Patricia King and XP Missions are thrilled with what God is doing over in Mozambique through her good friends, Heidi & Rolland Baker and the IRIS team.  People are getting healed, saved, fed & clothed, educated and given life and hope in so many areas. One IRIS project that we sponsor on a monthly basis is the Meize Village, run by Don & Elizabeth Kantel.  So many lives of impoverished children are being impacted and only heaven will fully be able to account for all the lives that have been changed!

One recent activity is the opening of the new Learning Center there – this multi-purpose building has been equipped with computers, and the children of all ages are now learning how to use them. Imagine the delight of a child that has been raised in abject poverty, living in a mud hut without electricity and then now being able to learn how to use a computer!  This will assist in their learning, as well as equip & prepare them for future jobs.

Two new teachers have been hired for the Learning Center children, and this place has also become where they receive their meals and one of the skills they’re also acquiring is to learn to properly use cutlery!

For those of us in the West, we cannot imagine how far these precious children have come from their previous lives.  And it’s all because of the prayers and support of people around the world, people just like YOU!

To learn more about Iris & Meize Village, please visit this page: http://www.irismin.org/mieze-village/home.

Should you wish to contribute to this project through XP Missions, please visit www.xpmissions.com

XP Missions has a full-time worker living in Cambodia, whose heart is filled with passion and compassion for the Cambodian people.  Andrea Aasen is an amazing woman, filled with the joy and love of Jesus, and is building relationship with many of the local people, including some women in the brothels.

The first video below shares a powerful story of how simple acts of kindness and friendship have opened up the door for Jesus’ love to powerfully impact these women that have been hidden in a very dark place:

A POWERFUL BROTHEL TESTIMONY

This next video by Andrea is another powerful testimony of the healing love of God towards a young man, in a TB/HIV clinic, that they had the opportunity to pray for and that was touched and healed.  The love of Jesus is so amazing!

JESUS HEALS

If you’re interested in visiting Cambodia with Andrea and our XP team, visit www.xpmissions.com and check out our next outreach school and other opportunities to sow and serve in Cambodia!

During our recent conference, Women on the Frontlines 2012, Malina Enlund shared about trafficking with the attendees.  It was a powerful time of sharing and we have included the link to her talk below.

Malina has spent the past four years in South East Asia, working among the trafficked women and children, started a shelter for abused children, and has worked with immigration officials and police on instituting changes in their policies in order to better protect trafficked children in Thailand that have come from other countries.

You will catch some of her passion for this tremendous cause by listening to her share stories about the children that have crossed her path in her recent work.  These children have no voice, but Malina has become their voice and is working tirelessly to promote the rescue and restoration of these children.

MALINA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING

As we continue to pray and press in for JUSTICE around the globe, specifically in the area of human trafficking, it’s very encouraging to continuously read of arrests and crackdowns in this area.  One article that encouraged our hearts was about China, reporting that throughout 2011, over 24,000 women & children were freed by the police in various raids and investigations.

Read the details here:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0312/1224313152779.html

So much of the trafficking around the world happens through gangs and rings, and the police are often attempting to get the highest ring-leaders to have the strongest effect.  Often the victims are smuggled into one country from another foreign country, making them even more vulnerable to these ring-leaders, as they don’t have paperwork, passports, and often don’t speak the local language.  Gang leaders often have layers of lawbreakers around them, making their capture even more challenging.

The most challenging of cases to break is when members of a nation’s legal system are also controlled by the trafficking ring – many times, policemen, judges, and lawyers can all be bought for a price in poorer nations, and this creates a system that is very challenging to penetrate.

But men and women of integrity are pressing in, holding their ground and working diligently to bring these criminals to justice.  International Justice Mission (IJM) is a wonderful organization, sponsoring honest workers to bring about justice at the ground level, through social workers & lawyers working in partnership with honest local authorities.  They are a worthy organization bringing justice to many countries – check them out at www.ijm.org

Continue to pray for all layers of justice to come about – for honest police, social workers, lawyers, judges, and governmental law makers, so that all levels of local judicial systems will work together to bring justice to the victims of trafficking!