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Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purpose of reproductive slavery, sexual exploitation, forced labor… it is slavery. It has been identified as the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, second only to drug trafficking. This statistic completely astounds me and breaks my heart at the same time. My heart is to put something into place that will offer help & support to those who have been sold into slavery….especially women and children who have been forced to be sex slaves.

This problem is so brutal that it generates an estimated 32 billion dollars annually according to the United Nations. The U.S. State Department reports that up to 800,000 people are trafficked around the world annually. Top destinations for victims of human trafficking are Thailand, Japan, China, Nigeria, Albania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine.

Selling women and children into sex slavery is a big part of this ongoing problem. This especially occurs all throughout Asia. My goal is for Shane Willard Ministries to establish a program that is specifically for buying women and children out of slavery and into a life of healing. An initiative that is able to give them a hope and a future, away from the torture and pain they are in now as well as to offer them a safe place to live where they can receive healing and direction from different churches around the world.

I wanted to share this with you because, as my partners, I want you to know of the different things that you are allowing us to accomplish around the world and I want you to know what your donations will be going towards as you so graciously give. I ask that you would pray with me as we begin to put this program together over the next several months and that the funds to accomplish this task will be provided. I pray that the Lord bless each and every one of you and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping to support our ministry. I look forward to updating you in the future as we work together to give these women and children the freedom they so desperately need.

Where did we come up with the idea that God is good and we are bad and have to impress Him? We don’t impress Him on the days we do good things; nor does He love us less on the days we do bad things. He just loves us. The Bible says that our righteousness is like filthy rags. In the ledger of Heaven there are only two sides; sin and filthy rags. That’s it. There is something in us, and in almost every major religion, where it’s assumed that if we’re good God then hears our prayers better. And if we’re good, then God likes us more. That thought has done more to alienate us from God than to bring us closer to Him. If we’re not careful, that belief system will cause us to become judgmental toward others.

It does us good to remember that before they did anything to deserve it, God moved the Hebrews out of slavery and into freedom. When they received the Ten Commandments, the relationship between the Hebrews and God was already established. The myth is that the commandments were about God imposing conditions for His love, or establishing rules that we had to follow in order for Him to love us. Rather, they are proof that He already loved us.

The laws that God laid down were teaching us to be human again, rather than being driven by slave drivers. It was not only the Hebrews who struggled with coming out from under the rule of slave drivers. Look carefully, and you will find yourself in the story of the Ten Commandments. If there is something driving our lives other than God, it’s a slave driver and every slave driver takes your dignity away. If you are a man who struggles with pornography addiction, deep down inside your heart every time you turn the computer on you feel worse about yourself. It takes your dignity away. If your problem is rage, if you cannot control your anger with your child; every time you act in anger towards your child you feel worse about yourself. The job of a slave driver is to take your dignity away; to make you feel less than human; for you to forget who it is that God made you to be. If your slave driver is compulsive spending; you are buying stuff that you don’t need with money you don’t have to impress people you don’t like. That behavior is taking your dignity away. It becomes Egypt for you.

God is already in relationship with us, He gave us the righteousness of Christ. It has everything to do with living free of slave drivers today. He is creating a community of people who show the world who God looks like. God is all about teaching people to live with dignity and respect and how to do life together.

Welcome

Welcome to our partner page. This site is dedicated to the worldwide partners of Shane Willard Ministries. As partners of an international ministry, you enable the spread of the gospel, the making of disciples, and the provision for those less fortunate. We want to provide you with the very best opportunity to grow in your walk with God as well as others.

In this site, you will find articles to encourage and challenge you, an update on what the ministry is experiencing worldwide, a place for prayer requests and, for our monthly partners, access to our partnership program called Insight! For Partners. Become a partner today and be a part of something far bigger than any of us could do alone.

Live eMentoring

Shane Willard invites you to join him in an online classroom environment to be mentored in the study of God's Word. This mentoring will bring a fresh and unique perspective on the Bible that will change the way you look at the scriptures, yourself and God.

To the Hebrew people, one of the highest forms of worship was the study of the Torah. Together we can journey in this study to bring us to wholeness and a fuller understanding of Jesus Christ. In this process, you will learn:

Basic Hebrew Hermeneutics
Paleo-Hebrew Images
The Hebrew Identity of our Messiah
Your Identity in Him
The Basic Process of Every Believer's Life
Hebrew Idioms and How they Make the NT Explode with Meaning
Reading the Bible from the Four Levels of Learning
And much, much more...

Ever wonder what an eMentoring session is like? Check out one of the more recent recorded meetings. The recorded session is entitled Jesus in the Torah (Part 3). We hope you are spiritually encouraged and will consider joining us in upcoming sessions!