Dear Mom Mary,
Greetings in Jesus name!

I thank you for your precious letters and prayers. I feel so blessed. It is a great honor for me to have such a wonderful, awesome mother I see in you and a father in Papa Bill.

From 22nd May, we have again started work on a new rescue mission. This time in *****. As I already told you earlier, we had been setting up a base in ***** for 9 months now. We have come to know that ***** is a big transit point for trafficking of children. It is much more than we thought. Over 15,000 children are trafficked every year through that place. The strategy is being planned to rescue *** children and to find a home for them in *****. Yesterday I saw a 15 room building in ***** for this.

The children we are targetting are the ones that are undergoing right horrible torture and abuse in a red light district. I cannot right now give all the operational details but will in the coming days.

The new children are all doing fine. All have come to know Jesus as their personal Savior and the Lord of their lives. They are all ready to be baptised. They are growing in the Lord. We spent a lot of time with them. All have been healed of many of their emotional scars in their lives and are now living in the fullness of the kingdom of God. God is at work, restoring life and rebuilding hope. Instead of being sexually exploited day after day, they are living in a safe environment where they can learn and grow out of harms way. Instead of living in an unsafe place where they are unsure of what danger awaits them, they can sleep well knowing that they are safe and well cared for. Instead of living in constant fear, they are learning that there is a God who loves them in whom they can put their trust.

The challenge that I am facing is right now enormous. 611 children in total now. The needs are enormous. Please pray for the needs. I know that you do always.

more coming…

I love you and papa bill so very much,

Pastor Benjamin

“Again, I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.” Ecclesiastes 4:1

“Is not this the fast that I choose; to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?” Isaiah 58:6

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong” – Abraham Lincoln

Update_March2010

These precious children have been set free from the torturous life they were forced into through human trafficking, their hearts now receiving the healing only the love of Jesus can bring.

At the time of her capture, Katju was an 11 year old orphan who was living with her with her uncle and his family. She was a poor, illiterate young child who had never been to school. But she had a pretty face, which was very valuable to her uncle and relatives who earned the equivalent to $200 when she was sold. A group of five people bought Katju from her uncle, who lied to her and told her she would go to a big city to study and become a great woman. The opposite was true. Katju’s uncle had sold her into slavery.

This innocent little girl was taken by the traffickers to an unknown location. On the way, she was “seasoned,” a term which is used for the acute physical and psychological violence through which innocent children are initiated into prostitution. Every day hundreds of thousands of people are willing to pay to enjoy the violence of this initiation.

Seasoning means turning an innocent child or a girl into a willing prostitute. In this process, the child is often brutally beaten, denied food, raped and gang raped. At the end of the process, the innocent, bewildered, horrified reluctant child is forced to accept sex work as her profession. The child is made compliant. The will to resist is broken.

Katju says, “After traveling for a day we reached some place in a jungle. I was put in a room with a chain around my ankle. A lady liked to torture me. She was very cruel. I could go out of the room only to go to the toilet. One of the guards would undo the chain and keep watch over me. The lady came the next day with some of her other people. They gave me medicines. They did bad things to me. I fought with my hands and feet but they beat me up brutally and raped me. I lost consciousness many times. They would show me bad pictures. When I stopped crying, they would give me chocolates and food. When I told them I wanted to go home, they would beat me and did not give me food. This went on like this for many days…my tears had dried out. Then one day the lady whom they all called “madam” said to me, “We will now take you to India. There you have to do good business. If you listen to us, we will send you home soon…”

After seasoning, while they were taking Katju to India, one of our rescue team members was in the same bus. It was not a coincidence. It was God who heard Katju’s cry. God placed our rescue team member, Ashok, right behind the seat where this group was sitting! Ashok found something very suspicious about this group with which the girl was traveling. The small girl was sleeping all the time. She was kept under sedation. And in a matter of hours Ashok’s suspicion was confirmed. Ashok was listening intently to the trafficker’s conversation. While the bus halted midway, he immediately called Redemption’s rescue coordinator from the local phone booth, who in turn alerted their director.

