Vision for Women

Vision for Women is the women’s ministry of Vision Beyond Borders. VFW seeks to meet the spiritual and physical needs of our sisters in Christ around the world. Our vision is to seek to come alongside and assist believers in other countries as they work to reach out to women and girls who have been abandoned by their families to abuse. We are striving to bring them the hope of Jesus Christ and to minister to their needs right where they are with the prayer that God will move in a mighty way on their behalf to rescue them spiritually and physically from the abuse they receive.

Vision Beyond Borders works in many of the world’s poorest countries. This extreme poverty results in malnutrition, disease, illiteracy, and often deep spiritual depravity. Little value is placed on the women and girls in many of these countries. Many of them are being sold into sex slavery by members of their own families for between $600 - $1,000, depending on their age and beauty. Sadly, a water buffalo can be purchased for $700.

In Nepal alone, an estimated 250,000 women and girls have been sold into sex slavery to work in the brothels of India. They refer to themselves as “the walking dead” for they are without hope. Girls as young as seven have been sold into slavery. These women and girls are confined in a room called “the cage” where they are beaten, starved, and raped until their will is broken. They are then forced to service customers to repay their debt – a debt that incurs more in interest than they are paid for their services.

Some men in India believe that if they have AIDS or venereal disease and have sex with a virgin they will be healed. They will pay up to $500 to have sex with a virgin girl as young as seven years of age. Birth control consists of dangerous abortions performed in the brothels. The majority of these women end up with tuberculosis, HIV and, eventually, AIDS. Those with diseases are cast out into the streets to die alone.

Even if they are not sold, they very often are expected to work in areas of hard physical labor to make money to help feed their families. We have often visited a rock quarry where the younger women haul large rocks in a basket on their back up out of the quarry. They give the rocks to older women and children who use hammers to break the rocks into quarter-size pieces to sell. They are lucky if they make 50 cents a day.

We are currently assisting two women in India who regularly go into the brothels of India to minister to the women. They have been allowed to visit with the women and have invited them into their homes for fellowship and meals. They are able to be with them through all the situations the women face, from beatings to hospital visits, as they become sick and die. These two ladies have been used by God to reach women with the message of Jesus.

We are also assisting a woman in Nepal to acquire skills necessary to open a tailoring shop and equip it; then, as the shop grows, she will employ women rescued from abuse. We have begun to help women in Nepal learn to read and write in order to enhance their chances of obtaining better work positions.

Please commit to pray with us that God will continue to show us how to more effectively reach the women in these, and other, countries with His love and the saving knowledge of Jesus as we work to meet their needs. If you would like to be more actively involved please feel free to contact us. May God bless you.

Vision For Women
P.O. Box 6770
Sheridan, WY 82801
Phone: 307-672-5995
vfw@vbbonline.org