Would you like to get delightful, handmade gifts AND help free modern day slaves? Sounds too good to be true, right? Read on. It is very true! ***** Forget Black Friday. Waking up at three in the morning just to wait in line and fight over the last widget in the store. Doesn’t sound like…
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5K for the 27M
Slavery still exists. I wonder how many people know that. And it’s not a little problem. There are more slaves in the world today that at any other time in history. 27 million men, women and children are enslaved. I first heard about this modern day plight at Passion 2012. I learned more of the…
Justice and God
Ever since I attended Passion last year, my ears have pricked up when I hear the word “justice.” I heard about the atrocities in the world in real and all too near ways. Passion focused on the plight of 27 million men, women, and children in the world who are currently in slavery. There is…
Candle Light Vigil
I was a part of this. One year ago, at about this time, I marched silently out into the cold to stand for freedom. One of those lights is mine! As I learned attending the Passion Conference last year, modern day slavery is very real. People are being used and abused daily. I’ve heard the…
Passion Nostaligia
Once you got me started… I got really nostalgic about my Passion conference experience last year! I watched old videos, recalled words spoken and sung, and remembered what it was like to somehow feel at home surrounded by strangers. Here’s a CNN video documenting part of our experience. If you watch closely you can see…
Passion 2012
I got to be a part of something amazing. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s a conference. But it’s far from boardrooms and business casual. It’s a concert, but without sales and seat assignments. It’s a humanitarian relief fundraiser, where college students sacrificially give three million dollars to put an end to human…