By Marty and Sherry Johnson, Little York, with several girls in a Cambodia Rapha House. The First Christian Church in Monmouth has taken several mission trips to Cambodia to help victims of human trafficking.By Justin Sims
Daily Review Atlas
Tue Jun 23, 2009
MONMOUTH – When Pam Epperson went to Cambodia on a mission trip in 2007, she couldn't forget some of the things she saw.
"It got in my blood when I saw what happens in a third world country," Epperson said.
Epperson has taken two trips back to Cambodia since then and is bringing those experiences home for the First Christian Church in Monmouth.
The church will be starting an awareness project about human trafficking in Cambodia beginning on the last Sunday in June.
Human trafficking is a form of slavery and usually involves the exploitation of commercial sex.
According to the U.S. Department of State, 50 percent of all trafficking victims are children, typically girls.
The program will run for a month and the church will put out signs near the highway to make people aware of human trafficking.
There will also be a hog roast dinner on July 19 and the proceeds from the event will go toward building a Rapha House in Cambodia during another mission trip Epperson will take part in during December.
Rapha Houses are houses in third world countries committed to giving children a safe place to stay and providing job training to once they've turned 18.
Epperson said the project is expected to cost $210,000.
The church will also have a special project where children taking part in their vacation Bible school program will help build a typical Cambodia house to show the way children live in a third world country.
"Kids will bring discarded things to build with like old tarps and pieces of tin," Epperson said.
To get more information on human trafficking and Rapha Houses, visit www.freedomforgirls.com, www.millionkids.org or www.worldvision.org.
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