Lots of stuff (some NOT for kids)

I wrote this a few days ago, but it's all still current. Over the past few days I have been stuck in a hotel due to the terrorist blockade here. This time was the biggest that I have seen, 13 counties or districts experiencing full traffic stop, and no selling of any goods allowed. The hotel was good though until the last day. We had power and food but on the last day the generator ran out of fuel and the stove ran out of natural gas so we had fruit to eat and candles for light.

Thank you for your prayers, this gets interesting. Read on.


Good morning, today is November 30, 2008. It is 0812 hours in the Bangalore time zone.

I wish that I could say that I was writing you with joy and happy stories, but I can't. I am writing you today with a broken heart. Know that I have been trying to write this post for the past few weeks and just never could get the words to come, but I can't wait any longer, this must be told.

PARENTS BE CAUTIONED - THIS MAY BE GRAPHIC. I URGE YOU TO READ IT FIRST BEORE LETTING YOUR KIDS.
AND KIDS PLEASE GO GET A PARENT AND HAVE THEM READ FIRST.

November 8, 2008 There was an article in the Kathmandu Times titled Where have all the Kamlari gone? Then in today’s paper there was a similar article titled Booming flesh trade goes unchecked.
In the first title the word Kamlari is used, when translated it means “young female slave.” It goes on to describe how parents who are suffering financially are promised by “middle men (often women)” that they can find a good safe home for their young daughter, and get them good compensation. These parents then sell their daughters to these “middle men” for anywhere between Rs1000 and Rs10,000. To give you some perspective, the exchange rate is 79.6 rupees to a dollar. They sell their daughters for somewhere between $12.56 and $125.63. But what usually happens is these “middle men” disappear with a busload of girls between the ages of 5-12. Nobody knows where, or nobody cares. I will tell you where they are going but first let's go back to the parents. If they demand to know what happened to their child they are ethier bribed with money or land to be quiet or just not seen anymore. So, where are all these bus loads of 5-12 year old girls going? They are being taken to Tibet, India, Bhutan and other parts of Nepal and re-sold, as sex toys, as nothing more than a playboy magazine.
The article that was in the paper today had stats in it, would you like them? The estimated number of sex workers in Nepal is 25,000, at least 5,000 are children. Now remember what standpoint this article is written from. We as Americans would see ‘children’ in this situation as 12-17; this article means that there are at least 5,000 4,5,6,7,8 year olds that are being raped 5-9 times daily in hotels all across Nepal. 35% of all “sex workers” are in the line of work by the time that they are 15. There is a small interview with a woman who works at a hotel in an unnamed city. She said she came there when she was 16 to be a housekeeper, then the owner told her that if she wanted to get paid she would spend the night with whoever he told her to. According to her she “services” 5-8 clients daily and spends almost every night with someone. She still hasn’t seen any of her money. You are not going to believe this but prostitution is illegal in Nepal, but if the cops and gov. officials get first pick of the “fresh” girls it's business as usual. According to a cop-turned-brothel owner the girls get 70% of the earnings. Well, let's you and I do the math here. Let's say 5 a day at Rs1000 each +4000 for the whole night. That Rs9000 70%=6300, If you think that these sick men are giving their 7 year old “Kamlari” Rs6300 a day I have some ocean front property in Colorado to sell you.

I wish I could say this is just a problem is Nepal or southern Asia, but it’s not. Human or sex trafficking is present in many countries in Europe, Russia, and even our own Red White and Blue.
I believe that God is calling me to work in this area. NOT THIS TRIP, but soon and maybe for the rest of my life. One man can absolutely change the world, change history, and influence millions. You want proof? George Washington, Adolf Hitler, Gandhi, Jesus. Am I saying that I have the charisma of Hitler or the faith of Jesus, no but if God wants me to, I will.
Please don’t just forget about this when you turn off your computer, fighting this starts on our knees. Satan screams when you war against his kingdom in prayer.

In other news, things in Mumbai have calmed down, and to tell you the truth I didn’t even know that anything was going on because news doesn’t move in India.
Wednesday and Tuesday of this week I was out of commission with food poisoning, but have made a full recovery and will now be more careful what I eat.

The school that I have been teaching at is only a year old, before that it was run by a hindu family who sold it to the ministry that now owns it. As with every startup they are very tight financially and I would like to give them a Christmas blessing of Rs12,000 (150.75 USD). This would pay off about %50 of their outstandiong loans and make the new year run smoothly. This is about two weeks worth of my living money so things may be tight but if anyone feels led to help with this please do. If you would like to make sure that your money goes to the school, send your check to St. John's like normal, but call my mother (720) 352 4697 and tell her that your donation of x much is to go to the school.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. For me it passed rather easily, considering that it’s an American holiday nobody even knew what I was talking about. I did miss the food though. However for my thanksgiving dinner I was able to have rice and curry, which is the same thing I have had for the past 54 days. But I love it, God is truly amazing.

Please pray:
For my road into Bhutan, I don’t know what it is but God has told me that he is going to make one.
For me to know when to move on to Bhutan.
For my Intercessors as they are my biggest warriors.
For the Lord to continue to supply all of my financial and physical needs.

May the Lord richly bless your holiday season and your new year.

In truth, James P Lear