Tweet Play it safe. Have a plan. Know what’s next. Stick to it. Those have been my life mantras. I have always known what I am doing next. I have never quit a job without having another one. I have never left without knowing exactly where I was going and what I was going to be doing. I research, plan, and write down every detail about everything I do. I have just never been one for taking risks, for just showing up, or for enjoying the ride. I am always looking forward to what is next. That is all about to change. In 4 days I am leaving…
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I May Get Ex-Communicated
Tweet And while I hope that I do not, I have to write this. I have to say this because I spent a week ashamed at some of the things people do in the name of Christ. I have to write this because we live in a world where slavery will, more than likely, be the biggest global crime industry by the end of the year, and thus, we no longer have the time to worry about offending other people. I recently heard a story of a young prostitute who escaped from her “life” in the industry and attempted to find help at four churches. Each church turned her…
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Free To Live Tour 2011
Tweet Free to Live will bring together worship leaders Jon Egan and Meredith Andrews, as well as, Tom Davis-CEO of Children’s HopeChest, for a night of worship, speaking, and a call to action. We cannot ignore the millions living in the awful bondage of sex trafficking and Free to Live is bringing awareness in a multi-media, multi-sensory event sure to empower and equip you to fight against this awful crime against humanity. Here are the dates and the best part is the tickets are completely free! DATE CITY May 11, 2011 Louisville, KY May 12, 2011 Decatur, (Atlanta) GA May 13, 2011 Weddington, (Charlotte) NC May 14, 2011 Madison, (Huntsville) AL May…
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Remembering 1865: Part 2
Tweet How well have we remembered..? The 13th Amendment states Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. That was written in 1865. Right after a bloody war. Fast forward to the year 2011. And we have forgotten. The US has once again become a hotspot for slavery.We are a destination country for slave labor. Sure, we made the term a little fancier. We call it Human Trafficking (HT). But as I sat through a week of training on fighting against HT, I heard story after…
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Remembering 1865: Part 1
Tweet They say if you don’t learn from history you are bound to repeat it. Go back to America in the early to mid-1800s. Although newly formed as a nation, we were already divided on what would become an issue that led to a very bloody war. Slavery. The Northern States saw slavery as being contradictory to the ideals and principles upon which they had fought the Revolutionary War and sought the gradual emacipation of slaves. In the South, however, the slave population was much larger and played a key role in their economic success. More slaves=more profit from free labor. White males believed they should not be…
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The Final Countdown
Tweet Three weeks. 21 days. 504 hours. That is how long I have left in Saipan. And while in some respects that still seems like a long time, I know its going to go by so fast that in a blink I will be sitting on a plane wondering what happened to those three weeks. Time in Saipan is an odd concept. For the past 10 months, I have had basically no concept of time. Aside from the fact that I show up at work on time everyday, the rest of life sorta moves..well, differently. The weather never changes here so where most people mark changes by seasons,…
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What Am I Doing This Week?
Tweet Glad you asked! 🙂 I am attending the CNMI Human Trafficking Intervention Coalition Regional Training Conference. For those of you that may be new to my blog, abolishing human trafficking in an issue I am very passionate about. I tread, I donate, and I plan to spend my life fighting against this disgusting and awful industry. So when a friend told me she could get me in on this conference, I was all over it!! The FBI is coming, and Homeland Security, and a bunch of lawyers and other really important people fighting this crime. The training should be awesome and I am pretty stoked to have…
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Focus, Focus, Focus!
Tweet I went running today. But not because I wanted to. Honestly, I don’t know anyone who wants to go running when the humidity is at 90% and the heat index is equally as high. I went because I needed to run. Yes I just used the word need and run in the same sentence, an idea probably foreign to most of you. But earlier I had organized and cleaned my classroom for the umpteenth time, wrote out minute-by-minute lesson plans for next week, made all the copies needed for four ESL classes, and wrote guidelines for three classes of computer projects. (I am going to be gone next week…
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Tread on Trafficking 2011
Tweet There is a road we keep running on until we reach our goal, but love gives us strength to continue our journey. -Trafficking survivor As my heart has continued to break over the atrocities of sex trafficking, God has been moving in me to do more. I know that this is a difficult thing to talk about. The statistics are overwhelming and the problem keeps growing. Yet, the difficulties and challenges we face in seeking to defeat this evil in no way compares to the evil these precious girls face every single day. They in no way compare to being used and bought and sold for man’s evil pleasure.…
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Expiry Dates
Tweet Let’s play a game. Go to your refrigerator and see how many things you can find that are expired. (ok go!) Welcome back! How many things did you find? One? Five? Twenty-five? None? I did this the other day and will not admit to how many things I found, but lets say it was a good idea that I played the game. Now, you may be wondering why we are playing this silly little game. There are good reasons, other then the fact that your fridge is now clean and you can eat anything in there with no fear! We live in a world that is consumed with expiry…
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