Ex dançarina de Hollywood conta como conheceu Jesus e seu trabalho no RESGATE de crianças TRAFIC4D4S

[Music] J [Applause] for for podcast Jewish [Music] okay it's our honor yes I can't wait yes yes it's my favorite story and I'll never forget it I was 19 years old and I had never heard the gospel in its full picture I was raised Catholic so I believed in Jesus but to me Jesus was like a famous president on the wall on that cross and not in my everyday life and a lot of stuff happened when I was a child uh my my dad and mom my dad was abusive alcoholic my parents were young and

uh my dad and my mom divorced when I was 14 I started going very wild even at a young age and by the age of 19 I was already a dancer a go- go dancer in the clubs of Hollywood I was already doing drugs already drinking and uh and already addicted I lived a really fast life I tried everything by the age of 19 and um one day I was going to go dance for a big Hollywood clubwood and uh we getting ready me and my at my friend's apartment and all my friends were dancers

growing up I did not know one Christian not one and uh and so I was born and raised in Southern California and uh so I'm getting ready and all of a sudden something in my heart says pick up the phone and call your Aunt and uh my aunt uh three months before had become a Christian the first Christian in our life but all of a sudden she stopped curing drinking partying at the Mexican barbecue and I'm mixed I'm half Mexican half white and so we thought oh you're a cult like something's wrong you became something

weird you're not Catholic anymore yeah you're a fake religion you know but some so I didn't talk to her for three months but then I W walked over to the phone and I picked up the phone and I called her and I said Andor I don't know why I'm calling can I come over so you can dye my hair I made up something I didn't know why I was calling her something told me to call her I know what that something is today but that day I didn't know so she said sure come over I

went over to the house it was a Friday night and they started they were coming out of the house and I said where are you going I I'm coming to see you they said we're going to church do you want to come a Christian church and I had never been to a Christian Church before in my life I 19 years old and uh and and I said sure I'll come and she said okay but we have to put some clothes on you because you can't go to church dressed like that like you're going to a

club and so so I called my friends I said I'm gonna go to uh church with my ant and after I'll meet you in Hollywood Hollywood Lana what are you doing this is a big event we're you know we're dancing tonight it's a big deal church will be quick I'll be done and I'll be in Hollywood right when it's over so I go to church I walk in and I see young people and I thought only old people went to church on a Friday night and I saw people lifting their hands I saw people crying

and I didn't know what it was but I knew I had never felt that feeling of Peace before I I had never felt like that it was so warm and so peaceful and my life was so chaotic and and crazy and all of a sudden the preacher came out and he was cute young and I I don't understand this I was used to the you know bald old man and so I'm sorry I apologize if anybody's bald out there and and all of a sudden he preached a message I will never forget he said you've

been trying to fill that hole in your heart with drugs with alcohol with relationships everything else but what you've been looking for your whole life he's here here tonight his name is Jesus he's standing at the door your heart knocking and if you open it up and you let it in you let him in you'll never be the same again and at that moment I saw an open picture an open Vision in the sky and you remember I don't I've never been to church I don't know Jes I know about Jesus but I haven't encountered

Jesus I know about Jesus but I haven't encountered Jesus I knew he was the savior of the world but I didn't make him my personal savior yet you know I believed in him but I didn't know him and at that moment I saw an open film real like an old Hollywood movie Hollywood and every scene I saw it was my life until 19 I saw trying to go to college I saw trying different careers I saw the the boyfriends the alcohol the drugs I saw all of it and the last one was blank I heard

that same voice that told me to call my mom to call my aunt the decision you make right now will change your life forever what's your choice and at that moment the preacher said whoever wants this Jesus come up to the Altar and I my my 14-year-old cousin said she went to ask me but I had already ran up by myself and I ran up to the Altar and and nobody told me that to pray this but it came out of my heart and I put my hands out in front of me and I said

