Fighting

After attending a truly amazing Passion Conference, I became a woman inspired.

Several years ago, I watched the movie Taken, and I realized for the first time in my life that people around the world are kept against their will and are currently trapped in lives of slavery.  Whether they are being forced to do manual labor, serve as domestic slaves or are forced into prostitution, slavery is very real and is happening everywhere, even here in the United States.

That's when I decided I had to do something.  When I watched Taken for the first time, I spent hours researching human trafficking online, but then lost hope when I felt like there wasn't anything I could do to help the cause.

This time, it's different.  I realized at Passion Conference that there is much to be done here and now, and I can have a direct impact on the problem of slavery.  I can be a mobilizer.

That's what I've decided to do with this blog.  Yes, I'll probably still have plenty of personal posts, but I want the main focus here to be that of mobilizing--of helping you realize the ways you can be involved in the fight against human trafficking.

Because it's real.  It exists.

When I studied slavery and the Holocaust in school, I told myself that if anything like that ever happened in my generation, I would not be silent.

Now it's time.  There are over 27 million people trapped in slavery, more than has ever been in the history of mankind.

Will you join me in doing something about it?  Will you be fearless with me?

I don't want to be afraid of anything other than a life of insignificance.

I want to be a modern-day abolitionist.

Will you?