The A 21 Campaign

Unearthed Pictures

I have a new website that I'm loving these days, it's called Unearthed Pictures.


http://unearthedpictures.org/

Their quote is "Our job is to move you to act against Human Injustice"
They are doing this through video testimony and story. Check out the site, you'll get lost for hours.

Jacob's Story

Jacob's Story from Unearthed on Vimeo.

Power in The Name of Jesus To Break Every Chain

There is an army that is being raised up to break every chain! Will you join?

Demand Change Project

I have been working these past few months with 2 great organizations to put on a fantastic historic event: Demand Change Project. I respect MATTOO and Breaking Free for the way they are blazing new trails in abolishing human trafficking.

MATTOO which stands for Men Against The Trafficking Of Others, is an organization that is monumental and hitting this issue where it will damage it the most: the demand. I know that may sound harsh, but to be honest men comprise the majority of those who are driving the demand. MATTOO is educating, sounding the alarm and rallying men to come together and come against this issue. They are asking men to step out and promise not to agree with sex trafficking or human trafficking on any level. This means not participating on any level from pornography, which is a gateway activity, all the way to purchasing a woman for sex. I am blown away by their work and I am so grateful for them and for the men who are taking a stand. Bravo to you.

Breaking Free. I can't say enough about this organization, they are so committed to those who society turns their backs on. They love those who are the broken, the bitter, the numb, ...the prostituted. They know most of these women and children do not choose to do the activities they are doing. They know these women are slaves to those who "own" them, they know that these women and children don't have a voice to speak up about what is happening to them. They are their advocates and arms that hold them loveingly when no one else will.

Anyway, these two organizations have come together to put on a "never-been-done-before" event here in St.Paul Minnesota, May 13-14. The first annual Demand Change Project is a groundbreaking event for the purpose of educating and engaging men to decrease the demand for commercial sex and unite the women’s and men’s anti-human trafficking movements, to come together as a united front against the selling of human beings.

The weekend will include an Abolitionist Seminar (where Melissa Farley will be speaking), a VIP launch party with leading national and international abolitionists, panel discussions with survivors and public officials/law enforcement, a men’s march/walk at the Capital with MATTOO, a women’s marketplace and rally to greet the men on the march, and for the finale – the Breaking Free Benefit Victory Concert with Nicole C. Mullen.

Watch the video for more information.

Or visit the wesite: http://www.demandchangeproject.org/home.html

Love146

Freedom Sunday

March 12-13.
Mark. It. On. Your. Calendar.

Last week was our first meeting for "Freedom Sunday". To say I'm excited that my church is participating is an understatement. I really cannot wait! The fact that we are taking it from one day to 2 and calling it a conference is fabulous in my book. I love that this day(s) is all about celebrating freedom, and calling the church to participate in a admonishment that God has given us.
Forerunners. Leaders. That is what the church should be in this movement to end slavery, to end human trafficking. Do you want to get your church involved? Watch this video on Freedom Sunday and register here: http://www.freedomsunday.org/

Freedom Sunday 2011 from Not For Sale Campaign on Vimeo.

Human Trafficking Awareness Day

"Slavery is more affordable, more widespread and more entrenched in 2011 than it was in ancient Rome or the antebellum South of America. Modern-day slaves, also called human trafficking victims, can be male or female, from any country or representing any ethnicity."
~Change.org~

In the United States, human trafficking victims are forced to work in the sex trade, as domestic servants, on farms and in factories. They are your neighbors. They are the girls on the street, wrongfully called "prostitutes", that so many of us turn our heads away from as we walk on by. They are the "illegal immigrants" that people seem to look at with disdain, working 16-18 hour days in sweatshops down the street, or next door to our houses. Turns out "made in the USA" doesn't always mean sweat shop free. Look Beneath the Surface.

Watch this stunning video from an organization called Not For Sale.

Today I ask that you pray for those that are oppressed. Pray for those that are enslaved. Pray for the END of slavery and oppression in our world. I ask that you be a part of the solution and educate yourself on this issue and inform those that are around you. We have to END the DEMAND.

The Hope of the Lord

The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit. ~Psalm 34:18~

He saves the needy from the sword, from the mouth of the mighty, and from their hand. So the poor have hope and injustice shuts her mouth." ~Job 5:15-16~

I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of your oppressors. I will FREE you from being slaves to them, and I will REDEEM you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of JUDGEMENT. ~Exodus 6:6~

The LORD is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.... But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.~Psalm 9:16&18~

I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth. ~Job 29:17~