NightLight: a ministry in urban Bangkok, which reaches out to women and children working in the bar areas of Nana/Sukhumvit. Located in a neighborhood with a growing sex trade, Nightlight’s vision is to share the Light of the world in both word and deed to those who live in darkness.
Assistance, Intervention and Rehabilitation
1. Outreach: Bar visits to build relationships of trust, offer alternatives, and be available for necessary intervention.2. Vocational/Educational Opportunities: Providing employment, job training and educational alternatives.
3. Shelter and Assistance: To provide a safe place for emergency assistance, health care, counseling, child-care and basic necessities.
4. Intervention of Trafficking: To intervene when children are solicited for prostitution and to work with the guardians to protect these children.
5. Staff Training and Development: To provide training for a multi-lingual staff in the areas of administration, research, grant proposal writing, counseling, and trafficking issues and to set up global networks to assist in repatriation.6. Evangelism: To introduce the women and children to Jesus Christ and to connect them with church families where they can receive discipleship and fellowship.
