There are over 27 million slaves in the world today.  Including the United States.

This number represents the men, women, and children who are forcibly, against their will, made to labor for another person.  This labor can be physical/manual labor in a factory, private home, field, etc...it can also mean they are forced into sexual labor for another person's profit.

Did you notice that I mentioned this happens in the United States?  Every. Day.  I'll do you one better, a little closer to home...It happens in OKLAHOMA.  Right here.  In the freakin' Bible Belt.

In fact, Oklahoma has been at the center of this nations battle with human trafficking consistently over the last few years.  This is because all major interstates run right smack through the middle of us.  We are literally the conveyor belt of human trafficking.

The average age and sex of those being trafficked for sexual slavery?  Between 12-23 year old girls.

You may think, well, that's awful but it doesn't really affect me, or what does that matter to me?

Well...do me a favor.  Go to this website www.slaveryfootprint.org and take the survey.  You'll see just how much you personally contribute to the problem.

Then go check some facts on the state department website.

Or check out www.ijm.org, www.asourown.org, www.oathcoalition.org, www.notforsalecampaign.org, www.truckersagainsttrafficking.com, www.humantrafficking.org.

You can also go read about Pearl House, an I.D. Ministries project, at www.courtneybullard.blogspot.com.

PLEASE educate yourselves about this! They say knowledge is power...I say what you do with that knowledge is powerful!! Be a positive power against slavery! Let's stop human trafficking in it's tracks!