TRANSFORMING CULTURE THROUGH MEDIA AND MISSIONS TO COUNTERACT HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.
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This street like countless others around Germany would be easy to avoid. The people that live on this street are forgotten because it makes it easier. We have created laws and structures to control but have decided to call them protection. The first time I walked down the Frauentormauer street that comprises Nürnberg’s red-light district I was amazed at the amount of people working and thriving on this very long street. Their life has become a quagmire of night clubs, brothels, restaurants, hotels and strip clubs. This is normal. You feel normal. And people live normal lives on these streets. This legalization law normalizes the situation of buying a prostitute and selling ones body. A guy can come to the Nürnberg Christmas market with his family and the easiness of telling his wife he needs to step out for some coffee becomes a reality of walking three streets away and buying a working girl. I once heard that when the law to legalize prostitution came up in the house, Germans were asleep. The idea behind OBJECT is to see more people taking up the calling God has put on their lives. To start ministries, head out into the mission field and for the church to start having a conversation about legalized prostitution. We have all seen change happen when we understand the truth about our identity and destiny God has placed in us. It is time to see people passionate about this issue and to see Germans calling for change in this injustice.
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BEHIND THE DESIGN The design used on the front of the magazine and the sweatshirt was inspired by the work we, and many others, do throughout German red-light districts. When we pray and walk the streets of the cities of Europe we invite God’s presence, this is symbolised by the seed. These are left to grow and then finally sprout at the right time. We talk to people on the streets in the hope that they don’t just meet us, but they have an encounter with the living God. This design symbolizes the changing of an area for God’s purposes and not for the worlds. We are a small part of a larger vision. Our ultimate hope as YWAM Herrnhut is to see change come to Germany and to the nations.
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A LASTING DIFFERENCE ELLA SMITH
PROSTITUTION: THE PROFIT OF LEGALIZATION ELISE EICHLER
ART ON THE BRAIN JOANNA BRANSON
BRINGING JOY TO THE BROTHELS RAHEL BÜTTNER
LOVE SELLS NATHALIE SCHALLER
STEP INTO THE MOVEMENT PHIL GAZLEY
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ur team visits Red Light Districts and Brothels on a regular basis. We started by bringing flowers, gifts and invitations to different events we were hosting. With literally hundreds of girls rotating through the brothels, we quickly realized that our biggest challenge was not in making initial contact, but in building a friendship where the girls would feel confident enough to share their stories and let us help them leave the sex industry. Because we were meeting new women every visit, we found it difficult to properly invest in building a friendship with each of them. To manage this, we decided to implement a model of discipleship that Jesus demonstrated. In the beginning of Jesus’ ministry He chose twelve disciples. Among the twelve, Jesus singled out three; Peter, James and John. We decided to do the same. We each wrote down three women with whom we had already developed a special bond. While we continued to make regular visits to the brothels, we would spend focused time with the ones on our list. I am so excited to say that within nine months, all three of the women on my list had successfully left the sex industry and started a new life! Anika was one of the girls on my list. I’d like to share her story with you.
When I first met Anika, she was very closed off, but she made a very strong impression on me. I invested a lot of time in prayer for her before we even began building a friendship. Two months after our first meeting, I ran into her again. This time, she invited me to talk in her room. That’s when I wrote Anika’s name on my list. Originally from Eastern Europe, she was abandoned by her mother as a baby. At twelve years old she lived with a man twice her age. Later, a loverboy seduced her into becoming a prostitute for him in Germany. She desired a different life but felt that she didn’t deserve it. We spent a lot of time going out for coffee, talking, and praying together in her room. There were days when she was in a really good mood but many times, I would find her crying on her bed. Still, the consistency of my visits and my support was making an impact. Her world came crashing down when she found out that she was pregnant by a notorious pimp. He took most of her money and would often beat her. When I learned of her pregnancy, we presented her with different options and offered her free medical care. During a moment of hopelessness, Anika decided to hurt herself and the baby inside of her. She almost killed herself in the process. Finally she decided
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to get medical care but unfortunately, the baby did not survive. After a couple of weeks her pimp who had now become her trafficker, moved her to Switzerland to work in prostitution. I was heartbroken to find out she had been moved. At this point all I could do was pray and ask others to pray for her. Somehow she managed to call me and explain where she was and her desire to leave. She had just enough money to buy a train ticket back to Germany. It was dangerous for her to leave but through the trust relationship we had built, she felt empowered enough to go for it. When she arrived, we housed her and talked about her future. Through fundraising, we were able to help her get back to her hometown. She is currently staying at a safe place surrounded by people who love her. We have stayed in contact since she left. The other week, she told me that she was going to help a girl she knew leave the sex industry and pay for her flight home with the money she earned from her new job. Since beginning our work, we have found that applying the principles of discipleship have been more effective than only utilizing methods of street evangelism. It is more than praying a simple prayer with them. It’s getting
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involved with them in the daily process of small and large decisions. I want to encourage you who are doing outreach in brothels and on the streets. Be determined to move towards deeper relationships and open yourselves up to disciple the women. We are confident that by engaging them in loving, faithful discipleship, we will all see a greater impact made against forced prostitution in Germany.
