- [Andrew] America's trafficking epidemic.

- We don't fully appreciatethe evil that's out there.

- [Andrew] Thousands of girls trapped,

not enough manpower to save them.

- [Floriano] We're tryingto do the best we can

with the resources we have in place.

- [Andrew] Meet the heroes

fighting to end a modern day slavery.

Plus-

- And I wanted an encounter,

I wanted to see something supernatural.

- [Andrew] A dance with the dark side.

- [Marisol] It wasn't odd to me.

I wasn't really scared.

- [Andrew] One womanis drawn to the occult.

- I said, "(speakingin Spanish), The dead."

- [Andrew] And the demonic spirits.

- She's totally and completelypossessed by some entity.

- See what scared her straight,

all on today's "700 Club Interactive."

Hi, and welcome to the show.

Innocent children enslaved.

Sex trafficking is a worldwide problem

and at least 65,000 childrenin the US are helpless victims.

- Well, now a chilling new reality,

predators are targetingChristian girls in particular.

Why and how are three USMarshals making a huge difference

in the president's crackdown on traffickers?

Well, Chuck Holton has the answers.

- [Chuck] The numberskeep coming week-by-week.

In Ohio, a joint operation between federal

and state officers recovered35 at-risk, missing children.

A similar operation rescued39 missing kids in Georgia.

Behind all this success, aunit of the US Marshal Service,

the Sex Offender Investigations Branch,

is made up of only threemen working overtime

to save as many kids as they can.

- When I assumed thisposition as the branch chief

of the Sex Offender Investigations Branch,

my eyes were opened.

There's over 430,000 missingkids a year in our country.

- [Chuck] Of those, atleast 65,000 are victims

of the commercial sex industry.

- [Floriano] We'retrying to have an impact.

We're trying to do the best we can

with the resources we have in place.

- [Chuck] Ongoing riots

and violence against federal courthouses

in Portland and elsewhere however,

are taking agents awayfrom this important work.

- [Floriano] But it's a zero-sum game.

In order for us to deploy these resources,

it detracts from other mission sets

that are often equally as important.

Our leadership is very passionate

and supportive of this initiative

and we're trying tothrow as many resources

as we can to make an impact,

but the reality is we'rejust scratching the surface.

- [Chuck] These operationsare also complicated

because those rescued need special care.

- Historically, we're copsand we catch bad guys,

but we're catching good peoplenow, we're catching kids.

What resources do we need to have in place

because it's not as simple

as just turning thischild over to somebody.

And so we spend a lot oftime, a lot of research,

a lot of talking with our partners,

with Children's Hospital, withDCFS, with Social Services,

to get these resources in place.

- It takes an incredible amount of work

to track down these monsters

who were preying on America's children.

And since the defund the police movement

and the COVID crisis,

a lot of police departmentsaround the country

just don't have the resources to do that.

And that's where theBody of Christ comes in.

There are several ministries out there

that are now packaging up theinformation that cops need

and passing it along.

One of them is All ThingsPossible Ministries,

Victor Marx's outfit.

His new chief operating officer is a guy

that I went to Ranger schoolwith like a 100 years ago.

- There are 150,000 newsex ads a day in America.

They need help on the frontend identifying the victim.

They need that level of probable cause,

reasonable suspicion.

That's what we offer law enforcement.

So, we figure out who thosegirls are that are being sold,

potentially who their trafficker is,

and we push that informationto law enforcement

to take action.

And then they will conductan operation, a sting,

and they will confront thatgirl and offer her a new life,

a path to freedom.

- [Chuck] And what theyfind is often chilling.

- There are particular traffickers

that will target Christian girls.

To get the small potatoes,to get the girl who comes

from a broken, abusive relationship,

that didn't stroke his ego.

But for him to be able topluck a pretty young woman

from a Christian family in the suburbs

and turn her out to be trafficked,

that was an ego boost for him.

- [Chuck] The Trumpadministration is taking action

to put a stop to these heinous crimes.

- Today, I'm happy to announce

that the department isawarding over $100 million

in grants across the country,targeted at human trafficking.

