Traffickers being caught!

The guy sitting with the eleven children in this picture didn’t know three things! First, he didn’t know our project had stepped up surveillance on the border of Nepal and India. He was wrong, Barnabas was there. Second, he thought since Krishna Nagar was so remote and corrupt there wouldn’t be anyone there checking his passage across the border illegally with children. He was wrong, our partnership was highly vigilant. Third, after being caught with eleven children he was trafficking into India, he had no idea that after posing for this picture it would be distributed to authorities along the border and end up in a Barnabas Letter in the United States. He couldn’t have imagined it. This guy had a bad day ~ we had a good one!

We have a number of pictures depicting such scenes. Since we only send out one newsletter per month we can’t share them all. But how encouraging to know that our labor together is producing such good results. WHAT IF THIS WAS YOUR LITTLE BOY OR GIRL? WHAT IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHERE THEY HAD GONE? WHAT IF THEY WERE MISSING?

Those are the questions that remain in my mind when I approach this project. We don’t throw money at an effort out of unchecked emotion, but we do have a sense of compassion and ask ourselves questions like those I’ve posed above. In my spirit I can never forget the woman crying in that small Nepalese church one morning long ago because her daughter had been kidnapped. She feared she would be trafficked into India. That story turned out well. We were able to find the daughter who had indeed been taken. But what about the hundreds and hundreds of other young children.

I’m so grateful to be able to share this picture with you. Friends of Barnabas feed orphans, clothe widows, put women and men to work, offer hope, tools, livestock, medicine, and Good News. They also save young people from a life of hell and horror. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

These little guys and girls in the picture will not understand for a while the misery and anguish they have narrowly escaped. They will hopefully go on and live out their lives in their country being as productive as they can in an incredibly poor nation. But somewhere in the annals of glory, a note was made and an inscription was put down in eternity ~ someone stepped up and helped deliver them.

We win in the end!

Ken and Diana Harbour