About the Show
The production was taken from one girl’s story….
In 2002, the co-founders of Love 146 travelled to South East Asia on an exploratory trip to determine how they could serve in the fight against child sex trafficking. In one experience, a couple of our co-founders were taken undercover with investigators to a brothel, where they witnessed children being sold for sex. This was their experience. This is the story that changed our lives.
“We found ourselves standing shoulder to shoulder with predators in a small room, looking at little girls through a pane of glass. All of the girls wore red dresses with a number pinned to their dress for identification. They sat, blankly watching cartoons on TV. They were vacant, shells of what a child should be. There was no light in their eyes, no life left. Their light had been taken from them. These children…raped each night… seven, ten, fifteen times every night. They were so young. Thirteen, eleven… it was hard to tell. Sorrow covered their faces with nothingness. Except one girl. One girl who wouldn’t watch the cartoons. Her number was 146. She was looking beyond the glass. She was staring out at us, with a piercing gaze. There was still fight left in her eyes. There was still life left in this girl…
“…All of these emotions begin to wreck you. Break you. It is agony. It is aching. It is grief. It is sorrow. The reaction is intuitive, instinctive. It is visceral. It releases a wailing cry inside of you. It elicits gut-level indignation. It is unbearable. I remember wanting to break through the glass. To take her away from that place. To scoop up as many of them as I could into my arms. To take all of them away. I wanted to break through the glass to tell her to keep fighting. To not give up. To tell her that we were coming for her…”
“Because we went in as part of an ongoing, undercover investigation on this particular brothel, we were unable to immediately respond. Evidence had to be collected in order to bring about a raid, and eventually justice on those running the brothel. It is an immensely difficult problem when an immediate response cannot address an emergency. Some time later, there was a raid on this brothel and children were rescued. But the girl who wore #146 was no longer there. We do not know what happened to her, but we will never forget her. She changed the course of all of our lives.” -Rob Morris, President and Co-founder
We have taken her number so that we remember why this all started. So that we must tell her story. It is a number that was pinned to one girl, but that represents the millions enslaved. We wear her number with honor, with sorrow, and with a growing hope. Her story can be a different one for so many more.
About Heather Clark
Heather and her husband Nolan live in Kamloops BC with their 4 children. Heather is a singer/song writer, dancer/choreographer, painter and writer.
She has her own professional dance company “Collective Productions” though which she brings out a message of mercy and compassion for those who are less fortunate.
She travels internationally singing,leading worship and speaking, calling people into a greater place of wholeness, healing and freedom in their lives and in their relationship with God.
About the Venue
Address, Parking and Traveling information at The New Hazlett Theaters Website.
Heather’s Music
Spread the Word
Tall Flyer (PDF)
Heather Clark Keyboard Flyer (PDF)
About The Project to End Human Trafficking
PROJECT TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING (PEHT) is a non-profit organization
that was founded in 2004 as part of the anti-slavery movement. The initial
goal of the founders was not to begin an organization, but simply to offer
educational lectures about human trafficking. They quickly found that the need
for information about slavery was great and they consulted with similar groups,
such as Free the Slaves, to determine the best way to move forward with their
work. Today, PEHT engages in anti-trafficking coalition building, educational
outreach, direct service to victims, and collaboration with other national and
international organizations in the global fight against human trafficking.
Heather’s Videos
About Tree of Life Open Bible Church
Tree of Life Open Bible Church is a nontraditional church that meets throughout the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. Pastor Lance and Amanda Rhoades have been ministering to the community for the past 7 years. They have a heart and a passion to see the region impacted by the Spirit of God like never before. They stand strong contending that “God still believes in Pittsburgh.”
