"We're In This Harvest Together!"
The Challenge is Real
With this new year, like every year prior, our aim is to be a pro-active force in the world we live in. The challenge is real. There are many arenas that we target to bring the "Good News" into, and each year the need to see lives made whole gets more demanding. People are being swept up in today's society and cultural demands.
The sex-trade and adult industry is growing like a tidal wave, taking captive our young people and those so easily persuaded to invest in this industry. It's one of the most destructive arenas in society today. The statistics are staggering. Porn sites are visited more often than Google, MSN and Yahoo combined. Images of porn are now common on snow boards, video games, children toys, TV shows and just about everywhere you look in advertising and marketing (statistics found at www.fightthenewdrug.com).
At independent film festivals, porn films are quickly becoming more and more selected as there are no ratings on these films to allow every age to attend the viewing. As a result, young people are becoming more and more desensitized to pornographic images which move them further away from healthy relationships.
Recently, a strip club in Vegas had a huge sign out front offering jobs to graduating seniors from high school to strip to earn money for college. (Photo via Cindy McGill)
Last year, our team asked the girls involved in this industry three questions:
1. Question: How did you get interested or involved in this type of work?
Answer: Most were "shopped" off of the internet after posting innocent modeling pictures of themselves to ads looking for models. They were approached by porn scouts within 24 hours of the original posting. Others had friends already in the industry and were convinced it was a way to make money for college or to support themselves.
2. Question: If were independently wealthy, what other career would you be focused on?
Answer: Most would do humanitarian efforts to meet needs of people in third world countries.
3. Question: What is your 3-5 year goal?
Answer: Not many even had one. The ones who did were choosing school or furthering their education somehow. Some were looking at the medical field, some into law, but mostly, their future forecast wasn't given much thought.
God's Love Never Fails
Knowing that it's the kindness of God that leads people to change and engage Him, it's our determined effort to be present in the places that need to know He is kind, forgiving, loving and non-condemning. Psalm 139:7-8 states that there is no place we can go from His presence. Even if a bed is made in Hell, He is there. His love doesn't have measurements. It has no beginning or end and cannot be stopped by the torrent of many waters.
If His love is so unstoppable, so relentless and so passionate about reaching those Jesus died for, we cannot lose in outreach efforts.
As moms, we offer the girls affirmation and value, looking at their hearts where God looks, and most of them break down crying in our arms, asking for "one more hug".
Please Consider Giving to This Cause
This is our 6th year bringing dream interpretation teams and outreach teams into porn conventions all over the country. Thirty team members will partner with Patricia King and XP ministries in reaching into this harvest field to offer love and support and answers to girls looking to make choices into wholeness.(Photo via Wikimedia)
We could use your help and support. We have a booth at these events, registration, lodging, transportation, decoration and gifts to give out at our booth for the week long outreach. This outreach is not an easy one emotionally, spiritually and physically, but we are determined to see these young girls meet their true destiny path.
To donate, there is a link on my website for "donate to outreaches"www.cindymcgill.com. Or if you want to donate through Patricia's site, it'swww.xpministries.com. Also watch our recent interview for God TV athttp://www.xpmedia.com/video/16732/extreme- evangelism.
Cindy McGill's passion to help people find their lives' purpose, receive healing from life's trauma, and live their lives to the fullest. She travels internationally, teaching on the subject of dreams and dream interpretation. She also leads "dream teams" using innovative methods to help others discover the hidden meanings behind their dreams and give them a chance to find hope and truth at their point of need.
Since 1979 she and her husband Tim have given their lives to helping people redefine their lives and find healing and direction. They have two grown daughters and four grandchildren.
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