It's kind of sad that I feel like I have literally no outlet to just scream through when I have the same kinds of conversations with my dad. I've already said so many of the same things here. It's one of those nights again where I think I incurred some incremental brain damage having to listen to what he said.

It's not that I have absolutely no other outlet but at the same time, I can't just randomly text people the same way I can just randomly type stuff on the computer.

ReproductiveRights.gov (abortion access) is on the WhiteHouse.gov page.

Another fun fact:
The head of a special office makes over $200,000 a year to be the “Champion” of DEIA, and “Diversity Change Agents” are dispatched to foster “mind-set shifts” and “position diversity and inclusion” as “mission critical imperatives” for a “welcoming” workplace.

Welcome to 1984

I don't mean merely drop out of his re-election campaign, I mean straight up resign the Presidency. That would leave us with President Kamala Harris. There's murmurings out there that this could happen in the next twenty four hours.

The Committee on the Judiciary, its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the
Federal Government, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have revealed how, in
the final weeks before the 2020 presidential election, 51 former intelligence officials coordinated
with the Biden campaign to discredit serious allegations about Biden family influence peddling.1
In issuing a public statement using their official titles, these former intelligence officials sought
to cast an explosive New York Post story and Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop as “Russian
disinformation.”2 President Biden even cited to the statement in a televised debate with President
Trump shortly before the election to accuse President Trump of leveling false accusations.3 As a
result, the explosive allegations about Biden family misconduct were buried and millions of
Americans cast their votes for president without a full set of facts.

The 51 former intelligence officials’ Hunter Biden statement was a blatant political
operation from the start. It originated with a call from top Biden campaign official—and now
Secretary of State—Antony Blinken to former Deputy Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Director Michael Morell. The Committees’ investigation revealed that without this outreach from
Blinken, Morell would not have written the statement.4 Indeed, Morell told the Committees that
the Blinken phone call “triggered” his intent to write the statement.5 The statement’s drafters
were open about the goal of the project: “[W]e think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this
week’s debate”6 and “we want to give the [Vice President] a talking point to use in response.”7

The details as revealed by the Committees to date are concerning enough, but as the
Committees have continued to investigate the origins of the Hunter Biden statement, new
information has come to light. Through newly obtained internal CIA emails and testimonial
evidence, the Committees have uncovered more information on the extent to which the
intelligence community was involved in the statement. Specifically, the evidence shows:

ok so il try to sum this up to keep it short as possible. I am a wife and mother of two boys ages 2 and 4, stay at home mom working on a master's degree online, and homeschooling my older one since last year. ive been married almost 5 years. Im 32 years old. I have always disliked how my husband takes long getting out of work. he wrks in IT from home. the past 3 year especially i have hard an extremely hard time, felt so utterly lonely and neglected emotionally because he stays at work late. well, in january this year my husband was diagnosed with ADHD, he got medication and i felt like all of the conflict with him taking so long to finish his work was over. It was good for about a week and then he started just being too focused and overzealous with work trying to "make up for lost time" and being an extreme over achiever with no promised raise or promotion in sight... so its all just for him to feel better. within the last 2 years i went from being super upset at him leaving late, begging him to prioritize me and our children to try and get out on time, I then worked on my anxiety and i worked really effortfully to respect him and just pray about it and let it go. i was able to chill until around 5:30 I would get really upset again . (his shift ends at 4:30). So, i would complain and be that horrible nagging annoying wife just begging him to in tears to do SOMETHIGN to get out earlier. it never changed one bit. then i stopped complaining. I let it go and i would only get super aggravated when he would (often) just on his own tell me "dont worry baby il be out very soon" and not get out till 3 hours later... around 7. or often he would also make promises over and over constantly letting me down and i told him so many times to JUST STOP PROMISING FALSE THINGS. i told him i can deal a lot better with setting my expectations of him getting out on time very low, rather than be given false hope and being fed lies meant to reassure. I became SO bitter at him for this. eventually, for the past 2 months, even if he made a false promise, I stayed quiet. I set my mind to the fact that he will never be out on time. I completely stopped askign when he will be out and comepletely stopped telling him how much it hurts feeling alone parenting the kids. and since i stopped, he is now at a consistent record late time of about 8:30 every single day..... so from 7:30 to 8:30pm.... im alone with the kids. he used to help during nap time and give me that rest, now he doesnt. he works, but half the time he is on youtube or on random forums in chat groups talking about music, or just playign guitar in his room, or just in the bathroom for hours on his phone. I have stayed quiet and my kids MISS their dad. i MISS him. I feel so neglected. every saturday i hope that he would want to do somethign with me and the kids, but he always says he wants his "autonomy" and prefers to stay home and have his freedom... I respect that and just say OK in the nicest way possible, but its almost like a routine now on saturdays on my way to the car i hold in my tears and then just cry in the car trying the kids not to hear me. i feel so utterly alone. Sundays, after church, i hope for some time together, but he wants to sleep or he just complains endlessly about not having his time. I cant believe how neglected our family is and I know he loves us but this is SO WRONG. he says he is "workign hard to provide" but we want his presense... his eyes... his ears... his smile.. his arms to hug and hold us and love us and just be interested in me and the kids... even when he says "ok fine lets do what YOU want to do" all bitterly, he sits in the couch and complains about me to no end or if hes in an upbeat mood, he says "im going to clean up the kitchen, you just relax and stay with the kids... but again he just does anything to escape being with us. it hurts so freaking bad. i feel so dam alone. today was a breaking point because our son have a bible club to go to and its kinda far so he said he will do his best to make sure he gets out on time so we can all go togeher. i get back from the park, sweating from 100 degree weather, straining my back with the weight of groceries i carried WITH my two kids up 4 flights of stairs all alone jsut to find him singing recording music for fun on his laptop... I guess i might as well just mentally prepare to go it alone tonight as always. I tried telling him that his family needs him and i feel like a single parent SERIOUSLY. i feel so underapprecaited, so unloved and unwanted, and all we get from him is anger and bitterness EVEN THOUGH he has saturdays to himself away from us at home, and Monay-Friday 13 hours in his room doing his own thing. I JUST wish he would WANT to spend time with us. this is killing me. im not going to talk to him about it cuz he doesnt listen to me. he doesnt think it matters. he just tells me to be quiet all the time and to just get out of God's way. i get that. but ive let it all go and its never been THIS bad for THIS long. im so so so angry and SAD at the same time. i just feel so alone.. i feel hopeless that he will ever care to spend with us. *sigh* thank you if you read this whole thing. please pray for me and my children and my husband. i know God will carry us through this but... how do i get through this difficult time?? thank you all in advance. please give me your opinions, any feedback, advice for what i can do to not feel so bad.. thank you.

