Jeff Martineau the Executive Director for The Hope Project in Michigan writes how 31Days of Freedom is affecting him:
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. Yes God’s enemy, and ours has found a new way to STEAL, our children and teens from society, to KILL their hopes, dreams and plans for a future, and to DESTROY their lives.
The Domestic Sex Trafficking of Children is rapidly increasing. Everyday I am driven by the thought of a child who starts off in innocence, in purity, without worries, playing, laughing, swimming. Then to have this all taken away. Thrown into a life of prostitution. A life of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, torture, being forced into acts to horrendous to write in this blog. The childhood is lost. They are no longer a child and they are only 12 . The thought of children living in this kind of agony, is very difficult to think about. It doesn’t need to be this way……
Isaiah 58:6
Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke.
My favorite meal of the day is breakfast. For 31 days I have chosen to fast breakfast. With the money saved by doing this, I will be donating to the 31 days of Freedom campaign. And with the time I would normally spend having breakfast. I will use for prayer for the thousands of children that are trafficked within the United States.
Jeff Martineau ,
Executive Director
The Hope Project