Soon the rescue plan was made. It was decided that the bus would be intercepted at the Indian border. Redemption’s Nepal coordinator Thapa soon made elaborate arrangements with border guards on the Indian side. As the bus neared the Indian barricades, officials stopped it. The lady who was “madam” told the officials that Katju was her daughter, which was a lie. Thapa and Ashok grilled the traffickers, but they had many alibis. Katju was barely able to speak as she was heavily sedated. The traffickers were almost allowed by the border guards to go as one of the traffickers greased the palm of the border forces. Thapa called up the ministry’s office again and he was told that the girl must be saved at any cost. Redemption soon managed to get to talk to people in influence in that area. Thapa and Ashok first pleaded with the border guards. When they did not relent, Thapa told them they would face dire consequences.

Minutes before the border guards would have let go of the traffickers and Katju, a wireless message came from a senior officer to the border outpost to not let the traffickers go until they were fully investigated. The traffickers were locked up at the border outpost while Redemption’s team waited for Katju to come to full consciousness. When Katju came out of her semi-conscious state, she laid bare the whole story. She told everyone the woman was not her mother, and that they had treated her cruelly. The traffickers were apprehended. Katju now had nowhere to go as she could not return back to her evil relatives. Katju was soon whisked away to the safety of Redemption’s children’s home.

Katju is a precious happy girl today. She has lived in the children’s home run by the ministry since she was rescued. Over the years, God healed the deep wounds that she had. She loves reading cartoons. She loves small children, and always cuts clippings of children from newspapers and pastes them in her scrapbook. She loves Jesus very much. Today she says, “What I want is Jesus. He is my everything, my Papa and mummy.” She is in the eighth grade, and is very good at science and mathematics. When asked what she would one day like to do, she said, “Help children and tell them about Jesus.”

She has 4 brothers and two sisters. The way of life in her village is very hard, and there was much fighting in that region between the Maoist (communist army) and the government at that time. The whole country was in a state of anarchy. Even today, the country is facing instability. We do not know much about her brothers and sisters, but Katju’s prayer for them everyday is that God would save them too.

Tens of thousands of children like Katju are sold every year into slavery from Nepal. God’s heart breaks for these children. God is looking for men and women who will help Him to save them, who will be His hands and feet. There is a wide window of opportunity that God has put before His people to get involved in many ways to see the captives set free!

I will share about the great and wonderful things that the Lord did in the last two
weeks. It is awesome! A great adventure with King of Kings on the frontlines.
The brief: We had information from a person who came to one of our rescue team
members in *****. The person named ***** shared with our missionary ***** about
how his two daughters (he calls them daughters although he is their uncle) were sold by a
couple who had come to their village some years back.

The whole news from the frontlines in detail:

***** is a poor farmer of a small village of ***** in ***** (southeast Asia). His family
consists of his wife and six children. Four girls and two boys. Two of the girls are
children of his brother who died many years ago. Their names are ***** and *****.
They became like his own daughters after their father died. He had a small area where
he did terrace farming in the mountains. He is illiterate and grindingly poor and was
barely able to make ends meet for his family. ***** met an unknown couple on the street
while he and his eldest daughter were buying seeds for his farm in *****. The couple
approached him and started a conversation with him in that shop. They enquired about
each other’s villages. The couple told him that they come from a village in the northern
side of ***** and they talked about many other things. The next day, ***** and his
daughter ***** were to leave for their village. The couple said to them, they would love
to see his village. ***** welcomed them. This couple then accompanied ***** to his
house. While they stayed in his house, they also met ***** other children. The couple
went back but came again the next month. The couple told ***** that they were very
sad to see his poor situation and they wanted to help. They said they could help get a
lucrative job for his daughters in a garment factory in *****. They offered training and
jobs for his two daughters, ***** and ***** aged 11 and 12.

***** thought about it. He found the couple very warm and caring and they also seemed
very rich. He and his wife agreed and they let their two daughters to go with them.
The couple also gave an address in ***** where his daughters would be working. This
incident took place in mid-year of 2005.

That was the last that he saw his daughters. The two children were taken by this couple
who called themselves as ***** and *****. After no news from his daughter for over
six months, ***** went to ***** in search of his daughters. The address the couple gave
about the factory in ***** turned out to be fake. There was no such address or factory.
***** was stunned. He came back home and gave the shocking news to his wife. And
for the next five years he did have any clue as to where his daughters are and as to where
they had disappeared. ***** feared the worse for them. He had now given up any hope of
finding them. He was a shattered man.

