Chab Dai

I (Leanne) spent last Thursday and Friday in a 2-day training with 50 other organizations all working to end sexual exploitation and trafficking. The training was put on by Chab Dai, who 5 years ago created a learning community of organizations to better work together and partner effectively in doing this difficult work. There was staff there from organizations that work in prevention, intervention, and after-care. In the past months I have been able to network with these amazing people to learn more about what the needs are here in Phnom Penh, what is effective, what isn't effective, who we would want to partner with, and what Asian Hope's response will be. It has been a busy couple of months filled with both exciting and difficult conversations and meetings.

We are now looking into what community, district, or area in Phnom Penh we would implement an educationally focused prevention project. Please pray for God's leading in this, as over the next few weeks I will meet with village chiefs, pastors, and other authorities in the community.

At this training we had the opportunity to talk about the biblical framework behind the work that is being done here to end child sex slavery. It is awesome to see how loaded the Bible is on dignity, value, and image in Christ. Here are some of my favorites that we talked about:

• "The LORD your God is with you. He will take great delight in you. He will rejoice over you with singing." -- Zephaniah 3:17


• "Now if we are children, then we are heirs- heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in this sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory." -- Romans 8:17


• "But God demonstrates his love for us in this: While we are still sinners Christ died for us." -- Romans 5:8

Please also pray for a safe and easy flight for Chris' parents. They arrive here on Monday and we can't even put into words how excited we are to show them the city and country we live in.


Chab Dai Group Photo