I WILL TAKE HER NOW!!! HE SAID IN A STRONG ACCENT. SHE LOOKED AT ME..SCARED, NERVOUS AND UNCERTAIN... AS RALPH WAITED FOR MY RESPONSE... SHE HAD TRAVELED HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD..A FORIEGN EXCHANGE STUDENT WITH THE PROMISE OF A WORK VISA AND THE WORD WAS IF SHE DIDNT REPORT THIS MORNING AT THE PIZZA SHOP THEY WOULD REVOKE THE VISA. IT ALL SOUNDED SKETCH TO ME, AND IT WAS HAPPENING SO FAST, NIETHER OF US KNEW ANYTHING REALLY..HOW COULD SHE OR I KNOW...IT WOULD COME TO THIS....WE HAD ONLY MET MINUTES AGO.... HOW COULD SHE EVEN TRUST ME? A TWENTY YEAR OLD GIRL..LEAVING HER HOME COUNTRY WHERE HER PASTOR HAD BEEN SHOT AND KILLED AND WHEN HER FAMILY FOUND OUT ABOUT HER NEW FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST HER BROTHER THREATENED TO KILL HER AS WELL. SO SHE LEFT EVERYTHING! WITH THIS QUESTIONABLE CONNECTION TO THE UNITED STATES AND THE PROMISE OF A NEW LIFE..SHE LEFT EVERYTHING SHE KNEW. I ANSWERED A PHONE CALL IN MY OFFICE LAST WEEK FROM A PERSON IN A REVIVAL MINISTRY MY DAUGHTER USED TO TRAVEL THE COUNTRY WITH SEVERAL YEARS BACK. THEY WERE PERSONALLY CONNECTED TO HER AND TRYING TO FIND SOMEONE TO CARE FOR HER WHILE SHE WAS IN FLORIDA...MY DAUGHTER WAS THE LORDS CHOICE! BY THE NEXT DAY SHE WAS SLEEPING IN MY DAUGHTERS TINY APARTMENT AND AT OUR CHURCH THE NEXT MORNING! SHE WAS TAKEN TO PUT AN APPLICATION IN AT THE PIZZA PLACE ON TIME BY ONE OF MY INTERNS.BUT THERE WAS NO PROMISE OF WORK AS DESCRIBED..IT WAS JUST FILL OUT THE APP AND WAIT FOR RALPH, HE WONT BE IN UNTILL THE END OF THE WEEK. THEN BACK AT THE CHURCH A CALL CAME THROUGH TO THE INTERN..IT WAS RALPH...MEET ME AT THE SUPERMARKET IN THE TOWN CIRCLE! MY INTERN CAME TO ME WITH QIUTE A BIT OF CONCERN IN HER VOICE AND FEAR IN HER EYES..WITH GOOD REASON! SHE HAD A VALUABLE PACKAGE..A GIRL WITH NO FAMILY OR TIES TO THE UNITED STATES AND NO WAY OF TRACING THE WHEREABOUTS OF THIS YOUNG GIRL IF SHE WERE TO VANISH OF THE FACE OF THE EATRH. HUMAN TRAFFICKING! SEX SLAVING IS A BIG BUSSINESS AND MIAMI IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST HUBS IN THE COUNTRY. I DECIDED THIS WAS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER AND TOLD THE INTERN I WOULD TAKE HER ,BUT SHE COULD RIDE ALONG. NONE OF US KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT! THE GIRLS WERE SCARED...AND I ....I WAS TRUSTING IN HIM! WE PULLED UP,GOT OUT AND THERE HE WAS...SHORTS ..T SHIRT AND FLIP FLOPS..I LOOKED HIM OVER FOR POSSIBLE CONCEALED WEAPONS AND CHECKED HIS BODY LANGUAGE..HE SEEMED COOL AT FIRST.. BUT THEN HE SAID' " I WILL TAKE HER NOW" A MILLION THOUGHTS RAN THROUGH MY HEAD OF WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUNG GIRLS WHO JUST VANISH NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN..AND BEING THE FATHER OF 2 DAUGHTERS I CHUCLKED AND THOUGHT TO MY SELF ..OVER