When Irene Gleeson got the call from God to leave Australia and go to Africa, it could not have come at a more inconvenient time for her.

The horror of child sex trafficking has grown to be almost as big as the global drug trade. But the abusers can be stopped if enough of us act now.

I stood in a vacant lot in south Asia surrounded by rocks, fallen trees and the foundations of a new home. Earlier that evening, I’d had dinner with dozens of girls and young women who had been rescued from child sex trafficking—forced prostitution where they served 30 to 40 customers a night. Now they live in a beautiful safe house on the property. More girls were on the way, and the safe-house director was showing me the lot where she was building a home to house them.

Jesus warned that in the last days there would be “wars and rumors of wars” (Matt. 24:6, NKJV). He further explained, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom” (v. 7). Among the nations and kingdoms of the earth there will always be conflict.