So much of the "why" behind The Embassy goes back to one single moment in Bangkok where my heart was crushed and I, I was shattered...
I felt myself turning into the darkness of total despair as I sat there in a bathroom in Bangkok with my head reeling unable to process what I had just seen and heard.
I had been leading a team that was serving a ministry that helps get kids and ladies out of prostitution in Bangkok.
We walked past thousands of prostitutes. But there was nothing exciting about the lights, the music or the “buzz”, because it’s underbelly was so ruthless, it just left me sick to my stomach.
As well as the stories of trafficking and seeing the girls from all over the world trafficked into Bangkok, I had just heard that nearly everywhere we had been that night even infants were available for paedophiles to satisfy their fantasies.
The hideous darkness and the scale of the issue was so big it was hard to comprehend. Then I came face to face with my most unbearable feeling. I felt insignificant.
I felt like the giants of darkness were taunting me with the lie that I could never do anything about it and I started to believe it. That’s when I felt myself falling into the darkness of total despair.
But in that moment I had one of the most powerful visions from God that I’ve ever had in my life – I saw a mass mobilisation of revivalists to the nations embodying love and bringing down the giants of darkness!
Hope was re-born in me. A vision was sparked. My heart was set ablaze.
That was in 2007. Right now, the mass mobilisation of revivalists to the nations is beginning to take place - and you can be a powerful part of the movement by connecting in with us here in The Embassy...
Benji Alexander, Director, The Embassy
The pic above is my amazing family - my wife Alanna and kids, Ezra, Zoe and Aaliyah