{"id":305950,"date":"2020-04-24T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/in-pursuit-of-love\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:00:04","slug":"in-pursuit-of-love","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/in-pursuit-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pursuit of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Anthony talks with human trafficking expert Rebecca Bender. Bender fell into prostitution through the encouragement of her boyfriend who was a trafficker, and explains how she turned to drugs and eventually overdosed. 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She was a single parent; now, she was a drug addict, a victim of domestic violence, and desperate. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> My mom had shown up to take my daughter from me. She thought I\u2019d just become a drug addict; no one knew I was being trafficked. I don\u2019t think any small-town family thinks, \u201cHuman trafficking!\u201d\u2014right? You think, \u201cSomething\u2019s wrong with Becky.\u201d That\u2019s what they would say: \u201cSomething\u2019s wrong. Is she on drugs? Is she in domestic violence?\u201d Everyone thought domestic violence because I <em>was<\/em> being beaten; but no one realized that it was to keep me in compliance.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, April 24<sup>th<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I'm Bob Lepine. We\u2019ll hear Rebecca Bender\u2019s story today and hear how God delivered her from the desperation she was in. Stay with us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I don\u2019t think you guys have had a chance to hear this\u2014today, what we\u2019re going to hear. I recently listened to an interview that Kim Anthony\u2014who has a podcast that\u2019s part of the FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> podcast network called <em>Unfavorable Odds<\/em>\u2014Kim is telling stories\/introducing us to people who have, in the middle of very difficult life circumstances, found hope and redemption and help and healing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe interviewed Rebecca Bender recently. Rebecca\u2019s story is one of those stories that\u2014this is happening all around us\u2014but we don\u2019t see it; we don\u2019t know it. It\u2019s a story of being trafficked\/being led into prostitution\u2014how she got trapped in that\/how she didn\u2019t have any hope of getting out of that\u2014and how God met her in the midst of that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat you guys are going to hear, and what our audience is going to hear, really is a <em>remarkable<\/em> story of redemption. I think we have to remember, as we listen to this, whatever the desperate circumstances that people are in, there is no circumstance that is beyond God\u2019s ability to step in and to rescue and redeem. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> This story, from the little I know, is a testament to that. Just as I looked at the details, I\u2019m like: \u201cOnly God could take this life from the pit and do what God does. Only God can do this.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It\u2019s also a reminder that God can take our <em>mess<\/em> and make it our message. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s happened with Rebecca.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You\u2019re going to hear that today as we pick up the interview. This went on for almost an hour-and-a-half. If you listen to the podcast, you can listen to the entire interview. Rebecca met a guy; they became boyfriend and girlfriend. They moved from her hometown to Las Vegas. Everything was moving forward in their relationship. She was not following Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne night, he suggested they try a game; and that game was that she would sleep with somebody else, and they would make money doing it. That was the introduction that ultimately led to this being the regular practice. This was how they made money\u2014he was trafficking his girlfriend as a way to make money. She was trapped in it, because she was dependent on the money she was making in order to survive. That\u2019s where Kim picks the story up as we listen to this excerpt from her podcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[<em>Unfavorable Odds <\/em>Podcast]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> This was a man who was telling you that he loved you; yet, he was selling you to other men. Did that ever raise a red flag for you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Absolutely; I mean, I think that\u2019s partly why he got sick of me constantly crying and saying, \u201cThis isn\u2019t what you promised me.\u201d I can actually remember a time\u2014we would get in physical fights quite a bit, and a domestic violence call had been called on our apartment\u2014I can remember once he slapped me across the face, and he left. I remember just falling to the floor in the kitchen and just crying. I wiped my mouth, and I saw blood on my hand. I remember thinking: \u201cWhat more can I do to make him love me? I\u2019ve crossed lines I\u2019d never crossed. I\u2019ve done things I swear I\u2019ve never done. This wasn\u2019t what he promised me. He calls it the game, but this isn\u2019t a game to me. This is my life!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLater on, when I finally met Jesus, I can remember the first time\u2014within the first few months of getting saved\u2014the Lord brought that memory to my mind of sitting on the kitchen floor. I remember hearing the voice of God say to me: \u201cThat\u2019s how I feel about you. What more can I do to make you love Me? I\u2019ve given My life to the point of being crucified on a cross. What more can I do to make you love Me?\u201d I wept because I would never want to give Jesus the same kind of heartbreak that I know I\u2019ve felt in my life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Before you met Jesus, how did you cope with living with that lifestyle?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> I ended up using a lot of drugs and alcohol to cope, in the beginning. I became addicted to cocaine by the age of 21; I was a full-blown addict. If my dealer wasn\u2019t around or available, I\u2019d resort to any drugs\u2014smoke crack, bent over in the floorboard of a car. I can remember hitting my pretty lowest of low at that moment, thinking, \u201cI\u2019ve really crossed some lines.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t know, in our brain, where we make these invisible lines; right?