God I've made a mess of my life I'm in a million pieces my heart my mind my body everything is in a million pieces but if you can do anything with it these million pieces are yours and it was like I gave my life to God and at that moment it was like warm honey and it went from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet and everywhere the honey touched it cleansed and I felt clean and whole and pure like i' had never sinned before like nothing had ever touched me and

I'd never touched anything unclean before and I started crying and I started smiling and I and I said I I didn't realize I saw before in black and white and now I saw in color and the sky was blue and the grass was green and I knew I was different at that moment I knew I was different and I I asked my aunt what happened to me what happened to me she said it's Jesus you'll never be the same again the first time I ever open the Bible and read the Bible when I was 19

this is the f i this is the first scripture I read and said he who is in Christ is a new creation old things passed away behold All Things become new and I said that's what happened to me that's what happened to me so I would encounter Jesus first and I'd read about it after and I'd say that's what happened oh that's what that is that's what that is I was instantly healed of of um epilepsy I used to have seizures because I would party all night and do drugs to stay up and I so

I had I was diagnosed with epilepsy and I had seizures I haven't had a seizure since I was 19 I'm 47 I was instantly healed I was instantly delivered from drugs and alcohol I forgot how to cuss everything was different and I I walked out and I called my friends and I said I met the man of my dreams and I'm never coming back his name is Jesus and they said we don't know how you went from bar girl to Mother Teresa in 0 2 seconds but there's hope for all of us because you were

the worst of us and if he could forgive you then he can forgive all of us and one by one all of my dancer friends started coming to Jesus because they saw the change in me and then that father who used to beat me and different stuff God reconciled our relationship and I got to lead my dad to the Lord and he goes to the church that I got saved at I got to lead my mom to the Lord and now most I was the first believer in my family now most of my family are

Christians because they saw the miracle they saw the transformation they saw the encounter with Jesus but something happened at that altar at that moment I knew that I was rescued to rescue I knew that Jesus rescued me if he didn't save me I would be dead I would be raped something would have happened and I knew I know that Jesus rescued me but I knew not only to have me but also for another purpose and so I was rescued to rescue and I made two personal vendettas to God two personal promises to God strong promises

one I would tell as many people about Jesus before the age 19 because nobody ever told me I thought that that was all the Jesus there was to have I didn't know that there was more I thought it was okay just to believe in him but not to to him I didn't know how to ask him to come off that cross and into my life and into my heart so I promised to God that I would tell as many people before the age 19 and give them a choice because I didn't have a choice told

me you don't have to live this life there's another way let me show you the Jesus way so one evangelism and souls and number two that I would fight and protect innocent and vulnerable children because of what happened to me in my childhood I believe that that opened the door for the enemy in my life to destroy my life and so that I would fight for their innocence and I would protect them so those were my two personal promises to God up until 19 I lived my own life what I wanted to do so from

this day forward I would get give every day to God and not one day to the devil from this day every day would be for God not one day of my life to the devil that was my promise to God at 19 and at 19 and I've kept it until 47 and so from that let me ask you something for his life is the best life I said I told God my life in the world it was fun I had fun I was extreme I was crazy it was an adventure but when I gave my

life to Jesus whatever you give up whatever you let go it can't even compare to the Abundant Life that he has for you it can't even compare to what he has for you to the adventure of the life that he has for you and he's right there he's right there waiting for your yes he's he's he's so near I remember there was uh one girl that I U really raised up she was 10 years old she was she's over at my she runs my children's homes now she was raised as a Christian and she went

to church and she saw everything but she didn't surrender her life and uh and so she started you know going back to the world and different things struggling with both worlds and I knew she was far from God in her heart and so the Lord told me go and get Lissa I have a plan for her and so I went and and she was a teenager at this time 17 or 18 and uh and I said are you ready to completely surrender to God I said Jesus has been your mom's Jesus your Church's Jesus your

