Greetings my Friends and Wonder Women everywhere!
I have to tell you I am so excited. I am participating in
both of the projects I posted about on Monday in my, "Wonder Woman, Wonder Bras, and the Fight for Justice" post.
My postcards came in
on Monday evening from IJM's 100 Postcards Challenge and I have some signatures already started in our
battle for freedom for those caught in the grips of Human Trafficking. It's
been easy to garner signatures and honestly I have yet to meet someone who does
not want to end slavery.
Mostly I find this postcard project is helping to
raise awareness about Human Trafficking in general. This is such a simple and
easy task. You simply take a few of the postcards with you when you go out and
visit friends and family, or run errands. I especially like that my children
can help as well. (They are educated on the basics of Human slavery for their
little ears do not need to know all of the details about Human Trafficking quite
yet.) We will be taking the IJM postcards to church this week as well. This is
a win-win situation in which we help to get Congresses attention while raising
other's awareness that slavery in all forms still exists and is thriving.
Now, the following is FOR LADIES EYES ONLY…
This next part is TOP
SECRET!!!
Now can I share with you what makes me giggle? (I can assure
it is not Human Trafficking, but a twist on how we can fight Human/Sex
trafficking and get more women to join us in a fun way.) Quite honestly, I get
a bit giddy, when I think about it…
We are going to start a bra smuggling operation in our church
for the "Free the Girls" Ministry. This operation is loosely based on
those crazy facebook posts the women do for breast cancer support. Have you
seen those? We women post a crazy message on facebook, but refuse to reveal to
the men what in the world we are talking about? (I always enjoy reading the
comments that follow those posts…they crack me up.)
Now envision this being applied to collecting bras for the “Free
the Girls” ministry. I have enlisted some of our College and Teen Girls to be
"Collectors". I have also enlisted some of my friends in the Women's
Ministry to get the word out to the women secretly. The women are to go out and
gather up clean, gently used bras for donation and then bring/smuggle them in
secretly to our teen girls, along with any monetary donations people would like to make for shipping the bras from Free The Girls, to Mozambique..
The object is for all of this to be done in secret.
The women secretly collect the bras and then hide them through different means
of bags and/or packaging. Then, they are instructed to "smuggle" them
to one of our "Collectors". (Honestly I do not want anyone to have to lie
about what they are doing. I am not endorsing lies. We are intending to have a funky
catch phrase that honestly tells what we are doing, but does not actually
reveal it in its entirety.)
Now of course I will let our Pastor and the Youth Pastor
know, but besides the few key leaders who need to be in the know, we will keep
this secret. We are currently working on a catchy phrase for our collection. It
may be, "Free the Girls, it is Top Secret." or perhaps something a
bit stranger and vague... I will keep you posted.
My question today is, who is with me?
(This photo is taken directly from the freethegirls.com website.) |
Will anyone else join in this Top Secret Campaign for
"Free the Girls" at their church. One of my favorite things, is when God's body of believers unite across the denominational
lines and work together.
Are you with me?
Do you have ideas to add or a catchy
slogan we should use?
Please leave a comment in the comments section below.
All right ladies it’s time to stand and be Wonder Women
together.
Isaiah 58:9-10
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
Look at you go! I'm going to share this post with the friend I mentioned to you the other day. You rock, girl!
ReplyDeleteI love that your blog is being used to help others. So wonderful! The whole "free the girls" thing is a trip! Good luck with this! Sounds awesome!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Adrienne! :) It has been amazing how many women are jumping in. God is awesome!
DeleteIt's a cleaver hoot! Such a worthy project. Love that you've made it fun.
ReplyDeleteI have been praying/researching for ways to help more women get involved in this. A friend of mine had mentioned Free the Girls and it took off. God is getting us moving. :)
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