Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration Project

Texas Sex Trafficking

Obliteration Projecttstop@cwfa.org

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

tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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

tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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

tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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

tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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

tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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

tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Reality tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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)

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Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration

Project

Local Reality tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Reality tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Reality tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Reality tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Reality tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Demand tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Demand tstop@cwfa.orghttp://tstop.cwfa.org

Are we getting the results of what we glamorize?

No Demand = No Victim

Supply and Demand tstop@cwfa.orghttp://tstop.cwfa.org

Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration

Project

Supply and Demand tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Demand tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Difference tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Difference tstop@cwfa.orghttp://tstop.cwfa.org

TSTOP

Project Overview and OpportunitiesImmediate Response Materials

No Demand = No Victim

Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration

Project

God’s Word tstop@cwfa.orghttp://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 Projecttstop@cwfa.org

http://tstop.cwfa.org

www.houstonrr.org

A project of Concerned Women For America funded through Houston

Rescue and Restore