dad's Jesus but are you ready for Jesus to encounter you and you surrender your life and be your Jesus because he's not just this the savior of the world he's supposed to be our master so are you ready to surrender your life and she started crying and she said I am you go home right now and you get on your knees and you ask Jesus to reveal himself to you and encounter him and encounter you and she did that and she called me at midnight came he came he came couldn't even understand her she was

crying changed her life she broke up with her boyfriend she stopped selling drugs she got on fire for God living for him and going to Bible school she's been on the mission field with me for oh goodness almost 20 years now she came when she was 18 she runs all of my children's homes the Children's Home and and so I feel like wherever you're at Jesus knows exactly where you're at he knows exactly what you're not wanting to let go and he's saying give it to me and I'll give you back greater than you ever

think that you lost he can't F closed hands he can't fill closed hands until your hands are open and you let go of your life he can't put his life that he has for you in your hands open your hands open your heart surrender everything and trust that he has your best interest at heart trust that he has your best life and give him your plans for his plans your life for his life his life for your life it's a great exchange and we win from it he gets the short end he gets our sin

and our Brokenness and our and we get we're the ones that win we're the ones that gain it's not even a fair exchange not even fair exchange but that's what he wants he wants a great exchange plans your dreams for the plans and the dreams that he has for you your your life for his life you give him your yes because he's already given you his yes he already chose you he already died for you he already provided a perfect way for you he already chose you even though he knew everything that you did and

everything you were involved in and all you need to do is say yes all you need to do is open your hands and heart and say my life for your life amen so I KN I knew I was rescued to rescue and I got those two pieces uh um the lost people that are lost searching for God and children vulnerable children and uh so so those two things and God did a quick work in me I was I was at the church doors anytime it was open it didn't matter if it was like a meeting

for the older you know like I was there I was in the doors in the back taking notes listening to everything in three months I was uh in three months I was a Sunday school teacher I didn't even know the stories so I would get the book I and I would go home and study it and then I would teach the children I would learn with the children while I was teaching them in six months I was a youth leader and God just kept doing a quick work within a year in in a supernatural way

I went way to Bible school I was only a Christian for one year so I went to a Bible school I didn't know it was for Ministry I didn't even know what the word ministry was I was a goo dancer in the clubs of Hollywood I was rescued to rescue I didn't know these Christian words but everyone talking about my Ministry my Ministry so one day I said to God what is this word ministry and am I called to it and God said uh yes yes I've called you into it and all it is all

Ministry means is basically an overflow of what I've done in your life and I said I said Lord you tricked me you tricked me I didn't sign up for this you know I didn't want Ministry you know I just want to reach as many people as I can so at that point I started praying more okay what are the details of this sometimes I say the plan of God you don't get every detail at first a connect the dots puzzle you know you have one you have two and you don't know what everything is but

then you look and you're like oh that's what you were doing it's it's a star this is the picture so I had those two points but I didn't have anything else so as I was seing searching the Lord okay I know I'm rescued to rescue what does that mean one day he gave me the scripture Psalms 127: 3 through 5 127 verses 3 through five as arrows in the hand of a mighty man as arrows in the as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so our children of the youth they will not

be as sorry go ahead they will not be ashamed but they will subdue and Conquer The Enemy at the Gate and I knew what God was saying he's saiding you're going to raise up children to know me and to make me known and they're going to be in my hands and they're going to be my weapons and I'm going to send them out you're going to raise up an army and he said you're going to do children's homes but they're not going to be like orphanages they're going to be like many Bible schools and he

said it's GNA be Generations you're gonna ra raise in the in the dark nations of the world you're going to raise up generations to know me in the Buddhist Muslim Hindu nations of the world there is Generations who don't know me you'll raise up a generation to know me and that generation will make me known to their own nation and I said but God I'm an evangelist I want to win hundreds thousands millions to you he said you'll reach more through these children than you could ever reach alone you'll raise generations to know me and

