Love the NCAA Basketball Tournament?

Want to help end modern day slavery?

Then this is the perfect combination!

Join our March Madness Bracket Challenge to End Slavery.  All you have to do is donate a minimum of $10 here, you’ll be emailed passwords to enter your picks here and help end slavery. The winner will have the proceeds donated in his or her name to the Free Chains Campaign to End Slavery. Part of those proceeds will support the Free Chains safe house in Nepal and also a partner in this fight, the International Justice Mission.

Thanks for playing and for helping end slavery!

This year make your bracket picks really count!

Are you crazy about March Madness and also want to help us end child sex slavery?  Enter our tournament challenge for a minimum donation of $10 and the winner will have all the proceeds donated in their name to the Free Chains Campaign to end child sex slavery.

Other prizes will be awarded for top finishers.

Go to the donate page at www.freechains.org to sign up.  We’ll email you log in information once donation is received.

The FBI had a great breakthrough this past week. 48 girls were rescued, ages 13-17 and over 570 suspects were arrested.

Read details here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_go_ot/child_prostitutes

Help us end child sex slavery at Free Chains.

Lesson 3: You are always casting vision

This was one of the lessons that I learned the hard way.  With a start up, you are always casting the vision.  To your donors, your supporters, your 2 volunteers, your spouse, and even to yourself.  Being in start up mode requires you to always cast a compelling vision.  Odds are you are not achieving your complete vision yet, but if you cast a luke warm, woe is me vision to someone, one of two things will happen. 1-if they are not a donor (or investor)  yet, they probably wont be now.  or 2-if they already give to you, they will now have doubts about giving again.

You are always casting the vision.  Lesson 2 was, it’s going to be hard work.  This we know and you cannot let the hard work side allow you to cast a poor vision.  When people ask how you are doing, don’t lead with, “we still don’t have any major donors yet” or “the economy is really hitting us hard.”  Lead with a success.  Lead with something that has gone right. Now, I’m not tell you to mislead or lie here.  When they ask specific questions, you must answer them, but that doesn’t mean  you have to lead with them!

Every time you talk with someone,  you email, you hold a meeting or even post a blog entry, you are casting vision.  Don’t cast a poor vision.  Cast the compelling vision that caused you to get off our duff and start!

By the way, World Causes and the Free Chains Campaign to end child sex slavery are going great!  Our goal is to share with many churches, youth groups and college ministries our vision of seeing Christians lead the fight against poverty, injustice and epidemic diseases.  In March, I will be speaking 9 different times, with the main message that social justice is not new, its biblical and we have an opportunity to respond.  If you would like me to come share with your group, please email me today, greg@worldcauses.org.

Here is a link to an article in London where a judge has ordered monetary restitution for victims smuggled into the country to perform sex with hundreds of clients a week.  I hope this is only the beginning of a trend as justice is served to those exploiting woman and children.  Money can not make up for the harm that was done, but at least it will help as they try to move on with their lives.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7899923.stm

To join us in our fight, visit Free Chains.  Buy a shirt, support a rescued victim.  Visit here and buy a photo with 100% profits benefiting our safe house.

All Should Be Free!!

A new report from the UN today came out that said that woman play a dominate role in the trafficking of other woman and children. Here’s an exert:

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Surprisingly, the perpetrators behind human trafficking around the world are often women, the U.N. reported Thursday.

Women are the majority of traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations the U.N. surveyed. They accounted for more than 60 percent of the human trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

For many, human trafficking is a world they had been pulled into themselves.

“Women commit crimes against women, and in many cases the victims become the perpetrators,” Antonio Maria Costa, director of the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said in an interview. “They become the matrons of the business and they make money. It’s like a drug addiction.”

Most of the world’s nations reported some form of “modern slavery” last year involving mainly the sex trade or forced labor.

Read the rest of the story here.
You can join our fight at Free Chains.

One of my heroes is William Wilberforce. He helped abolish the slave trade in England in the late 1700 and early 1800s.  He felt called by God, but did not know if it was to be in solitude service or in political service.  As he was deciding, his friend William Pitt said that surely his new Christian doctrine [faith] calls for action and spiritual meditation.  This propelled Wilberforce into fighting slavery for more than 20 years and it is also the reason we are fighting it today with Free Chains.  We must put feet to our faith!

Another great quote is when Pitt challenges him to fight for the abolishon of the slave trade while he ran for Prime Minister.  Wilberforce said that people their age had never been elected because of their youth.  Pitt replies that that’s exactly why they can change the world, becasue they don’t see the problem with their youth.  Sounds farmiliar to when Paul challenged Timothy not to let anyone look down on him because he was young.  Here’s to changing the world.