Hey there!
Welcome to my blog! I hope you find it as hilariously ironic as I do that I, the girl who could barely pass her college computer class, now has a blog and is expected to know how to use it. Hah! 😉 I consider this blogosphere the first of MANY learning curves that I will ride on over the next few months!
Well first of all, a BIG THANK YOU to you for stopping by, for reading, and for supporting me through your prayers and finances! I am so blessed to have your support and I really could not venture to go on such a trip without your support! Please understand that when "I" go to minister to the precious people trapped in sex-trafficking it's really YOU going. YOU are ministering to them, through me. Right now, I am just the "feet" of the body of Christ and you make up the rest of the body! Without you, I wouldn't be able to minister. Therefore, YOU are just as crucial to this mission trip as I am. "We're all in this together" (*cue corny song now).
Why go on this trip?
Well, it’s kind of a long story, but it’s cool so keep reading! I was born severely hearing impaired, as in I can really only hear thunder well without my hearing aids. So, picture a 7 or 8 year old little me sitting on the toilet, without my hearing aids in, and all the sudden I HEAR GOD’S VOICE…AUDIBLY. It is so rich and deep and powerful (just as described in Psalm 29:4). My Creator said to me, “Sarah, go to Jerusalem and teach other people about Me.” 😀 It was a miracle, it was a miraculous day and it has been my goal to complete this divine mandate ever since then. And, who knew bathrooms could be such spiritual places?
Fast-forward a few years. I came home one weekend from college and watched “Amazing Grace”, which is the inspirational true story of William Wilberforce, the man who is largely responsible for abolishing the slave-trade in the United Kingdom. Something stirred in me during the movie and I broke down sobbing and pleading for God to give me something to fight for. I have a lot of passion, a lot of will, and a lot of love that I want to give to others, to help them.
All throughout college I had the amazing privilege of volunteering with Birth Choice, the local, Christian run crisis-pregnancy center in my college town of Jackson, TN. I also had the chance to volunteer at an orphanage once a week for 4 months with I studied abroad in Lithuania. These two experiences burned a love for children in my heart. EVERY child is precious. EVERY child deserves to have an unmarred childhood. And EVERY child is worth fighting for. I think God has shown me who to fight for. 🙂
What is this trip all about?
To be really basic, this trip is about actively addressing the cares on the heart of our God. Over and over throughout all of Scripture God tells us how much He cares for the oppressed- for the orphans, the widows, the downtrodden, the poor, the sick and the prisoners. Christ says this of Himself, and if you arein Christ you can say the same, "The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness the prisoners." Isaiah 61:1
This is the heart of God, to both spiritually and physically heal and free the brokenhearted, the captives and the prisoners. All of us are born slaves; slaves to sin. But by God’s grace and Christ’ death and resurrection some of us, hopefully even you, are freed from our captivity to sin, become slaves of God and are healed of our broken hearts. I pray that you have felt and are experiencing the God of the universe intimately caring for and loving and redeeming you. But guess what? The experience doesn’t stop there! We are continually being redeemed and it is now our duty to spread this redemption to others! We can’t save souls, but we are called to be Christ’ hands and feet to extending the Good News of redemption to others. In a nutshell, that’s what this trip is all about.
Reality Check:
Did you know that billions of people, millions of Americans, millions of Christians and maybe even you, are living in a dream world? Did you know that over 12 million human beings, people just like you and I, are sex-slaves TODAY? Did you know that little girls, as young as 5, are being bought and sold to have sex with? That’s millions of children who should be playing ballerina and fighting off imaginary dragons but are instead living in a type of hell you and I can’t even imagine. They are trapped, without a voice and without a way out, in a small dirty room performing sexual acts with grown men, forsaken by their parents and forgotten by society. This is REALITY. But this is NOT right.
Is it an overwhelming problem? Yes. Is it a problem I’d rather just pretend didn’t happen? Yes. But guess what? Our God is BIG! He knows what’s going on and has tasked US with the blessing of being His hands and feet of redemption to these children and women and men who are held captive by sex-trafficking. By God using feeble people, like you and I, to destroy evil and bring about justice and issue in a fuller redemption, God shows off just how BIG and GLORIOUS and MIGHTY and LOVING He is. What a Redeemer! And what a gracious Redeemer, that He would allow me, you, and us to be agents of ushering in His redemption to those who need it.
I am overwhelmed and so excited to get to go toe to toe with evil and get to love on tons of children, men and women who need the Gospel…the Good News…Redemption! And, I’m really excited for you to join me in this journey and to witness how BIG our God is! May we be more fully redeemed on this journey and may God be glorified!
Peace in Christ!
Much love,
Sarah Garrity
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