(OSV News) — Catholic activists criticized a recent announcement by Indiana’s governor that his administration would seek to resume the use of the death penalty in the Hoosier state after obtaining the lethal drugs used to carry out executions.

Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network, a group that opposes capital punishment, told OSV News that it has been “15 years since Indiana’s last execution — a hiatus brought on in part because of the state’s struggle to purchase lethal injection drugs.”

“Like many other states, Indiana has been met with difficulty in procuring lethal injection drugs after the pharmaceutical companies which provide them have opted not to have their products be used to kill,” she said.

Statement from Gov. Holcomb and AG Rokita​

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Hi everyone, something interesting, I have noticed this- I live in Dauphin county, PA, it is in central PA near the state capitol Harrisburg. Cumberland county is just to the southwest. I have noticed something about Cumberland county! There may be a good spirit that is from God that is over Cumberland county! I have been down there many times and there is a very pleasant atmosphere there, the whole county is peaceful! There is a big difference in the atmosphere in Cumberland county vs the Harrisburg area!

5583 days (15,3 years) of growing in total. This is a compilation of some of my favorite videos I've done in the last 4 years, in no particular order. Many more to come! About 30 minutes.

As a follower of Jesus, I believe in treating every human being with civility and grace. And to be quite specific, I believe in loving my LGBT neighbor as myself. At the same time, because I care for the greater good of society and believe that God’s ways are best, I oppose many of the goals of LGB activism. That’s why I was glad to see a much-more diminished version of Pride Month in 2024. The pushback, which I have been expecting for years, continues to grow.

Last year, things were so over the top and in your face that the longtime gay ally Piers Morgan asked, “Have we gone rainbow crazy or is pride month more important than patriotism?” And in response to a challenge from a gay comedian, Morgan answered, “I’m not triggered by a rainbow flag. I’m triggered by the fact that everywhere that I go for a month everything has to be a rainbow flag.”

Last year, things got so extreme with Target’s “tuck” bathing suits for males who identified as females (including children) that Joe Rogan commented, “When I go to Target, I don’t wanna see like [expletive] tuck pants. They’re designed to help you tuck your [expletive]. Like, hey, that’s not normal.”

Last year we were also in the thick of the Bud Light boycott, with Rogan calling the so-called “transgender influencer” Dylan Mulvaney “a confused person.” As for Kid Rock, he let his gun do the talking (before adding some choice expletives).