\u2014like, \u201cI\u2019m not an addict if I don\u2019t shoot needles,\u201d is what I kind of thought in my brain. But then, when I\u2019m hunched down on the floorboard of a car, smoking crack, I thought, \u201cWow; I really am an addict, and I need help.\u201d I definitely self-medicated to cope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Tell me about the night that you and your friend, Amy, decided to hang out. Do you remember that night?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Oh, yes; Amy\u2014what we\u2019re referring to as Amy\u2014she\u2019d become a friend of mine that was also being trafficked. Her and I used drugs together frequently, and my mom had shown up to take my daughter from me. She thought I\u2019d just become a drug addict; no one knew I was being trafficked. I don\u2019t think any small-town family thinks, \u201cHuman trafficking\u201d; right? You think, \u201cNo, something\u2019s wrong with Becky.\u201d That\u2019s what they would say: \u201cSomething\u2019s wrong. Is she on drugs? Is she in domestic violence?\u201d Everyone thought domestic violence, because I <em>was<\/em> being beaten; but no one realized that it was to keep me in compliance.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca: <\/strong>My mom had taken my daughter. I felt, at that moment, like I had no other reason to live; and I tried to kill myself twice. The second time was with Amy; I purposely tried to overdose to kill myself. I just thought [emotion in voice]: \u201cI just want to go home to Jesus. Maybe everything would be better in heaven.\u201d I thought, \u201cMy daughter is with my mom now, so she\u2019s safe.\u201d I just didn\u2019t feel like I had any more reason to live, and I couldn\u2019t figure out a way <em>out<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Did you know Jesus at this time?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> My grandma was a praying grandma. She took me to Sunday school when I was a little girl if I\u2019d spend weekends with her. She was always in charge of the vacation Bible school in our town, so I\u2019d go to VBS every summer. She would take me to AWANA. I can remember memorizing verses as a Spark for Jesus: \u201c\u2019Sparks\u2019 to light the world.\u201d I can remember that still to this day. I was like six\u2014and here I am, thirty-eight\u2014and can still remember the song; so clearly, it works! [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYes, I had a <em>view<\/em> of Jesus; I probably was a little bit skewed. My parents never went to church. My parents weren\u2019t living for the Lord, but my grandma did. My praying grandma really made a difference in my life for sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut they don\u2019t teach you about Rahab and Tamar. [Laughter]. They don\u2019t teach you that in Sunday school; they\u2019re teaching you much more age-appropriate stories. [Laughter] I didn\u2019t realize that Jesus <em>loved<\/em> girls like me. He loved Mary Magdalene; He trusted Rahab\u2014He <em>loves<\/em> girls like me. [Emotion in voice] I didn\u2019t know it; I felt so ashamed that God would never love people like me anymore. I was unsure how to even change some of my behaviors or mindsets. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just kept crying out, with Amy, that I wanted to go home. I kept trying to overdose on drugs; I eventually blacked out. I don\u2019t really remember how I got to the hospital, but I woke up in a hospital. They thought that my brain was hemorrhaging, that I had overdosed; they wanted to do a CAT scan. I just remember thinking, \u201cI\u2019m going to get in trouble from my trafficker\u201d; so I ripped the monitors out. They made me sign an AMA\u2014Against Medical Advice\u2014that if I died, they wouldn\u2019t be held liable. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI woke up, several days later, in the back of a car. I can remember waking up, feeling like I couldn\u2019t breathe. I never had any medical problems since. I don\u2019t know what happened. I don\u2019t know if Jesus healed me; I don\u2019t know if He stopped me from dying. All I know was the doctors were concerned; and I woke up, three days later, in the back of a car\u2014healthy and fine\u2014and ready to get help.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> \u201c\u2026ready to get help\u201d; so who did you turn to for that help?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> I called my mom and I said, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m ready to go to rehab.\u201d I believe my mom and my grandma\u2014maybe my aunt, I\u2019m sure, collaborated\u2014got me a list of rehabs. There was a list of several rehabs, that they gave me over the phone, I wrote down on a piece of paper. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of them was a Christian rehab; and I thought, \u201cI ain\u2019t going to no Christian rehab.\u201d [Laughter] I remember saying, \u201cThese Christians ain\u2019t got a <em>clue<\/em> what life on the streets is like. I ain\u2019t doing it!\u201d [Laughter]\u00a0 Nowhere had vacancy but the Christian rehab; that\u2019s just how God works. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim: <\/strong>Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca: <\/strong>Everywhere\u2014\u201cNo vacancy,\u201d\u2014everywhere I called.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> So you went back to Oregon, and you went to Victory Outreach; was it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Yes, I went back to Oregon. I left\u2014I just left it all\u2014I left every couch, every piece of clothing; I just packed up a bag. I left my vehicle in the airport parking. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just remember leaving a voicemail to my \u201cboyfriend,\u201d saying: \u201cI can\u2019t do this. This isn\u2019t a game to me; this is my life! This isn\u2019t what you promised me. I\u2019m going to go get clean. I\u2019ve got to get my daughter back.\u201d I think he was pretty happy to let me go. I was kind of the trouble girl out of everyone he had\u2014just because I was <em>so in love<\/em>, and I was <em>so hurt<\/em>\u2014that I made that known. [Laughter] And I left a voicemail for my drug dealer that I wasn\u2019t coming back either. [Laughter] Those were two\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> \u2014two people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> \u2014two calls I made and left everything sitting there and went to Victory Outreach.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> And you encountered God there, didn\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> I had a <em>radical<\/em> encounter with God that changed my life. I was radically delivered from drugs in the blink of an eye at the altar, which I know is not everybody\u2019s experience. I\u2019m <em>so<\/em> grateful. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou hear stories; but you don\u2019t really know\u2014like: \u201cOkay, that\u2019s good for you. That\u2019s not how it works in the rest of our world,\u201d\u2014you know, I\u2019ve heard stories like that, and so to have it actually happen. I got delivered probably the first of 2003, so 16 years clean and sober\u2014never desired to use drugs or smoke cigarettes ever again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019ve been listening to an excerpt from Kim Anthony\u2019s podcast, <em>Unfavorable Odds<\/em>, an interview she did with Rebecca Bender. Again, I\u2019ll remind my listeners, if you\u2019d like to hear the <em>entire<\/em> conversation\u2014and it is riveting\u2014go to FamilyLifeToday.com. The complete podcast is available there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was interesting to hear her say, \u201cWhen you are in this lifestyle\u2026\u201d; I mean, we\u2019d all look and say, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just step away?\u201d It\u2019s not that easy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I have a friend, that grew up in Detroit, that was trafficked <em>in<\/em> Detroit. She\u2019s come to know Jesus; I\u2019ve been mentoring her for several years. That same question came to my mind, \u201cCouldn\u2019t you just walk out?\u201d But it\u2019s so complicated. There are so many things that are going on that I don\u2019t think any of us really understand the magnitude of the hurt, of the addiction, of the pain, of the <em>fear<\/em> that\u2019s going on in these women\u2019s lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s also interesting\u2014Rebecca talks about being healed. Yet, healing sometimes is a moment; many times it\u2019s a <em>life<\/em>. She\u2019s going to <em>continue<\/em> to be healed as she goes forward, as we\u2019ll hear.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> She was healed from drugs, and from alcohol, and from cigarette smoking; but she met another guy. What she thought was maybe going to be a different kind of relationship wound up being the same kind of relationship she had been in before\u2014and was back into being trafficked. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[<em>Unfavorable Odds <\/em>Podcast]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> So was this new place [with new boyfriend] your ticket out?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Man, this place ended up being worse than I\u2019d ever, ever seen or experienced\u2014so intense brainwashing and so much <em>extreme<\/em> violence. I\u2019d been beaten so much that I had my face broken in five places: my palate cracked, my nose twice, my maxillofacial [jaw], of my turbinate\u2019s [nasal cavity] impounded. I actually had to have surgery several years ago because I wasn\u2019t equalizing when flying, so I would have lots of pain when flying. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI didn\u2019t even know that this kind of abuse happened other than on movies. It was <em>very<\/em> extreme; I started to feel like I was going crazy. Living in that kind of fear really affects your psychology. I felt like this guy\u2019s following\u2014I\u2019d get out of the car and try to check my mirrors for\u2014I was so paranoid I thought cameras were in my car. He would tell me conversations that I\u2019d have in private\u2014he\u2019d repeat to me\u2014which made me think he was listening or following. He would randomly show up, where I was\u2014made me think he had a tracking device. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI mean, it was <em>extreme<\/em>; I thought, \u201cI\u2019m going crazy; I have got to get out of this.\u201d I literally felt like my mind was slipping away from me, and I started feeling like, \u201cI\u2019m going crazy,\u201d\u2014like\u2014\u201cI don\u2019t know how to get out of this! I feel really, really trapped.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI started one night\u2014I just remember beating my head against the floor. We had this marble bathroom; and I just remember beating my head against the floor, feeling like [emotion in voice]: \u201cI\u2019m going crazy. I don\u2019t know how to get out of this anymore\u201d; like this was <em>really<\/em> extreme. Whereas, before, I was trapped from love\u2014I was in these mental chains from love\u2014and now I\u2019m physically being abused <em>daily<\/em>. My brain is slipping away; and \u201cI don\u2019t know how to get out of this anymore.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Did you ever think about Jesus and the relationship you had developed with Him during these times?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Absolutely. My first time back, right after I had left Victory Outreach, I can remember actually feeling like I could actually <em>see<\/em> the demonic a little bit in people\u2014like their face is shifted when they would buy me. That didn\u2019t last very long, though, if I\u2019m honest. It lasted about a day or two, and I must have grieved the Spirit. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I can remember praying over myself. Victory Outreach is a Pentecostal church. I can remember going full Pentecostal, like, \u201cI bind the spirit of rage in the name of Jesus and loosen the spirit of peace over my home.\u201d I would pray like that over myself while being trafficked, and I just imagined that Jesus was sitting next to me in the car. I just felt like: \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do anymore God. I don\u2019t know how to get out of this. [Emotion in voice] I\u2019ve gotten myself into some stuff that\u2019s real dangerous, and I don\u2019t know what to do.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe showed up again; He always comes through. I\u2019m so grateful\u2014just what a mighty God we serve.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> How did He show up, Rebecca?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> 2006\u2014the Feds raided the Dallas home that the other victims were in there. They had warrants for my trafficker and the wife-in-law that had recruited me. They had a warrant for their arrest, but they weren\u2019t there; they were in Vegas. At that point, we knew the Feds had been watching us. They took the other two women in. They were hoping to build a case of trafficking against our trafficker in hopes that the victims would talk. But everyone was way too afraid, and way too brainwashed or traumatized, so no one would talk. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt that point, we learned from those women, being released on bail, and starting to begin a potential plea deal for whatever charges were going to stick. We knew that they had been surveilling us for 18 months. They had been badging our trash man\/pulling our trash man over, at the end of our street, and taking our trash and digging through it for evidence. My trafficker, at that point, started getting very paranoid\u2014like, \u201cOh, the Feds are watching you.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tImagine that sinking in, and thinking like: \u201cThis is <em>serious<\/em>. The Feds are <em>after<\/em> you. This is no joke. I\u2019m going to lose my baby to the state! I\u2019m going to end up in prison. I can\u2019t do this; I\u2019ve got to figure this out.\u201d That was real scary.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Rebecca, how did you get out?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Well, my trafficker was sentenced to 24 months in prison for tax evasion. He had a self-surrender date that was coming up, and he ended up violently attacking the little boy in the home. [Emotion in voice] I remember rushing my daughter to her room and shutting her in, and saying, \u201cDon\u2019t come out until mommy comes and gets you.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen I called my aunt, who worked at a domestic violence shelter. I told her what happened; she said, \u201cThat\u2019s going to happen to your little girl.\u201d I said, \u201cNo, no, he loves her.\u201d She said: \u201cShe\u2019s seven and compliant; at fifteen, when she talks back for the first time, that will happen to your little girl.\u201d That hit me; I knew she was right. I knew, as soon as you disrespected or said something you weren\u2019t supposed to say, that you would be hurt. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI packed up everything I could as soon as he left to go tell his mom he was going to prison for tax evasion, and I grabbed my girl and ran. I asked my mom to put our plane tickets on her credit card, which she, of course, did. But it made me think\u2014later on, when I started getting involved in the anti-trafficking work\u2014it made me think about all the young women or young people out there, who don\u2019t have a mom to call. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca: <\/strong>A <em>huge<\/em> percentage of trafficked people in our country come from foster care. In my state\u2014in the state of Oregon\u201495 percent of trafficked teens have been in foster care since age 2. They don\u2019t have anyone to call; they don\u2019t have anywhere to go. I think that\u2019s why anti-trafficking efforts are <em>so valuable<\/em>, because there are people who want to run. There are people who <em>need<\/em> to run, and have a moment when they can; but they don\u2019t know who to call, and they don\u2019t know where to go. We need the people of God to rise up and help become defenders and protectors of our widows and our orphans, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> For those young women, who are listening right now, who are being trafficked, where should they go?\u2014what should they do if they don\u2019t have a family or a mother to call?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> If someone\u2019s listening, that\u2019s being trafficked, right now I would tell you: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou\u2019re not alone. You don\u2019t have to live like this. There are actually hundreds, if not thousands, of advocates out there, right now in this army to fight sex-for-sale, that have been fighting for you: that value you, that know you\u2019re important and you\u2019re loved; and there\u2019s resources.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know it\u2019s hard; but just like grab your suitcase and run, man, and call the 1-800 human trafficking hotline, which is 1-888-373-7888. You can also text, \u201cHELP\u201d to BEFREE.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Again, we\u2019ve been listening to a conversation that Kim Anthony had on her podcast, <em>Unfavorable Odds<\/em>, with Rebecca Bender. Rebecca has written a book that shares her story of being trafficked. The book is called <em>In Pursuit of Love<\/em>. It\u2019s a book that we\u2019ve got on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com, along with the toll-free number that Rebecca just mentioned and the text information. I\u2019ll give the number again; it\u2019s 1-888-373-7888; or you can text the word, HELP, to 233-733; that\u2019s BEFREE.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you listen to the entire interview\u2014which, again, is available on our website as well\u2014you learn that Rebecca is married; she is raising her kids. You hear about the conversation she had with her boyfriend, who is now her husband\u2014where she had to say, \u201cThis is my past\u201d; and how that went\u2014and what it meant for her to open up and be honest about that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And to hear that a woman, like Rebecca, can have a new life brings hope. You hear this story and you think there\u2019s only going to be darkness at the end of this, and there\u2019s <em>light<\/em>. Jesus actually can do that in all of our lives if we take a step toward Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I get a little fiery about it because I think, \u201cWe need to be praying, because this is going on in our country.\u201d People <em>aren\u2019t<\/em> talking about it, and they\u2019re starting to acknowledge it; but we need to be <em>praying<\/em> that God will set these women free. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; well, again, you can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, to listen to Kim Anthony\u2019s entire podcast interview with Rebecca Bender. It\u2019s the <em>Unfavorable Odds<\/em> podcast. You\u2019ll find a link on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com. There\u2019s information about Rebecca\u2019s ministry\/about her book. All of that\u2019s available at FamilyLifeToday.com. If you have any questions, we can help you. Give us a call at 1-800-FL-TODAY\u20141-800-358-6329\u2014 that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe hope you have a very good weekend. I hope you can join us back on Monday. We\u2019re going to talk about how to raise daughters, who are confident in who they are, especially when the culture is trying to press them into who they <em>ought<\/em> to be. Maria Furlough is going to join us to talk about that. We hope you can be here as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. Have a great weekend. We will see you Monday for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry. 