Last time I asked what sounded like a silly question.
I wondered what it would look like if We All Go on FRONT RANGE FREEDOM TOUR ’14. I’m serious. I want to challenge you to find your role on this team.
Why?
Our church spent this weekend raising awareness about the issue of human trafficking. A lot of people left with a lot of information, and I suppose you might wonder whether all that knowledge does any good unless someone acts on it. I see it differently.
Awareness alone may not change anything, but without awareness nothing will change.
Did you know…
- there are places where a man can order a child for sex in the same way he orders dessert from the restaurant menu?
- human trafficking is the world’s second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs.
- an estimated 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals are forcibly trafficked into the United States each year.
- as many as half a million teens in the US are forced into prostitution.
- it is common for the legal system and law enforcement to view these children as criminals rather than victims.
I didn’t know this stuff. Maybe you didn’t either, but now you do. Now, what?
We can choose to turn away. We can pretend it’s not our problem. We can wring our hands and complain. Or we can do something. But one thing’s for certain—once you know stuff like this, you can’t un-know.
What can we do? We can adopt Helen Keller’s attitude.
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
Each of us, you and I, can choose to do what we can, where we are, with what we have.
So click this link, find your role, and join the team.
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