so at that moment I knew that was another big piece to the [Music] puzzle so I knew children evangelism and I saw how it they would come together and and so I'm still praying about this and then um in between my my in my first and second year Bible School in my summer a missionary from Brazil came to my home Church home Church in my home Church oh no no I'm sorry the church I got saved my and he is from sa Paulo and he starts talking about this street kids of souo and he started

talking about how you see 5-year-olds walking around sniffing glue and uh because glue is cheaper than food and that there's more kids in the streets and there is food in the dumpsters to feed these kids there thousands and thousands of children in the streets of Brazil and you can see 12-year-olds pregnant walking in the streets and just they're treated like animals they're like no value no worth and I just started sat in the back and started to weep just started to cry and they walked over to me and said what is the Lord doing in

your heart and I said and all of a sudden out of my spirit I said I want to work with children intern exploited children internationally and and my aunt looked at me she said you do and I said I think that's what I said out of my mouth and so that that missionary came up to me and he said I saw God working on you come and join us in Brazil when you when you graduate Bible school so I had exploited children I had children's homes I had evangelism and now I had the the street

children of Brazil so I had all these pieces of the puzzle you know it wasn't completely filled but just these pieces and so I sat my I I put my face to go to Brazil when I graduated Bible school and I started I was I remember I was in the shower I was going to graduate I thought I was going to go to Brazil I filled out my application with those missionaries started uh making friends with all the Brazilians in my Bible scho eating pushing eating you know everything I would get worship from them Ana

and I put her in my car and she'd be singing and I just start crying and trying to sing with her and I set my face to go to Brazil and I was in the shower and the Lord spoke to me and he said stay behind in Oklahoma one more year don't go to Brazil and I just started to cry said no God please well I I I'm saying here am I send me and you're not sending me what's the problem you're calling my friends to other missions and they don't want to go I want

to go send me I don't understand I'm ready to go and I kept hearing again stay behind one more year I you know I had only been a Christian for three years that time and he said stay behind in one more year I said okay fine I I'll stay behind but then I'm going to you know save up all my money and as soon as I could go as soon as God gives me the green light I'm out of here I'm going to keep preparing and so anyway so I I started getting other jobs and

one of them was to clean the house of a missionary but they a missionary couple they weren't in Brazil they were in Thailand and I started cleaning their house and around the same time I started hearing about children in Thailand number one in the world for children forced into prostitution they said at that time there could be like 500,000 children that are involved in prostitution under the age 18 500,000 I know and I start hearing that um little girls virginity at that time eight-year-old girls virginity would go for $3,000 uh 3,000 now to this day

only only $24 it can show you how many people now know about it $24 eighty old girl yeah and so I started hearing about this I started hearing about how business people uh in Asia sometimes they would go and sleep with a child for good luck also they didn't believe that children can car have HIV or or transmit HIV so they'd come and sleep with children the younger the better and my heart started breaking and I kept serving those missionaries I started hearing these stories about and one day I was scrubbing their toys I said

God I I graduated Bible School to scrub toilets I'm ready to go the mission field what is happening you know and the the couple they did Bible school and church planning they didn't have children's homes why am I serving them all of a sudden that week the husband came to me and he said we've been to all these countries in Asia and we've seen what has happened to the children and we need to do something about Lana we want you to help start our home God's heard their cries he's answered their prayers and we planned

their escape and we're going to do children's hes Thailand second one's Mexico third one was I don't even remember was Africa fifth one was Brazil all I heard was Brazil I said I will commit two months to all of these countries I already have my money saved when I get to Brazil I'm gonna live there I'm not just going to start the home I'm gonna live in the home and so that's what my plan was so we went with two months we had this strategy prevent rescue heal and it's still our strategy to today we

were going to prevent we were going to get to the children before the bad guys get to them where the pools of traffickers will pray on these children will get these children we'll get them first before the bad guys do two we were going to rescue and three we were going to heal they were going to be ours forever yes see and so so that was our plan so we started our first prevention home I'm only supposed to be there two months I'm not the director of it but the first face I saw she she's

