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, NighrLights 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, NightLights 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.