This has been a quote that has guided a lot of my past few years of life. My heart has been pulled in a lot of different ways when I have seen the great injustices in the world today. In viewing these injustices, my heart has been broken for many thing. Primarily, it is the issue surrounding human trafficking, more specifically that of children. This is an issue that I want to see confronted and ended in the world today.
About a year and a half ago, God gave me a plan to hopefully multiply my efforts in confronting the many injustice issues in the world today. Through a conversation with a friend eating breakfast at Denny's, God gave me the vision to start a secondary school in YWAM called the School of Social Justice. So, much of my last year has been focusing on establishing this school at the base at YWAM Denver. We will be running this school this fall starting October 5th. It has been a long process of creating the school and all of the curriculum, while setting up the speakers for the school and corresponding with the incoming students.
So, hopefully, I will be filling you in on all that God is teaching me regarding this area over the next few months. Ultimately, my desire is to confront the issues by training students to confront the issues. My hope is that through this, evil will not triumph. Bless you!
You have a good point with your human trafficking concern. I think that in every country around the world the women are degraded in some form or another. In North America we look the other way when women feel that their only financial value is in their sexual nature (be it pornography or protitution) . In other countries families rent out their daughters and sisters by the hour. Jesus raised the status of women to something of real value in every way even though His society mostly saw them as valuable for their ability to reproduce.
ReplyDeleteJustice -- throughout scripture -- is a huge concern of God's, and so we must also be concerned with the mistreatment and evil being done to his children, while we have the power to act. We cannot stand by and allow this to continue. Thanks for stepping out and leading in this. I look forward to what you write here, and the school too.
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