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3 Reasons Why Every Pastor Should Attend the JuST Faith Summit

A national epidemic has been ignored for too long, a dark addiction fueled by instant access to pornography, spawning a commercial sex industry that is consuming our children. And everyone pays the price—the child whose innocence is stolen, the man who can’t overcome his addiction, and the society that bears the loss of both. Our world has been helpless to stop the tide because we, the church, have remained silent. Frozen in fear, in ignorance, in disillusion. But, together in our many faiths, we have the power to push away the darkness.

It’s there, and it’s waiting for you to notice..

Children are being bought and sold for sex every night—in America. We, the church, have a mighty role in addressing and stopping this tragedy, if we are ready and willing.

On April 20-22, 2016, we invite you to join us for the JuST Faith Summit in Orlando.

Here are 3 reasons why every pastor should attend the JuST Faith Summit:

1. Get Equipped – You want to help but don’t know where to start. We do. Join us to learn practical tools for getting started and finding a dynamic and sustainable way to leverage your community’s resources to tackle trafficking.

2. Get Connected – There is a committed, dedicated team across the nation making meaningful strides in the fight against sex trafficking. We want you to meet them. Learn from others and share resources to make the biggest impact possible.

3. Get Inspired – Hear amazing stories of freedom, restoration, and change. We are launching a movement within the church to face the overlooked and ignored issue of sexual perversion and abuse and want you to be a part of it.

Please join us and together, let’s bring an end to this epidemic.

Register Today.

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#DemandingJustice – Help us Share the News

On August 25, Shared Hope International is releasing the Demanding Justice Project Report and an interactive website featuring our research on demand. The Demanding Justice Project is a research and advocacy initiative designed to promote deterrence of demand for commercial sex with children through increased attention and advocacy on demand enforcement. The research report documents the outcomes of federal and state arrests, charges and prosecutions of buyers of sex acts with children.

The findings of this research will inform advocacy efforts to strengthen anti-demand legislation and enforcement and will be featured on our new website at www.demandingjustice.org. The Demanding Justice Project website will allow you to read this groundbreaking research, see who is buying sex with children in your state, and exposes high profile buyers who are celebrities, athletes, and politicians, among others. This is where you come in. Please consider announcing the release of www.demandingjustice.org with us. This page contains a press kit and social media badges so you can join us in a show of overwhelming solidarity against demand for commercial sex with youth in the United States.  Please join us to Demand Justice! Here’s what you can do:

  • Display a #DemandingJustice badge on your Facebook/Twitter/Instagram profiles for a day on August 25.
  • Use your social media to announce the Demanding Justice Project and join hundreds of other voices across the anti-trafficking movement by supporting our Thunderclap, a social media crowd-speaking platform that helps us proclaim in a unified voice that demand must be stopped.
  • Forward our press release to your news contacts.
  • Share www.demandingjustice.org when we go live on August 25th!

Thank you for being an ally in the effort to eradicate the market force that fuels sex trafficking and victimizes the vulnerable. Together we can defeat demand. We are #DemandingJustice. Are you? 
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The Defenders: Start Spreading The News

The title comes from the  lyrics from the song, “New York, New York.”  No, I have not been to New York recently — but I have had several opportunities to spread the news about Shared Hope and the Defenders.

In late November I was at my physician’s office and his nurse asked what I have been doing that day. I told her I was making phone calls for Shared Hope and she inquired about what our organization did. I asked if she would be interested in learning more about Share Hope and she said yes. The next time I was in Portland, I took three copies of Linda Smith’s books and gave them to her to pass around their office.

New Year’s eve, my wife Patti and I were invited to play cards with three other couples all of whom attended the church I pastored.  The subject of Shared Hope came up. I asked if they had ever read Linda’s books.  They replied that they had not. I went to my car and gave each couple a copy of each book including a Defender’s pledge card. I will follow up with each of them and encourage them to take the pledge.

In the past several years it appears to me that more people in the social justice movement have become both aware and active in the fight against Human Trafficking. It seems to me that a week does not go by without seeing an article or TV clip in the paper and electronic media and hour-long programs on sex trafficking can be viewed almost weekly.

Recently I sat and watched three hours of continuous programming on sex trafficking. Because of this increase in public awareness, speaking out against about sex trafficking is easier today than it was several years ago.

Part of our Defender pledge is to become informed and raise awareness. Join me in spreading the News not just on ‘”old Broadway” but at every opportunity.

Ron Hart
Shared Hope International Chaplain
Former Defender Outreach Coordinator

 

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Media and News Coverage, First Half 2011

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Sacrifice made at the cost of convenience – Sexual exploitation on the Internet

National Pornography Statistics estimatethat 68 million pornographic search engine requests are made daily, equaling 25% of total requests. There are currently 4.2 million pornographic websites on the Internet. Among these, 100,000 websites offer illegal child pornography. This shows that many children are being exploited daily.

Due to the highly unregulated nature and anonymity of the internet, pimps and buyers are able to conceal their own identities and use this platform for criminal activities with minimal risk of prosecution.  While sex trafficking is not a new phenomenon, the Internet is a new source for sex traffickers to find vulnerable women and sell them for sexual exploitation.

In addition to Internet pornography, sexual exploitation occurs in different forms such as websites that offer advertisement services. Most commonly known is Craigslist. Before shutting down its “Adult services” section, there was an average of 1,690 advertisements posted each day on the New York City board alone. Craigslist produced an estimated $80 million in annual profits from the “adult services” postings. There are also other sites still offering similar advertisement services, including Backpage.com, CityVibe.com, and Eros.com. Those websites allow customers to browse and compare the characteristics, photographs and prices of a large number of individuals selling or being forced to sell sex.

In addition to advertisement services, social networking websites are becoming nests of prostitution. According to a study by Sudhir Venkatesh, a professor at Columbia University, 83 percent of sex workers advertise their services on Facebook. He also estimates that, by the end of 2011, Facebook will be the leading online recruitment space for prostitution.

Although it is a fact that the Internet facilitates many illegal activities, it does not only do harm. If it is used for a right purpose, the Internet can be a very useful tool for many good causes.

For example, Change.org has an option for individuals or groups to start a petition for different issues of concern. Here is one success story. Last August, the United Kingdom chose to opt out of the European Union’s Directive on human trafficking, leaving hundreds of British children at risk. After pressure from tens of thousands of advocates across the globe, including several hundred on Change.org, the U.K. government has opted in to the EU’s anti-trafficking initiative. This action significantly strengthened the fight against human trafficking on the European continent.

As much as the Internet contributes to sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of women and children, it can be used in many ways to bring public awareness and help alleviate the issue if we all work together.

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