Ella moved to Germany in 2011 to work with the Justice Project. Originally born in Amsterdam, her journey has taken her to South America, the Caribbean, the U.S. and throughout Europe to help women in desperate situations. In the U.S., she did social work in poor neighborhoods and pioneered a community organization that assisted drug addicted women and former strippers and prostitutesz. Since returning to Europe, she has assisted different NGO’s in the fight against Human Trafficking.
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rostitution has been legal in Germany since January 1st 2002. This means prostitutes and their customers are not considered criminals and by law it is not immoral anymore to offer sexual services or to make use of them. Unlike many European countries, the German government decided that legalization is the best form of protection for prostitutes. The goal in legalizing prostitution was to improve the social and legal situation of the prostitutes that opt for the job and to prevent exploitation. Furthermore, the government aimed to offset criminal side effects like trafficking in drugs and people.
By law, prostitution is a job like any other; a service. As a result prostitutes have a right to social insurance, health insurance and pension schemes. In contrast to other jobs the employer or pimp only has limited authority to give directives, because prostitutes have the right to sexual self-determination. A client cannot insist on a sexual service, which means that a prostitute can refuse to serve certain customers or to perform particular practices. The enforcement of the prostitution law also enables prostitutes to demand payment after providing their services. With the legalization of prostitution, creating an appropriate working environment for prostitutes has become a profitable business. Germany has more than 3000 brothels and sex clubs, attracting both local and international customers. Promoting sexual services and products remains illegal and will be punished with prison sentences and fines up to 10,000 Euros. Still, there
seems to be no lack of customers, because Germany is notorious internationally for its liberal prostitution laws. When there is both demand and potential profit, supply increases as well. Flat-rate brothels offer unlimited sex and drinks for a low price. Brothel owners keep expanding and go as far as to list their business on the stock market. All together prostitution in Germany creates an estimated annual revenue of about 14.5 billion Euros. There is no completely accurate data about tax revenues and profits, because despite legalization prostitution remains an unsearchable business. Prostitutes are often self-employed and employment contracts are rare. Brothel owners and prostitutes want as much flexibility and autonomy as possible. Moreover, many prostitutes work anonymously for fear of condemnation in their social environment, because although their work is legal, there is still stigma associated with prostitution.
Because of this and other reasons, most people working as prostitutes do not apply for social security, in spite of the fact that they have a right to do so. This complicates the collection of data and statistics. Nobody really knows how many prostitutes work in Germany. Estimates from NGOs and sexual advocacy groups put the number between 200,000 and 400,000 women working in prostitution. These women work in brothels, apartments and on the streets. Others offer their services online or work for a pimp. Everything is legal as long as the prostitute is no younger than 18 years and does not live in personal or economic dependency. It is the ambiguous wording of this law that makes it hard to differentiate trafficked women from those who are willing, because it does not define personal and economic dependency. As a result it is difficult to prosecute exploitation and human trafficking. A European Union (EU) study from 2011 shows that human trafficking has increased in Germany since the legalization of prostitution. That same year the German police registered 640 victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, but the number of women trafficked is actually much higher. There is a need for Germany to counteract sexual exploitation more rigorously as currently the charge for sexual exploitation carries a maximum penalty of three years imprisonment. German prostitution law was designed to improve the situation of people working as prostitutes and to
invalidate the immorality of sexual services. From the beginning the German government was well aware of the fact that prostitution is a job unlike any other. Politicians were alert to the physical and psychological effect of the occupation and hoped that legalization would make it easier for prostitutes to move on to alternative job opportunities. However, as early as 2007 the German government found that the effects of the prostitution law were less positive than expected. To date, the prostitution law remains a controversial issue. EU guidelines demand the German government take a more forceful line of action against human trafficking. Before the elections in 2013, the German parliament made efforts to increase protection of prostitutes and to change trade laws for brothels, yet, the bill was overturned due to disagreement without further processing. The new government now has the chance to resume the discussion and to bring about change.