here in this audience right now in this room she's sitting in the chair behind me she was 14 years old and she came up to me and she said I don't have a mom and you don't have a daughter and so from this day forward you're my mom and I'm your daughter and she's been my daughter ever since until this day and I couldn't leave her and I couldn't leave the other 51 kids so I was 24 years old I had only been a Christian for about four years so I became Mama to 52 kids

at 24 years old and so two months turned into six months and six months uh they called and asked if I could be the director of the home and so I said yes and so then they asked six months turned into a year and a half and they said Lana we we do church planning in Bible schools we don't do children's homes we're going to close the home they're too expensive children are too expensive taking money from our other Ministry we know another missionary we're GNA give the home to that time I only had enough

for I lived with the children I only had enough for my own that's all I had enough I slept with the children I lived with the children I was only at this point 25 and a half so they never thought that I'd want to take over the homes and I said I can't give the these are my children I can't give them to anybody else you'll destroy their life and my life too I said I said will you pray about giving me them giving me the home and uh and so they said how are you

gonna pay for it I said I don't know but but all the missionaries that were there they said Lana we'll put all of our money together and we'll help you and so at 25 and a half I Not only was mama went to 52 kids but I became the owner of an international organization and so but every time it was just giving God my yes life impact yeah this is life impact yes yes that's how it started so that's how we started life anytime because ultimately it's his plan yeah yeah and I say it like

that you know I say I I believe that we got to so I was been in Thailand now I mean that was when I since I was 19 I'm now 47 and remember I thought I was going to Brazil so I I would every year I'd say God is a time for Brazil yet is it time yet and I would hear no not yet no not yet and so it was kind of like um I laid down my Isaac on the alter you know I I I laid down um I laid down Brazil and I

said Okay God maybe you just use Brazil to get me to work with exploited children internationally I'm going to put it on the shelf and when you want to take it off then you take that book off the shelf yes because it it it's even just like food if you take it out of the oven too fast it's not ready and it's you know I always say this prep preparation time is never wasted time because God's preparing you for what's already prepared for you and I say it like this I was faithful with what was

in front of me right now I God put Thailand and Burma in my handma is a country right next to Thailand so we have those I had those two countries that were in front of me right then and I say like this be faithful with what God is asking you to do right now be faithful with what he put in your hands and then he'll give you what's in your heart he'll give you what's your heart faithful with what he puts in your hand that's what I'm going to preach at the Bible school tonight delight

yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart I believe that that's why we're in Brazil today because I was faithful with the win it it wouldn't have been time and I was being prepared for what was already prepared for me and and Brazil you guys are crazy and I think if I would have you know I work with uh traffickers and I work with uh you know different I we rescue children so I think if I would have started in Brazil first I would have gotten killed because I was

crazy I would have just ran in there and done something you know stupid but God Was preparing me for what was already prepared for me we're in such a rush in this God Journey but we don't understand even David he said I killed the lion I killed the bear and then now who's this uncircumcised Philistine I've been prepared for this fight we need to be prepar the giant we need to go through those things we need to walk through that so the win is just as important as the what yes and we need to recognize

that yes so good yeah so when I um our first rescue so we started with a prevention home and then um until it was time to rescue so our first rescue home uh was from a rescue an eight-year-old girl that was sold for $24 so Thailand has one of the biggest red light districts in the world it's called the armpit of the world yeah the armpit of the world sorry if it's not polite and um and it goes from you could apologize for being that's what they call it because of the evils that happened there

this is why we have to not be afraid to talk about it because we have to expose the darkness and bring it to the light we need to take the mask off and punch it in the face you know and and so uh so the border that I'm at there's 60 women and children traffic daily from my border so what happens is Thailand borders Cambodia and Myanmar and uh it's the gate Thailand is the Gateway for Southeast Asia remember the scripture God gave me the children will not be ashamed but they will subdue and conquer

