Rescuing Girls From Sex Slavery: 'We Can Do a Lot More Than We Think We Can'
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(urgent, serious music with air whooshes)
- "Good Overcomes Evil."
That's the title of PastorTroy Brewer's latest book,
and he's demonstrating that every day
through his international ministries.
He's rescuing children around the world.
Today, he has more than 30 orphanages.
Each year, in Nepal and India alone,
more than 300,000 girlsare trafficked for sex.
I recently talked with the Texas pastor,
who is determined to do what he can
to stop it.(air whooshes)
300,000 just in Nepaland India alone annually,
at least 300,000, aresold into sexual slavery.
- Yes.- And you're doing
something about it.
- Yeah, you were mentioning this number,
this horrendous number, of 300,000.
You know, it's not like there are billions
and billions of people in Nepal.
They are literally depletingtheir nation of their girls.
It's unbelievable.
So, the kind of work thatwe're doing there is,
we actually have border teams that are
stationed at all theborder crossings there,
and we are literally profiling people
as they're coming across,literally profiling them,
and going, "Why is thatguy with that young girl?
"Let's talk to him."
It's a very, you have tobe very confrontational,
you have to get in their grill and say,
"So, tell me what's goingon here," and if they say,
"Well, none of yourbusiness, we're doing this,"
or whatever, we blowthe whistle, literally.
The police come, wehave a very good rapport
with the police in Nepal.
They come, they separate the two.
We talk to the girl tofind out what's going on,
and then we begin, if she is, indeed,
being sold into slavery, now we're
gonna have to begin the process of,
"Is it a situation wherewe can return her back?"
Number one, if she's a child, many times,
these little, bitty kids, I say,
"What's your mama'sname," they say, "Mama,"
and so, they don't know.
And then, there is no infrastructure there
to actually be able to find their parents.
So now we have thetremendous responsibility
of taking care of themfor as long as it takes.
Then, we also have the responsibility
of prosecuting the trafficker,
and we have teams, we actually have
legal teams, and their job is to actually
prosecute the traffickerand put them in jail.
- And a lot of these traffickers,
I understand, in Nepaljust go into villages,
grab the kids--- Exactly.
- And the parents can'tdo anything about it.
- [Troy] As a matter offact, nobody can do anything
about it, because in the nation of Nepal,
you cannot get a prosecuting attorney
unless you pay for him.
So the poor people aredefenseless, and they know that.
People will literallycome into the villages
and say, "I'll take that one, that one,
"that one, and there'snothing you can do about it,"
and they leave with them.
That's correct.
- But you're putting a stop to that.
- Yeah, we are.
- As much as you can.
- It's up to us to do this, and it's
up to us to answer this kind of evil
with the goodness of God, and part of
the goodness of God is literally being
stable in the midst of this instability,
actually being in the mess when
you do not have to be there.
But then, the long-term obligation
of building the safe houses and then
building the homes forthese kids to live in,
providing them meals,providing their education,
it's what redemption actually looks like.
- Well, I know often, you have said,
"Redeemed people redeem people."
- That's correct.
- Now, it must, though,get frustrating sometimes,
because you see such a great need,
but I understand, from my own experience,
that you can only help thosethat God puts in front of you.
So do you ever get discouraged?
- Well, there's two parts of that.
I have fought discouragement through
the years, because I see things that,
"Oh my gosh, I need toget involved in that."
(inhales sharply) But what's real is,
I just say yes to everythinguntil I have to say no.
And then, if I have tosay no, I have to say no.
My wife and I, we mortgaged our home
seven times to pay for this.
Before our ministry started to grow
and before we had ministry partners,
it was literally justshe and I, on our own,
doing this for years and years
and years, and we had to mortgage
our home over and over and over again.
And I know how tough that is.
I also know this, we can do alot more than we think we can.
Everybody's like, "I can only do so much."
Oh, listen, you can doso much more than that,
and the Lord knows our limits.
- And it's really goes innicely to the next part
that I'd like to discuss, is your book.
- You know, honestly, I'm involved
in lots and lots of different things,
and I finally just said,"You know, a big part
"of my life theme, a part of the message
"that the Lord has trusted me with,
"is that good does overcome evil."
Evil does have to be confronted,
and it doesn't take a lot oflight to run off darkness.
It takes a little bit ofgoodness to overcome evil.
We make such a big deal out of evil,
when, in fact, evil is just, my pastor,
Pastor Jim Maxwell, he always says this.
"Why should I be defeatedby an old defeated devil?"
And I'm like, "You know what?
"That is something really good to say."
And so, the goodness ofGod is what God looks like.
Whenever Moses said,"Lord, show me Your glory,"
He said, "I will cause My goodness
"to pass before you," right?
THat's what He said.
So if you wanna know what God looks like,
He looks like goodness.
I don't think that theproblem in America is
that there's just not enough Christians
or enough churches.
There might not just be enough goodness
within the body of Christ, that we need
to be demonstrating the goodness of God.
- So, "Good OvercomesEvil," your newest book.
I don't know when youhave time to write a book.
(Gary and Troy laugh)
With everything you'redoing around the world.
But it's a pleasure to have you here today
and talking with us.
Thank you.- Thank you so much,
my friend, thank you.