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Compassion's Cry
When was the last time you truly felt compassion? When was the last time you hurt for someone trapped by injustice?Our culture is spoon feeding self-centeredness into our generation. Our world is...
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Eled.
"Eled has been with our SAFE Campaign for three years. When I met her, she was one of the tens of thousands of girls forced to sell their bodies to survive from one day to the next. What she endured...
View Article10 Key Ways to Take Action Against Modern-day Slavery.
Once we have opened our hearts to the injustice of modern sex slavery, there is only one response: take action. As long as one person remains in slavery, we are committed to fight it. We refuse to turn...
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Featured Activist: The Hutchenson Family
Amidst the prevalent injustice of our day, may it be that the church of America answers the call from God’s word to “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are...
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Don't Complicate "The Missionary Call"
This was reposted from the Desiring God website.I was never called to be a missionary, nor was I drafted. I volunteered. No special call was needed. I chose to go; I wanted to go; I was compelled to...
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Featured Activist: Kelly
When I read about a little endeavor back in March called The Difference Project, it convicted me. During the project, you commit to 9 months without buying any new clothes, shoes, jewelry and...
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Kisses from Katie: Always Enough.
I hear the desperation in her rough, scratchy voice, see the bags under her eyes as she wearily replies to the prophet, “I don’t have any bread – only a handful of flour in the jar and a little olive...
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Featured Activist: Natalie
How many of you are aware of what is going on in Somalia right now? It seems like every day I look in the newspaper, there are new stories of starving children who are literally skeletons with skin,...
View ArticleReal Men don't Buy Girls.
The Demi and Ashton Foundation (DNA), founded by Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, launches its "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" interactive video campaign this week, aiming to educate the public about child...
View ArticleFeatured Activist: Courtney
The first time I heard that young women were being bought and sold for sex, I honestly did not believe it. When I read the statistics, I became numb to it all. What has the human race come to, that we...
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It is better...
{Photos via weheartit. I thought they were beautiful.}"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better...
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Featured Activist: The Wessels
I wrote this journal entry last September, after being in Thailand for about 7 months. We have now been in Thailand for 1.5 years and are currently living in Chiang Rai, Thailand seeking to establish...
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You are weak but He is strong.
He lays on the bed, his limbs tighten, bending in ways they shouldn’t bend, his jaw stuck open and I look at my watch to time his seizures. I turn him onto his side and I stare into his eyes. I beg to...
View ArticleHypocricy
How can I lift my hands in praiseAnd then leave them at my side?Your hands reached out to the lowlyYours were nailed open wideHow can I read Your WordAnd not obey your commands?You call for radical...
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Featured Activist: Do Something Now
If you've ever heard of the Passion Conferences, it's probably because of the worship songs that are birthed there. More than likely your local church is going to use one this Sunday morning. Every...
View ArticleBlind Spots
I used to drive a granny car. Yep. It was most definitely a boat. It stuck out of the dorm parking spaces like a massive stream liner sandwiched between sailboats. Now, before you label me as...
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In this world we are told to look out for ourselves. We are told that we can make it big if we put our minds to it, that we can achieve anything. In life, the goal is to constantly trade in what we...
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I need Africa...
When I think of Africa, the following images immediately come to mind: Starvation. AIDS. Child soldiers. Genocide. Sex slaves. Orphans. From there, my thoughts naturally turn to how I can help, how I...
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Featured Activist: Katie
And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”--Mark 9:35 Haiti. Where do I possibly begin? How do I write about a...
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Giving.
Christmas is about giving. God gave His only Son to this world to bring us back to Himself. Mary gave up her reputation, becoming pregnant and giving birth to the Savior while she was still only...
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Imagine...
Read the following excerpt from the book, No Longer A Slumdog, and have it break your heart.This is not an exaggeration.This is not just a story.This is the life of more than 1 billion children around...
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