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May 1, 2008

IJM Benefit

This past weekend I attended a benefit concert for International Justice Mission, which was held at the newly renovated performance venue, The Chapel. An acoustic group out of Chicago known as The Cathedrals, were the main act. While the night was filled with fellowship and good music, the focus was on a cause that needs to be on everyones' hearts, injustice to humanity around the world. It is a call from God to look out for the oppressed; IJM provides a way for us to do just that.
What does IJM do? The go into countries where the sex-slave trade is rampant, where policeman use brutal violence and torture on civilians, where people are literally born into slave families working to pay a debt that will never come to fruition, and finally where land is taken away from families without any agreement between the two parties, in other without the owner's consent.
International Justice Mission is able to work with the local government or authorities to bring people out of their current situations. They rescue 14-year-old girls out of forced prostitution, they save the woman and child who have been kicked out of their own home, they give freedom to the man who was born and raised in a slavery situation.
With the money we raised at the event, ($720), a group of lawyers will be able to work with local authorities to go in and save women from life in a brothel!
It is IJM's mission in answering God's call to "seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow." Isaiah 1:17 Together we can ALL make a difference

| By Nathan Gemayel | 9:27 PM

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