Most people drive past them every day and never think twice. But behind the doors of illicit massage parlors across America, women are being trafficked, moved from city to city, and living out of everything they own on their backs.

In Episode 4 of The Rachelle Starr Podcast, Rachelle and Natalie take you behind the scenes of a sting operation right here in Louisville, Kentucky that rescued five victims and arrested six owners of illicit massage parlors across five states. Natalie spent fifteen hours alongside one of those women and what she experienced that day changed her forever.

This is what it looks like when the church shows up in the darkest and most overlooked places.

In this episode we talk about:
How Scarlet Hope got involved in the sting operation
What illicit massage parlors actually are and how they operate
How women are trafficked into these establishments and kept there
What it looked like to sit with a victim for fifteen hours and build trust across every barrier
Why presence is often the most powerful thing we can offer
What the church can do to pray and get involved

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