And these grants are gonnasupport state, local,

and tribal jurisdictions,victim service providers,

task forces and key research initiatives.

- [Chuck] Being on the frontlines makes these men realize

law enforcement isn'tthe ultimate solution.

- We, as believers,

we have to do a better job of protecting

our young women.

Parents have to talk totheir daughters very candidly

about what's out there.

Especially in this Christian bubble

that a lot of us live in,

we don't fully appreciatethe evil that's out there

and the evil that's trying towork its way into our lives.

- We, as a society, need tolook at this large number

and start deploying resourcesand asking questions

as to why there are so many missing kids.

What are the underlying issues?

And it's only then thatwe can address those

and stop these high numbers.

We're very happy about our recoveries,

but there's a much larger problemthat needs to be addressed

and addressed holistically

- [Chuck] From Washington DC,I'm Chuck Holton for CBN News.

- What an important story

that's getting lost in allthe political rancor, right,

and the racial and culturalchallenges in the country.

This particular subjectis kind of brushed away,

yet there are Democrats, Republicans,

law enforcement working very hard.

I got to echo what that onelaw enforcement officer said,

it starts at home with the parents.

We have to guard our children

and know what's coming at them.

- You know, it's such ahard thing to do though.

I think, you know, veryoften a lot of, not all,

but a lot of these youngwomen come from scenarios

where they're unhappy about something.

They've maybe separated fromcommunicating with their parent

or parents, or maybe evenrunaways in that scenario.

But with younger kids,there's only so much

that you can really explainto them without scaring them

about standing in your driveway.

- Yeah, and the predator'soften from a digital perspective

and phishing for children,vulnerable kids, emotionally.

They know the technology muchbetter than the parents do.

And a great point made in that was,

it's not just about rescuingchildren, what afterward?

Emotionally, spiritually, even physically,

how do we help peopleon the road to healing?

So it's a very important topic.

- It is a road.

It is a journey.

Absolutely.

Well, coming up, "AdoptionThrough the Rearview Mirror,"

it's a journey as well.

A young woman takes a road trip.

What does she set out to explore?

And what does she find?

She'll tell you herself after this.

(uplifting music)

63, that's how many families Karen Springs

set out to visit on aroad trip across America.

They weren't just any families,

they were families whohad adopted children.

Take a look.

- [Reporter] Karen Springs has worked

with CBN's Orphan'sPromise for nearly 15 years

in the Ukraine.

After hosting numerous families

and helping them throughthe adoption process,

Karen has set out on a road trip to the US

to explore what happens

after parents bring theiradopted children home

and real life begins.

- Through this journey,my hope is to give voice

to both the pain and the joythat is found in adoption.

- [Reporter] In her book,

"Adoption Through the Rearview Mirror,"

Karen shares storiesof heartache and hope,

helping better preparefamilies for the road ahead.

- Karen joins us now by Skype.

And Karen, it's great to haveyou on the program today.

You worked in Ukraine withOrphan's Promise for 14 years.

Talk a little bit about thework that you did there.

- Yes, so, I mean, I wasthere in the early days

when you were just beginningthe work of Orphan's Promise

and a lot of my early exposurewas in visiting orphanages

and children's home and justseeing the needs of kids.

And so I was seeing the need to advocate

for children to be in families.

And then I was also seeingthe need to bring resources

and curriculum for kids

that would be aging out of the orphanage

and how we could come togetherand help support those kids

as they were aging out andmake sure that they had mentors

and the right resources in place.

So my focus was always twofold,

was how do we get kids in families

or if they can't be in families,

how can we support those kids

so that they can be most successful?

- Where did your heart for this come from?

I mean, I know when youfirst went to Ukraine

many years ago, it wasn'treally to work with orphans,

but God really plantedyou there for a while.

- Yeah, I think I'd been in Ukraine

for all of about six weeks

when I took a trip downto Southern Ukraine,

where at the time, we as CBN,

were doing some humanitarianaid distribution

in an orphanage there.

And I had visited orphanagesonce before in Russia,

but it was when I visitedthis specific orphanage

in Southern Ukraine thatI met one little girl

that captured my heart.

