“I serve victims of human trafficking but walking in their shoes for one hour has changed my understanding as to how they feel,” shared a Global Experience participant.
Greece
Fresh out of university, Carolyn Elizabeth joined OM to work with refugees in Greece during the height of the refugee crisis.
Rosie Hooton (UK) serves in Athens, Greece. She works with women seeking alternative employment so they can escape prostitution. Rosie shares from her life experience what she's learnt about the wonderful ways God works. Even when it's not obvious at the time, He is in control and His plans are always best.
Returning for a second Transform, Galy from Bahamas shared what she learned and how God’s provision made it possible for her to attend.
Enrico realized that a mission trip was not only about evangelism, but also about encouraging brothers and sisters in the faith.
Shannon likens her experience on short-term missions to running in a race, with joys, challenges and lessons learned along the way.
God changed the direction of one young girl’s life in order to bring hope and healing to many women involved in the sex trade in Greece and launch a second-hand bookshop in Athens. God’s dream of establishing a non-profit making company that would provide a healthy working alternative to those women with a background of abuse, exploitation or trafficking in over 700 local brothels, let alone the many uncounted strip-club, bar and street workers, is becoming a reality.
God changed the direction of one young girl’s life in order to bring hope and healing to many women involved in the sex trade in Greece and launch a second-hand bookshop in Athens. God’s dream of establishing a non-profit making company that would provide a healthy working alternative to those women with a background of abuse, exploitation or trafficking in over 700 local brothels, let alone the many uncounted strip-club, bar and street workers, is becoming a reality.
God changed the direction of one young girl’s life in order to bring hope and healing to many women involved in the sex trade in Greece and launch a second-hand bookshop in Athens. God’s dream of establishing a non-profit making company that would provide a healthy working alternative to those women with a background of abuse, exploitation or trafficking in over 700 local brothels, let alone the many uncounted strip-club, bar and street workers, is becoming a reality.