The Reason Behind the Fight
I'm sure by now you have seen my million posts about The Cupcake Girls and how I am raising money for their largest fundraiser for the third year in a row. Maybe you're tired of seeing my posts, maybe you don't read them, maybe you have been a donor, or maybe just maybe you are curious. Why do I spend so much time and energy setting a high goal? Why do I send out so many individual Facebook and text messages? To me the answer is simple. I cannot just walk away from the things I know. In 2010, I had a friend reach out to me and share with me the realities about sex trafficking and the sex industry. In the beginning I didn't want to advocate or be a world changer. I thought it was a an awkward topic and it made me uncomfortable. The more I tried to get away from it the more God brought it into my life and opportunities to advocate and serve around it.
I have been living in Las Vegas for just over three years now. Did you know that there are over 100,000 sex workers within Las Vegas alone? Las Vegas is also number one for sex trafficking within the United States. One of our volunteers wrote the following message, and she said I could share it with you as well. I resonate and stand firm with her words so much. "This matters. How can this be my city, and I'm not on the front lines? How can I feel so much pain about the sex trafficking industry in Cambodia and Thailand, and not put up a fight in my city, to care for the people who are victimized here? I feel so strongly about this as a Jesus follower, as a woman, as a mother, as a human, I'm reaching out to you to invest in this organization with us. I will be your witness. I will be your hands and feet. But we need your financial support and your prayers, thoughts of light and love and anything else you want to offer. If you wanted to make a donation. This is the week to do it."
So here in the final week of fundraising I will continue to ask and fight for those in my city. I will fight for the underage girl telling us she's being sex trafficked by her grandfather. I will fight for the woman we took to chemo appointments and sat in surgery with as she fought cancer for the 3rd time and had no one else to support her. I will fight for the girl who was left on the door of a hospital after she was shot up with heroin and overdosed yet called us homeless and scared after they revived her 3 times. I will fight for the woman who was dancing in a strip club at 8 months pregnant because she had no other way to support her baby boy. I will fight for the fact that my city is known to be #1 for sex trafficking yet there is VERY little aftercare available for survivors. I will continue to fight. Will you fight with me?
I have been living in Las Vegas for just over three years now. Did you know that there are over 100,000 sex workers within Las Vegas alone? Las Vegas is also number one for sex trafficking within the United States. One of our volunteers wrote the following message, and she said I could share it with you as well. I resonate and stand firm with her words so much. "This matters. How can this be my city, and I'm not on the front lines? How can I feel so much pain about the sex trafficking industry in Cambodia and Thailand, and not put up a fight in my city, to care for the people who are victimized here? I feel so strongly about this as a Jesus follower, as a woman, as a mother, as a human, I'm reaching out to you to invest in this organization with us. I will be your witness. I will be your hands and feet. But we need your financial support and your prayers, thoughts of light and love and anything else you want to offer. If you wanted to make a donation. This is the week to do it."
So here in the final week of fundraising I will continue to ask and fight for those in my city. I will fight for the underage girl telling us she's being sex trafficked by her grandfather. I will fight for the woman we took to chemo appointments and sat in surgery with as she fought cancer for the 3rd time and had no one else to support her. I will fight for the girl who was left on the door of a hospital after she was shot up with heroin and overdosed yet called us homeless and scared after they revived her 3 times. I will fight for the woman who was dancing in a strip club at 8 months pregnant because she had no other way to support her baby boy. I will fight for the fact that my city is known to be #1 for sex trafficking yet there is VERY little aftercare available for survivors. I will continue to fight. Will you fight with me?
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