By: Emily Landstrom This perspective was written by Emily Landstrom, a Sophomore, Business Major at WJU. She is another student who is soon leaving for Cambodia with the mission team from Jessup. In my opinion, human trafficking is a well-known issue. When people hear about it, they react in similar ways—shock, emotional grieving, anger, and [...]
Perspective expressed through firsthand experience! Written By: Sabrina Johnson, a Junior Family and Children Ministries Major at WJU. Sabrina has been to Cambodia once on a mission trip in Summer 2010 and is about to go again this summer with a mission team from Jessup. This is her firsthand account of suffering due to trafficking. [...]
Perspective expressed through poetry. Written by: Ryan Jow, senior Bible & Theology major and Intercultural Studies minor at William Jessup University. Call for Cambodia The children are crying, The People are dying, Both in body and in soul. Horrors untold, A past forgotten, A present now ignored. We are convicted, As many [...]
Some express their perspective through empathy and through art. Written by: Mriah Brost, junior Liberal Studies major at William Jessup University. The below oil painting was done by Mriah to symbolize the hurting, quieted victim. Violated. Fear breaking sweat down my forehead, I woke up suddenly. My worst fear as a girl is being violated. My [...]
Some express their perspective through song. Written and Recorded by Sophie Parrott, Sophomore Music Major at WJU. Click here to Listen: “For Those Without a Voice” For Those Without a Voice A body used, a heart abused. Forced to comply, and broken inside. Love is just the way, to get enough pay. She never [...]
Perspective expressed through poetic language. Written By: Eddie Lopez, Pastoral Ministries major at WJU. She Cries Out She cries out for a rescuer, Oh God where is her rescuer, She cries from the core of her spirit, While she takes upon 10-15, Help me, help me, Its worse than abuse, Its out of her [...]
Written By: Sarah Kern, Residential Director at WJU Scripture: “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8) Reflection: During this season of Lent, let’s seek Christ’s heart for the [...]
Written By: Jenayu Roberts, Junior Psychology Major at WJU. Sex Trafficking. Read those words again..sex trafficking. When I hear those words, I cringe. Those two words individually seem so harmless. Put them together and they create a world full of hopelessness, disgust, sadness, hurt, anger, brokenness, violence and lives forever changed. I had heard of [...]
Written By: Molly Morgan, Sophomore Psychology Major at WJU My ideas of sex trafficking….I mean, when I was first asked this question I thought, “Well this should be easy, doesn’t everyone believe it is wrong?”. I didn’t hear that it was still going on until I came up to Sacramento. When I think of human [...]
Knowledge and awareness is square one in a potential course of action. I want to challenge the typical process by which sex trafficking is brought to our attention, by which we hurt for it, by which we consider making an effort to fight with what time and energy we have, but then forget about it until [...]