Already, by the end of last year, Kid Rock had softened his stance, saying that Bud “‘deserved a black eye and they got one’ for the partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, but then added he’s over the boycott. ‘So, do I want to hold their head underwater and drown them because they made a mistake? No, I think they got the message.’”

It would be hard to miss a message that cost you more than one billion dollars.

Target got the message too.

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This is not the first time that Biden's Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, has had to work with a "doomed candidate". She penned an article in Salon back in 2020 talking about her time working on the John Edwards' campaign.



Source: https://www.salon.com/2020/02/17/what-its-like-working-for-a-doomed-presidential-candidate/

It would seem she has had plenty of training for this moment.

The Republican candidate said in a rally that inflation is at 30% (it's 3%) and that solar-powered planes couldn't fly in the dark.

Commercial drones, including those used in the military in our defense, are hybrids or solar-powered with battery packs.

A solar drone with a battery pack can go as long as 25 days. With a larger battery it could conceivably go indefinitely.

They are silent and efficient. Commercial planes are being researched.

Is this man, who invents facts based on ignorance abd prejudice, competent to be president?

God has given the `Times and Seasons` for us to know when it is His Appointed Time for the Rapture for the Body of Christ.



The Festival Season of Lights is fulfilled when the Lord returns to deliver Israel. That event is right in the middle of Israel`s 8 day festival – 29th Kislev.

Then the Feast of Purim is fulfilled when the Lord has overcome Israel`s enemies and they celebrate their National Deliverance – 15th Adar.

In between those two dates is the end of the 7 years – 29th Tevet.



If the 7 years starts in 2025 then when we count back 7 years from the 29th of Tevet and we come to the 12th of Adar. That is the 12th of March in our Solar Calendar. (see chart at the end of the book for Israel`s Lunar (moon) Calendar and our Solar (sun) Calendar.)



Knowing the seasons has helped us to gain an insight into when the 7 years start, and the Peace treaty will occur. If it is next year, 2025 then it will be 12th March.

Is there something more in God`s word to help us?



Yes, the prophet Joel`s prophecy which is very important. We read –

`Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the Day of the LORD is coming, for it is at hand.

A Day of darkness and gloominess, a Day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains, a people come, great and strong, the like of whom has never been; nor will there ever be any such after them, even for many successive generations.` (Joel 2: 1 & 2)

It will take many days even weeks for this great army to gather, so huge is it. The media will be following its build up and journey towards Israel. This is our time to get ready to be caught away to be with the Lord.



May we all `watch` and be ready!

uke 9:

59 He [Jesus] said to another man [M1], “Follow me.”
But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

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Wasn't Jesus a bit harsh?

No, according to Smith's Bible Commentary:

And Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury their dead: but you go and preach the kingdom of God (Luke 9:60 ).
You say, "Wow, how cold and insensitive Jesus must have been. Wouldn't even allow this fellow to go and attend his father's funeral. Why anybody lets you off work to attend your dad's funeral." But that phrase, "Allow me first to bury my father," is an interesting phrase of procrastination. It doesn't mean that your father is dead. It is a phrase that they still use to the present day, that says, I want to stick around home for a while. I want to wait till my father dies, and then I'll come. And it didn't mean that his father was dead and was ready to be buried, because they always buried people within two hours after they were dead. So when he says, "Allow me first to bury my father," he is saying, "Maybe down the road a ways, I've got a few things I want to do first, and down the road a ways maybe I'll do it. Me first."

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Likewise, Barclay's Daily Study Bible:

Jesus' words to the second man sound harsh, but they need not be so. In all probability the man's father was not dead, and not even nearly dead. His saying most likely meant, "I will follow you after my father has died." An English official in the East tells of a very brilliant young Arab who was offered a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge. His answer was, "I will take it after I have buried my father." At the time his father was not much more than forty years of age.

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Henry's Complete Commentary on the Bible expressed a similar sentiment. This interpretation of Luke 9:60 is consistent with Moses' commanded in Exodus 20:

12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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M1 dishonored his father.

Was Jesus discouraging M1 from honoring his family?

No, Jesus was not against proper respect for the dead, but rather he was challenging M1 to reorient his priorities and recognize the urgency of Jesus's mission.

See also

• No one who puts his hand to the plow and LOOKS BACK is fit for the kingdom of God

I over heard a male coworker, 20-something Christian gent about a woman breaking up with him. They dated 3 months, a very good relationship. Even both families of either side approved of each other. There wasn't anything wrong with the relationship, she just felt she couldn't date right now.

