Friends, many of you may know IJM’s Senior Vice President of Justice Operations, Sharon Cohn Wu. Below is a letter she has written to each of you, in amazed gratitude for your outpouring of prayers, and providing an initial update on the operation from today. Your prayers continue to sustain this work…
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Team,

I do not use the term lightly.  We asked for your immediate partnership in prayer and you responded.  I read many of the 300+ posted prayers, words of encouragement and Scripture last night as the team was preparing for the operation.  As the Director of the office said simply upon reading them, “I have never seen anything like this.” Let me be presumptuous and ask you for more.

An operation was conducted today (thank you for understanding why it would be imprudent to disclose the location).  Three girls were rescued and two suspects were arrested.  We give thanks to God for the lives of these girls who have been extraordinarily brave in working with our team and government authorities.  We know that there are many other girls connected with this brothel who want to be free, but who were chased by force by the pimps as the police entered the brothel.  This brothel used regular beatings and forcible rape to brutalize the girls.

We need your prayers:  Please pray for the girls, the suspects, our staff, and the government authorities involved.  Pray that other girls might be rescued and that those who have and are brutalizing them might be brought to justice.  Please pray. 

Gratefully,
Sharon