Elise is a student at the current Marriage of the Arts DTS in Herrnhut. In 2010 she attended the Not for Sale-Conference in Hamburg, where she learned about the dimensions of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in our times. This started a journey of seeking after God’s heart and stirred up a desire in her to see the oppressed set free. This heart for justice also affected her studies. Elise has a degree in international project management and development studies. After DTS she hopes to continue her studies in the area of human rights.
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exual exploitation is most often accompanied by deception and physical violence, this often results in psychological trauma. Internationally, safe homes are trying to find effective ways to treat the long-term repercussions of sexual trauma. This year I visited twenty-five aftercare facilities for men, women, and children who had left the sex industry. I attempted to find common themes in trauma therapy offered to their residents and compare the societal attitudes on aftercare in different cultures. What I discovered was that many societies had a negative view of psychology as a whole. In India and some South East Asian countries like Cambodia, I was told outright that psychology is a Western construct and did not apply to the way their residents processed events and information. However, what I did find in every aftercare facility, including the ones who rejected official psychological treatment, was art. No matter what culture, what facility, what age or gender of the residents, the staff saw incredible growth and increased ability to process with residents who began to express their emotions through painting, sculpting, photography, dance, and designing. Some cultures do not naturally or comfortably express their individual emotions. Some stories and emotions involved in trauma are too difficult to express in words. Art transcends culture, history, and
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societal attitudes. In a basic state, it is an opportunity to express oneself without expectation. When someone from this background is presented with their own art piece, the art has transformed their story or emotions into a tangible object outside themselves that is easier to discuss or analyze than something as intimate or vulnerable as their current emotional state. I saw an example of this at an aftercare facility in Cambodia when all of the children sang their stories and what they would say to their parents. Many of the children had not been able to express their story in words, but each child was able to sing their story with passion to the entire group. In Thailand, art was taught and then used to help girls process by drawing in blank pictures of brains. They were able to express their thoughts non-verbally through this project. There are many beneficial diagnoses and treatments for trauma and post-traumatic stress and I saw many approaches to them in these aftercare facilities. But art therapy was the only one that I saw effecting change in every facility and country that I surveyed. Joanna Branson is a twenty-four year old psychology major undergrad student from Nashville, Tennessee. She is currently on staff with YWAM teaching photography and will continue pursuing education to be an art therapist. Her current project is expanding her research on trauma therapy and the sex industry in a book that will be released next year. www.cargocollective.com/yoanna
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t the 2010 “Not For Sale” Conference in Hamburg, five Christians from Cologne, met for the first time. We were indignant over the things we had heard and the fact that apparently hardly anybody was doing something about it. We were outraged that we as Christians in Cologne did not even know that there is trafficking in people and that there are women in Cologne who are forced to sell their bodies. We agreed to do something. Back in Cologne we searched online about where prostitution takes place in the city and we soon found addresses to two of the big brothels. Not that much later we stood in front of the bouncers with gifts and shaking knees, “We are part of a Christian women’s ministry and we would like to do something good for your ladies, could we come in?” We were allowed in and since then we visit the ladies regularly, to show them appreciation, to build relationship with, and to pray for, them. Today, there are not only five, but twelve women. We now also visit ladies that walk the streets and use trailers
to provide their services. Last year for Christmas we were able to have a Christmas service in a brothel and around 35 ladies came. It was a very special celebration, with everything that we needed. The owner provided a traditional German Christmas dinner for everyone. A worship band got the women dancing. Many were touched by the preaching. Some even cried. At the end of the evening the ladies came to front. The presents we had were not so important for them, but they wanted prayer and a Bible in their language. Many thanked us in tears, saying that it was an unforgettable evening and felt like home. This year we will be able to have another Christmas celebration. Please pray with and for us, so it will not just be a great evening, but that hearts will be changed. We desire that all of them come to know Jesus and discover the great plans He has for them.
Rahel Büttner is married and has been with Youth with a Mission for more than four years. She is part of the leadership at YWAM Cologne and mainly involved with Discipleship Training Schools and ministries concerning justice.
