 will go out and ask for it!The first day was an exceptionally fruitful one. Our first stop was in Mleni village, where one of our students serves at a church. We had just started our prayer walk when several elders approached us, giving testimonies of villagers that were possessed with demons, asking us for help.
One of them, a Muslim woman, invited us into her home, desperate for us to help her demon-possessed daughter. We first prayed for the woman and shared the gospel before entering her daughters' room. The room was small, isolated, and dirty. The woman explained that her daughter had not spoken in one year and had several violent episodes while uttering words no one could understand.
Moved with compassion, our students laid hands on her daughter, intensely praying, trying to cast out her demons. Suddenly, her daughter started screaming while throwing her self to the ground. This alerted several neighbors, and it took all of us to contain her for safety. After about 30 minutes of holding her down, she became peaceful and stared at us as if she had just awoken from a nightmare.
And awake she was. Her eyes had cleared up, her body was calm, and she started talking in her native language. She had no idea what had happened in the last two hours or in the past year. Her demons had left! By that time, her house was surrounded by other members of the village, watching with amazement. That very moment led several villagers to ask to give their lives to Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!
We were exhausted, but it was a glorious, spirit-filled day providing all of us with a Christ-led experience!
May all the glory and honor be unto God.Home Community News Shining light: So. Tempe forum unveils how 40 million are entrapped as...
“There’s just no way to fully heal from that.” Such were the sobering words spoken to attendees at a presentation held at a Tempe church regarding the thorny issue of human trafficking.
Global Connections International, an organization that focuses on educating the public on human trafficking, sent Julia Weber, its communications and marketing director, to help spread their message. According to the team, this issue within local communities is one that needs residents’ utmost—and immediate—attention.
GCI estimates that more than 40 million people around the world are victims of sex-trafficking. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, many of these victims may come from the foster care system.
The industry generates over $152 billion annually, making it the fastest growing illegal enterprise and the second-largest criminal industry across the globe.
For several months, Weber and the GCI team have traveled the United States with a mission to educate communities on the terrors of human sex trafficking, with an ultimate goal of preventing any more children from becoming victims in the industry. “We’ve committed to helping protect America’s youth,” Weber stated simply.
Over the course of 19,500 miles and 38 states, the Colorado-based organization has utilized a state-of-the-art truck and trailer with TV monitors, billboards and interactive learning materials to help people learn more about the process of sex-trafficking.
Walking through the exhibit, visitors are quick to learn ways to identify the signs of a child being lured by a “buyer,” as well as how to avoid getting caught in these situations themselves.
Then, several video interviews with teenagers are played, describing the life within a sex-trafficking ring and the devastating consequences that come thereafter.
Arizona Community Church, a local congregation near Corona del Sol High School, hosted the GCI team and prompted church attendees to take a tour through the trailer in hopes of raising awareness of this problem that is so prevalent even in the local community.
“One victim we came into contact with out in Colorado was being sold in her gated community,” Julia said.
Weber went on to describe how today’s human trafficking is not the “snatch-and-grab” style that many people think about, as they may recall from movies like Taken. Instead, sex trafficking often occurs by luring teenagers into the work and convincing them to submit to horrible conditions of sexual abuse, eventually letting them believe that they are loved and wanted by the sex traffickers.
Unfortunately, according to Weber and the rest of GCI’s research, the prevalence of human trafficking today has become much more privatized as social media and other internet tools can be used to communicate, lure and move people around.
“It used to be that the buyers had to put themselves out there to get what they wanted. Now it has become so much easier for them to be more private,” she says.
Social media applications such as Snapchat, WhatsApp, TikTok and Bumble are among a number of popular methods for secretly sending or storing illegal transactions and media files.
With modern technology in the sex trafficking industry, buyers can actually “place their order” online by selecting the specific type of sex slave (boy, girl, younger, older, race) and then setting up a meeting location and time. Weber and the team from GCI are seeking to help expose these criminals and protect the innocent children who are targeted.
At the founding of GCI in 2000, Weber and her parents originally worked in the global realm of preventing sex-trafficking, focusing their efforts on developing countries whose populations are more susceptible to criminal activity due to war and gang violence.
In Cambodia, they helped establish a safe house for victims of sex-trafficking, which is believed to be the first of its kind in that country.
in 2018, the GCI team made the decision to move their operations to the United States where they saw a need for educating families and communities on the harm that can be inflicted on their own children without proper knowledge on these issues.
Global Connections International also works with local chambers of commerce, police departments and schools in order to better understand how each community is working to set these children free from the bonds of sex slavery.
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Want a heads-up on this year's must-reads? Hannah Stephenson lists her pick of soon-to-be-published titles likely to create a buzz in 2019
SO, WHAT'S going to be hot on the reading lists of book clubs, literary fans and kiss-and-tell aficionados this year? We quizzed some industry insiders on the books set to make a mark over the coming 12 months...
:: Anniversaries
Several big anniversaries, including the 75th anniversary of D-Day in June and the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, should spawn a raft of books to mark the occasion, predicts Caroline Sanderson, associate editor of The Bookseller.
Big-hitters for the war anniversary may include D-Day UK by Simon Forty, published in May by Historic England, D-Day & Normandy: A Visual History by Anthony Richards, published by the Imperial War Museum in June, and D-Day: The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton (John Murray), which is already out in hardback and will be available in paperback in May.
:: Moon landing
Shoot For The Moon by Richard Wiseman (Quercus, £20, January 24) is a pioneering study of the 'Apollo mindset' which took humanity to the Moon, and how we can harness it to achieve the extraordinary in our own everyday lives.
"The author is a professor of psychology, and it features what it is about the Apollo mindset which meant everybody had got this massive ambition to get to the Moon, and how you can channel the same principles to change your life," says Sanderson.
:: Big names
As the year progresses, there is likely to be a buzz around big names including David Nicholls, author of One Day, whose new novel Sweet Sorrow (Hodder & Stoughton, £20, July 11) recounts the story of one life-changing summer for 16-year-old Charlie Lewis.
Zadie Smith's new short story collection, Grand Union (Hamish Hamilton, £20, October 3) is also attracting attention, while thriller writer Tana French's new book The Wych Elm (Viking, £14.99, February 21), is her first stand-alone novel.
"It's an amazing book about a boy growing up in Ireland with his two cousins in a seemingly idyllic childhood in his ancestral home. In the aftermath of an attack in his late 20s, he returns there – and all is not quite as it seems. There's a discovery of a skull in the garden and suddenly his perfect upbringing is thrown into question," says Carvalho.
:: Celebrity memoirs
The front-runners of celebrity memoirs and self-help mantras should include Love Island queen Dani Dyer (What Would Dani Do?, Ebury, £16.99, April 4) and Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi (I Talk Too Much, Constable, £20, March 14).
BBC Radio 2 presenter Sara Cox (Till The Cows Come Home, Coronet, £18