the their Enemy at the Gate at the gates and so that's why you know with what's happening to the children on these borders so they're traffic from these other countries the poorer country and then they're sold down to the red light yes and or slave labor babies go on our border they sell babies as well for $18 M and Mama will sell the babies even in their womb right now we just rescued even one that was auctioned even in their womb We rescued twin girls that were sold for $300 because they were good luck you

and so these this is what's happening children are a commodity in Thailand so my first rescue um I we're on a Dusty Border Town lots of begging children and uh and all of a sudden an eight-year-old girl came up begging to me and that day I was supposed to go into the brothel and see a uh to see you know children that were in the brothel but my contact they wouldn't answer my call so I said okay then let's go to lunch and so we were everything was outdoor at that time like outdoor and it

was very poor very hot like area and so this eight-year-old girl comes up begging and she says uh like 10 bot 10 bot it's coin and I said I won't give you money but I'll buy you food and she said come with me and the Holy Spirit said to me go with her and uh and so I said okay so I put her in the back of my truck and she called all her friends all her street kid friends and they all got in the back of my truck and they're all waving at all their

friends it was like a street kid parade so fun but we pulled up into this slum I mean just the the poorest of the poor area you could even imagine blown out walls animal sleeping where the people sleep like that so we pull up to this like squatter abandoned house uh blown out walls rice sacks hanging for the wall she said uh and there's like it was two stories but there was a hole right in the middle of the floor okay two stores [Applause] two sorry and so and there was a hole right in the

middle and actually a little kid fell through not it was just this dangerous area even the police wouldn't go there at night they called it the Muslim slum and so we went up there and I sat down and the little girl sat on my lap and she said and Tai teacher don't let me take them don't let them take me teacher don't let them take me and all of a sudden her mom comes and she said she's going down to Bangkok and she's going down in four hours and I said no I'm sorry three hours

because she's going out down to Bangkok at 4 p.m. and I said please no please why she said no money she's going to go sell flowers and I said you know she's not going to sell flowers you know it's dangerous she's 8 years old I said oh no she has a 10-year-old sister there already no money so then I said uh you know what if I put your the family in school what if I put the children in school what if I help with rice will you not sell her I tried to negotiate so that

she won't sell her but what I didn't know this family is a generation of prostitution and trafficking the grandma sold the mom the mom sold the aunt and the aunt sold all the nieces and nephews in the end when after the rescues we had eight of the family me eight of the children so so so then we're negotiating and I'm saying please don't sell her finally I just knew in my heart that she wasn't going to agree and so I said what if and she said I already accepted the money from the traffickers and they'll

kill me if they come and I don't have and she I don't exchange her and I said what if I pay back the traffickers and she said I'm I did that and I have interest debt now so if you pay back that in the interest debt you take her now because she was a gambler so she even more so the little girl was actually only sold for $18 and the debt was $6 so the the total was $24 an eight-year-old girl and she said you need to go now because the traffickers are coming kill all

of us and so I put the girl on my Tru I didn't know anything about her know her name and I drive out windows were tinted and as we're driving out the traff were pulling up and the little said those are the ones I was going to Bangkok with those are the ones that we and I and uh and so anyways we drive out we got this little girl just in time I knew nothing about this girl we drove by a World Vision compassion one of those and she said uh I used to go to

school there and so I pulled over and I came in I I went in do any of you guys know this girl and they said how did you get her we knew she was going to be sold I said if you knew she was going to be sold why didn't you do anything and they said there's nothing we can do she they said there's no homes here on the border nowhere to send these children and everyone's in on it the police the border control everyone's in on it there's nothing you can do that same voice

said in my heart you do it you do something and I said what if I open the home and they said if you open a home we have 12 more children just like her that we can get you next week and I said get me those children I'm G to open a home and again another Supernatural story of how we got that home but but basically one rescued eight-year-old girl for $24 now has turned into a 100 children in four properties if you count all the properties about 180 18 12 children 180 children yes 180

