Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Would i be willing?
If there is one thing that i wish i could do with my photography, it would be to take that one photo that would truly start a movement. Just one thing that would change the way people think and how they see the world. I want to take a photo that would truly change everything. But as i look at it if my one photo would bring hope to just one person just one soul, to make him step back from a cliff, to make him put down the gun, to not down a hole bottle of pills, to stop him from taking his life. If that one photo would give someone hope and see that their life is worth living that would be just as good and I would thank God for giving me the opportunity to do such a thing…. but what if i did not see the out come what if God told me to take a photo post it online and i had no idea why? What if I knew i was suppose to do something and i just had to settle for knowing that God is taking care of it all. In the long run it is for the glory of God and not my own. God gave me this gift and passion for photography and if he told me to do something why do i need to know what its for. Yes it would be nice to know that through God using my art i was able to help someone, But when i step back and think about it im fine with not knowing.
God use my art as you please, I give it all to you. Thank you for the chances and opportunities you have given me. Amen.  

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Story of Love 146



In 2002, the co-founders of Love146 traveled to Southeast Asia on an exploratory trip to determine how they could serve in the fight against child sex trafficking. In one experience, a couple of our co-founders were taken undercover with investigators to a brothel where they witnessed children being sold for sex. This is the story that sparked our abolition movement.


"We found ourselves standing shoulder to shoulder with predators in a small room, looking at little girls through a pane of glass. All of the girls wore red dresses with a number pinned to their dress for identification.

They sat, blankly watching cartoons on TV. They were vacant, shells of what a child should be. There was no light in their eyes, no life left. Their light had been taken from them.  These children...raped each night... seven, ten, fifteen times every night. They were so young. Thirteen, eleven… it was hard to tell.  Sorrow covered their faces with nothingness. Except one girl. One girl who wouldn’t watch the cartoons.Her number was 146. She was looking beyond the glass. She was staring out at us with a piercing gaze. There was still fight left in her eyes. There was still life left in this girl...

...All of these emotions begin to wreck you. Break you. It is agony. It is aching. It is grief. It is sorrow. The reaction is intuitive, instinctive. It is visceral. It releases a wailing cry inside of you. It elicits gut-level indignation. It is unbearable. I remember wanting to break through the glass. To take her away from that place. To scoop up as many of them as I could into my arms. To take all of them away. I wanted to break through the glass to tell her to keep fighting. To not give up. To tell her that we were coming for her…"

Because we went in as part of an ongoing, undercover investigation on this particular brothel, we were unable to immediately respond. Evidence had to be collected in order to bring about a raid and eventually justice on those running the brothel.  It is an immensely difficult problem when an immediate response cannot address an emergency.  Some time later, there was a raid on this brothel and children were rescued.  But the girl who wore #146 was no longer there.  We do not know what happened to her, but we will never forget her.  She changed the course of all of our lives."

-Rob Morris
President and Co-founder

Thursday, August 25, 2011

God's knowledge and wisdom

The subject of God's knowledge must be linked to His wisdom, and it is this aspect of the divine nature that we consider now. What does the Bible mean when it describes God as wise? Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge to the best possible ends. This ability is found in its fullness only in God. God is never other than wise in everything He does.

Knowledge without wisdom would be pathetic, a broken reed. Wisdom without knowledge would be inoperative and quite frightening. God's boundless knowledge and wisdom are perfect in every way, and it is this that makes Him utterly worthy of our trust.

One of the great difficulties we have in the Christian life is trusting the divine wisdom. We can recognize wisdom only when we see the end to which it is moving. Yet God often calls us to trust Him when we can't see the end that He is pursuing. And then in such times we have to ask ourselves: "How much do I trust Him?"