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LIMPSE is a Stuttgart-based fashion label that was founded in the beginning of 2013. Just a few weeks ago its initial collection ‘First Love’ was launched in stores throughout Germany. However, GLIMPSE is more than just an ordinary fashion label. It can better be described as a fashionable human rights initiative using perky fashion to highlight a serious topic in today’s society. Besides creating on-trend fashion and accessories, GLIMPSE’s main focus lies in the reintegration of victims of forced prostitution back into society – and this is done using fashion as the medium. The idea was born about four years ago, when the three GLIMPSE founders were first confronted with the topic of forced prostitution during a social outreach with the organization “Youth With A Mission”. They encountered women who had been lured into the hands of slave traders, abducted, or sold to brothels under false pretences. These young women go on to become dishonored in the eyes of society, cannot return to their homes, and have neither education
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nor job prospects, leaving the women physically and mentally wounded. These impressions had a strong impact on Teresa Goeppel (fashion designer), Nathalie Schaller (lawyer), and Nathalie’s husband Simon Schaller (media designer) who became determined to commit to the cause of helping victims of forced prostitution while informing society about the urgency and gravity of the issue. Their own affinity towards fashion immediately gave Teresa, Nathalie and Simon the idea of creating a sewing workshop for women with a background of sexual slavery.
journey to once again learn to love life – transforming the slogan ‘Sex Sells’ into ‘Love Sells’. The women’s healing process can be experienced by every supporter of the fashion label. Each women has her own individual flower stamp that she uses to leave her signature on the items of clothing she works on. The purchaser of the fashion item can then find out more about the seamstress on our homepage. GLIMPSE’s main goal is not the realization of profits but moreover the women’s well-being. Especially in these early phases of establishment, the fashion label depends
The concept was to enable the women to have a safe environment where they would be able to undergo training to become seamstresses followed by employment under fair working conditions. The search for ideal collaborators led the three founders to Mumbai, India where the first sewing factory for former victims of sexual slavery was opened this year in January. The on-site organization and support are provided by the Indian organization Chaiim Foundation, which has a long standing experience with the supervision and care of victims of forced prostitution. Since January the first group of ten young women have received sewing lessons, schooling and support with every-day tasks. The program provides a safe and confidential environment to support the young ladies in their
on donations required to cover the operating costs for the factory. With bigger plans in mind, GLIMPSE is saving up for a larger building to house the workshop and living quarters. Facilities for post-rehabilitation support for victims of sexual slavery in Mumbai continue to be filled with women in need of a new perspective for their lives. GLIMPSE is hoping to include more women into the program soon, but is at present limited due to financial constraints and space limitations. In the future, GLIMPSE would like to expand the project outside the borders of India. Currently, the team is in the process of scoping possibilities to expand the project to other developing countries and create sewing factories in Germany as well.
The People behind GLIMPSE are: Teresa Göppel, Nathalie Schaller und Simon Schaller. Following her studies at the German Master School for Fashion in Munich, Teresa (29), started her first fashion label “sein” in 2010. Nathalie (29) graduated in Law. For the last two years she has been working in the area of media law in Stuttgart. Simon (29) studied media design in Ravensburg. After working for an architecture firm for three years, he went freelance in 2012. Simon and Nathalie married June 2012. Since 2012 Teresa, Nathalie and Simon work for GLIMSE Clothing in addition to their normal jobs.
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he Anti Human Trafficking movement is very young. Efforts were initiated on a recognizable scale in Europe in the 1990’s and in the United States after the Trafficking Victim Protection Act in 2000. If we compare this timescale to efforts related to domestic violence it shows us that we still have a lot to learn and a long way to go. In this short article I wish to lay out key considerations rather than answers as we need to discover the answers for our relevant nations and communities. Best practices and promising practices will vary based on national policy and the nature of strategic partnership. I wish to outline 3 key learning curves that I see based on observations from the last 13 years of being connected to this movement.
