Liberation Week - Shining light on the injustice of human trafficking

This is next week. It all kicks off tomorrow, in fact!?!

This is also the reason I haven't posted in forever.

I have been consumed by planning this and learning more about the issue of human trafficking and praying for this and the people trapped in modern day slavery. All 27 million of them.

Y'all may have seen my post about Passion Conference and how it affected me back in January. At that conference and afterward, I could not erase the link between spiritual freedom and physical freedom. Over and over again since then, I've seen scripture focusing on freedom. And, then, of course, there was this public declaration from Jesus himself:

¹⁷ and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he [Jesus] found the place where it is written:    

¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
   because he has anointed me
   to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
   and recovery of sight for the blind,
   to set the oppressed free"

                                   - Luke 4:17-18

Passion and scripture like this also affected my boss, some BCMers and another group of students I later connected with called the Justice Team.

Over the last month or two, we planned and prayed to put together the following for the College of Charleston campus and greater Charleston community to shine light on the injustice of human trafficking:

LIBERATION WEEK

• Monday - interactive art on campus
• Tuesday - "Sex & Money" documentary at 7pm in the Education Center, room 116
• Wednesday - Nubawi Nute, a speaker from Myanmar sharing a Christian perspective of her work at the border of Burma to fight human trafficking and also telling of the children's home she has started; 7pm in the Education building (corner of Wentworth and St. Phillip) in the Alumni room
• Thursday - PORNversation, a conversation on porn, the objectification of women and the tie to human traffficking, 8pm in the Alumni Room
• Friday - table-ing in Cougar Mall from 10-3
• Saturday - FREEDOM DAY, 2-5pm in Physicians Auditorium 

Freedom Day is our main event and it includes the following:

• What is it? - Not For Sale representative to discuss the global issue of human trafficking
• Where is it? Even Here - A21 Carolinas representative to discuss how this affects our own area
• How it Affects You - Slavery Footprint activity 
• What YOU Can Do to Stop It - "How to Take Action" panel of students and an ICE agent 
• Closing and donation 

In addition, we'll have survivors' stories being read and items created by survivors for sale (provided by The Jubilee Market and The Butterfly Project) as well as information on organizations where you can volunteer or donate to help bring an end to human trafficking.

As they said at Passion,

Indifference is NOT an option. 

You can see why after reading these statistics from A21 Carolinas: 

We need to shrink these numbers until not a single person is being SOLD in our world today. 

People are NOT property. 

Spread the word about Liberation Week. 

Come out. Donate. Liberate.