But the reason for the break up was mostly due in part of her being more heavily involved in her church activities and college classes to the point where she thought that a relationship would be a distraction. She prayed that he would find another gal soon, or that maybe later in life, their paths may cross again.

Something that stood out to me though, he said SHE was focused on career, and him...both career AND marriage. Apparently she can't do both?

I think you'd rarely see a man breaking up with a woman for the same reason she's breaking up with him though. As I'm the same way when a woman says, "I can't date right now, I am focused <insert life goals here>. I'm like "Can you not do both?"

This was the apostle Paul speaking. And before he became the apostle Paul, when he was called Saul, he was a persecutor of the church, of those who put their faith and their trust in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of their lives. For he was convinced that they were a false sect which was opposed to Judaism and to God and that they needed to be stopped. But he was wrong, and Jesus (in a vision) one day met him on the road to Damascus where he was headed to persecute even more Christians, and the rest is history.

The man who had once been a persecutor of Christians was now a firm believer in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, and who worshipped the one and only true God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. Now he was among the persecuted for his faith in the Lord Jesus. For now he was a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, called of God to take the full message of the gospel of our salvation to the Jews and to the Gentiles. And this was his calling of God given him through the words of Jesus Christ:


And to turn from darkness to light is to turn away from our sins to now follow Jesus Christ, who is the Light, and to walk in the light of his righteousness and of his gospel message, in obedience to his commands. And to turn from the power of Satan to God is to be crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin. So we are not to let sin reign anymore in our mortal bodies, to make us obey its passions. For if sin is what we obey, it leads to death. But if we obey obedience to God, its end is eternal life with God.

[Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 4:17-24]

But, when Saul became the apostle Paul, and he began teaching the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people, he then became the enemy of many who opposed his message, just as he had once opposed that message, too. And so he was hated, persecuted, chastised, beaten, falsely accused of wrong, and falsely imprisoned, although not for any wrong that he had done, but only because he was sharing with the people the message of Jesus Christ and of his gospel of salvation.

But he did not let that stop him, even when others who had once supported him abandoned him and turned against him, and when those who once followed him were being led astray by false teachers, and so many of them were beginning to doubt his words and to believe the lies. In all of this, in all the beatings and persecutions and false accusations against his character, he remained faithful to the Lord in serving the Lord and in continuing to share the true message of the gospel of our salvation.

But at this point in his ministry, he was convinced that he did not have much longer to live. He knew that his enemies were plotting his demise, and so he gave his parting words to Timothy, his brother in Christ and his fellow servant and laborer in the teaching of the true gospel of our salvation. But so strong was his faith that he could say that he had “fought the good fight,” and that he had “finished the race,” and he had “kept the faith.” And now what awaited him was the “crown of righteousness” given him by the Lord.

But this wasn’t for Paul alone. This treasure in heaven awaits all who love the Lord Jesus Christ, who have been crucified with him in death to sin, and who have been raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but as slaves of God and of his righteousness. This is what awaits all of us who are walking in obedience to his commands, in practice, and who are no longer walking in sin. This is our hope of eternal life with God in heaven for all who, in truth, love and long for his appearing.

But sadly, not everyone who professes the name of Jesus Christ belongs to Christ. Not all who say, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those DOING (obeying) the will of God the Father, which is expressed for us in his written word, the Scriptures. For all who continue walking in sin, and not in righteousness and holiness, and not in faithful walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, they do not know God. They are not in fellowship with God, and they do not have eternal life with God.

So, please take this time, if you have not already, to examine your own hearts before the Lord Jesus and to ask him if your lives are surrendered to him as Lord, and if you are walking in his ways, in his truth, in his righteousness, and in obedience to his commands, in practice. Are your daily lives committed to him and to his will for your lives, or are you still living for the sinful pleasures of the flesh and for what you want out of life? Can you honestly say with Paul that you have fought the good fight, and finished the race, and kept the faith? Or are you still living for your own pleasure?

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Peter 1:15; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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After the immunity ruling, Trump's team was able to argue that if the alleged crimes were in fact committed as part of Trump's work on the election, then those acts were official acts per the Court's guidance, and therefore not eligible for prosecution.
There were concerns that, should Trump undergo sentencing on July 11, he could have been hauled off to prison and prevented from accepting his party's nomination in person. With the moving of the date to September, Trump will now be able to attend the Milwaukee convention, accept that nomination, speak to his delegates, and campaign into September unencumbered by lawfare.
This is a win for Americans who want an honest and fair election. Now Merchan can only keep Trump from campaigning for a month and a half, albeit the last days of the campaign are the most critical.

