Today is End It Movement Day, February 27th
"This February 27th, join us and other Freedom Fighters from around the world as we SHINE A LIGHT ON SLAVERY. Tell your world that slavery still exists and you won’t stand for it. This is OUR TIME. This is OUR MOMENT. We believe slavery can end in our lifetime…together we can END IT!
What is Slavery?
Slavery has many forms and names, but it’s still slavery. And it’s still wrong.
Can you imagine being forced to work without pay, trapped, unable to walk away, subject to violence or the threat of violence, by another person as they control you? Own you? Isolated, yet hidden in plain sight. This is reality for those trapped in slavery today. In the year 2015. Slavery is illegal in every single country in the world. Yet it still exists
Types of Slavery
Bonded Labor
Bonded labor is one of the most common forms of slavery in the world today. Bonded labor victims are often born into slavery, forced to repay a loan, sometimes from generations before. Indebted, often through deception and a system stacked against them.
Forced Labor
Forced labor is any work or service someone is forced to do, against their will, under the threat of punishment, with little to no pay. This is most frequently found in labor-intensive, under-regulated industries, such as agriculture, fishing, domestic work, construction, mining, quarrying and manufacturing.
Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is when someone is taken away from their home, family, or community and transported to another city or country, many times under a false promise of employment or a better life. Victims are stripped of their identity, then forced to work against their will, with no hope or way to return home.
END IT is a Coalition of the leading organizations in the world in the fight for FREEDOM. Our amazing Coalition Partners are doing the work, on the ground, everyday, to bring AWARENESS, PREVENTION, RESCUE, and RESTORATION. We’re here to SHINE A LIGHT ON SLAVERY together!"
Do justice to the weak (poor) and fatherless; maintain the rights of the afflicted and needy.
Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them out of the hand of the wicked.
This is real folks! Put your big girl and big boy pants on to read this sample chapter of Christine Caine's book, Undaunted. This book will shake you to the core.
http://www.christinecaine.com/content/undaunted/gjf5w8
click: Sample Chapter
Awareness of the issue is only the very first step. When we hear of such perversions occurring around the world today, we can no longer sit idle with empty, hollow, shallow faith. If Christ is our Lord and Savior, we can utilize HIS Power and SHINE HIS Light! We must wake up and realize that we are the ones who hold the power to change this. There are those in place, on the front lines, who are fighting the battle in the slums. And THE VERY LEAST we can do is spread awareness and contribute our meager offerings to support these brave brothers and sisters in Christ.
One of my personal friends is a victim of human trafficking who is far and away one of the deepest women of faith I have ever met. I have also had the privilege of meeting many other incredible woman who have been rescued out of this dehumanizing industry. Please understand that my plea is not from one on the outside, but from someone who has sat at the kitchen table to listen to the inside stories that will keep you up at night. I have watched tears fall from precious eyes that have seen too much, at too young an age. And yet, I have heard these same voices praise our Father with such purity and gratitude. I have watched beauty radiating from these ladies that has been resurrected from a life of ashes. Redemption is HIS Plan! HE offers is to ALL!! Let's spread the Good News of the Gospel to as many people as we can, as fast as we can!
And what are we doing with those that HE has so graciously entrusted to us? What are we teaching them? To earn the almighty dollar? To chase after and pursue things of this world (money, fame, the world's approval, etc.)? Are we teaching them to only be concerned with themselves-with our ridiculous age of perpetual selfies and endless striving for human perfection and self-satisfaction?
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (AMP)
Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord]. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might. And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in your [own] minds and hearts; [then] You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Why not give up the empty rewards of a world that will fade away and teach them about the treasures that will last for an eternity? Why not teach them that to give is better than to receive? Why not show by example that where our treasure is, there our heart is also? Why not demonstrate that Greater Love-the one that lays down his/her life for their friend?
I, we-these four kids of mine and I, know about the brevity of life. Won't you also look around and understand that you too only have this short, one little life to give. You will give it...that I promise you! Where you will give it...now that is your choice!
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