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Anthony talks with human trafficking expert Rebecca Bender. Bender fell into prostitution through the encouragement of her boyfriend who was a trafficker, and explains how she turned to drugs and eventually overdosed. Bender tells how she eventually escaped.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/fl2020-04-24.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>When Rebecca Bender\u2019s boyfriend turned out to be not a boyfriend at all but instead a human trafficker, Rebecca\u2019s life had already taken a downward spiral. She was a single parent; now, she was a drug addict, a victim of domestic violence, and desperate. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> My mom had shown up to take my daughter from me. She thought I\u2019d just become a drug addict; no one knew I was being trafficked. I don\u2019t think any small-town family thinks, \u201cHuman trafficking!\u201d\u2014right? You think, \u201cSomething\u2019s wrong with Becky.\u201d That\u2019s what they would say: \u201cSomething\u2019s wrong. Is she on drugs? Is she in domestic violence?\u201d Everyone thought domestic violence because I <em>was<\/em> being beaten; but no one realized that it was to keep me in compliance.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, April 24<sup>th<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I'm Bob Lepine. We\u2019ll hear Rebecca Bender\u2019s story today and hear how God delivered her from the desperation she was in. Stay with us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I don\u2019t think you guys have had a chance to hear this\u2014today, what we\u2019re going to hear. I recently listened to an interview that Kim Anthony\u2014who has a podcast that\u2019s part of the FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> podcast network called <em>Unfavorable Odds<\/em>\u2014Kim is telling stories\/introducing us to people who have, in the middle of very difficult life circumstances, found hope and redemption and help and healing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe interviewed Rebecca Bender recently. Rebecca\u2019s story is one of those stories that\u2014this is happening all around us\u2014but we don\u2019t see it; we don\u2019t know it. It\u2019s a story of being trafficked\/being led into prostitution\u2014how she got trapped in that\/how she didn\u2019t have any hope of getting out of that\u2014and how God met her in the midst of that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat you guys are going to hear, and what our audience is going to hear, really is a <em>remarkable<\/em> story of redemption. I think we have to remember, as we listen to this, whatever the desperate circumstances that people are in, there is no circumstance that is beyond God\u2019s ability to step in and to rescue and redeem. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> This story, from the little I know, is a testament to that. Just as I looked at the details, I\u2019m like: \u201cOnly God could take this life from the pit and do what God does. Only God can do this.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It\u2019s also a reminder that God can take our <em>mess<\/em> and make it our message. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s happened with Rebecca.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You\u2019re going to hear that today as we pick up the interview. This went on for almost an hour-and-a-half. If you listen to the podcast, you can listen to the entire interview. Rebecca met a guy; they became boyfriend and girlfriend. They moved from her hometown to Las Vegas. Everything was moving forward in their relationship. She was not following Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne night, he suggested they try a game; and that game was that she would sleep with somebody else, and they would make money doing it. That was the introduction that ultimately led to this being the regular practice. This was how they made money\u2014he was trafficking his girlfriend as a way to make money. She was trapped in it, because she was dependent on the money she was making in order to survive. That\u2019s where Kim picks the story up as we listen to this excerpt from her podcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[<em>Unfavorable Odds <\/em>Podcast]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> This was a man who was telling you that he loved you; yet, he was selling you to other men. Did that ever raise a red flag for you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Absolutely; I mean, I think that\u2019s partly why he got sick of me constantly crying and saying, \u201cThis isn\u2019t what you promised me.\u201d I can actually remember a time\u2014we would get in physical fights quite a bit, and a domestic violence call had been called on our apartment\u2014I can remember once he slapped me across the face, and he left. I remember just falling to the floor in the kitchen and just crying. I wiped my mouth, and I saw blood on my hand. I remember thinking: \u201cWhat more can I do to make him love me? I\u2019ve crossed lines I\u2019d never crossed. I\u2019ve done things I swear I\u2019ve never done. This wasn\u2019t what he promised me. He calls it the game, but this isn\u2019t a game to me. This is my life!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLater on, when I finally met Jesus, I can remember the first time\u2014within the first few months of getting saved\u2014the Lord brought that memory to my mind of sitting on the kitchen floor. I remember hearing the voice of God say to me: \u201cThat\u2019s how I feel about you. What more can I do to make you love Me? I\u2019ve given My life to the point of being crucified on a cross. What more can I do to make you love Me?\u201d I wept because I would never want to give Jesus the same kind of heartbreak that I know I\u2019ve felt in my life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Before you met Jesus, how did you cope with living with that lifestyle?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> I ended up using a lot of drugs and alcohol to cope, in the beginning. I became addicted to cocaine by the age of 21; I was a full-blown addict. If my dealer wasn\u2019t around or available, I\u2019d resort to any drugs\u2014smoke crack, bent over in the floorboard of a car. I can remember hitting my pretty lowest of low at that moment, thinking, \u201cI\u2019ve really crossed some lines.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t know, in our brain, where we make these invisible lines; right?\u2014like, \u201cI\u2019m not an addict if I don\u2019t shoot needles,\u201d is what I kind of thought in my brain. But then, when I\u2019m hunched down on the floorboard of a car, smoking crack, I thought, \u201cWow; I really am an addict, and I need help.