May I introduce you to… Arise60 🙂 This is the group of wonderful girls that I get to spend this spring with! I could not be more excited about how God perfectly knit together these women and planned long ago that we would live life together for a few months! They are each so full of love and joy and the Spirit just bursts out of them. They have a fire in their bones to see sex-trafficking come to an end. They choose to see life in people and long to spread the freedom God has given them to others. I simply can’t wait for the opportunity to share the Light alongside these girls!
Thanks to Ashley, we have an awesome group photo from the last day of training camp 🙂 From left to right: Ashley, Mindy, me, Carolyn, Karina, and Carla.
The day before training camp ended, we chose our team names. We wanted our name to be something that truly encompasses our hearts’ desires for this spring. And I’m pretty pumped about our name: Arise60. The 60 comes from Isaiah 60 so let me share a few sections of that chapter that I LOVE…
“Arise, shine, for your Light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn… No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the Lord will be your everlasting Light, and your God will be your glory. You sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more, the Lord will be your everlasting Light, and your days of sorrow will end.”
Isaiah 60
We wanted our name to speak something about who we are as a group and our passion is to see Light come to all dark places and bring freedom and life. When we read these verses, we knew it just fit with where our hearts are at. And so we became Arise60 🙂 I pray that we rise up as the women we are in Christ and that the freedom that comes from His love will raise up everyone we come into contact with!
Check out this link and listen to Arise, Shine… http://new.music.yahoo.com/united-pursuit-band/tracks/arise-shine–180573517
And if you haven’t listened to United Pursuit Band, you should buy all of their cds. Now 🙂 Their lyrics will rock your world!
You should also check out this article…
My heart to see people in the Dominican freed from trafficking and prostitution and abusive situations is what led me to the world race in the first place. This article was put out in the Miami Herald this past weekend and gives a detailed picture of trafficking issues in Haiti and the Dominican.
