Action: September Campaign For Charity: Water

by Elisa | Oct 29, 2012 | Clean Water, Global Health, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Poverty, Ways to Make a Difference

This is a guest post by Namira, a law student who just returned from the The Hague, where she was interning at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Apparently, she cares a lot about those without clean water! You can follow her on twitter...

Sex Trafficking 101

by Elisa | Oct 21, 2012 | Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Sex Trafficking, United States, Women's Empowerment

A Sexy Cause On the 21st of each month, Steph at Encouraged in Heart has been writing a series on the injustice of Human Trafficking, or modern slavery, in support of a great organization, the A21 Campaign. As part of this, she has asked me to share with you on what...

Review: The Just Church

by Elisa | Oct 14, 2012 | Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship

Recently a new book came out by the vice president of International Justice Mission. IJM, has been a fundamental leader in both the anti-slavery movement and other justice issues. Here are the book's details: The Just Church: Becoming a Risk-Taking, Justice-Seeking,...

Action: Stop Modern Slavery Walk

by Elisa | Oct 12, 2012 | Create Awareness, Ethical Fashion, Good Charities, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference

As advocates for justice, one of our fights is against modern slavery, also known as human trafficking. One action to take to support the end of slavery is the annual fundraising walk in Washington DC hosted by Stop Modern Slavery. This year the funds raised totaled...

Review: Nefarious, Merchant of Souls

by Elisa | Sep 25, 2012 | Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Good Charities, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Women's Empowerment

Last week, the Loudoun Human Trafficking Task Force had the pleasure of hosting Nefarious: Merchant of Souls produced by the organization Exodus Cry. In a nutshell, it was excellent. Nefarious is a documentary on a specific type of modern slavery, sex...

Book Review: Trafficked

by Elisa | Sep 10, 2012 | Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, United States

Trafficked by Kim Purcell Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Viking, Published by Penguin Group (February 16, 2012) Language: English ISBN-13: 9780670012800 Buy the Book: Amazon Hannah believes she's being brought from Moldova to Los Angeles to become a nanny for a...

God, Politics and Poverty Series: Changing Findings

by Elisa | Sep 6, 2012 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Spiritual Discipleship, United States

Not too long ago, at the base of the 2012 election, we started a series- God, Politics, and Poverty. The goal was to help those who consider themselves Christians to be able to really think through what the Bible says about politics, inviting other people to share...

The World Changers: August 2002 DTS (Kona, HI)

by Elisa | Aug 30, 2012 | Art of Advocacy, Community, Spiritual Discipleship

Ten years. Ten years ago I received a phone call from my cousin, Brandon Fox, informing me that we were going to be flying into Kona, Hawaii on different jets instead of together as planned. He was fine. I wasn't. I don't know if I started freaking out on the phone or...

When Avilynne Turned Five (And Others Didn’t)

by Elisa | Aug 20, 2012 | Art of Advocacy, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Global Health, Poverty

Avilynne Achieved the Awesome Age of Five! Yesterday my daughter, Avi,turned five years old. She had a birthday party, but because a 20% chance of precipitation is such a very high likelihood, we got rained out before the party really got rolling. We tried to sing to...

Adventure

Swamp Wisdom: An Ecclesiastes on Human Rights

Ever heard of ancient King Solomon? He was said to be the wisest of them all as he philosophized...

Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids

Identity Crisis #3467 – My Messy Beautiful

The other day, my daughter was excitedly expressing her admiration of the teachers and helpers at her school. I usually resist the temptation to to ask my kids what they want to be when they grow up because at some point in my...