And then I spent a fewdifferent evenings hanging out

with her and her friends,

and as I saw their evening reality,

that there was no mom, nodad to put them in bed,

or just be there for them,and these were older kids,

these were like 11 and 12 year olds.

It just touched my heart somuch that I thought like,

what would I have done if I was 11 or 12

and didn't have a mom or a dad?

And so I left after thatthree, four day trip

at that orphanage, Ileft with this renewed

or new, I should say, passion

to how do I advocate for these children?

And thus began my journeywith Orphan's Promise.

- Well, and one of the things

that you did in that position as well

was to welcome families cominginto the country to adopt.

So it was more than just a hello,

hope you have a wonderfuladoption while you're here,

you really got to know them

as they walked through the process.

You took a road tripacross the United States

to visit 63 families that you had helped

to facilitate adoptions for.

What did you find as you hadtime to sit down with them

after the fact and talk aboutwhat this experience meant?

- Well, like myself, who used to once,

I always say tell theCinderella stories of children

who would find homes and youknow, their life would begin,

that sort of thing.

I think a lot of familiesentered into an adoption

with this understandingthat love would be enough.

And I think that very quickly,

for many of these familiesonce they got home,

they realized that you need more than love

to heal a child who'sexperienced significant trauma.

And so all of the familiesthat I sat down with

in their homes were comingat it through this lens of,

"Wow, this wasn't exactlywhat we anticipated.

We knew it would be hard."

I think everyone knewadoption would be hard,

but people didn't know thedegree to which it would be hard.

And through the interviewsthat I conducted,

we got to unpack those stories,

what they had learnedabout childhood trauma,

about attachment, abouttheir own bonding process.

And so through that process,all of these themes arose

and that's what the book centers on.

- Were the families readilyopen about the struggles,

because I think, you know,for a lot of us, you think,

"Well, love will be enough.

And my family's got their act together

and so welcoming anotherwould be relatively,

not an easy process,but a doable process."

And sometimes thejourney is not just hard,

it's difficult for a season of time.

- Yeah, so I did find thatfamilies were very transparent.

And I mean, I think partof it was they had agreed

to open up their home and share with me.

And I think so many of these families,

you know, maybe Facebook,or blogs, or public,

isn't the place where they can, you know,

publicly talk abouttheir family struggles.

Usually we don't wantto air all of the things

that we're struggling with in public.

But when I came into theprivacy of their own home

and said, "You can sharewith me whatever you want

you know, I'm keeping identitiesanonymous in the book.

And you can just share with me, honestly,

what has been hard, what has been good?"

And so families just let their guard down.

And, and for some of them, they said,

"You know, you're the first person

we've shared this emotionwith, or this struggle with.

And we know that you'll honor our story."

So it was a really coolprocess to go through

just to have these familiestrust me with their stories.

- If you were processing families

through adoption today in Ukraine,

what did you learn through all of this

that would have helpedyou better prepare them?

- I think just pointingpeople to resources.

And I know that's your heart, too, Terry,

is how do we make sure that families go in

with their eyes wide open, knowing that,

of course you can't prepare for everything

that's gonna come your way,

but you can know whatresources are out there.

You can put people around you.

And yeah, I think I would justcaution people to make sure

that they know that this iswhat God has called them to,

that they have a support system.

Because I do believe that God is in it,

but that doesn't mean it'sgoing to be challenged

or difficulty free.

And I also believe thatthere's a refining process

through the suffering and the challenges

is that's how families grow in faith

and grow in relationship with one another.

- And that's really true, isn't it?

That the process is notjust about the children

who are being adopted,

it's about each individual andthen the family as a whole.

It really is a journey.

Your book really makes that clear, Karen,

in a very positive, wonderful way.

Karen's book is called

"Adoption Through the Rearview Mirror"

and it's availablewherever books are sold.

Thank you, friend, fordoing such a good thing

for families who really have apassion to walk that journey.

So nice to have you with us today.

Thanks.

Andrew.

- Well, up next, a womanwitnesses a girl's initiation

into voodoo.

