PASSION :: 2012~

 As many of you know, over the last couple days Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin's Passion Conference has been taking place at the Georgia Dome. There were over 42,000 18-25 year old students gathered together for the sole purpose of lifting the name of Jesus. 

Louie Giglio has a huge vision for this generation and through things like Passion, gives specific opportunities to grow in our personal faith and confidence on the Gospel. With a huge emphasis on the power of each of us coming together, Passion always has MAJOR goals for the offerings they take up. Just because they're 'poor' college kids, doesn't mean God can't use us all! 

The focus for this year, Passion 2012, was SLAVERY. The goal: to raise ONE MILLION dollars to support 6 anti-slavery organizations across the globe. This morning was the closing session of the conference and Louie shared the incredible totals of the past couple days. 

Money will be given to the A21 Campaign (www.thea21campaign.org) to support a prevention program that will educate 48,000 Ukrainian women and girls about how to avoid the sex industry. 

Tiny Hands International (www.tinyhandsinternational.org) will receive funding for 8 boarder control stops along the Nepal/India boarder to prevent trafficking, and 8 safe homes for rescued victims. 

The International Justice Mission (www.ijm.org) can now conduct 38 rescue operations across the nations that will relieve numerous who have been held captive. 

25 children will know and experience true restoration and freedom through the Hagar International (www.hagarinternational.org). 

Atlanta apartments will be renovated and turned into refuge for those trafficking in and out of the city of Atlanta. 

The mayor of Atlanta received $100,000 to go into the Atlanta police force with a keen awareness and sensitivity to human trafficking in their town.

The Not For Sale Campaign (www.notforsalecampaign.org) will be conducting a vocational training seminar in Chennae, India as a step in PREVENTING trafficking. Not Foe Sale will also open the doors of a new safe home in Cape Town, South Africa for rescued victims.

Night Light (www.nightlightinternational.com) will support the salary, training and care of 15 women in Bankok, Thailand.

The ministry As Our Own (www.asourown.org) will purchase and renovate a building in India that will function as a Innovation Home where education, and prevention of trafficking will happen as they watch the women of the city thrive and grow in right relationships.

Monies sent to the country of Uganda to intercede and prosecute witch doctors who are trafficking children, and the body parts of young children.

Bombay Teen Challenge (www.bombayteenchallenge.org) will open the doors to a new restorative safe home for rescued victims. 

Love 146 (love146.org) will rescue 18 children from the hand of slavery and will provide intense training to leaders who will then raise up 1,260 people against trafficking.

Word Made Flesh (www.wordmadeflesh.org) will welcome new survivors as they open doors of a new safe home in Delhi, India. 

A safe house will begin operation in the country of Haiti and will rescue and restore children from the streets. 

ALL THIS plus more-- Christ will break the bonds of slavery and bring beauty from the ashes of captivity! 

The total number of monies raised from Passion 2012 is $3,066,607! OVER THREE MILLION DOLLARS that will be used to break chains in the name of Christ Jesus our Lord who reigns supreme forever! PRAISE GOD! Thee college kids their part-- what will YOUR part be? 

Posted January 5, 2012 by SOS 
 

Christmas Time is Here!

Merry Christmas! To celebrate the birth of our Savior, SOS scarves are back!


This year, we have chosen a more modern design for the scarves. They follow
the new look of the "infinity scarves." Each one reminds us that God's love
for us is endless, His mercies have no bounds. In addition, the "SOS"
stitched into each scarf reminds us that we must continue in our pursuit of
justice for each enslaved girl. Please contact us at 336-945-6968 or
info@savingoursisterstoday.com if you would like to purchase an SOS scarf.



As you enjoy all of the cookies and cheer of Christmastime, let this classic
carol turn your attention to the Fatherless. From O Holy Night:

Chains shall He break
For the slave is our brother
And in His Name
All oppression shall cease! 

This song holds much more meaning than a simple tune. 

It's a challenge to humble ourselves, fall on our knees.  It's a melody of
Scripture, He taught us to love one another. It's a confrontation of
compassion, for the slave is our brother. It's a call to worship, in
grateful chorus raise we. 

As the Jews awaited the birth of the Messiah, so these girls await their
rescue. As He was delivered in that stable, so shall these precious children
be delivered from their captors. 

"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me.... to bind up the broken
hearted and release from darkness for the prisoners..." Isaiah 61:1-3

This season is a time of anticipating and rejoicing in our Lord Jesus
Christ. Will you join us in bringing this joy and freedom to those who need
it the most? 

Let all within us praise His Holy Name!

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Posted December 20, 2011 by SOS 
 

FALL IS HERE!