\u201d I definitely self-medicated to cope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Tell me about the night that you and your friend, Amy, decided to hang out. Do you remember that night?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Oh, yes; Amy\u2014what we\u2019re referring to as Amy\u2014she\u2019d become a friend of mine that was also being trafficked. Her and I used drugs together frequently, and my mom had shown up to take my daughter from me. She thought I\u2019d just become a drug addict; no one knew I was being trafficked. I don\u2019t think any small-town family thinks, \u201cHuman trafficking\u201d; right? You think, \u201cNo, something\u2019s wrong with Becky.\u201d That\u2019s what they would say: \u201cSomething\u2019s wrong. Is she on drugs? Is she in domestic violence?\u201d Everyone thought domestic violence, because I <em>was<\/em> being beaten; but no one realized that it was to keep me in compliance.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca: <\/strong>My mom had taken my daughter. I felt, at that moment, like I had no other reason to live; and I tried to kill myself twice. The second time was with Amy; I purposely tried to overdose to kill myself. I just thought [emotion in voice]: \u201cI just want to go home to Jesus. Maybe everything would be better in heaven.\u201d I thought, \u201cMy daughter is with my mom now, so she\u2019s safe.\u201d I just didn\u2019t feel like I had any more reason to live, and I couldn\u2019t figure out a way <em>out<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Did you know Jesus at this time?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> My grandma was a praying grandma. She took me to Sunday school when I was a little girl if I\u2019d spend weekends with her. She was always in charge of the vacation Bible school in our town, so I\u2019d go to VBS every summer. She would take me to AWANA. I can remember memorizing verses as a Spark for Jesus: \u201c\u2019Sparks\u2019 to light the world.\u201d I can remember that still to this day. I was like six\u2014and here I am, thirty-eight\u2014and can still remember the song; so clearly, it works! [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYes, I had a <em>view<\/em> of Jesus; I probably was a little bit skewed. My parents never went to church. My parents weren\u2019t living for the Lord, but my grandma did. My praying grandma really made a difference in my life for sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut they don\u2019t teach you about Rahab and Tamar. [Laughter]. They don\u2019t teach you that in Sunday school; they\u2019re teaching you much more age-appropriate stories. [Laughter] I didn\u2019t realize that Jesus <em>loved<\/em> girls like me. He loved Mary Magdalene; He trusted Rahab\u2014He <em>loves<\/em> girls like me. [Emotion in voice] I didn\u2019t know it; I felt so ashamed that God would never love people like me anymore. I was unsure how to even change some of my behaviors or mindsets. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just kept crying out, with Amy, that I wanted to go home. I kept trying to overdose on drugs; I eventually blacked out. I don\u2019t really remember how I got to the hospital, but I woke up in a hospital. They thought that my brain was hemorrhaging, that I had overdosed; they wanted to do a CAT scan. I just remember thinking, \u201cI\u2019m going to get in trouble from my trafficker\u201d; so I ripped the monitors out. They made me sign an AMA\u2014Against Medical Advice\u2014that if I died, they wouldn\u2019t be held liable. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI woke up, several days later, in the back of a car. I can remember waking up, feeling like I couldn\u2019t breathe. I never had any medical problems since. I don\u2019t know what happened. I don\u2019t know if Jesus healed me; I don\u2019t know if He stopped me from dying. All I know was the doctors were concerned; and I woke up, three days later, in the back of a car\u2014healthy and fine\u2014and ready to get help.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> \u201c\u2026ready to get help\u201d; so who did you turn to for that help?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> I called my mom and I said, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m ready to go to rehab.\u201d I believe my mom and my grandma\u2014maybe my aunt, I\u2019m sure, collaborated\u2014got me a list of rehabs. There was a list of several rehabs, that they gave me over the phone, I wrote down on a piece of paper. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of them was a Christian rehab; and I thought, \u201cI ain\u2019t going to no Christian rehab.\u201d [Laughter] I remember saying, \u201cThese Christians ain\u2019t got a <em>clue<\/em> what life on the streets is like. I ain\u2019t doing it!\u201d [Laughter]\u00a0 Nowhere had vacancy but the Christian rehab; that\u2019s just how God works. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim: <\/strong>Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca: <\/strong>Everywhere\u2014\u201cNo vacancy,\u201d\u2014everywhere I called.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> So you went back to Oregon, and you went to Victory Outreach; was it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Yes, I went back to Oregon. I left\u2014I just left it all\u2014I left every couch, every piece of clothing; I just packed up a bag. I left my vehicle in the airport parking. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just remember leaving a voicemail to my \u201cboyfriend,\u201d saying: \u201cI can\u2019t do this. This isn\u2019t a game to me; this is my life! This isn\u2019t what you promised me. I\u2019m going to go get clean. I\u2019ve got to get my daughter back.\u201d I think he was pretty happy to let me go. I was kind of the trouble girl out of everyone he had\u2014just because I was <em>so in love<\/em>, and I was <em>so hurt<\/em>\u2014that I made that known. [Laughter] And I left a voicemail for my drug dealer that I wasn\u2019t coming back either. [Laughter] Those were two\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> \u2014two people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> \u2014two calls I made and left everything sitting there and went to Victory Outreach.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> And you encountered God there, didn\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> I had a <em>radical<\/em> encounter with God that changed my life. I was radically delivered from drugs in the blink of an eye at the altar, which I know is not everybody\u2019s experience. I\u2019m <em>so<\/em> grateful. