This video, produced by Trafficking Hope, is about the most powerful video I’ve seen making a direct correlation of pornography to sex trafficking and sex slavery. It is highly uncomfortable to watch. What makes it uncomfortable is the truth it represents. I’ve blogged recently about how pornography fuels the human and sex trafficking industry. In … Continue reading »
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4 Common Myths about Commercial Sex
Original article at Shared Hope. Myth: Child Sex Trafficking is not happening in the United States. Fact: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST), which is the commercial sexual exploitation of children through buying, selling, or trading their sexual services, is happening in the United States. Forms of DMST include prostitution, pornography, stripping and other sexual acts.[1] … Continue reading »
How Your Porn Affects the Sex-Trafficking Industry
Statistics of Pornography | Children | Sex-Trafficking: At colleges, 62% of men and 17% of women spend time online every week for sex-related amusement 72% of kids have been exposed to pornography on the internet 1 out of every 5 pornographic images is of a child* 55% of all child pornography originates in the United … Continue reading »
What Do You Stand For?
On March 5-15 students across the nation will be standing for 27 hours as part of the anti-slavery movement. There are 27 million slaves in the world today – more than at any time of human history. We cannot sit idly by and watch this injustice happen. What are you standing for? Get more information … Continue reading »
Tip of the Human Trafficking Iceberg at Superbowl ’13
From the Times Picayune Greater New Orleans: In an effort to combat the rampant sex trafficking that authorities say has historically accompanied the Super Bowl, a multi-agency task force arrested 85 people during the week leading up to Sunday’s game in New Orleans. Those arrests represented just “the tip of the iceberg” of a growing … Continue reading »
Suffering Well: The Predictable Surprise of Christian Suffering
Matthias Media continues to provide terrific, practical resources for growing followers of Christ. I have been impressed time and again with their products. So, it was not a difficult choice to request a copy of Suffering Well by Paul Grimmond through Cross-focused Reviews. What I enjoyed: Grimmond does a wonderful job of developing and communicating … Continue reading »
Put Hands & Feet to Your Pro-Life Stance Kosciusko County
Just saying that you are pro-life doesn’t save any children… The sentence hung in the air and clawed its way into my heart. I sat there stunned in my conscience. Up until this very moment I felt I was “as pro-life as the next guy”. The problem was that I was not putting hands and … Continue reading »
Making a Difference: Just One
An interesting, challenging quote from Mother Teresa: I can love only one person at a time. Just one, one, one… The whole work is only a drop in the ocean. But if we don’t put the drop in, the ocean will be one less drop. Same thing for you. Same thing for your family. Same … Continue reading »
Working For Zero: Kosciusko County Abortions
I received this email from one of our local ministries, Heartline Pregnancy Center. I hope you take a moment to read through it and consider what your part in “Working For Zero” will be. In 2009 53 Kosciusko County Babies lost their lives to abortion. Heartline Pregnancy Center continues to work hard, with your support, … Continue reading »
Free audiobook: Adopted for Life
Last Sunday at Calvary Baptist we took some time to encourage our congregation to become involved in ministry to the fatherless. We understand that this involvement is as varied as the individuals that make up our local assembly. We were encouraged to save our spare coins for the “Change for Orphans” ministry, created by Steven … Continue reading »