MY DEAD BODY! WHO DOES THIS GUY THINK HE IS??? SHE LOOKED AT ME I COULD READ HER EYES... SHE WAS NOT FEELIN IT! I SAID, I THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO WORK AT THE PIZZA SHOP? NO, I HAVE ANOTHER PLACE...IN MIAMI...SHE CAN GO WITH ME NOW..I WILL BRING HER BACK....YEAH RIGHT, I THOUGHT! WHO IN THERE RIGHT MIND JUST MAKES THIS KIND OF HUMAN TRANSACTION..NO DETAILS, NO HISTORY..NO TRACE! NO...SHE WILL RIDE WITH ME I SAID AND WE WILL FOLLOW YOU! THIS WAS A NOT A CONCEPT HE HAD CALCULATED FOR IT CAUGHT HIM OFF GAURD AND THEY BEGAN TO SPEAK IN THEIR NAITIVE TOUNG, HE WAS SKEPTICAL AND TRIED TO SWAY ME AND SAID THAT HE NEEDED TO TAKE HER ALONE, WE WOULD BE IN THE WAY, I WASNT BUYING IT. NO... I SAID , WE WILL FOLLOW YOU. AS WE GOT BACK INTO MY TRUCK I WONDERED IF HE WOULD JUST DISSAPEAR, BUT I SPOTTED HIM, DRIVING VERY SLOW AS HE WAS ENGAUGED IN A PHONE CONVERSAION ALMOST IMMEDIATLY! HIS OUT OF STATE PLATE MATCHED HIS OUT OF STATE PHONE NUMBER! WE COPYED IT DOWN AND MY INTERN SNAPPED A PIC OF HIM WITH HER PHONE EARLIER AS HE WAS HEADED TO HIS CAR. I CALLED THE PIZZA SHOP MYSELF THIS TIME AND TALKED TO THE OTHER CONTACT..FRED. I ASKED FRED IF RALPH SPOKE THIS LANGUAGE I WAS HEARING BETWEEN THE THE TWO OF THEM AND FRED SAID NO!! SO WE HAD TWO RALPHS IN THE MIX NOW..THE SO CALLED PIZZA SHOP MANAGER AND THE ONE WE WERE ACTUALLY FOLLOWING. I CALLED MY DAUGHTER, SHE SAID "DAD GET OUT OF THERE WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING THEM?? YOUR CRAZY..THIS IS SO WRONG! GIVE ME THE NUMBER FOR THE PLATE TO ALERT THE AUTHORITIES"...WE BOTH KNEW NOW THIS WAS TERRIBLY WRONG! AS I HUNG UP WE PULLED UP INTO A PARKING LOT I REASSURED HER SHE WILL NOT GO ANYWHERE WITH THEM AND SHE IS SAFE. AGAIN, RALPH WANTED TO TAKE HER INSIDE ALONE ,NO I WILL COME WITH HER! ONCE INSIDE I SAW 3 MEN AND RAPLH SPEAKING WITH THEM IN NATIVE TOUNGE, I LOOKED AT HER AND SAID " YOU DONT HAVE TO DO THIS", SHE SAID "I WILL TELL THEM I WILL NOT WORK FOR THEM." I BEGAN TO EYEBALLING THE PLACE ..IT HAD BRAND NEW FURNITURE AND IT WAS LUCH HOUR RUSH..WITH NO CUSTOMERS! IT LOOKED AS IF NO ONE HAD EVER COOKED SO MUCH AS A GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH IN THIS PLACE..SHE EXCHANGED A FEW WORDS WITH THEM AND WALKED BACK TO ME AND WE WALKED OUT. WE HEAR STORIES OF HUMAN TRAFFICING RINGS AND ARE PROMPTED TO BE APART OF THIS CAUSE AND RAISE AWARNESS, AND HERE IT HAS FALLEN INTO MY LAP AND I WILL NOT STAY SILENT. EXPERIENCING THIS FIRST HAND HAS SPARKED A FIRE UNDER ME THAT I WILL CONTINUE TO LIGHT ALL OVER THE WORLD. HUMAN TRAFFICING IS REAL, IT IS HERE AND IT IS NOW. PLEASE HELP US TO PROTECT GOD'S CHILDREN AND BE A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS. ......CALL TO ACTION.THERE ARE MANY ORGANIZATIONS BY WHICH YOU CAN GET INVOLVED AND RAISE AWARENESS SUCH AS f.4.c.org.