JOSHUA 2:1-24

The other “Spy Story” involves “two” spies. Yehoshua (Joshua) sends them out to spy out “Jericho” They arrive at the house of “Rahab” a prostitute, she hides them and expresses her faith in the “unseen God of the Hebrews” From verses 9 to 13 we read of her faith.

She hid the spies because the king of Jericho somehow found out that they had come to her. She risked her own life and the life of her family by hiding them on the roof.

“Our lives for yours” were the words of the spies when they left through the window by a rope. (vs 14) but faith needs action, (faith without works is dead) to show her faith, she needed to tie a scarlet cord in the window, so that when the Israelite army came, Rahab and her family would be saved.

This reminds us of Passover, that when the angel of death saw the “red” (blood) on the doorposts, the angel would “pass over” all who were in the house. In the case of Rahab and her family, they were saved from destruction, by obeying the mandate to;

“Bind this line of scarlet cord in the window…” (2:18).

Read chapter 6:25. Rahab and her family were taken from Jericho to the Israelite camp, just like the Israelites were taken from Egypt to (eventually) the promised land. Rahab received a new start and got exposed to a "new God" the ONLY God. She is part of the line that led to our Messiah Yeshua.

In our case, Yeshua is saying “My life for yours” What do we have to do? “Just believe and accept his one-time-only sacrifice” for all of our sins, past, present, and future. And we pass from the “camp” of sin to the “camp” of Adonai.

LUKE 17:1-18:43

Yeshua teaches here that “stumbling blocks” are inevitable, they will come into our lives, we will fall, yet we will get up again, that is part of the life of a believer. Our lives are like riding “roller-coasters” at times we are “up” and at times we are “down” because we are in our sinful bodies, yet it will only be “up” when we get into our “new bodies” in Heaven. Yeshua also speaks of forgiveness, which at times seems hard to do, especially when a person commits the same sin against us time after time, after time. YET we are COMMANDED to forgive. This can not come from the carnal man, only from the spirit-filled man (and woman).

Yeshua also speaks of “servanthood” Why do we do the things we do? To get special treatment or rewards? Or…because that which we do is expected of us from the Master? Yes, we are HIS servants, and because we ARE we do what we do using our spiritual gifts. YET Adonai has already promised rewards in heaven, but we shouldn’t do what we do because of the future rewards, but out of love for what HE has done for US on Calvary’s Tree.

Shalom

With work and school and just life I feel I've gotten far from God I don't spend much time with him.

When I do have time Im too anxious and depleted to do so sometimes.

Could you give me a step by step In a day devotion with God looks like for you?

I asked this in another thread but couldn't get any real answer to it. It seems to me, no one here has been swayed away from their choice in the last election by anything that's happened since then. Trump voters are still very much Trump voters and Biden voters are still very much voting for Biden, so long as he remains the Democratic nominee.

Entering into a Strange an Unfamiliar chapter in life.
In the physical world I've had one dependency as a man most of my adult life.
The Lord Has taken Her out of my life..
The Door that was open for a place to live locally closed Shortly Before hand as well..
Have purchased a ticket to an undisclosed location and while at the store waiting in line to put the money on the card.. noticed my cellphone was warm so I pulled it out of my pocket and the camera was on..
The very bottom corner I noticed the image of A lion that has Joshua 1:9 on it.
For a few weeks prior I kept seeing different verses saying the same thing.
Brothers from my local church in which I have attended dont want me to go.
Feels very clearly as though I should.. prayed over this many times and so far the urge to go hasn't changed.
No in fact now people are giving me means to afford food once I reach my destination as unemployed and homeless currently.
Just can't help but feel like this has to happen.

In Fort Worth, a derelict litter of puppies was rescued by police officers from roasting in the heat of a 100-degree day.

Left by their previous owner closed in a carrier without water, they were fortunate enough to be found by a good Samaritan who called the authorities. Tarrant County police and animal control arrived to take custody and get some fluids into the pups.

The police noted that the parking lot where the puppies were found lacked the necessary security camera coverage to ascertain the identity of whatever pathological owner left them there.

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Pray by saying, "O Heavenly Father, In Jesus Christ's Name & By The Power & Grace Of The Holy Spirit, there will be No war between Israel & Hizbullah":

The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah

Here is some good news. The US Marshals in a six week operation recovered 200 critically missing children, 123 were found to be in "dangerous conditions" This was part of an operation called We Will Find You 2 conducted by the US Marshals, National Center For Missing And Exploited Children (NCMEC), and other groups.

NCMEC is also part of an international organization called International Center For Missing And Exploited Children (ICMEC).