I’m excited to announce that I’m participating in 30 Days of Thankfulness with All Things Southern. Thirty Days of Thankfulness is an annual humanitarian effort designed to coincide with the Thanksgiving season. Last year, the campaign worked with Life Today to drill a well in Southern Africa. Even as you read these words, that well continues to supply fresh, life-sustaining water to an entire village. AWESOME!
By participating, I’m also partnering in our drive with other authors and their respective communities. The goal of Writers and Readers Reach Out 2012 is to combine our individual platforms and thus multiply our efforts.
The recipient of this year’s efforts will be Make Way Partners, an organization that works with individuals, churches, and other groups to help prevent and combat the evil of human trafficking and all forms of modern-day oppression. Shellie, who is in charge of the campaign, was in the planning stages of our drive and deeply burdened by what she was learning about human trafficking when she read Passport through Darkness by Kimberly L. Smith. She knew immediately that MWP, the organization founded by Kimberly and her husband, was where we needed to focus our attention this holiday season. (Download a free chapter of Passport Through Darkness.) Make Way Partners works with individuals, churches, and organizations to help prevent and combat the evil of human trafficking and all forms of modern-day oppression.
If you’ll take the time to read just a few of the real-life stories on Kimberly’s blog of women and children whom Make Way Partners has rescued from slavery, and for whom they provide long-term care, I strongly believe you’ll want to participate in this beautiful journey of restoration.
Eight years ago, Kimberly began chartering small mission planes to fly her into the war zone of Sudan where U.S. sanctions and Islamic regimes rendered thousands of orphans unadoptable. Providing food and opening a first-grade school in a lawless land with no other educational systems, MWP partnered with an indigenous leader to rescue and care for these most vulnerable orphans. Year by year, they’ve added a new grade to their school. Now, graduating eighth grade, the orphans of MWP have more education than many current leaders of their nation. It is time to build a high school, making it possible to raise up the next generation of educated Christian leaders who will stop the cycle of violence and slavery.
Read about a few of these amazing students and the complete high school proposal by clicking here.
I am so excited about the opportunity to join this effort! To quote the late Hellen Keller, “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.” It feels so right to quote Ms. Keller to the tribes of writers and readers joining with us as it was the power of a word, written in the palm of her hand, that unlocked Ms. Keller’s heart and mind and subsequently impacted untold lives around the world!
As readers and writers, no one knows the value of education better than we. Let’s dream big and build a high school for the world’s most vulnerable orphans!
Can we catch this vision together? I think so, hope so, and pray so. I’m respectfully asking you to consider the weight of the subject and the scope of the work being done by Make Way Partners and make your own personal decision about your contribution. What would we be willing to do or give if it were our children and grandchildren being bought and sold?
You can make your donation online using this donate button. It’s linked to Make Way Partners. In the field that asks where you learned about Make Way Partners, please copy and paste the following label: WritersandReaders,TriciaGoyer
If you prefer to send a check or money order, that address is: Make Way Partners, P.O. Box 26367 Birmingham , AL 35260
In addition to donating, everyone can be of incredible assistance by using the power of social media to spread the news of this drive. When twittering or pinning this drive please use hashtags #WritersandReaders2012 or #WR2012.
UPDATE: One-fourth of our population has been impacted by super-storm Sandy, and many areas remain in distress. Far too many people have seen their homes destroyed and many others have suffered the painful loss of loved ones. The winds of Sandy have literally caused us to adjust our sails as we respond to the heartache in our own country. Writers and Readers Reach Out 2012 is enlarging the vision!
As you make your donation to Make Way Partners, please consider making a matching donation to relief efforts underway for our neighbors on the East Coast. I believe strongly that our being mobilized to respond to the needs of our neighbors at this very moment is no coincidence. We’ve been given much, let us give much.
UPDATE: One-fourth of our population has been impacted by super-storm Sandy, and many areas remain in distress. Far too many people have seen their homes destroyed and many others have suffered the painful loss of loved ones. The winds of Sandy have literally caused us to adjust our sails as we respond to the heartache in our own country. Writers and Readers Reach Out 2012 is enlarging the vision!
As you make your donation to Make Way Partners, please consider making a matching donation to relief efforts underway for our neighbors on the East Coast. I believe strongly that our being mobilized to respond to the needs of our neighbors at this very moment is no coincidence. We’ve been given much, let us give much.
Authors and Bloggers:
It’s not too late to join this effort. If you’d like to participate please comment below and contact audreym@makewaypartners.org with your blog site, Facebook page, website address, or any other acknowledgement you would like to use for your readers to track this opportunity.
It’s not too late to join this effort. If you’d like to participate please comment below and contact audreym@makewaypartners.org with your blog site, Facebook page, website address, or any other acknowledgement you would like to use for your readers to track this opportunity.
Thanks for joining us, Tricia! I just made my donation to Make Way Partners to combat human trafficking and matched it with a donation to Red Cross for Sandy relief. Let’s do something grand together!