Shara's Story.

Over 100,000 U.S. children are forcefully engaged in prostitution or pornography EACH year.

2 children are SOLD every minute.

In some countries children as young as 5 cost less than cattle.

27,000,000 people are enslaved today; more than ever before.

Behind these facts, behind these numbers are precious human lives.

People with hopes & dreams. People with worth & value.

Children exposed and forced to grow up.

Deprived of their innocence; paralyzed with the inability to be carefree.

Women stripped of their identity and dignity. Treated as worthless objects.

Day after day after day they remain enslaved.

Exploited. Abused. Defiled.

Two years ago I was introduced to this awful reality of human trafficking through hearing about the film "Call and Response". That night I remember sitting in disbelief. I listened as my emotions were stirred and my heart moved by what I was hearing. Something clicked inside of me that night. It was the spark that lit the fire within me to see an end to modern-day slavery in my lifetime.

At the time I was in San Francisco, and until that night, was completely unaware of how prevalent and close to home modern-day slavery really is. Right outside my door were hundreds of massage parlors lining the streets of San Francisco serving as fronts for brothels. As my eyes were open, a passion began stirring inside of me. I walked by these places feeling the darkness, the pain, the devastation. Everything within me just wanted to run inside and rescue every single woman, every child. I wanted so badly to stop the men I would see entering. As my heart broke time and time again, my mind raced with questions, thoughts, plans.

How can I put a stop to this?

These women and children are held captive, deprived of living a life at all.

Why? Why? Why?

What would motivate someone to inflict such pain and suffering?

Why are we not doing anything about it?

How can we all be going about our lives as these

people are enslaved, unnoticed, and forgotten; stripped of their freedom and rights?

As I wrestled with these questions I began to realize the utter evil and perversion fueling such injustice. Within this atrocity is an absolute disregard for human life and worth. A disregard engulfed in the lie that a human being is another's possession. This is something I cannot and will not tolerate.

I love and serve a God of justice.

A God who is far greater and more powerful than the atrocity of human trafficking.

A God who views every single life as valued, precious, & irreplaceable.

God longs for His children to fight for one another; to bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim His

truth, and set the captives free.

God has truly broken my heart for what breaks His. He has filled me with a deep passion to bring healing and redemption into the lives of these victims. I want to daily live in rejection to apathy and in surrender to Him. Through Jesus Christ I am more than a conqueror. I know the truth, the hope, and the power that can bring an end to the overwhelming problem of human trafficking.