Just Change… Where Family and Missions Collide
“One home at a time” conjures pictures in our minds of suburban families seeking to lead the next generation biblically. We think of our children and our homes as we walk the path of Legacy Milestones. In order for the world to know the justice of God we must also think of other children and other homes.
Kingsland’s Go Beyond Missions Ministry has established a partnership with a safe house in Kolkata, India. This safe house is a place where girls who have been rescued from forced commercial sex are taken to live. The girls receive counseling, are given help to get off the drugs given to them by their oppressors to make them compliant, and are given education and taught a vocational trade. The staff of this home works to return girls to the families from whom they were kidnapped and to relocate girls sold into slavery by their own parents.
Kingsland’s Legacy Milestone Ministry is partnering with our Go Beyond Missions Ministry to raise the monies needed each month to provide for the safety and needs of these young girls. If every family gives “just change” each week we will be able to fully support these victims of injustice.
Legacy Milestones will provide a bank for each family to use during their weekly faith talk. At each faith talk encourage your children to bring change to help the girls in India. Included is a series of faith talks you can use to help your family understand the issue in an age appropriate way and to teach the Scriptures concerning our role as promoters of God’s justice in the world today. In this way we will teach our families to think of others who so desperately need our help.
Pick up a little red bank home on February 7 at Parent Summit. When you see it, remember the safe house and the young girls that will be rescued and rehabilitated. Put it in an obvious place and encourage everyone to deposit “just change.”
Let’s go beyond … one home at a time.
[...] But, there is still more. On Monday I leave for India with a team of Kingsland volunteers who will serve at Mother Teresa’s homes for the destitute and dying. Our team will also meet the 150 young girls at the safe house we are funding. This safe house is a refuge for these young women who have been rescued from the forced commercial sex trade. Several of these girls were trafficked across international borders and others were sold into sex slavery by their own families. Our missions ministry is partnering with our Legacy Milestones ministry to provide for the needs of these young girls. You can read more about this partnership on Brian Hayne’s blog. [...]
Way to go! The Potts family is in!
Great idea! For future reference, I have a way to cut out small, paper milk cartons that can be used for banks. They have to be put together, but are cute for this type of project.
[...] and their children collect pocket change to help change the world for these young girls. Our new Just Change for a Just Cause partnership will debut at Kingsland’s Parent Summit in [...]