- Her eyes are in the back of her head.

She's totally and completelypossessed by some entity,

and she started likefloating around the room.

I was in shock.

- [Andrew] We're gonnasee what happens next.

Don't go away.

(solemn music)

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Andrew.- Exciting stuff, Terry.

- [Terry] Yes, it is.

- And we can let the people know.

Well, Marisol wasfascinated by the occult,

Santeria, witchcraft, and voodoo.

And then one day she witnessedan initiation ceremony

that scared her out of her mind.

- I wanted to know whateverything was all about,

especially the spiritual realm.

I wanted to see what they would tell me

that nobody else could see.

- [Reporter] For years, MarisolPariat consulted psychics,

but she wanted more thana glimpse into the future.

- I thought I was gonna find the truth.

I was looking for a feeling

and I didn't know it at that time.

- [Reporter] That feelingwas love and security.

Her parents split up when she was seven,

leaving Marisol and her siblings to bounce

between their mom and theirabusive, alcoholic father.

- I know they both loved us.

It's just we just didn't see it.

I did not feel loved.

I did not.

- [Reporter] What she did feel was anger.

- I used to take it out on other girls.

I used to beat up other girls in school

if they messed with me.

I saw all these otherkids that had families

and I didn't have it so I wanted that.

- [Reporter] She kept searching

until she found a familythrough her best friend.

- They'd invite me places.

They'd buy me clothes.

You know, they loved on me

where I wasn't getting it at home.

And believe it or not, thecraziest thing about that

is that they were into Santeria.

They were into witchcraft.

It wasn't odd to me.

I wasn't really scared.

- [Reporter] It wasn't thefirst time Marisol was exposed

to the occult.

Her dad had remarried

and his new wife from Ecuadorcalled herself a witch.

- [Marisol] She would tell me

she used to go to a witch doctor.

He would do like cleansingson her and readings for her.

- [Reporter] Marisol didn't participate

in the occult practicesgoing on around her,

but it did peak her curiosity.

- I just wanted an interaction.

I wanted an encounter.

I wanted to see something supernatural.

- [Reporter] At 18,she started her search,

beginning with Catholicand Protestant churches.

- But since I didn't havethat feeling, that encounter,

I kept on looking.

- [Reporter] So she startedgoing to palm readers,

spending the next sevenyears seeking truth

and a future filled with love and hope.

- They're very impressive.

They really draw people inbecause they can tell you things.

They'll tell you all good stuff.

They'll tell you all the, whatthey see as far as positive.

They'll tell you who to stay away from.

But I can't recall them

ever telling me anything like really bad.

- [Reporter] Then at 25, she married

and later had a daughter.

Now that she had thefamily she always wanted,

she stepped away from the occult.

Then after eight years, her husband left,

taking the business shehelped build with him.

- Oh, I was angry.

I got ripped off, big time.

Greed came in and overshadowed him.

And then I was left alonewith my daughter in the house.

- [Reporter] Again, she sought hope

from the spiritual realm, thistime visiting a voodoo priest

who knew the name of her psychic.

- I got goosebumps when he told me that.

So what I was seeking,you know, this reality,

this feeling and thissupernatural encounter,

I found it with this man.

So I asked him, "How do you know that?"

And he said, "(speaking in Spanish)."

And I said, "(speaking inforeign language), the dead?"

I can tell that thespirits were pulling on him

to tell me other things,

like telling him, "Tellher this, tell her this."

- [Reporter] As she continuedgoing back for more readings,

her circumstances improved.

She believed the spiritsdeserved the credit.

- I actually got a verywell-paying job, had a boyfriend.

They brought me love and theybrought me lots of money.

- [Reporter] But when herboyfriend broke up with her,

Marisol's anger rose up again,

sending her back to the voodoo priest.

She even said she would join the order

until she witnessed aninitiation ceremony.

- This girl falls on the ground

and they've got allthe priests around her.

And when she gets back up,she gets back up like this.

Her body stands up on its own.

Her eyes are in the back of her head.

She's totally and completelypossessed by some entity

that they called up out of the ground.

