I love young people. I love teaching the Word to them, helping them to see the greatness of God and His great news, and helping them channel their innate zeal toward the things of God. This spring I will finish a book called Missional Students which will challenge churches, parents, and students to help students while young develop as Christ followers with a missional posture and lifestyle. We have a generation of missionaries, but most of them just don’t know it.
As I write and travel I have opportunities to meet some remarkable examples of students who do get this. For example, Morgan. I met Morgan while preaching on a Wednesday night at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, a great church a while back. I met her parents who have supported her greatly in her work.
Morgan and a few other friends discovered the horror of human trafficking. They started a ministry to raise funds to fight this blight. When I met Morgan she was a ripe old age of 14 (she is now 15 and her friends who help are 14-16). Their website is here.
The fall when I met Morgan they had just gotten started and had already raised almost $4,000. They have already helped to rescue young girls who were being raped as prostitutes against their will. They are now adopting a city in Moldova where 30,000 girls have been taken by trafficking rings over the past ten years.
This is a group of girls who began this ministry out of a 9th grade Sunday school class. Can we possibly play a few less games and give a few more students a vision to live boldly for Christ? Yes, we can.
Here is a video they produced as well. Learn more. Support them. End slavery. For the gospel.
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