God Rocks Part 3

I was sure I had the job description right when I told God "Use Me" (see postings God Rocks Part 1 & 2, Oct 6 & 13). God and I had wrangled back and forth for an hour during The Battle Prayer meeting. His heart melded with mine, and he expanded my compassion for the children abused and exploited in the world. I was ready to help save those babies.

I googled human trafficking, rescue and rehabilitation, crisis management, prostitution and exploitation, sex slavery , social justice. I researched volunteer positions for rescue teams, rehabilitation teams, intern programs for justice organizations.

I kept running into roadblock after roadblock. I either had to relocate to SE Asia (where most of the crimes occur) or Washington DC (where most of the justice organizations are located) or had to go back to school for a degree in medicine, social welfare, law enforcement, legal justice system, or the mental health field to be a part of a rescue and rehabilitation team, even for the domestic sex trafficking and slavery victims (in California!).


I was so discouraged. I couldn't figure out why God would give me this urgent need to help these abused children, yet close the doors.

Then I found it. A CASA. A what!? A Court Appointed Special Advocate. The clincher on the website was "CASA volunteers are ordinary people with extraordinary hearts and the desire to make a difference...one child at a time."

CASA volunteers advocate to the courts for the needs of the most vulnerable children in our society, those removed from their homes to protect them from the neglect and/or abuse (physical, emotional, and sexual) inflicted upon them from their parents or caretakers . Placed in foster care (foster families or group homes or shelters) as dependencies of the courts , CASA kids are those whose parents often relinquish parental rights, don't have other extended family, and are difficult to adopt. They can go through their whole childhood going from one foster placement to another, one school to another, having multiple social workers, lawyers, therapists, teachers. CASA's often serve as the one consistent adult in their lives and the one adult they learn to trust. CASA's may be the one adult who believes in them, loves them, gives them hope and can point them toward a future.

I think I see why God rocked me six months ago. Melding my heart with His was preparing me to be like Him , and to be like Him for a specific child.

At the time of this posting, I've completed 30 hours of training, interviewed with the CASA staff, and have been sworn to an oath of confidentiality by a Dependency Court Judge. I'll be assigned to a CASA supervisor and meet my CASA child in the near future. I'll keep you posted!