Sometimes people do extraordinarily horrible things. History is filled with atrocities committed against people from the dawn of time to our present age. Crime after crime. Injustice after injustice. Evil after evil. The world has been filled with it and remains so to this day. Of all the things that people have endured at the hand of evil minds, however, nothing remotely compares to the horrific injustice we presently face in human sex trafficking. I learned that, in my own city, the average age of a girl forced into prostitution is 13.
I look at that statistic and weep.
My oldest daughter is 13.
Then again, sometimes God does extraordinarily miraculous things through ordinary people. I had the life-altering privilege, last night, of listening to a speaker that can only be referred to as a modern-day abolitionist. His name is Pat McCall.
Pat has been called by God to eradicate child sex slavery through the unique and long-overdue approach of unifying forces in the city, regardless of belief, for the common purpose of doing justice. He started a ministry in the Phoenix area called, "Streetlight."
It exists to educate the public about child sex slavery, rescue those who have fallen victim and give them a safe place to heal, while pursuing stricter punishment for those who commit these unfathomable crimes.
Of all the things he said during his presentation, one in particular stuck out to me. He said that there is a common mindset among people that basically says, "If we can't do everything, then we shouldn't do anything." This paralysis has led to very little being done about problems like human sex trafficking. We look at such a huge, dark, horrible problem and think that it's impossible to fix. Or, in most cases, we don't look at it at all.
Then he talked about Moses.
He mentioned the passage in Exodus, chapter 4, where Moses was called by God to lead the Hebrew people out of Egypt. Moses argued with God, saying, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’?” and God asked Moses, "What is in your hand?"
Moses was holding a staff. That's all he had. The Lord told him to throw it on the ground. When he did, the staff turned into a serpent. Then, the Lord told him to pick it up by the tail, and Moses did. It turned back into a staff. The Lord reminded Moses that what He was asking him to do was not by his own power, but God's.
What Pat McCall envisioned in Streetlight is not by his own power. What God is doing is rescuing His little children from the horrors of sex slavery by using a man who believes in the power of a miraculous God and knows that there is strength in unity.
I now support Streetlight.
I can't do everything, but I can do something, and I can't think of many things more important to do with my resources than help to rescue our precious children from the nightmare of sex trafficking. Can you?
Please take a moment to visit the website and ask yourself, "What is in my hand? And what could God do with it?" http://www.streetlightphx.com/
I look at that statistic and weep.
My oldest daughter is 13.
Then again, sometimes God does extraordinarily miraculous things through ordinary people. I had the life-altering privilege, last night, of listening to a speaker that can only be referred to as a modern-day abolitionist. His name is Pat McCall.
Pat has been called by God to eradicate child sex slavery through the unique and long-overdue approach of unifying forces in the city, regardless of belief, for the common purpose of doing justice. He started a ministry in the Phoenix area called, "Streetlight."
It exists to educate the public about child sex slavery, rescue those who have fallen victim and give them a safe place to heal, while pursuing stricter punishment for those who commit these unfathomable crimes.
Of all the things he said during his presentation, one in particular stuck out to me. He said that there is a common mindset among people that basically says, "If we can't do everything, then we shouldn't do anything." This paralysis has led to very little being done about problems like human sex trafficking. We look at such a huge, dark, horrible problem and think that it's impossible to fix. Or, in most cases, we don't look at it at all.
Then he talked about Moses.
He mentioned the passage in Exodus, chapter 4, where Moses was called by God to lead the Hebrew people out of Egypt. Moses argued with God, saying, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’?” and God asked Moses, "What is in your hand?"
Moses was holding a staff. That's all he had. The Lord told him to throw it on the ground. When he did, the staff turned into a serpent. Then, the Lord told him to pick it up by the tail, and Moses did. It turned back into a staff. The Lord reminded Moses that what He was asking him to do was not by his own power, but God's.
What Pat McCall envisioned in Streetlight is not by his own power. What God is doing is rescuing His little children from the horrors of sex slavery by using a man who believes in the power of a miraculous God and knows that there is strength in unity.
I now support Streetlight.
I can't do everything, but I can do something, and I can't think of many things more important to do with my resources than help to rescue our precious children from the nightmare of sex trafficking. Can you?
Please take a moment to visit the website and ask yourself, "What is in my hand? And what could God do with it?" http://www.streetlightphx.com/
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