Amidst all of our tea drinking and soup making and candle-lighting as we usher in the approaching season, the girls of SOS have found a new fundraising item! Necklaces! ....From 16:40 Designs... A new line of necklaces we have made, spurred from a personal necklace we purchased from the Freedom Home in Moldova during our visit. The story behind it: 16:40 Designs...

While we were in Moldova we learned a lot about the issue of sex trafficking in that country and the source behind it all. In most of eastern Europe, as well as other countries, children are kicked out of the orphanages where they have grown up the year they turn 16. Thus, the "16" in 16:40 Designs. These children, majority being female, are given the equivalent of 40 American dollars and a bus ticket to their hometown. They are expected to survive. These children have had no love, little to no education, and very few life skills. With only $40 what are they to do? Thus, the "40" in 16:40. All of the "adult" children, at age 16, are kicked out. This happens every June. The traffickers know about this. June is often referred to as the time when "the monsters come out." They wait at bus stations all over Europe, ready to prey on helpless little girls who have no where to go. They make themselves look like the Heros, waiting for the girls to arrive, offering a job and a safe place to stay. But only after they have fallen prey do the girls realize the sickening nightmare that has begun. The heroes turn into monsters. So, through all of this knowledge, we have come up with a new necklace. A sign of Hope to these girls. The basic design is borrowed from a necklace we purchased from the girls at the Freedom Home in Moldova. A way for them to make a living, to support themselves. We have taken this design, multiplied it, and are now selling 16:40 necklaces as a fundraising item for SOS. Our goal is to one day build a physical home where girls can find refuge, a sanctuary if you will. A place of true safety and comfort spiritually found in the love of Christ. A place of preventative action, where girls like these can find Hope. A place of restoration, where wounded lives of trafficked victims can be healed. And also, a transition home, for those in need of real life skills, the ability to support themselves. We pray that you will share in this dream by purchasing a necklace for you or someone you love. A selection of necklaces will be posted to our Facebook page shortly. Check it out at www.Facebook.com/SaveOurSistersToday.com

Posted September 21, 2011 by SOS 
 

The Intimate

"The young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God." 

How could this be?

Could this evil of injustice be of God?

The young man at the brothel, what is his search? A search for the deepest desires of the soul-- FILLED. 

How can the pimp be closer to truth than the moral? Because he seeks after the desire of his heart-- the God-given desire to experience and enjoy deep intimacy. Yet, he seeks in the wrong place.

The man searching for intimacy, for communion, for knowledge of another Person, he wanders. 

If the man has not found true intimacy in the marriage of Christ and His Bride, he seeks the answer, the stuffing of the heart's void, in anything he can find. The man is designed to crave intimacy, passionately. Yet, when found in the wrong place, outside the Kingdom of God, whether in drugs, alcohol, materialism, work, power or control [such as control of another's sexuality], the void remains empty, as if nothing had attempted to fill it. In addition, the individuals used trying to fill the void, end up with innocence stolen and hearts broken. 

Could the man at the brothel door be in search of GOD Himself? Unconsciously, as the man attempts to fill, to be filled, he fails. He searches for acceptance, for love. He feeds the need to experience something beyond this life, something glorious. Something like sex-- intimacy in its truest form.  

He seeks God, intimacy masked as sex. 

A man's desire. A desire for God. For the Intimate. The only One who can satisfy the void. 

The victims of human trafficking are the abused women and children, but could it be that the man is a victim also? A victim of false hope, failed fullness? A victim of void intimacy-- intimacy without love and sacrifice in not intimacy at all! In the search for fullness, the deep need for intimacy, the victim-man needs Christ, the Intimate One. 

Let us join in prayer for the captors of the innocent. Let us pray for the seeker, the searcher, the wanderer. A void filled with the One who fills. Intimacy Himself. 

Posted August 31, 2011 by SOS 
 

Stella's House

As many of you know, Morgan and I got the opportunity to go to Moldova. We visited a Home of Hope there and got to meet some of the girls who we have been praying for and loving for an entire year now! What a precious time that was! God allowed us to see them and hear about the issue of human trafficking in Moldova specifically. Our hearts have been burdened for this country. We have seen and heard of the evil there, BUT we have seen and heard of what God is doing and how He is moving and drawing this small country back to Himself. 

While we were there we heard a lot about the orphans and how that directly correlates with sex trafficking of Moldova. As you will hear in the video- at the age of 16, girls are given 400 lei, about $40 American dollars and a bus ticket to their home town... they are left to the streets and expected to make it. This happens every June, and the traffickers wait for vulnerable girls to kidnap. Stella's Voice is a ministry focused on providing a safe home for orphaned girls who are left out on the streets. They work to PREVENT these girls from being in a position where they could get involved in the sex trade. 

Watch the video, learn more, and pray for the country of Moldova. 

Posted August 9, 2011 by SOS