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou hear stories; but you don\u2019t really know\u2014like: \u201cOkay, that\u2019s good for you. That\u2019s not how it works in the rest of our world,\u201d\u2014you know, I\u2019ve heard stories like that, and so to have it actually happen. I got delivered probably the first of 2003, so 16 years clean and sober\u2014never desired to use drugs or smoke cigarettes ever again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019ve been listening to an excerpt from Kim Anthony\u2019s podcast, <em>Unfavorable Odds<\/em>, an interview she did with Rebecca Bender. Again, I\u2019ll remind my listeners, if you\u2019d like to hear the <em>entire<\/em> conversation\u2014and it is riveting\u2014go to FamilyLifeToday.com. The complete podcast is available there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was interesting to hear her say, \u201cWhen you are in this lifestyle\u2026\u201d; I mean, we\u2019d all look and say, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just step away?\u201d It\u2019s not that easy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I have a friend, that grew up in Detroit, that was trafficked <em>in<\/em> Detroit. She\u2019s come to know Jesus; I\u2019ve been mentoring her for several years. That same question came to my mind, \u201cCouldn\u2019t you just walk out?\u201d But it\u2019s so complicated. There are so many things that are going on that I don\u2019t think any of us really understand the magnitude of the hurt, of the addiction, of the pain, of the <em>fear<\/em> that\u2019s going on in these women\u2019s lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s also interesting\u2014Rebecca talks about being healed. Yet, healing sometimes is a moment; many times it\u2019s a <em>life<\/em>. She\u2019s going to <em>continue<\/em> to be healed as she goes forward, as we\u2019ll hear.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> She was healed from drugs, and from alcohol, and from cigarette smoking; but she met another guy. What she thought was maybe going to be a different kind of relationship wound up being the same kind of relationship she had been in before\u2014and was back into being trafficked. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[<em>Unfavorable Odds <\/em>Podcast]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> So was this new place [with new boyfriend] your ticket out?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Man, this place ended up being worse than I\u2019d ever, ever seen or experienced\u2014so intense brainwashing and so much <em>extreme<\/em> violence. I\u2019d been beaten so much that I had my face broken in five places: my palate cracked, my nose twice, my maxillofacial [jaw], of my turbinate\u2019s [nasal cavity] impounded. I actually had to have surgery several years ago because I wasn\u2019t equalizing when flying, so I would have lots of pain when flying. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI didn\u2019t even know that this kind of abuse happened other than on movies. It was <em>very<\/em> extreme; I started to feel like I was going crazy. Living in that kind of fear really affects your psychology. I felt like this guy\u2019s following\u2014I\u2019d get out of the car and try to check my mirrors for\u2014I was so paranoid I thought cameras were in my car. He would tell me conversations that I\u2019d have in private\u2014he\u2019d repeat to me\u2014which made me think he was listening or following. He would randomly show up, where I was\u2014made me think he had a tracking device. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI mean, it was <em>extreme<\/em>; I thought, \u201cI\u2019m going crazy; I have got to get out of this.\u201d I literally felt like my mind was slipping away from me, and I started feeling like, \u201cI\u2019m going crazy,\u201d\u2014like\u2014\u201cI don\u2019t know how to get out of this! I feel really, really trapped.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI started one night\u2014I just remember beating my head against the floor. We had this marble bathroom; and I just remember beating my head against the floor, feeling like [emotion in voice]: \u201cI\u2019m going crazy. I don\u2019t know how to get out of this anymore\u201d; like this was <em>really<\/em> extreme. Whereas, before, I was trapped from love\u2014I was in these mental chains from love\u2014and now I\u2019m physically being abused <em>daily<\/em>. My brain is slipping away; and \u201cI don\u2019t know how to get out of this anymore.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Did you ever think about Jesus and the relationship you had developed with Him during these times?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Absolutely. My first time back, right after I had left Victory Outreach, I can remember actually feeling like I could actually <em>see<\/em> the demonic a little bit in people\u2014like their face is shifted when they would buy me. That didn\u2019t last very long, though, if I\u2019m honest. It lasted about a day or two, and I must have grieved the Spirit. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I can remember praying over myself. Victory Outreach is a Pentecostal church. I can remember going full Pentecostal, like, \u201cI bind the spirit of rage in the name of Jesus and loosen the spirit of peace over my home.\u201d I would pray like that over myself while being trafficked, and I just imagined that Jesus was sitting next to me in the car. I just felt like: \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do anymore God. I don\u2019t know how to get out of this. [Emotion in voice] I\u2019ve gotten myself into some stuff that\u2019s real dangerous, and I don\u2019t know what to do.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe showed up again; He always comes through. I\u2019m so grateful\u2014just what a mighty God we serve.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> How did He show up, Rebecca?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> 2006\u2014the Feds raided the Dallas home that the other victims were in there. They had warrants for my trafficker and the wife-in-law that had recruited me. They had a warrant for their arrest, but they weren\u2019t there; they were in Vegas. At that point, we knew the Feds had been watching us. They took the other two women in. They were hoping to build a case of trafficking against our trafficker in hopes that the victims would talk. But everyone was way too afraid, and way too brainwashed or traumatized, so no one would talk. