Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl.
Boy has been to Russia to minister there before they met and together they decide to go back.
Boy and girl move with their two young children to SIBERIA and help plant a church. They buy a teeny tiny apartment and have two more children. They learn Russian, wear lots of warm clothes and fall in love with the men and women they meet in the freezing north. They send their friends in the States pictures of very, very low temperatures on the thermometer.
All of their friends shiver vicariously.
Several years later Boy and Girl decide God is moving them to a different place. A much warmer and happier place. But a place that needs God all the same. Boy and Girl pack up their four children and move to Thailand to plant more churches.
Boy and Girl send their friends in the States photos of all six of them in tank tops with sun-kissed shoulders. We all wonder what this next adventure will have in store for them. Sun, for sure.
They soon discover that one of the greatest needs in Thailand is helping young women become released from poverty and the sex trafficking industry with the hope and promise of Jesus. Boy and Girl can’t help but wonder if this is why God took them to Thailand.
We’ve known our friends Les and Debbie for over fourteen years and have watched them globe-trek with four kids in tow for the last six years. We admire them, we love them and we believe in what they are doing.
Whitney over at Bel Kai Designs helped Debbie create a very special piece of jewelry to help raise awareness and much needed support for Les and Debbie’s ministry in Thailand. The Fear to Freedom necklace is symbolic:
The flower is an orchid. It symbolizes the beauty of Thailand.
The color is orange. That stands for the fight against human slavery.
And the word is “freedom”. It stands for freedom in Christ.
Whitney has graciously offered to donate 40% of each sale to Les and Debbie’s ministry and to offer one to one of my readers too! This necklace is gorgeous and I’m so proud to be able to help give one to one of YOU!
To enter the giveaway simply leave a comment before 9pm Pacific Wednesday night about a freedom you are thankful for.
What freedom are you thankful for?
Les and Debbie’s ministry organization
To BUY a Fear to Freedom necklace click here.
I am thankful for the freedom of being able to love and worship a mighty God. Thankful that He loves me too.
So thankful for the freedom to worship and to educate my children with Christ as the teacher.
I am thankful for the freedom to mess up and know that nothing surprises God. He forgives and can redeem any of my mistakes! I’m thankful He can turn bad situations into good!
I’m thankful for the freedom to fight human trafficking, especially when it happens here in the States.
Thankful I am free to love and forgive when freedom and forgiveness is not given.
Thankful I am free to think and pray and feel even without a form of expression.
Thankful to see so many actually DO realize and appreciate the religious freedom they have here in America…
I am thankful for so many freedoms that this was hard for me (a nice problem to have!) but I am really thankful for the freedom to travel. I have now lived in four countries and been able to visit many more. Without this freedom I would have missed out on meeting new people and cultures, along with seeing and experiencing many wonderful things.
I am thankful for a loving God who sees I am a work in progress daily.
i am thankful, and all too often take for granted, the freedom of living in a country where i can openly live out my faith as a follower of Jesus Christ.
I grateful for the forgiving God who gives me the freedom to come into repentance time and time again.
Thanks for sharing about this organization. I love being able to know more and give gifts with purpose.
The necklace is beautiful, their story even more beautiful.
I am thankful for the freedom to trust God from the freedom of worry and fear. This was demonstrated to me when I was diagnosed with advanced cancer. I went from paralyzing fear of the future and treatment to an inexplicable amazing peace that just stays with me all the time through some very scary stuff and which can only be explained by HIM. The great thing is it is available to Everybody!!!
Thanks for the chance to win this beautiful necklace! Peace and blessings.
Just got my beautiful necklace in the mail! I am sure it’ll be a great conversation starter and make more of my friends and family aware of the tragedy of human trafficking. Thank you for sharing their story with us!