But then one day something dramatic happened. He received a short letter from his
younger daughter three months back who said that she is fine and gave him a phone
number to call on a certain day. ***** traveled fifteen miles to the nearest public call
office to call his daughter. And as he spoke with his daughter, all his fears came true.
***** told him “Papa, the couple duped us and sold us for 50,000 rupees, (approximately
$1050) to a man who runs a large brothel. We were raped and beaten and have been held
captive inside a small room for the last five years…20 days back they allowed us for the
first time to go out and ordered us to sleep with customers in hotels. But they always
keep watch over us. I was able to write that letter to you as one of the customer promised
me to dispatch the letter. I told him that I am writing this letter to my boyfriend in my
village. That customer had called me again today and he had said that he will allow me
to take one call on this day on his mobile number. You are calling me on that number. I
am in the bathroom of a hotel right now. This man allowed me to talk on his phone for 10
minutes. He is in the room thinking that I am talking to my boyfriend. Papa save me. My
life is finished. Help me. I might commit suicide soon. These people are very brutal and
are a big gang. Hundreds of girls have been duped and are working for them. Papa, I do
not have a particular address but I can give the name of the area where I am….it is a big
area…if you come, please do not come alone. You must come with army people…they are
very dangerous…please take me out of this hell…”

After the call, ***** immediately set off for *****. The area that his daughter had given
him was quite large spread over 5 square kilometers with thousands of people living in it.
It was like looking for a pin in a hair stack. He searched for his daughter for two months
in ***** but could not find her. His daughter also had changed much in appearance. He
tried taking the help of police but they refused to help him. The police just shooed him
way. They said to him, “here thousands of girls are missing from Calcutta itself and you
are coming from Nepal to find your daughter. You are stupid. She might now be a whore.
Get out!”

***** came back to ***** after spending all the money he had borrowed from his
brother-in-law. He thought of many things. He asked his goddesses to help his daughters.
His wife on hearing about the fate of her children told him that it is good that the
daughters have not been located. She said, “Now they will be a stigma for us. What will
villagers say? We cannot show our face to anyone. We do not need them now. Let them
die. That is their fate.”

Last month, missionary ***** had passed through ***** village and was sharing about
Jesus to some villagers at a shanty tea-stall. ***** was working as a helper at that tea-
stall. He had sold his land to clear the debt and now was washing dishes at this tea
stall. He heard ***** speak about Jesus. ***** told the five people hearing him, “Jesus
answers prayer. Jesus is the solution to all your problems. He loves you and wants to
come into your heart€¦if you will you open your heart for him€¦if you will accept him, I
can help you pray the prayer with you to receive Him in your life€¦” All the five people
at that tea staff received Jesus into their lives with a simple prayer. After that *****
invited them to come to his place which is around 8 miles away. They parted with a
handshake and a smile.

13 days later, two of the five men landed up at ***** house. They came all the way walking. They two were ***** and then tea stall owner. They wanted to know more about Jesus. ***** opened his house to them, they stayed there for two days. By the third day, ***** faith in Jesus grew. He also came to trust ***** as a friend. Early in the morning he got up and woke up ***** and they both took a walk in the woods. And ***** shared the pain in his heart about his daughters. He told ***** the whole story.

On October 4, missionary ***** called me and shared this with me. We discussed in
length about this a day later. I said a flat “no”. It was impossible. We were facing a
financial crisis. On 6th October, The missionary again called me and I again said no.
We had no place neither the finances. And then your help came. With that we could pay
all major bills of lat month. But on 8th October night, I thought about those girls. I was
thinking many things. I thought about what these girls were going through, their despair
and hopelessness. I was thinking about God€™s heart for these children. How profusely He
loves these children. I started again to think what can I do about it. But as I looked my
situation and the situation of the ministry, I saw that I was helpless at this point of time.
There was nothing that I could do but pray. I had no place to accommodate them, rehab
staff has already warned me not to take in any more. And we had no financial means to
do anything. But still I prayed and did not give up hope. I told the Lord, “Father, just as
You led me, the children and the missionaries this month, the last month, the last year,
the year before, lead those two girls to freedom. Once again, summon your power, Lord. I
do not have anything Lord, but if you will help me and give me this privilege, I am ready
to do that.”

You know what, Pastor Mary, I was checking all my accounts the next day. And there
I found that that in an account that I have never checked since 2001, there was $1200.
It was my retirement benefits that the government had given me years back. I thought
I had used all that up. But there it was. I went crazy about that. It was nothing but God.

