Vicky Profitt, Executive Director of Sarah’s Home, a sanctuary for teenage girls who have survived the sex traffic industry, will be speaking at the Valley Community Church on Sunday, August 6 at 10:30 a.m.
Proffit has been the Executive Director for eight years and, since the home opened as a specialized group center, they have worked with 35 girls between the ages of 12-18.
Their faith-based program is designed to walk with each girl through the process of coming to terms with their pain and empowering them in their healing. The teenage girls have come from all over the United States.
Sex trafficking is a several, billion dollar industry, making it the second largest illegal trade in the United States following the drug trade.
Sex trafficking is defined as the use of force, fraud, or coercion to cause another to perform a commercial sex act.
According to the FBI every child is vulnerable. Every socio-economic category, every color, every size, across the board; anyone who wants to be loved and accepted.
Sarah’s Home offers individual, family, equine, art and group therapy. They have an accredited school on site which takes children from wherever they are at educationally, and goes from there. Many times, educational growth stopped when the trauma in their lives began.
Proffit is under no false hopes about when girls become whole.
“When Jesus comes. There are layers and layers and layers of healing needed,” she shares. “The biggest gift a parent can give their children is time and a sense of worth.
If they don’t get those at home, they will find it elsewhere.”
Sarah’s Home is working on Daniel Academy. They were given 35+ acres on a 2000acre ranch. The survey is done and the master plan is in the works on the $3.5 million project for which they have $700K. Daniel Academy will serve young men who have been victims of the sex trade.
Proffit will deliver the morning service message and a love offering will be taken for Sarah’s Home. All members of the community are welcome.