1. A Comprehensive Approach 2. The Importance of Hearing All of the Voices that We Need to Hear 3. The Complexities We Have to Face
A Comprehensive Approach Though there is so much good and compassionate work, wise use of funds and a wide variety of approaches, I think is fair to say the overall approach to anti human trafficking efforts continues to look like a landscape of scattered efforts. In 2000, the Palermo Protocol introduced the concept of prevention, protection and prosecution as being the key aspects of a comprehensive approach. Over the years a fourth “P” of partnerships has also been added. I recently had the privilege of working on a research team for 3 years with the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. You can find the Executive summary of the research at www.combathumantrafficking.org. One key result in the prevention area was that most of what was claimed to be prevention was actually awareness and was mostly “preaching to the choir”. Very little strategic prevention to vulnerable communities was actually taking place. Even though this was a non-faith based research effort we found that the church had mostly kept awareness inside the church and had not engaged the local community. In protection there has been a strong emphasis on the needs of housing and the development of places of safety for victims and survivors. This is clearly an important element but I have found as I have provided technical assistance for some of these efforts that community needs assessments have not taken place to gauge what the real need is. Large amounts of money have been spent on efforts that have not developed strategic partnerships with other entities in the community and that less expensive housing options like wings in already existing domestic violence shelters or placing people in apartments had not been considered. In the same way that the movie, the Lone Ranger, did so badly at the box office this summer, we have similar results when we try to be ‘Lone Rangers’ in anti human trafficking efforts. As someone who has been coordinating a new anti trafficking coalition (www.kcaht.org or KCAHT Facebook) it has been both challenging and rewarding to see these
4P’s begin to work together. Up until last year there were no arrests for human trafficking in our region. The fruit of coordinated efforts is that women are coming off the streets and being provided with services based around clear protocols and we have seen 4 arrests this year in our community.
The Importance of Hearing All of the Voices that We Need to Hear One key aspect of the maturing of the anti human trafficking movment has been the recognition of root causes and parallel movements as key to a comprehensive approach. Examples of this would include: adapting local sex assault protocols for working with law enforcement and local health care providers rather than inventing something completely different and doing strategic prevention with refugee and immigrant communities. There is a growing realization that in some cases we don’t even have to talk about human trafficking to address the issue. If you are providing foster care, helping orphans, empowering women, helping people find employment and doing cultural mentoring in immigrant communities you are preventing human trafficking without even talking about the issue. I want to suggest that James 2:1-13 implies that we are not to assume that someone who is poor or vulnerable only falls into the category of someone needing help or having nothing to contribute. We need the voices and perspectives of law enforcement, legal and victim 19
service providers, health and mental health professionals, outreach workers, social workers, local and federal government but we also very much need sex worker perspective, labor rights perspective and survivor voice perspective. We also need the voice of those in vulnerable communities so that we can all work together in a constant place of learning.
The Complexities We Have to Face Fighting human trafficking is complex and frequently involves a process of one step forward and two steps back. To seek an end to human trafficking we must recognize the horror involved in labor trafficking as well as the more obvious horror of sex trafficking. We need to focus on both the trafficking of our citizens and residents as well as those being trafficking into our respective countries. One key example of complexity would be those in countries where prostitution is legal; we see very low jail terms for traffickers and consistent re-victimization and re-offending. In countries where prostitution is illegal we see women that are victims going to jail and perpetrators only being fined when they are not defined as traffickers. We also see labor trafficking being regarded as less important in the church (I would suggest partially because of non-biblical views in relation to immigration).
To look at Biblcal paradigms on these issues I would reccommend:
Genesis 38 Read the story of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38 and ask the question of what this can teach us about perceived women’s rights and survival sex and how we judge prostitution.
James 1:27 Read James 1:27 and take out the “And” in “And to stay unspotted from the world” and meditate on how that affects how we live and think. The “And” is not there in the original Greek text.
Leviticus 19 Read Leviticus 19 and think upon all the things that God is telling us to do to live a holy life. (This is so that we break the idea of holiness only being what we don’t do) I hope these thoughts have been helpful and the good news is that Jesus said “The Spirit of the Lord if upon me BECAUSE he has anointed me to preach (declare and demonstrate) good news to the poor”. With the same priority and heart Jesus has empowered us, we have been empowered to fight human trafficking. We can do so much.
Phil Gazley wrote this on the way to Albania to train law enforcement and has been training police and service providers since 2005. When he is not traveling, teaching and training in YWAM, he is the Coordinator for the Kern Coalition Against Human Trafficking and works with teens in foster care, with single Moms, and in also in refugee communities. He was in YWAM from 1984-1993 and has been back in YWAM since 2006 and can be reached at gazleys@hotmail.com. His wife Caren travels with him and teaches on self-care. Their daughter did her DTS in Oregon and their son is currently in the Ships DTS in Kona.
