Hope in the Darkness

YWAM Team - Victor is in the back row on the right

With a big smile and a warm heart Victor is the kind of guy everyone instantly warms up to.  Passing through the west coast after living in Canada and Korea, we met him this spring when his YWAM group stayed in Seattle during the month of May.  Recently I spotted him in the background of a video taken in Mexico City that my friend in California posted.  It was kind of like "Where in the World is Victor Chun?"   This week Victor shared this amazing story about his trip to Mexico City.    

The most amazing time in Mexico City was our time at the Well, which is a halfway house for children who had been sold in the sex-trafficking industry. Benny and Janice Yu are the founders of this ministry and we were able to meet the girls on (of all days) the Day of the Dead. Benny was telling us some of the background stories of some of these girls went through. It was so horrifying what these girls (who were middle and high school age) went through that I didn't know whether to be enraged or start sobbing. I was reminded of what Jesus said,

"If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." Matthew 18:6

Jesus will have retribution on those who hurt these girls, but I was still overwhelmed at the what it meant for the volunteers to walk with these girls through all the terrible things that had been done to them. When I finally met these girls, I realized that God saw these girls as so precious. As they were taking pictures of themselves in these kimono costumes that they had made and just being giggly girls, they looked so beautiful and I realized that God could completely restore them because of the love that Jesus had for them to give His own life for them to be fully restored. It was a beautiful picture of what the cross paid for...




Link to The Well website: LINK