Post make it right Prayer Highlight 9/26-30/11 Local Advocacy

Make It Right Prayer Highlight 9/26-30/11 Local Advocacy

 As a follow-up for the "make it right" Event we want to lift up our local advocacy efforts within the State of Washington. The focus this week throughout the State and Nation is the re-authorization of the

TVPRA which is the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. This act will expire this Friday. We need to be contacting our Washington State Representatives and Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell by calling them and simply stating:

                                 Hello, my name is __________ and I'm a constituent from

                                 _______________, I would like to ask the senator to cosponsor

                                 the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (S.1301).

                                 Thank you.

An organization that we are working with that will help you set up local Anti-Human Trafficking Community Action Team is Washington Engage. They will meet with your group and help you set up a plan of action to stop local human trafficking in your city or town. Join the Federal Way Community Action Team meeting this week to see how one community is fighting local trafficking issues.

Another organization that will help local groups advocate for victims of human trafficking is Shared Hope International. Linda Smith, former Washington Congresswoman, founder of Shared Hope International is known for her ability to galvanize the grassroots community. She created a "Kids Are Not For Sale" awareness campaign and authored two books, From Congress to the Brothel (2007) and Renting Lacy (2009). The Finding Lacy training program is being used within the State to bring about awareness of local human trafficking.

Prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father,

We come before You in the Name of Jesus praising You that not one sparrow falls to the ground without Your knowing of it. We praise You that You are seated on Your Throne in the Heavenlies and nothing comes into our lives without it filtering through Your Hands.

Lord, we praise You in advance that the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 will be reauthorized and that funding will continue to be provided to stop human trafficking. We thank You that people will mobilize this week and that all senators and representatives will receive thousands of phone calls and that US Senators and Representatives will have meetings with hundreds of constituents as they plead for this reauthorization. Let it be so, Lord!

Lord, we pray that people locally within our State would become aware and educated about how to fight human trafficking that is happening all around us. We pray that people's hearts would be broken by the things that they discover is happening to children and young people who are victims of sex trafficking and labor slavery. Lord open eyes and hearts to the realities of this horrific situation.

We pray that You would open doors that only You can open so that all human trafficking would stop in this generation. Show us what to do, show us where to go, show us how to make a difference. We are passionate about seeing things change. We are passionate about the victims and we want to be their voice in the darkness to bring them hope and freedom. Use us Lord to set these captives free.

We praise You and thank you that You will show us a way to change our local areas on behalf of trafficked children and women.

In Jesus Name we pray. Amen!