WE CAN... 01 / USE OUR GIFTS IN MEDIA, FILM, MUSIC AND THE ARTS. DO RIGHTS AWARENESS WITH IMMIGRANT FARM WORKERS / 02 ALONGSIDE PEOPLE IN PROSTITUTION TO GIVE THEM A 03 / COME FUTURE AND A HOPE BE THE ONES OUT ON THE STREETS WITH AT RISK YOUTH IN / 04 THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT PEOPLE’S LIVES CHANGE THROUGH THE POWER OF THE 05 / SEE GOOD NEWS AND SIGNS AND WONDERS DO COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENTS AND USE PARTICIPA/ 06 TORY RESEARCH TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE STRATEGIC PREVENTION IN VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES 07/ DO TO EMPOWER WOMEN AND CHILDREN INCARNATE OURSELVES IN THE CITY TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE / 08 THROUGH ROOT CAUSES AND PARALLEL MOVEMENTS ADVOCATE FOR LEGISLATION AND ADDRESS CORPORATE / 09 COMPLICITY AS WELL AS HELP CHRISTIANS IN BUSINESS BE MODELS OF INTEGRITY THROUGH DECLARING THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS AND MONITERING SUB CONTRACTORS
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ATMOSPHERE The importance of partnering with the Holy Spirit in ministry is something that has been revealed to us as we step out over and over again. Prayer is a crucial aspect to the work that we do but it can be so easily overlooked in favor of practical details. We need to continually be aware that although we work in the natural, we are fighting a spiritual battle. Injustice issues are not solved primarily through amendments to laws or programs but through compassion, the radical obedience of believers and the subsequent transformation of culture.
For our strugle is not aganst flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12
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THAT GOD WOULD CONTINUE TO REVEAL HIS FATHER-HEART TO THOSE WORKING IN THIS FIELD.
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PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL PROTECTION AS WE STEP INTO THE DARKEST PLACES. MAY GOD GIVE US THE COURAGE TO GO WHERE HE LEADS, TO STAKE A CLAIM FOR HIM AND THAT WE WOULD NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY THE ROAD AHEAD.
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FOR THE CHURCH TO BE THE FACE OF JESUS TO THE WORLD. PRAY THAT WE WOULD GIVE HIM GLORY WITH OUR OBEDIENCE, ACTION AND ATTITUDE.
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Lust can be likened to the eruption of a volcano. The flames of lust, like the devastation caused by volcanic activity, consume one from inside. The process begins when the embers of desire are ignited. As this slow burning beneath the surface escalates, the heat becomes uncontrollable. Eventually when desire cannot be contained, it bursts forth in an oft gratifying way. However the fires are short lived and the inferno fades to ash, and when all is done there is only emptiness left. Jared Flores studied art at Nebraska Wesleyan University, and graduated with his Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2012. He currently works as a freelance painter and designer toy artist. Lust ist vergleichbar mit dem Ausbruch eines Vulkans. Die Flammen der Lust verzehren dich von innen, wie die Verwüstung vulkanischer Tätigkeit. Der Verlauf beginnt, wenn die glimmenden Glut der Sehnsucht angefacht wird. Während dieses leise Brennen unter der Oberfläche eskaliert, wird die Hitze unkontrollierbar. Irgendwann, wenn die Sehnsucht nicht mehr eingedämmt werden kann, bricht sie hervor in einer oft befriedigenden Art und Weise. Diese Feuer sind jedoch kurzlebig und das Inferno verblasst in Asche und wenn alles vorbei ist, bleibt nur eine Leere zurück. Jared Flores studierte Kunst an der “Nebraska Wesleyan University” und schloss 2012 sein Masterstudium in Bildender Kunst an der “University of California Santa Barbara” ab. Momentan arbeitet er als freiberuflicher Maler und Spielzeug Designer.
Alexa Roberts, 22, is a current MOTA student from Roseville California. This piece is intended to reach out to the men involved in the human trafficking industry. It’s a call for them to see these women as sisters worth honoring and fighting for. The girl is meant to look strong, yet soft because there is forgiveness waiting for every one of these men. Alexa Roberts, 22, ist zur Zeit eine MOTA Studentin und kommt aus Roseville, Kalifornien. Dieses Bild soll die Männer erreichen, die in Menschenhandel involviert sind. Es ist ein Aufruf an sie, die Frauen als ihre Schwestern zu sehen, die es Wert sind geehrt zu werden und für sie zu kämpfen. Das Mädchen soll stark aussehen, aber auch sanft, denn es gibt Vergebung für jeden einzelnen dieser Männer.
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