emergeJUSTICE

Meet Josh and Sarah! Josh and Nat were room mates in YWAM back in the day. (hahaha, they are so-o old now!) This lovely couple, with two kids in tow, are leading a team of 14 people, which is made up of all ages, on a two month tour called emergeJUSTICE.

           

awe Honey! The baby thing looks so good on you!

This is little Judah, Josh and Sarah's youngest sweetheart. I wish I had a good photo of Ezabella, Juhah's two year old sister. We had the honor of having these two angels at our house for four days while the team was speaking in the Lancaster area. 

I don't know who liked the train tracks more..... me or Judah!

 

I want to send out a special thanks to the "emergeJUSTICE" team for leaving everything at home and devoting the next two months to living on the road and speaking at various functions, all to raise awareness of the injustices that go on in most countries around the world. 

27 million people world wide are victims of modern day slavery forced into prostitution or back breaking labour. Many of these are innocent children who become inslaved to trafficking, debt bondage and other forms of forced labour, forced recruitment for armed conflict, prostitution, pornography and other illicit activities. This underground injustice is a 32 billion dollar industry which also happens to be the fastest growing crime on the planet.

17 million Africans have died since the AIDS epidemic began in the 1970s. 12 million children have been orphaned by AIDS and every 15 seconds another child is added to that number.  

There are over 30,000 child solders across the glob. In Colombia, South America the FARC, ELN and AUC force more than 14,000 children to carry weapons or to participate in acts of violence according to Human Rights Watch and the United nations. Many of the rescued children tell stories of being tortured, raped or used as human shields by the illegal armed groups. 

The injustices that go on in this world are staggering, yet we can do something to change this world; even if only by a small amount..... it's still worth the effort. Please click here to view the emergeJUSTICE video and also check out Call+Response to find out easy ways to fight for the rights of hurting children across the world. It can be as simple as letting our clothing industry know that we don't approve of child labour and we wont buy their products if they were made through the exploitation of a child's innocents.