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt that point, we learned from those women, being released on bail, and starting to begin a potential plea deal for whatever charges were going to stick. We knew that they had been surveilling us for 18 months. They had been badging our trash man\/pulling our trash man over, at the end of our street, and taking our trash and digging through it for evidence. My trafficker, at that point, started getting very paranoid\u2014like, \u201cOh, the Feds are watching you.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tImagine that sinking in, and thinking like: \u201cThis is <em>serious<\/em>. The Feds are <em>after<\/em> you. This is no joke. I\u2019m going to lose my baby to the state! I\u2019m going to end up in prison. I can\u2019t do this; I\u2019ve got to figure this out.\u201d That was real scary.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> Rebecca, how did you get out?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Well, my trafficker was sentenced to 24 months in prison for tax evasion. He had a self-surrender date that was coming up, and he ended up violently attacking the little boy in the home. [Emotion in voice] I remember rushing my daughter to her room and shutting her in, and saying, \u201cDon\u2019t come out until mommy comes and gets you.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen I called my aunt, who worked at a domestic violence shelter. I told her what happened; she said, \u201cThat\u2019s going to happen to your little girl.\u201d I said, \u201cNo, no, he loves her.\u201d She said: \u201cShe\u2019s seven and compliant; at fifteen, when she talks back for the first time, that will happen to your little girl.\u201d That hit me; I knew she was right. I knew, as soon as you disrespected or said something you weren\u2019t supposed to say, that you would be hurt. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI packed up everything I could as soon as he left to go tell his mom he was going to prison for tax evasion, and I grabbed my girl and ran. I asked my mom to put our plane tickets on her credit card, which she, of course, did. But it made me think\u2014later on, when I started getting involved in the anti-trafficking work\u2014it made me think about all the young women or young people out there, who don\u2019t have a mom to call. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca: <\/strong>A <em>huge<\/em> percentage of trafficked people in our country come from foster care. In my state\u2014in the state of Oregon\u201495 percent of trafficked teens have been in foster care since age 2. They don\u2019t have anyone to call; they don\u2019t have anywhere to go. I think that\u2019s why anti-trafficking efforts are <em>so valuable<\/em>, because there are people who want to run. There are people who <em>need<\/em> to run, and have a moment when they can; but they don\u2019t know who to call, and they don\u2019t know where to go. We need the people of God to rise up and help become defenders and protectors of our widows and our orphans, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Kim:<\/strong> For those young women, who are listening right now, who are being trafficked, where should they go?\u2014what should they do if they don\u2019t have a family or a mother to call?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> If someone\u2019s listening, that\u2019s being trafficked, right now I would tell you: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou\u2019re not alone. You don\u2019t have to live like this. There are actually hundreds, if not thousands, of advocates out there, right now in this army to fight sex-for-sale, that have been fighting for you: that value you, that know you\u2019re important and you\u2019re loved; and there\u2019s resources.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know it\u2019s hard; but just like grab your suitcase and run, man, and call the 1-800 human trafficking hotline, which is 1-888-373-7888. You can also text, \u201cHELP\u201d to BEFREE.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Again, we\u2019ve been listening to a conversation that Kim Anthony had on her podcast, <em>Unfavorable Odds<\/em>, with Rebecca Bender. Rebecca has written a book that shares her story of being trafficked. The book is called <em>In Pursuit of Love<\/em>. It\u2019s a book that we\u2019ve got on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com, along with the toll-free number that Rebecca just mentioned and the text information. I\u2019ll give the number again; it\u2019s 1-888-373-7888; or you can text the word, HELP, to 233-733; that\u2019s BEFREE.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you listen to the entire interview\u2014which, again, is available on our website as well\u2014you learn that Rebecca is married; she is raising her kids. You hear about the conversation she had with her boyfriend, who is now her husband\u2014where she had to say, \u201cThis is my past\u201d; and how that went\u2014and what it meant for her to open up and be honest about that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And to hear that a woman, like Rebecca, can have a new life brings hope. You hear this story and you think there\u2019s only going to be darkness at the end of this, and there\u2019s <em>light<\/em>. Jesus actually can do that in all of our lives if we take a step toward Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I get a little fiery about it because I think, \u201cWe need to be praying, because this is going on in our country.\u201d People <em>aren\u2019t<\/em> talking about it, and they\u2019re starting to acknowledge it; but we need to be <em>praying<\/em> that God will set these women free. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; well, again, you can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, to listen to Kim Anthony\u2019s entire podcast interview with Rebecca Bender. It\u2019s the <em>Unfavorable Odds<\/em> podcast. You\u2019ll find a link on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com. There\u2019s information about Rebecca\u2019s ministry\/about her book. All of that\u2019s available at FamilyLifeToday.com. If you have any questions, we can help you. Give us a call at 1-800-FL-TODAY\u20141-800-358-6329\u2014 that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe hope you have a very good weekend. I hope you can join us back on Monday. We\u2019re going to talk about how to raise daughters, who are confident in who they are, especially when the culture is trying to press them into who they <em>ought<\/em> to be. Maria Furlough is going to join us to talk about that. We hope you can be here as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. Have a great weekend. We will see you Monday for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry. 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