In Shared Hope’s 22 years of fighting against the sex trafficking of minors in the USA, we have watched the sexualization of children change with the culture.   The 1950’s Coppertone billboard of the tan little girl with her dog pulling down her swimsuit, is now a tame discussion as we’ve watched ads for all sorts of products slowly slide towards the exposure of more […]

We who believe in a big God, who loves us and cares about every detail of our lives, often are unaware of His hand guiding us years before we actually recognize we have been called to a specific assignment. My husband, an ordained minister, and I worked as a team in “marketplace ministry”, or the […]

We have taken time to observe and ponder the events of the past several weeks.  It has been instructive to watch and listen to what is being said and done as individuals, groups and organizations absorb and react to, our nation’s current events. There are various opinions on roots of the turmoil–and causes and cures–but […]

Guest Author: Tomas Perez, Founder & CEO of The EPIK Project  I’m a coffee snob. Living and working near Portland, Oregon it’s delightfully easy to become one. Sadly, many small businesses like local coffee shops are facing extinction in the face of COVID-19. Thankfully, communities across the country are acutely aware of the threat to their favorite […]

I was assignment to read ​Renting Lacy​ for a class on human trafficking at my university. Renting Lacy​ was a required book for the course. Though it was a quick read, it was notably substantive. Renting Lacy is a fictional, yet reality-based story founded upon the biographies of the unfortunate lives that are involved in […]