Tuesday, July 27

My supervisor, a social worker and I are part of a ME Team in the office that is supposed to engage mega churches around Manila in partnering with IJM and helping pursue justice.  We presented today to a group of 20 pastors of a church who has satellite churches all over Manila.  I think at first they were a little apprehensive as to what we would be expecting of them, but as we shared the vision of IJM and how the church could play a role in fighting against human trafficking, it was incredible to see how motivated and pumped up the team of pastors became.  We went well into their lunch break, as they asked question after question, and they have invited us back to present to several other groups within their church.  I am very much looking forward to this partnership as the church seems so excited to do what they can to send us referrals, and support us.  They ended the meeting by praying for us, and we left feeling so proud to be a part of the organization we work for.  The presentations end up being such a good thing to do, not only for the fact that it creates partnerships, but because it helps us to really appreciate and be reminded of why we do what we do.