Home Stretch!

Hi Everyone,
I'm officially only about $130 away from my goal! YAY! Thank you so much for those of you who have contributed. I have officially done the full 13 miles. By Gods grace my body is making it through. I do get a lot of stitches though. Usually the last three miles I do I'm just praying the whole time for them to stop, lol! And again by Gods grace they usually don't get so sever so I have to stop, so I don't complain too much. BUT I STILL NEED HELP! only 13 people need to give $10! Come on we can do this!
I cant stress how important this cause is. Sex slavery is in my opinion the worst evil in existence today. There was a gathering in Atlanta a few weekends ago, perhaps you heard about it, their focus this year was on human trafficking and raising money to end it. One of the speakers said something that really impressed me. He said "why do we call it human trafficking, that makes it sound so civilized, why don't we call it what it is: Children getting raped on a daily basis with no end in sight." Children, little baby girls and boys, some as young as 8, the average age being 13. Imagine when you were 13 and what you were doing. Then imagine what these little babies go through, they are taken from their homes and families scared, then forced to have sex with grown men. Some of them don't even have their period yet when they are first raped. Some get pregnant and are forcibly given abortions or miscarry because their so young. Imagine the physical trauma and pain their little undeveloped bodies are put through through with each rape, the ripping and tearing. Did you know most of the boys that are in the trade are used to service men? Imagine the physical trauma they go through. Then imagine the emotional trauma that is done. It makes the physical trauma look like a little scrape. Some of them are forcibly given drugs which they get addicted to, and live in wretched, unacceptable conditions. They need our help so badly. David and I have committed to fasting once a week and taking the money we would have spent on that and giving it even after our run, that's how desperate we are to help make this stop. I understand how overwhelming it is when people ask for money when you are barely making ends meet as it is but I try to imagine if it were my little brother, or any of the children I babysit, or even my own children (a little more conceptual as I have none but I imagine it), taken from home and having their innocence ripped away from them. Wouldn't I do ANYTHING to find a way to get them home? These are ALL peoples babies, a lot of times ABDUCTED! WE HAVE TO STAND UP AND DO SOMETHING. I know it may hurt, believe me I know, not only financially but physically when I run every day. But we are called to give when it hurts. And when I hurt (or am hungry on fasting day) I think of those little girls and boys who are hurting ten million times more and it makes my pain seem trivial. Do you think this is something you can commit to for only one month? That's 4 days of fasting total, for David and myself we calculated that to be about ten dollars a month total. Lets make this happen! For all the little children out there alone lets let them know they are not alone!