One of the outreach opportunities your donations will help support is my 2008 Thailand trip. Two of the projects
I'll be working with are Rahab Ministries and House of Grace.
Rahab Ministries: Rescuing Prostitutes from the streets of Bangkok
International prostitution and trafficking of Asian women and children is increasing. Worldwide, 700,000 to four
million women and one million children are trafficked into the sex industry every year. It is the third largest and
fastest growing criminal industry in the world and one of the most urgent human rights issues today.
Rahab Ministries Thailand is increasingly involved in addressing both the symptoms and the sources of this
epidemic problem in the two most prominent areas of Bangkok prostitution: Patpong and Nana Soi.
Many women working in Patpong and Soi Nana have come from poor families in the rural areas of Thailand and
have little formal education and few employable skills. They come to Bangkok to earn money to support their
families. At first, they do not realize that working in the bars involves prostitution.
Our mission is to share the love of Jesus Christ through friendship; to provide practical help and emotional
support to women and girls working in prostitution; and to provide opportunities for education, vocational
training and alternative employment.
Rahab Ministries’ objectives are met through: bar visitation and friendship evangelism, counseling and teaching,
and serving women in our beauty salon. Our beauty salon is located in the heart of Patpong and serves from
20 to 40 women each night as they get ready for work. This provides a great opportunity for our staff members
to reach the women and offer them an alternative to working in the bars.
Each week Rahab workers also visit women in the bars offering friendship and personal affirmation; seeking to
build caring relationships with the women. Outreach is conducted regularly in Patpong and Nana Soi. Rahab’s
leaders are also seeking to expand outreach to Northeastern Thailand, from which most of the women in the
bars come. Outreach and preventative education in Thai primary and secondary schools has begun in the Issan
villages of Northeastern Thailand.
As relationships are built and women want to leave the bars, Rahab staff offers them the opportunity to be
sponsored to further their education (many of them want to be trained as hairdressers), and can offer
immediate housing, a job working on our income generation project (i.e. Rahab Bazaar), a caring environment
in which they will learn about the love of Christ, and sometimes help with daycare for their children or even
sponsorship for their children's education. Each woman's individual needs are carefully considered as Rahab
seeks to facilitate the first step in helping them gain back their dignity and independence and begin a new life.
House of Grace: Saving Little Girls for Big Destinies!
House of Grace is just one of many Global Servants outreaches. It is located in the mountains of northern
Thailand. House of Grace was founded by Global Servants in 1987 to protect and care for tribal girls that are at
risk of being sold into prostitution in Bangkok.
House of Grace has been called “the finest children’s home in Thailand.” It has grown to be a first rate facility
that houses and tenderly raises Akha girls in a loving Christian atmosphere. House of Grace now owns two
large pieces of property with eight current buildings. One recently renovated building contains classrooms,
computer lab, sewing room, study room and guest bedroom.
Global Servants is also moving forward on building a new dormitory with the capacity to hold up to 60 more
girls. House of Grace now has eight full time staff.
Frequently Asked Questions
“What exactly are you doing at House of Grace?”
In most cases we are doing a preventative work; trying to get the girls to safety at House of Grace before they
are sold into prostitution. We have very few girls that have actually been previously trapped in that lifestyle,
because it is so hard to get them out once they have been taken. Therefore, our main focus is to keep this
horror from becoming a reality for any more little girls.
“How do the girls get to House of Grace?”
It becomes common knowledge in a village that a father or stepfather is going to sell his daughter. Often there
is a kind person in the girl’s life that will try to keep this from happening. Many times a grandmother, aunt, older
sister or a good neighbor will bring a young girl to House of Grace to protect her.
“How many girls do you have?”
We currently have 100 girls ranging in age from 4 to 23. They stay at House of Grace until they can make a
safe living for themselves. We will educate them as far as they can go. We presently have many girls attending
community college, vocational programs, teachers programs and local Universities. They must be self-reliant,
educated, women of God in order to survive.
Tax-deductible donations to support this trip may be sent to:
Donna Partow Ministries
P.O. Box 975
Scottsdale, AZ 85252
Your gifts and prayers are essential to this ministry. Thank you!
Thailand
January 18-28, 2008
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