children in around four properties from that one child and that's part of what the Lord said to us you take one life change a life change the world one life it takes one life that life then changes the 10 around them and it's a ripple effect effect and then it like ripples like you the rock hits the water and it ripples change one life you don't have to focus on the masses you don't have to focus look for the one look up and look out start with the one it starts with one just do something

you don't have to do everything you don't have to do something Grand do something when Moses said when he said you know the problem is so big you know look at all these slaves how am I going to do this I can't do this I'm too old I can't I can't speak all these reasons why he couldn't free the slaves God said to Moses what is in your hand what is in your hand what can you do don't tell me what you can't do I'll take care of that God says what can you do what

is in your hand start with what is in your hands and Moses led a whole generation to freedom because of what was in his hand David didn't look at how big that giant was he looked at how big his God was God David knew how big his God was and he ran at that giant with three rocks and a and a slingshot so what is in your hand you have enough that's in your hand God Supernaturals on our natural and every giant goes down so we really believe we're not just an institution we're not just

we believe in he just like Jesus healed me he healed my heart he healed my mind he healed my body this is what we teach the children when they come in we we are not your rescuer Jesus is the resal Jesus is the Healer and so that's part of it so healing in their hearts their bodies their minds because they've been through a lot of trauma a lot of exploitation so they need a lot of healing but we also believe that one part of this healing is in the Family Revival is in the family and

these kids don't know what it's like to have a mother that doesn't sell them or a father that doesn't sexually abuse them so then they continue the cycle of dysfunction and EXP and so they don't know how to trust they don't know anything healthy so God gave me a strategy family style safe homes so we we put them in a home they have a father and he's usually a pastor a preacher like he's been to Bible school he's like he's you know uh he's just a a good guy there get a mother and then they

have their they bring their own kids in there too and then they bring in the other children and everyone calls it the life Impact Family imp four to 10 children in each home we have two properties the promised land we just built our 18th family style safe home on the promised land they worship in the morning they worship at the night and it's the only family they've ever known they get the prayer the word of God they just get transformed in that family and they're treated like a real family and that's where a lot of

healing comes in their heart they never seen a real father and they've never seen a real mother and how can you be that if you've never seen it you know and so we really stress healing in the homes but at the same time it's monitored like we you know it we we watch it very much and we're constantly ministering to our staff and training our staff and making sure that our staff have enough love to overflow to the children so when we came to Brazil it blew it blew me away and it was different from

Thailand we went from the top to the bottom and some and every story got worse than the other and actually my daughter that's here from Thailand she said at least in Thailand it's hidden but here in Brazil it's out in the open and we saw from one city to another a lot of exploitation of children from Fort ala to Salvador to everywhere we went to hii S is the capital for child exploitation we saw and heard stories of children instead of being forced into uh prostitution children freely selling their bodies for rice and beans and

some of the girls even trafficking themselves in the uh trucks in the the trucks up to the beaches so they can get more money when we uh I met with somebody that used to work for compassion for nine years he was very high up and he said Lana my heart's broken he said the final the final story for me is when there was a mom and she was in in the with her 11-year-old daughter and the stepdad was uh raping the mom and the daughter and the mom was holding his hand saying mom make him

stop make him stop and she wouldn't make him stop because she was scared to lose the boyfriend and lose the money and that was the last story that just broke broke his heart we were in a flla about an hour and a half outside of Rio and I um we met a 12-year-old girl she was dressed in a bra and very short shorts and they said she's been um selling her body for drugs and for different things since she was 10 years old and now she's 12 her mom became a Christian goes to church but

she can't make her daughter stop and and so we went and I met this little girl and she was just a little girl and I remember going back and talking to everybody and they're telling me her story and I just start crying and my interpreter telling me very matter of fact very simple you know just telling me very direct I I can't hear it anymore it's breaking my heart and I told him I said I can did I hear this story right that that this little girl she's been selling her body for rice and beans