So I started planning that same day, October the 9th. But the odds were pitted against us.
We did not know exactly where ***** and ***** were. We only had a location. Their
father had failed to locate them. Soon a crack team of seven elite officers were made up
from ***** itself. We were now working at the Federal level, using channels of some of
the highest echelons of the government. I and ***** became the ninth and tenth member
of that team.

On October 14th, we zeroed in on the location. The next day we were totally engaged in
the battle. But we had to take the help of local law authoritiesI thought it was not needed.
And my cover blew off that night as one of the local officers had alerted the gangs that
something was happening. As I was loitering around in that location at around 8 p.m., I
was waylaid at a corner by five men. They abused and bashed me up with iron rods and
hockey sticks. I got beaten for about 10 minutes. But let me tell you, every blow seemed
like a frail man hitting me softly. The blow had no energy in it. I felt like a sponge taking
in each blow, no pain was there. I also felt very hot, it seemed that all the blood was
rushing to my head. But there was absolutely no pain.

But through a device I had I alerted ***** right when I got the first blow. The crack
team landed up at the spot where I was in about 10 minutes, right at the time when a man
took out a knife to stab me. I heard a shout, “hands up, police.” There was ***** with pistol drawn , ***** and many others. If they would have been late even half a second, that knife would have been in my body. I slumped to the ground shivering in shock at all what had happened so suddenly and so fast. It seemed like a dream. But there was no fear, nor any pain but I was very shocked as if a grenade had just near me. I checked my body. It was swollen at many places. I was taken away straight to a hospital. (The doctors took tests, x-rays and many other checks. There were absolutely no internal injuries and I walked out of the hospital on my legs the next day. It€™s incredible. God€™s protection is always incredible. He works in ways that we cannot see or comprehend. NASA is making great noises about the moon that they found water. God made millions of stars and huge galaxies and to see just a part of it man needs Hubble telescope to see them from the
space).

Going back to the chain of events€¦Now, the operation had to go swift and fast. After
I left in the ambulance for the hospital with *****, within 20 minutes, all three places
were raided. We rescued 7 in all including *****, ***** and five others. We had
only gone in for ***** and *****, but we saw 5 other under aged children. These
five kids were kidnapped last year. Four of them are being restored back to their
parents. The whole area is in a state of shock. There is now a fear of law in that region.

***** had a wonderful reunion with his daughters. ***** asked me to take ***** and
***** with me to the rescue home as he feared for their life and he was concerned about
the social stigma that he would have to face if he takes the children with him right now.
We discussed in length about it.

So after all this, ***** and ***** was rescued. They are big girls. One is 17, the other
19. One more girl came back with me and *****. That girl is 14 and she has nowhere to
go.

I was back on October 19th. *****, ***** and ***** are with us now at one of the
homes. But I have kept them separately with a mature leader. They have accepted
Jesus. But they have a long way to go. They are being sent to our rehab facility maybe
tomorrow. We got them checked for diseases today. Awaiting reports of those tests. Also
we are talking to them a lot, to get to know more. We are still in the initial stages. We
will get a lot of information and inputs for future misions. Pray that a great work of the
Lord will be done in their lives.

Blessings and love,
In Him, Your son,
Benjamin

Dear Pastor Mary,

I thank you for the love you have Pastor Bill have showered on me and all the ministry
here. God is doing greater and greater things. He is a big God. Our focus is only on Him.
The joy that we could rescue children is so abundant. When I look at the faces, many a
time, I cry in my heart, just wondering how such horrific things could happened to such
wonderful children. It is dreadful to think of it. Before 1995, I never thought such slavery
and exploitation exists in this world. I thought it might be some one odd cases but it was

not so. It is rampant. Millions are enslaved.

It’s pure havoc that these children have gone through. As I was talking with them today,
they are happy but so confused. Their souls and minds have been hammered by the devil.
Thousands of demonic things have been passed on to them by the people who slept with
this. The total can come only through a deep understanding that we must have in dealing
with especially older girls and who have been exploited for years. It’s tough but with the
help of the Holy Spirit, it becomes easy but takes time.

You will be like a shield to all of us here. Operational anonynimity and protection of
children will be maintained.

Blessings and love, your son,
Benjamin