The Promise: Isaiah 9:2

“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”

The Calling:

NightLight: a ministry in urban Bangkok, which reaches out to women and children working in the bar areas of Nana/Sukhumvit. Located in a neighborhood with a growing sex trade, Nightlight’s vision is to share the Light of the world in both word and deed to those who live in darkness.

The Response and Goals:

To Combat the sexual exploitation of Women and Children (Thai and Foreign) in the Nana/Sukhumvit area.

Through life-on-life ministry, NightLight’s goal is to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of women in prostitution, their children, and those children brought illegally in Thailand to financially support their families by selling items in the bars and often through sexual exploitation. These goals will be met through building relationships with women and children who work in the sex trade industry along the Nana/Sukhumvit area and by providing a center that offers emergency aid, educational and employment opportunity, emergency child-care, language tutoring, literacy training, and biblical teaching and healing for their community.

We will achieve these goals through...

1. Economic/Educational Opportunities: Providing alternatives through job training and education.

2. Lifeskills training: To provide opportunities to train women and children on the risks of working in the sex trade and how to access the help they may need.

3. Public Awareness and Involvement: To educate the public, Thai and foreign (religious and secular), of the physical, psychological, legal and economic consequences of prostitution and trafficking and to encourage their involvement in advocacy and follow-up care of the women and children.

4. Relational Evangelism: To introduce women and children to the love and mercy of Jesus Christ, to disciple them into a strong faith as people who will then impact their communities.

Assistance, Intervention and Rehabilitation

1. Outreach: Bar visits to build relationships of trust, offer alternatives, and be available for necessary intervention.

2. Vocational/Educational Opportunities: Providing employment, job training and educational alternatives.

3. Shelter and Assistance: To provide a safe place for emergency assistance, health care, counseling, child-care and basic necessities.

4. Intervention of Trafficking: To intervene when children are solicited for prostitution and to work with the guardians to protect these children.

5. Staff Training and Development: To provide training for a multi-lingual staff in the areas of administration, research, grant proposal writing, counseling, and trafficking issues and to set up global networks to assist in repatriation.

6. Evangelism: To introduce the women and children to Jesus Christ and to connect them with church families where they can receive discipleship and fellowship.