Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration Project A project of Concerned Women For America funded through Houston Rescue and Restore

Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration Project Global Reality 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 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 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 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 “The average age of entry into prostitution is between years old.” (Demand by shared hope international. Pg 86) No Demand = No Victim

Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration Project Global Reality 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 The I-10 corridor between El Paso and Houston was identified as one of the main human trafficking routes (Children at Risk) No Demand = No Victim

Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration Project Local Reality 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 “Houston is well known as a set up for ‘training brothels’”. No Demand = No Victim

Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration Project Local Reality 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 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 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 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 Are we getting the results of what we glamorize? No Demand = No Victim

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Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration Project Supply and Demand 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Project Overview and Opportunities Immediate Response Materials No Demand = No Victim

Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration Project God’s Word 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 Project A project of Concerned Women For America funded through Houston Rescue and Restore