Annie/Jeff Dieselberg Bangkok ABC-USA IM Ministries Home

Our Inspiration for Mission

Annie (working with women and children at risk of exploitation and trafficking): This is what the Lord says, "In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, 'Come out,' and those in darkness, 'Be free!' (Isaiah 49:8-9)

Jeff (working with Annie as a Bible Teacher/Chaplain for the women and staff at NightLight; Adjunct Faculty teaching Urban Transformation at four different seminaries in Bangkok): Of those he gathered from the lands, from the east and west, from the north and south; some wandering in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty and their lives ebbed away. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He led them to a city where they could settle . . . out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains. (Psalm 107:4-7, 14)

Our Journey So Far

Annie grew up all around the world, with her most formative years in Africa as the daughter of International Ministries ABC/USA missionaries Vern and Dathene Stanley. Jeff grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati and was very active at Kenwood Baptist Church (ABC/USA) where his father and mother (Ron and Jenny Dieselberg) were long-time faithful members.

About Our Ministry: NightLight / Bangkok

The Calling:

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, NighrLight’s vision is to share the Light of the world in both word and deed to those who live in darkness.

The Response and Goals:

To Combat the sexual exploitation of Women and Children (Thai and Foreign) in the Nana/Sukhumvit area.

Through life-on-life ministry, NightLight’s goal is to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of women in prostitution, their children, and those children brought illegally in Thailand to financially support their families by selling items in the bars and often through sexual exploitation. These goals will be met through building relationships with women and children who work in the sex trade industry along the Nana/Sukhumvit area and by providing a center that offers emergency aid, educational and employment opportunity, emergency child-care, language tutoring, literacy training, and biblical teaching and healing for their community.

We will achieve these goals through ...

1. Economic/Educational Opportunities: Providing alternatives through job training and education.
2. Lifeskills training: To provide opportunities to train women and children on the risks of working in the sex trade and how to access the help they may need.
3. Public Awareness and Involvement: To educate the public, Thai and foreign (religious and secular), of the physical, psychological, legal and economic consequences of prostitution and trafficking and to encourage their involvement in advocacy and follow-up care of the women and children.
4. Relational Evangelism: To introduce women and children to the love and mercy of Jesus Christ, to disciple them into a strong faith as people who will then impact their communities.