The Mission
Your mission is to open blind eyes, to set prisoners free from dark dwellings, and to open prison doors to those who are held by darkness. Isaiah 42:7 (TPT)
Week 31, 2026
Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is the trade in people and according to the UN has three parts:
The act: recruiting, transporting, receiving people …
The means: … through force, fraud, lies, bullying, false promises …
The purpose: … for the sex trade, the drug trade, forced labour, domestic servitude, illegal adoption, sham marriage, organ removal.
Human trafficking can be any of these: a girl promised a job as a cleaner but forced into prostitution; a woman forced into marriage; a jobless young man lured into street dealing of drugs; a domestic worker having her identity documents taken away and forbidden to leave the house.
The International Labour Organization counted 25 million people in forced labour and 15 million people in forced marriage on any given day in 2016. Of these modern slavery victims, 71% were women and girls.
Human trafficking has become a more lucrative trade than arms or drug trafficking, and the penalties for being caught are generally less. As a result, there is strong incentive for traffickers to deal in humans rather than weapons or drugs.
Pray that the Christian movement will live out the gospel command to ‘set the oppressed free’ (Luke 4:18). Part of this is raising our own awareness of the exploitative practices around us; part is responding to what we learn.
Pray for God’s blessing on local, national and international initiatives to tackle human trafficking. Some Christian groups, such as the Salvation Army, have a distinguished history in this fight, stretching back more than a century.
Pray for discernment in law-enforcement agencies. Often they catch low-level criminals (prostitutes, drug sellers or cannabis farmers for example) while missing the powerful networks who trafficked them into crime.
The Nations
The Korean peninsula was divided at the end of WWII into a Communist North and a capitalist South. Christianity has been present in the Korean peninsula since Catholic missions entered in the 17th century.
NORTH KOREA
North Korea (population 25.6 million) is a famously bellicose, reclusive and repressive state, propped up by China, and ruled by generations of the Kim family. According to North Korea’s own website it is ‘a genuine workers' state in which all the people are completely liberated from exploitation and oppression.’ According to the UN, ‘The gravity, scale, duration and nature of the unspeakable atrocities committed in [North Korea] reveal a totalitarian State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.’
North Korea has been for decades the world’s worst persecutor of Christians. According to the agency Open Doors, out of an underground Christian population of 200,000 to 400,000 people, around 50,000-70,000 Christians are imprisoned, in dreadful conditions.
SOUTH KOREA
South Korea – in contrast – has seen the gospel produce a great harvest. The Church grew powerfully in the second half of the twentieth century, alongside a rising tide of national prosperity, to around 30% of the 51 million population. It was blessed by fervent prayer and revival. South Korea is home to some of the world’s largest churches. It is second only to the USA in sending missionaries overseas. Christians are prominent and influential in politics and business.
These harvest years may have passed unless God intervenes. Church growth has stagnated since the 1990s, and the Church struggles with scandal, wealth, splits and power struggles.
North Korea: Pray ‘for protection for secret believers, for comfort for imprisoned believers, and that one day soon the people of North Korea will be free to follow Jesus without fear’ (Open Doors).
South Korea: Praise God for this remarkable, indigenous Asian Church. Pray that South Korean Christianity will regain its first love for Jesus.
Pray for the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula through Christ.
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Germany Mission Trip
I will be leading a team to Germany in July 2026, to partner with our Riverstone missionaries there.
The team will be returning to a YWAM base we visited last year in Bad Blankenburg. Our outreach will be in a prophetic prayer support function for a 4 day worship event in Bad Blankenburg, We will also spend our time in strategic prayer for the city as well as the YWAM Base. We believe Bad Blankenburg is on the cusp of a spiritual breakthrough and our assignment is to pray into this breakthrough. During this prayer journey we will be pouring ourselves out to bless the country of Germany and ask God to return it to its true destiny.
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Any Finanical and/or Prayer support is greatly appreciated.
Heading today (7/21) for Bad Blankenburg!
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This coming July, I will have the opportunity to lead and be part of a short-term mission team to Germany. Our team will be assisting and come along side our missionaries Michael and Ute Danforth from RiverStone Church who have been called to minister in the South East of Germany (Chiemgau area).
The team will be returning to a YWAM base we visited last year in Bad Blankenburg. Our outreach will be in a prophetic prayer support function for a 4 day worship event in Bad Blankenburg, We will also spend our time in strategic prayer for the city as well as the YWAM Base. We believe Bad Blankenburg is on the cusp of a spiritual breakthrough and our assignment is to pray into this breakthrough. During this prayer journey we will be pouring ourselves out to bless the country of Germany and ask God to return it to its true destiny.
The details of the trip:
When: July 21st - July 29th
Where: Ministries, Key Sites in Bad Blankenburg, Germany
Cost: $2500 per team member, which covers airfare, food, lodging, and ground transportation while in Germany
Purpose: Through intercessory and prophetic prayer, minister the Love and Heart of Jesus at a worship event in Bad Blankenburg, Germany, YWAM Base and city. Prayer walk and intercede to break strongholds. Encourage and bless Michael and Ute.
Prayer Needs:
That each team member will receive financial provision.
For spiritual breakthrough to occur in the city and region.
For the people we will meet and for many to believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior.
For wisdom and guidance for each team member as we minister and pray, especially that we would be sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s leading to speak His Words of Life.
For team unity, and that the love of Jesus will flow through us.
Will you please consider sharing in this opportunity with us as the Lord leads you to pray and/or give? I especially believe prayer support is crucial in this time of preparation as well as during our trip. Please let me know if you will partner with me in prayer by sending a response via email or phone.
The team would also like to request your financial support. The total amount needed is $2500 per team member and is due before May 31st. Any amount you are lead to contribute will go toward the entire Team’s expenses although each team member is required to raise their portion. Please pray and seek the Lord to see if He would have you become a financial supporter for our Team.
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Thank you for your prayerful consideration of supporting this Team.
Blessings,
Bob Dunning
