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  Patricia Hammell Kashtock

Aka: Pat Kashtock. Mother of three, wife of one. BA in Social Work and Biblical Studies. Graduate work at Virginia Tech interrupted, then derailed by oldest child’s brain tumor...

My life has not followed the course I planned. But I am not complaining. Pain is to be expected in a world broken apart from its Creator.

The miracle resides in the ability to find joy when least expected...

 

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For What It's Worth

Each life is a journey. The voices of many guides try to direct us, saying, “This is the path – walk in it!” Yet each one leads in a different direction.

I believe only one Voice can be true. That Voice will lead us in ways most unexpected, into worlds yet undiscovered. It will lead us up the hill, around the river and through the forest. And sometimes, it will lead without mercy.

Or so it seems.

I have made listening for that Voice and following it, my life’s quest. I will share some of what I have heard that Voice say with you. But I am not in the business of telling people how to think or what to believe. Each has to decide for himself. Only you can decide if you find the truth of the Voice in these words. And only you can decide how much it is worth to know the Voice, and follow.

But for me, it is worth the whole world.

And then some…

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Entries in rescue (1)

Monday
Aug252008

Freedom at a Rice Mill

One story from the International Justice Missions web site.

 Freedom at a Rice Mill  

Families rescued from slavery from a rice mill hold government-issued release certificates, certifying their freedom. They now live in a village together where they have their own houses, visible in the background of this picture.

After trying for several months to gain access to the mill and meet some of the “second generation victims,” IJM’s lead investigator designed and executed an intricate mission that arranged for IJM agents to speak with the owner and to meet the new victims while the owner was occupied.

The owner made outrageous admissions to undercover IJM agents, boasting about how he trapped this new group through the bait of illegal monetary advances. He described how he would track down victims that escaped his facility, how he could not be touched and how there was nothing anyone could do to change the system. IJM agents believed otherwise and remained committed to bringing the owner to justice.

The second raid saw another eleven people receive release certificates from the government, certifying their new-found freedom. During the raid, the owner had to be physically restrained after trying to hit a police officer who had blocked him from harassing the victims. IJM’s intervention team, which has facilitated the rescue of hundreds of slaves, said they had never seen a group of slaves pack so quickly to leave a facility.

In recent raids to emancipate slaves, IJM staff members have been assaulted, their vehicles have been damaged by rioting slave owners and death threats have been hurled against both victims and IJM staff. These are the obstacles that give cruel slave-masters a false assurance that no one can touch them—that the system will never change. But the system is changing.

For the rest of the story, please go here.