Still Walking
It’s been almost five years. We’ve walked these tracks and visited the rooms that trap hundreds of women so many times we can’t even begin to count. We’ve learned so much and changed so much. We’ve discovered depths of love we didn’t know we were capable of. We’ve lost dear friends to murder and have […]
Ready to Roll
Destination El Trebol, Terminal, Cerrito, Chimal, Zona 7, Villa Nueva, or dozens and dozens of other sites (no exaggeration!) around Guatemala City where many thousands of prostitutes are being exploited every day. We are so excited to finally roll out our new mobile ministry centre!! Since the day some very kind missionary friends donated their […]
Pig Skin and Possibility
It seemed a little conspicuous, even menacing. The ruby-coloured vehicle with excess chrome, tinted windows and underbody lights seemed somewhat out of place for a small town like Sanarate. As it circled the central park and crawled by us for a second time, the pimped-out pickup was hard to ignore. But only once we stepped […]
A LITTLE SPARK
Her family called her Chispita (little spark), but to us she was Yocelin. The first time we met her, she sat huddled over a chair, her tongue pointed in concentration as she frantically coloured a sheet of paper. What she produced with that fierce effort was heartbreaking – a toddler scrawl without definition or plan. […]
The T Word
“The women you work with…are any of them trafficked?” We get asked this question a lot. Way too often. I just don’t like the T word. The issue of human trafficking is horrifying, and all of a sudden, it’s getting a lot of media attention. Imagine a trade in human lives, sold for exploitation. It’s […]
Would You Could You?
We just did a run of “20 DAYS OF WAYS TO SUPPORT TAMAR’S HOPE” over in our closed Tamar’s Hope Facebook group. It was a series of posts of practical suggestions for our friends and partners who would like to be more involved with this ministry, even beyond making donations. Here’s the skinny version for […]
Speechless
Just over a year ago C. decided that she just couldn’t stand to be on La Linea for another moment. On a Saturday afternoon at the end of January, she walked away from 16 years of prostitution without even bothering to unlock the door of her little room. It was the start of an amazing […]
Broken Silence
Hi! How are you? It’s been a while, right? You know when people post vague, cryptic messages on FB – the kind that make you think all kinds of drama is going on…they can’t say anything, but they want to make sure you know something serious is going down? Yeah, those posts. I’m not a […]
Losing Sulay
“Darling. Someone just killed Sulay!!!” It was 4.30pm last Thursday – and I was happily strolling through the luxury of a bookstore in Calgary. And even now, I can’t think about it without crying. How is it, do you think, that it can be so easy to end a life; to blot out all of […]
Bruised, Broken and Breathing
We called her Lorena. It’s not her name, of course, but for the majority of the world’s sexually exploited women, a fake name is a first line of defense – separating their true selves from the lie of the life they are forced to live. In these recent blogs I’ve used her first initial as […]
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