Freedom Climb to Fight Human and Sex Trafficking

by Jordan Gash on October 6, 2011 in News

Here is an incredible example of people taking action:

FaithQuest’s own Lori Gash and Cathey Anderson and 40 other women have committed to begin an ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania on January 11, 2012, the National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the U.S. From now and until the event, the whole team will be raising awareness, prayers, and finances for women and children being oppressed, enslaved, exploited and trafficked.  The Freedom Climb goal for 2012 is to affect the lives of 10,000 women through projects that break the cycles of poverty, shame, slavery, and despair.  These projects include micro-loans, education, skills training, and protection from exploitation with our wonderful partner, Operation Mobilization.
Mt. Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest mountain at nearly 20,000′, its summit is known as Uhuru Peak.  Uhuru is the Swahili word for freedom.  Climbing Kilimanjaro is symbolic of the huge climb to freedom faced daily by millions of enslaved women and children worldwide.

Find out more and how to donate on our FaithQuest Page or the official Freedom Climb Page.

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Brittany Peters: The Young Woman whose Life was Transformed

by Jordan Gash on September 22, 2011 in Stories

Seven years ago, I stepped off a plane into Capetown, South Africa and my life has never been the same. I was the sole teenager amongst a group of pastors and other adults from Coast Hills Church. I had dreamed of going to Africa, but now that I was there, I had no idea what I was doing there. After a couple weeks in South Africa, the question of, “why am I here?” became much more apparent. I thought I had come to teach but I quickly recognized that I was there to learn. I thought I had come to share Christ but I quickly recognized that I was the one who did not truly know Christ.

Since that initial trip, I returned to South Africa two more times and then made my way up to Malawi for the next few summers. During my time in Africa, I have learned more than I could hope to learn in a lifetime. The people of Africa have taught me so much about hospitality, generosity, love, hope, joy, and trust. I have experienced some incredible highs and some devastating lows during my time in Africa, and the direction of my life has changed because of those times. My dad and I were able to start a small partnership organization with my host family in Malawi that gives scholarships to orphaned high school age students. Through the help of friends, we have been able to support 10 high school students to continue their education and we hope to be able to support many more in the future. It is exciting to have found an area in which to continue a relationship, even when we live thousands of miles apart. I am forever indebted to the warm-hearted people of South Africa and Malawi.

Want to hear more stories of people whose lives were transformed, click here.

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Live Life on Purpose

by Jordan Gash on September 21, 2011 in General

“You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know a few great things that matter, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by a few great things. If you want your life to count, if you want the ripple effect of the pebbles you drop to become waves that reach the ends of the earth and roll on for centuries and into eternity, you don’t have to have a high IQ; you don’t have to come from a fine family or a fine school. All you have to know are a few great, majestic, unchanging, obvious, simple, glorious things, and be set on fire by them.” –John Piper

The way to know what the supreme purpose for your life should be is, in a way, to know what the supreme purpose for God’s life is. If God has a purpose for all He does, and if He has created you within the design of a wise plan, then your life will find its best “fit” in that plan. True trust in the wisdom of the Creator is evidenced by a life yielded to the Creator’s design for our lives.

 

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