That was our topic this past week, mostly having to do with modern day slavery. Our speaker, Karisse Schilling, who I met last year when she spoke in my DTS, works with human trafficking efforts, and as most of you know, this is my passion so I was extremely excited about this whole week. Not only did she talk about sex slavery in particular (what I want to be working with in the future... well with prevention and with girls who have come out of it kind of thing), but slavery on a large scale, and a lot of other injustices happening in the world today.
So she started with her story of surviving I can't even count how many cancers and surgeries (she is a walking miracle every day, let me tell you), and then continued the week talking about pretty hard topics, like I said, modern day slavery -human trafficking is the technical term-, poverty, world hunger, etc. Through that she tied in scriptures and life experiences to show how God is still good through all the evil in the world. I would expand right now but I have to leave in like two minutes so I'm making this a lot shorter than expected. So it's been kind of a heavy week, hearing lots of hard things and statistics but also realizing through it that the evil in the world is not what God intended for us at all and good WILL conquer evil in the end.
Here's a couple videos she showed this week that I really liked. Hopefully soon I can post some more on this because as I already said, working towards justice especially on this specific topic is my life passion so really I could talk about this for days and not be done.
Music video:
World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan
http://youtu.be/FDmPcSWE0WU
Miniature Earth video:
This really puts things into perspective... Appreciate what you have! Like internet!
http://youtu.be/rvTFKpIaQhM
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