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a blessing our way, except I hadn ' t really thought about the airplane. Several hours later, I looked on trade-a-plane. com and the first ad that popped up was for a Cessna P210— the same type of plane that Bob in the Bible study told me about. The ad simply said:“ I want to donate this plane to a nonprofit.” After staring at the ad in disbelief, I emailed the guy and described the vision for Invisible Angels and how the plane would be used. I got a call the next day from Bill Strong, a gentleman who lived in Kansas City. I can ' t even remember what I said during the phone call. It was all a blur, but I remember him interrupting me and saying“ Son, son, son,... slow down. I want you to have the airplane.” He donated the airplane to Invisible Angels before we had a website, a business entity set up, or even business cards. And it was exactly the perfect plane for our mission.
Q: Can you share a rescue story that has impacted you the most?
A: There are two that come to mind. One was in 2022 when we received a call from a Homeland Security agent stating that they had a child, under 10, who was a victim of kidnapping and had been placed into child sex trafficking by his own father. The Homeland Security agent stated the father would never see the light of day again, but they needed to get the child back to his mother. We had the child back home by lunchtime the next day. The other was a story of a young girl who had been sold by her mother to several gangs and dope dealers, and she had been trafficked since she was 14. Her survival story is nothing short of a miracle. We flew halfway across the country to a wonderful safe house. The most impactful aspect of this flight was the young girl’ s story. Her rescue began long before any flight or any rescue agencies were involved. She told us that she had prayed:“ God if you ' re not going to save me from this life then please kill me.” Within minutes after that prayer, the police
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