Ubuntu: We are connected

Tonight as I sat in front of the computer, the lights and pages flashing by my eyes, I watched YouTube video's for the Love146 organization. The entire time, my heart was crying out for the little girls on the other side of the world, that I so desperately wanted to comfort and hold. Love146 is an organization to end child sex slavery and exploitation. There is a group called the Brothel that sells and buys woman, in this case young girls often under the age or 12 years into sex slavery- Child Sex Trafficking.

I was watching a video with Rob Morris, the co-founder and president, talking about how we don't get involved in something unless it affects us personally. We don't get involved with cancer support until a family member is diagnosed. We don't get involved in AIDS until a friend has it.

So how do we personally engage with the problem of child trafficking and exploitation? There is an African word called "Ubuntu." It means that we as the human race are all connected. What happens to one happens to all. When one suffers, we all suffer. In the book of Hebrews, God tells us to engage by imagining if we were the ones suffering.

Rob Morris personally engaged when he went under cover with investigators into the Brothel. He stood behind a glass window and saw all of the little girls being sold. Human beings... being sold. He says that while he was there he thought, "This could be my daughter," and then thought, "This is someones daughter."

So I encourage you now to personally engage. Imagine if you were sold every day to "clients," you were stripped of your name and replaced with a number, and you had no were to run tonight. Go to Love146.com and get involved. Donate, watch videos, and promote the abolition of Child Sex Slavery.

Here are the links to the videos and site:

http://www.love146.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=21460
http://www.love146.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=35962
http://www.youtube.com/user/Justice4Children#play/uploads/6/eqUjzO1R2oM
http://www.youtube.com/user/Justice4Children#play/uploads/0/d_MyUKFEgMc