Church & Human Trafficking

Agape Love uncovers truth and it brings DISCOMFORT. The question I pose to ALL church denominations, synagogues, mosques and even the bedside Baptists (non church goers) is how are you addressing the issue of Modern Day Slavery AKA Human Trafficking? I simply define it as an assault on God's most precious creation the man and woman. According to a Law dictionary there are different types of assaults. In common law it is defined as "an intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact"  Before I go on PLEASE don't judge me for being anti-church b/c I am not! I am a MISFIT for the gospel being preached in the churches of America. Can't listen to it any longer. I prefer to travel the world and love people as a nurse missionary. The Church needs to get out of the pews and do something now about modern day slavery. Like my 9 yo buddy on my left who enjoyed the Gospel message while eating some mangos. He doesn't go to school but meets a misfit like me and we chill in the national hospital in el Peten Guatemala. He laughs and listens attentively as I Go-spell love to him with a cross around my neck and receives a bracelet after teaching him some really cool hand shakes. Ask him about the golden rule? He knows it now and that is the Go-spell love in action approach to a 9 yo. He makes a living for his family by selling the local newspaper.  Is that genuine love for his family?

 So let us define Human Trafficking according to Homeland Security it is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. What are examples? Pornography, child labor, legal and illegal brothels, paying undocumented workers less than the minimum wage, prostitution, harvesting of human organs, and human mules who carry in their bodies drugs and weapons. My simple definition of human trafficking is an assault to God's most precious creation the woman and the man. It is dehumanizing. It is cruelty. According to Congressman, J. Randy Forbes. There are more than 37 million people caught in the web of human trafficking it generates over $150 billion in illegal profit yearly internationally and $32 billions of it is generated in  the United States. Do you know there were 6 millions lives lost in the Holocaust, 12.5 million in the Trans-Atlantic slaves brought to the Americas and Caribbean and don't forget the Jews who were enslaved in Egypt it all doesn't add up to amount of people caught in this dark world of human trafficking today.
I have a 2nd question to the "modern" church where are the William Wilberforce, Deitrich Bonhoeffers, Corrie Ten Boom, Fredrick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Jose Julian Acostas, Sarah Moore Grimke and others? They were all world changers with a passion to see slaves FREE. Some were martyrs not only by their speeches against slavery but they were a part of the solution which threatened the financial gains of the slave owners. All of the abolitionists I have followed loved Jesus and lived His example. Let us look at Mother Moses, (Harriet Tubman) she knew how to use a revolver, suffered from epileptic seizures after her owner hit on her head, and betrayed by her husband who married  someone else during one of her journeys to freedom. She led many to freedom from the east coast to Canada and other states via the underground railroad. She freed her parents and purchased peoples' freedom. Courageously and truly amazing was Harriet Tubman. Similarly, Corrie Ten Boom's Family hid 100s of Jews in their house by creating a secret place.

Unfortunately, the Nazis found out and Corrie and her family were taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp. In reading the Hiding Place Corrie's story was a collision course with forgiveness, grace, love and mercy. She lost her sister and father in that horrific camp. After years had passed after a speaking arrangement Corrie met the German soldier  who sentenced her sister to death. He asked her one question. Can you forgive me? WHAT? Wow, the perpetrator asks a victim for forgiveness!! Corrie's humanity was replayed in the memories of her sister and the suffering in the barracks. They shared the Gospel. Corrie and Betsie managed to sneak in a small Bible in her bra. Her ultimate test was to Go-spell love to the man, who had killed her sister and many she befriended was before her. She passed with an A when she forgave him and shook his hand. Truly an abolitionist with Love in Action!
I had a similar experience a few days ago with someone who I loved once more than God who I forgave a long time ago. Betrayal hurts. Broken people attract broken people. Toxic relationships sometimes have byproducts and they are good and innocent. I realized I no longer was bitter but better I chose to focus on the good qualities and help by extending my hand as a gesture of LOVE. A life with true Love is purposeful. Your hurtful past can be a stepping stone to someone's healing. I realize as I get ready to participate much more in this world of human trafficking as a solution to this problem I am holding on to teachings of the greatest humanitarian. He was sold for 30 shekels and both a victim and survivor of human trafficking, Jesus Christ. He had righteous anger. So don't judge me! Please Love me for writing and speaking the truth. I could write about how the American money of churches funds human trafficking. I was counseled not to. Churches do your due diligence! You are becoming a part of the Great Omission of the Gospel. Pray so God can lead you to organizations that genuinely express love and use the funds to help those in need through self-sustainability..
In conclusion, the church has become homogenized with holey (not holy) people who don't care for the broken and don't know the staggering human trafficking numbers. The church unknowingly has become an ASSAULT to the slaves of the  kingdom of darkness. They are labeled as misfits of their gospel. These are the orphans, physically and mentally challenged, streetwalkers, divorced, transgender, runaways, bisexuals, gay, rapist, pimp, adulterer, all addicts and nonreligious looking people. They don't invest in ministries that keep them out of their church. Yet they keep building churches that intimidate the misfits instead of rehabilitating them with LOVE. We are in the last days. Violence is on the increase. Just two days ago Ohio State University was attacked by a young man who was confused about his religious beliefs. He acted out and harmed people and lost his life trying to prove his point. Where are the brave people who can teach the real Go-spell Love approach to those who teach the go-spell hatred in schools and throughout the world. Here is the saddest thing I need to bring to your attention, the place of origin of world religions practice both the golden rule and modern day slavery. Look for yourself the golden rule in:

Buddhism "Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful" Udanavarga 5:18

Confucianism “Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you" Analects 15:23

Hinduism "This is the sume of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you."

Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. Sunnah

Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman, This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary. Talmud, Shabbat 3id

Christianity: "A new command I give you Love one another as I have loved you so you must love one another." John 13:34

So the bottom line there is no supreme race or gender or political view. All LIVES matter! All need LOVE! We are all part of the human race created with a FREE will. You have the power to set people free by expressing Love. Be a World Changer Go live to express Love! See Love annihilate evil from your own home, workplace, school, phone, Facebook and even in the church and see the world become a better place for you and me! Agape Rules and has the power to end human trafficking if you show it like the Girl Scouts of Powell and their leader Cheryl and all the volunteers from Central Ohio who joined to furnished the Gilgal house! Love unites people to demonstrate their thanks by giving hope who hasn't experience the agape love. If they believe it then a miracle has taken place. As a result, LOVE creates a chain reaction that they choose to pay it forward. Now my friend that's the type of LOVE currency that frees the human trafficking slaves.