry of human trafficking.
Through Mission: Rescue Life
you can reach out to warn children
who are at risk for sex trafficking,
rescue those already enslaved,
and restore young lives,
and give them a future.
With a generous $320,000 matching gift,
now your gift of $128
to help rescue one child
can be doubled to help two children.
Your $64 gift will be matched
to help save one child
from the horrors of human trafficking.
And a $32 Mission Rescue gift
will be doubled to $64.
With your gift today, we'll send you
the brand-new book from James Robison and Jay Richards,
Fight the Good Fight.
This book will open your eyes to what's at stake
and the unwavering truth that God isn't finished with our nation
It's time to fight the good fight
and return to unshakable biblical principles.
With your gift of $128 or more,
you'll receive the NIV large print Thinline Bible.
This easy-to-carry and easy-to-read NIV Bible with comfort print
allows you to take in more of God's word
each time you open your Bible.
Finally, please consider a gift of $1280,
which will now help save 20 children.
And you may request our inspiring bronze sculpture,
"A Cup of Water."
Please call, write, or make your gift online.
>> I remember the first time
my wife Andrea and I stood right here.
This place was a construction zone.
There was mud everywhere. It was dirty and messy.
There were holes so you had to really be careful where you stepped.
>> But as the new foundations were laid,
we watched this area completely transform.
It became a place of safety, a place of beauty,
a place of healing.
It really is a picture of what this rescue is all about.
>> So that's why we work alongside law enforcement.
We participate in raids, and kids are freed --
kids are freed from slavery.
And then they're brought to the Child Rescue Center.
>> But there is still so much more work to be done.
Millions of children just waiting to be rescued.
And together with your help, we can reach these children,
rescue them, and restore them body, mind, and soul.
Please just do what you can.
You will literally be setting these children free
who are now enslaved and enabling them
to reach their potential that God intended.
TAMMY: Reach, rescue, restore
-- we can do this.
We can stop trafficking
before it starts.
We can rescue those
trapped in bondage.
We can provide healing
and restoration to those
who have been victims.
Let's take a stand against
those who would perpetrate
evil on the innocent.
Let's stand in the gap
for these children who
desperately need us today.
Let's come together as
the mighty army of God
fully equipped to take on
this battle and win.
We can do this.
Have faith.
Believe and take action now.
Thank you so much
for watching.
From all of us here
at Life Today,
and our mission partners
all around the world,
I'm Tammy Trent
and we'll see you next time.
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