Posted on Mar 7, 2013 | by Shawn Hendricks/Biblical Recorder
HIGH POINT, N.C. (BP) -- Sandra Johnson refuses to turn her back on the
problem. And she believes other Baptists shouldn't either.
For
Johnson, a North American Mission Board (NAMB) missionary based in North
Carolina, the issue of human trafficking is personal, and it's a
problem that is right in our "own backyard."
Human trafficking
is the fastest-growing crime in the world, and Johnson said every
Christian should be involved in ending it. Right now there are believed
to be around 27 million people living in slavery. Children as young as 6
years old are being sold on the streets and on the Internet, Johnson
said.
"I can't turn my back on that ... it could easily be my
grandchildren," said Johnson, a member of Green Street Baptist Church in
High Point, N.C., and president and founder of Triad Ladder of Hope, a
nonprofit organization that helps human trafficking victims escape from
bondage and rebuild their lives, sharing the love of Jesus with them in
the process. "There are more people enslaved today than in any other
time in history.... This is 'free America,' but it's not."
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