Friday, August 19, 2011

To ethiopia in October For a month


So Small Update!
So hear is the plan as of right now, In October me and mike plan to go to ethiopia to help out with the projects, and do what we can. We will live in Addis Ababa for a month then return while Ulla, Melody, Cory, and the leaders pray about if we are right for the long term team. If so we will head home do more fundraising then return to ethiopia for a Six month period of time

Sunday, August 7, 2011

http://vimeo.com/13632870

Why do a Justice Conference?vimeo.comKen Wytsma talks to Antioch in Bend, Oregon about why they’d be involved in The Justice Conference (http://thejusticeconference.co​m/) that will be held in Bend on February 11+12, 2011. Paul Crouse paints a Justice piece during the message

My thoughts and feelings exploding

When i First came here...
When i First decided to come back to Germany i really didnt know what people meant by coming back and staffing would mean that i would have to sacrifice so much to do what God was telling me to do. Now though i finally realize what everyone was talking about, Don’t get me wrong its great to be back and doing everything God has been calling me to do and there is such pleasure in knowing that, I have a purpose and that my life has a meaning. But this past week everything I have sacrificed is just all coming to my mind and it is really making things hard. The sacrifice of my family, friends, security, and a normal college experiance. This all is either delayed or gone. Satan is taking advantage of all of this and using it against me, making every decision i make here waited, and every thought that comes to my mind cloudy. I feel as though my life is out of focus, and i am just waiting for this to pass and for God to clear up everything… I know though I have to step up and do it, this is God’s plan and i can’t just be moping around about everything that i wont be able to do, but i should be excited about everything God is going to do through me. I do have direction i do have a purpose, yes the path im taking isnt normal and i know people think this is just the lazy way of going through life, but thats ok i guess… Im living in poverty for the sake of helping others and fighting injustice. Maybe i wont be able to eat tomorrow, maybe i wont have clean clothes everyday… Maybe i cant pay my rent, But God is giving me something new, a new perspective, a purpose, and friends. This post might not make since to anyone but me, but i feel like this is what my mind is saying, this is what has been building up in my mind, and this is my mind throwing up on paper.
Love you all keep me in your prayers, God is taking me on an adventure.

Friday, August 5, 2011

So update once again


Hello new update!

SO im now officially apart of pick a pocket!
And also have been starting my duties at the base, while continuing to enter the community in herrnhut Germany. Its so coll how already God is taking me out of my comfort zone and growing me getting me ready for the next chapter of my life and taking me places further than i expected. Also living here has been pretty eye opening seeing just how much God is really doing through everyone, what he´s teaching each individual person as the go on there own adventure with God. How God continues to trump any idea that we have for ourselves and replaces it with an even better one. God you are so awesome!
Prayer request:
Prayer for strength, wisdom, guidance, and continued financial support. Right now i have choices laid before me and i know i will need strength that only God can give to accomplish any of it, Along with that faith in finances that God will continue to bring supporters for me to partner up with so i Can continue to follow him on this Journey.
Thank you all for your prayers and support, and remember if you would like to partner up with me and like to donate money I have paypal my email is cgreene_17@yahoo.com or you can mail a check to 11450 N. Hummingbird Way Mooresville, IN 46158

Human trafficking


What is Human Trafficking?

What is Human Trafficking?

“The greatest and most shameful regrets of history is always about the truth we failed to tell.”—Haugen 2005
  • TRAFFICKING IS…
    to be deceived or taken against your will, bought, sold and transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of human organs, farm labour, domestic servitude.
  • TRAFFICKING IS…
    where family members and friends deceive parents to release theirchildren or sell them for as little as $20 each, selling them on to local gangmasters or serious organised international trafficking rings.
  • TRAFFICKING IS…
    growing. 2–4 MILLION men, women and children are trafficked across borders and within their own country every yearMore than one person is trafficked across borders EVERY MINUTE, which is equivalent to ten jumbo jets every day. a trade that earns twice as much worldwide revenue as Coca Cola.
  • TRAFFICKING IS…
    where victims usually suffer repeated physical abuse, fear, torture and threats to families to break their spirits and turn them into saleable commodities. a person can be sold and trafficked many times.