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Ministry leader says Church must help fight human trafficking: some traffickers specifically target Christian girls

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – A Christian ministry leader involved in combatting the scourge of human trafficking has reported that some traffickers specifically target Christian girls, CBN News reports. As 430,000 children go missing in the US every year, Jeff Tiegs of All Things Possible Ministries said: “We as believers have to do a better job of protecting our young women.”

The Trump administration has awarded $100 million to fight human trafficking and joint state and federal operations have succeeded in rescuing almost 80 children recently. However, resources and manpower are spread thin in the face of a massive problem which includes some 65,000 children trafficked specifically for the sex industry, CBN News reports.

“We’re trying to have an impact. We’re trying to do the best we can with the resources we have in place,” US Marshals Agent Whitwell told CBN News. “But it’s a zero-sum game,” Whitwell said. “In order for us to deploy these resources, it detracts from other mission sets that are equally as important. Our leadership is very passionate and supportive of this initiative, and we’re trying to throw as many resources at it as we can, but the reality is, we’re just scratching the surface.”

Former army ranger Tiegs told CBN News the Church must step up to fill in the gap and help in the fight. All Things Possible Ministries specifically helps law enforcement to identify who the victims are and who their trafficker is. “We push that information to law enforcement to take action. And then they will conduct an operation, a sting and they will offer her a new life, a path to freedom,” Tiegs said.

In particular, Tieg explained, Christians must do more to protect girls and young women in their communities. “There are particular traffickers that will target Christian girls,” he attested. “To get the girl that comes from a broken, abusive relationship, that didn’t stroke his ego. But for him to be able to pluck a pretty young woman from a Christian family in the suburbs and turn her out to sell her body for sex through him, to be trafficked, that was an ego boost for him,” Tiegs revealed. Therefore, Tiegs continued: “Parents have to talk to their daughters very candidly about what’s out there, especially in this Christian bubble that we live in we don’t fully appreciate the evil that’s out there and the evil that’s trying to work its way into our lives.”