and now you can't make her stop and and the mom's not forcing her she's freely doing it and and he said yeah you heard right and I said can I ask you a question I said then why aren't you crying why isn't anyone in this room crying and looked down in the ground he thought for a second and he looked up he said because it's normal here Lana it's normal here in Brazil this is our reality and I told not on my watch it's time for a new reality it's time for a new reality for

the children of Brazil not anymore and we started a a we started a movement my my child my fight my Brazil these are our children these are your children this is your fight and this is your country you don't need somebody to come out from the outside we need to raise up rise and fight for the children and the the innocence and the purity of these children in Brazil and so we started the first place Rio in city of God and uh we have a h we we got a crack house and we turned it

into like a children's Dream Center prevention center and then uh we went we also at the same time started in and there we saw the same the same reality of children being hungry and selling their body for food so we got a flipflop factory we turned it into a children's prevention center and then we went to the Amazon and we found out little 5-year-old girls would would do things for a cupcake and there there was there's nowhere to send these children all of the homes are are closing or full in manous so the interior of

the Amazon some of the children are sold into those boats and do different things on those boats they you can hear the cries of the children on the Waters of the Amazon and so we start we're starting and our doors will open any day the first safe home in the interior yes so we have go on our social media go on our website get involved um contact us so I put the the link in the description please uh we have ways we have ways to give in Brazil ways to join in the fight I talk

about again using what is in your hands what is your three rocks and what is your slingshot it could be Financial it could be influence it could be some kind of relationship you have but God wants to use what's in your hands and in this fight we need as much as we we need as much help as possible because Brazil is just as the numbers it Tha I thought Thailand was number one in the world but we we know now Brazil is right up there with Thailand so it's a fight that we need as many

hands on the table as we need as many people to join us and say I will join you in this fight and it'll be a new Brazil it'll be a new day for the children of Brazil in our generation In Our Lifetime we are going to stop the exploitation of children in Brazil and the children of Brazil are going to have a new reality until I die and I need other I need Brazil to join in the fight with us if I'm a me Americana to do this how much more I know Brazilians they love

their country and they love their children and so we need as many people as possible to Joy yes I'd be honored to please okay okay right now yes let's do it father I thank you I thank you for this beautiful nation and for these beautiful people father I pray that you break our hearts for what breaks your heart as the cries of the children of Brazil have reached to heaven have reached to your heart I pray you open our ears to hear what you hear you open our eyes to see what you see you break

our hearts again for the things that break your heart God you are still speaking you are still calling you're still giving that Macedonian call you're still saying save me reach me rescue me feed me help me father I pray right now that that cry goes all out o all over these sound waves and right now you're shaking us you're waking up the sleeping giant you're moving us to action you're moving us to action you're saying what is in your hand what is in your hands showing us what's in our hands and just like David we're

rising up to the occasion and we're running after the giant we're not running away from it anymore we're not closing our eyes anymore we are turning our faces anymore when that giant roared people got scared people stepped back thought it was too big and they thought it wasn't their problem but one little boy one young boy he rose to the occasion he said isn't there a cause isn't there a cause and there's still a cause today the cause is ringing out right now the children of Brazil's faces are going out right now and I pray

for generations of David to rise up and to take down the giant of exploitation right here in Brazil right now I pray for the Esters that will go forward I might die to myself I might die to my life but I will go before and I save this generation so the call is going out right now and people are raising to the occasion so Lord I Thank you right now all over this place that we look up that we look up that we look our eyes up and we look out see the one in front

of us and we see the world all around us our spiritual Eyes Are Open they look up and they look out and the penny drops today for the our part in the plan and the purpose of God on the Earth in Jesus name amen amen amen thank you thank you thank you [Applause] so for a [Music]