With their drawingsthat they do on a floor,

that's an opening to the demonic.

And she started likefloating around the room.

I was in shock.

I literally ran out ofthere when I saw that.

At that point, I was scared.

I never went back to a psychic ever.

- [Reporter] More desperate than ever,

she took a suggestionfrom her ex-boyfriend

and attended a church service.

- The pastor was talking

about how anger can cause us to do things

that are very bad in our lives

That we'll regret, big time, later.

I thought, "Oh my gosh,God knows that I'm angry.

And He's sending me thismessage through this preacher."

The encounter I was reallylooking for was with God.

- [Reporter] She signed upfor a baptism in the ocean.

And it was when she emerged from the water

that she finally had atrue spiritual experience.

- I immediately acceptedJesus at that moment.

And since I needed to feel something,

God gave me something to feel.

It was the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit of God filledme and I felt amazing peace.

I felt this amazing energy.

The anger is gone, completelygone at that point.

- [Reporter] And in its place was the love

she'd always wanted.

- He saw me and wanted me.

And so that security that He's given me,

I didn't find anywhere else,or even with my own parents,

or my family, or mysiblings, or with a man.

I found it, Jesus gave it to me

- [Reporter] Today, Marisol andher daughter live in Florida

where Marisol runs her own business.

She knows her search forthe truth is complete

only in Jesus Christ.

- There's no greater love for me.

You can always count on God.

He's so faithful.

He's so amazing

- Watching Marisol's storyand the journey she went on,

we need to remember it started

because she was looking for fulfillment,

or as she said, "Looking for love

that the world could not possibly provide

to fill the hole in her soul,"the darkness in her soul.

She quickly learned the world doesn't have

what we're looking for,the heavenly Father does.

In fact, our heavenly Father says,

"He has loved us withan everlasting love."

But until Marisol found that,

she grew frustrated and she grew angry.

I love what she said, she put it so well,

"When we're angry, we make bad decisions."

Don't we?

And she said some of the worst decisions

were seeking supernaturalpower, supernatural experience

and that led to the dark side.

You know, the Apostle Paul tells us,

"Do not give the devil a foothold."

Whether you know Christ or not,

you could be a Christianwatching us today,

it's still possible you couldgive the devil a foothold.

Do not, do not give him any territory

because once he gets in,he will continue to seek

to take more and more and more.

We know from scripture,

"The enemy prowls like a roaring lion

looking for someone to devour."

He's come to kill, steal and destroy,

yet Jesus has overcome these dark forces.

If you're looking for spiritual power,

look no further than thepower of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus hung on the cross.

He was dead and resurrectedby the power of God

and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus promises that power to you,

the power of the Holy Spirit.

He said when he was leaving his disciples,

He said, "It is goodfor you that I go away."

Can you imagine that?

The disciples hearing that from Jesus,

that it is in their bestinterest that he go?

Because Jesus said, "Youwill have the Holy Spirit

who'll be your counselor,who will bring you peace,

the spirit of truth and power,

approved of by the Kingdom of God."

Do not give the devil a foothold.

Jesus said, "I am the way,the truth and the life,"

that's in John 14.

And we need to remember that

whether we're in a longstandingrelationship with Jesus,

or we're just startingout on this journey.

And if you see Marisol'sstory, and you're saying,

"I can really identify a lotof what she's searching for,"

I encourage you to pray with me now.

It's simple as surrender.

Surrender to God's will for your life,

which is a foundationbuilt in Jesus Christ.

Why don't you pray with me now?

Dear Jesus, I know theworld cannot satisfy

the longing in my heartand the longing in my soul,

but I'm hearing that you can, Jesus.

And so today, I take myheart, my sin problem

and my circumstances, andI surrender them to you

and say I can do it no longer on my own.

Jesus, come into my heart, light my path

and teach me your ways.

It's in Jesus' name I pray.

We would love for you tofollow up with somebody here.

You can call us at 1-800-700-7000

and they'll be happyto pray with you more.

We leave you with this verse from Isaiah.

"Listen, the Lord's arm isnot too weak to save you."

God bless you.