Rahab Ministries Thailand

Rahab Ministries Thailand (also simply called Rahab Ministries or Rahab) is a Christian non-governmental organization that provides outreach for sexually trafficked women and children in Thailand.^[1] Members of the organization visit these women in the bars of Bangkok, Thailand, offering them counselling and engaging them in friendship evangelism.^[2] The organization also offers life skills-based education to these women, teaching them cosmetology, handicrafting, hairdressing, and jewelry design.^[3] Rahab Ministries is a faith-based organization and assists women in prostitution in Thailand, such as to help them exit the sex industry.^[4] The organization is named after Rahab, a woman who successfully left prostitution and got married.^[5] The specific geographical focus of Rahab Ministries is Patpong, a red-light district.^[6] The organization was founded by Patricia Green in 1988.^[7] Green was the director of the organization until 2004, at which point local Thai people took over the leadership of the organization.^[8] Green left Rahab Ministries to work with Thai human trafficking victims in Germany.^[9] In 2010, International Christian Mission Thailand partnered with Rahab Ministries in teaching life skills-based education.^[10] Patricia Green died on March 19, 2015 in Hamilton, New Zealand, aged 77. A moving memorial service was held in Berlin at the end of May 2015

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