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The following is an excerpt from the November 2022 Far Reaching Ministries newsletter.
Latin American cartels make a tremendous amount of money through drugs, money laundering and worst of all, child trafficking. Both boys and girls are sold into sexual slavery or forced prostitution. It takes a lot to shock me, but when I heard of this other ‘avenue’ of child trafficking my soul was vexed in a way I cannot begin to explain.
We were introduced to Michael, a pastor with a 4th-degree blackbelt in Krav Maga-style mixed martial arts, serving Christ in Latin America. We call him Michael, after the Archangel, in order to shield his identity and protect our team. For years Michael planted and pastored churches and hosted teams from America who came to share the Gospel.
Michael loved what he did and was content to do it for the rest of his life. While hosting a soccer event a man approached him and offered to sell his two young daughters to him for sex. Michael thought that the offer was a sick joke but soon realized this man was serious. Michael knew he had to act immediately and told the Lord he do whatever it took to save these girls. God enabled him to rescue the girls, get support from the local police, and safely relocate them so they would never again be subjected to such evil.
That experience changed everything for Michael. His eyes were opened to the trafficking of children. Michael serves in a Latin American tourist hotspot, and tourists are wealthy in comparison to the impoverished residents. Sadly an increasing percentage of child predators from around the world go there solely to abuse young children, some paying extra to have sex with girls and boys as young as seven. He began working with the members of the local police who are not on the cartel’s payroll. The cartel sometimes kidnaps children but other children are actually sold to them by their desperate parents. Poverty deceives them into believing that selling one child is better than allowing the whole family to starve.
If we do not bring this out into the light, the suffering of these children will never change. Michael discovered kids who are exploited for their organs which are harvested and sold on the black market. Sadly many organs are not just sold for transplant; evil folklore teaches that eating certain organs will ensure health and vitality.
Wes Bentley
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