The thought of it is almost too much to bear: children trapped in the sex trade. There is a group trying to make inroads into this shadowy, criminal world by offering a small ticket of hope – a national help-line number to call tacked on the back of a small bar of hotel soap.

On Saturday, June 15, the day before Father’s Day, members of the New Life Community Church in Little Egg Harbor acted as hosts for church members from the Barnegat Bay Assembly of God, Calvary Lighthouse Church in Lakewood…