Run:4Justice

Many of you known that violence against children and women has been an interest of mine for a while now. I have been a crime victim advocate where I have educated teens and adults about domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and child abuse. In college I have done a lot of presentations and papers on this topic as well.

Human trafficking is another form of violence against children and women that has been popping up in the media in recent years. This is not a new form of violence..it's been going on for many, many years that not only occurs overseas, but in your community as well.

Our church: 121 Community Church in Grapevine, Texas is hosting a 5k run/walk event called Run:4Justice on October 27, 2012 that will benefit International Justice Mission, a human rights agency that rescue victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violence.  

Our lifegroup that consists of six couples are raising money for this cause. Our goal is to raise $1,000 by October 27th. We are asking for your help. We have taken a stand, will you?

Please check out our fundraising page and consider making a donation. 

http://ijmfreedommaker.org/account/1198/Our-Life-Group-is-Running-4-Justice

 Below is an article from International Justice Mission describing what children and women are subjected to. Please take a stand and say no to to this form of violence. Thank you.

Injustice Today

"Today, millions of lives around the world are in the grip of injustice.

More children, women and men are held in slavery right now than over the course of the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade: Millions toil in bondage, their work and even their bodies the property of an owner.

Trafficking in humans generates profits in excess of 32 billion dollars a year for those who, by force and deception, sell human lives into slavery and sexual bondage. Nearly 2 million children are exploited in the commercial sex industry. The AIDS pandemic continues to rage, and the oppression of trafficking victims in the global sex trade contributes to the disease's spread.

In many countries around the world, pedophiles find that they can abuse children with impunity. And though police should be protectors, in many nations, their presence is a source of insecurity for the poor. Suspects can be held interminably before trials, imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.

The land rights of women are violated on a massive scale worldwide, but with particular ferocity in Africa, leaving widows and other women in vulnerable positions unable to care for themselves or their children. Around the world, women suffer the double trauma of rape - and seeing their perpetrators face no consequences.

Often lacking access to their own justice systems and unable to protect themselves or their families from those more powerful, it is overwhelmingly the poor who are the victims of these brutal forms of abuse."

Taken from International Justice Mission. http://ijm.org/our-work/injustice-today