breaking chains.

This week, JMU's chapter of Intervarsity hosted an event called the "The Price of Life".  This event was to make our campus aware of human trafficking and sex trafficking or modern day slavery.  It was run and put together by the Justice Team of IV which is a ministry team seeking for the restoration of God's rule and are engaged in advocacy, study and prayer for the injustice in our world.

On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the Justice Team was on the Commons of JMU, selling t-shirts and taking donations to go to World Vision, a Christian relief, development, and advocacy organization, to help the fight against slavery.  The t-shirts were designed by the Justice Team and looked like this:

 

The culmination of the week was last night during Large Group.  The Justice Team had Jesse Eaves from World Vision come to speak to us.

SAVED!

WE DID IT!

Fans of Blue Like Jazz the movie have officially saved it!  I've been closely watching the process/progress of the fundraising for the past 9 days and can only say that I'm completely amazed at how God has lead so many people to step up and help out.  Congratulations to everyone who made it happen.

But...
It's not over yet.  Here's an excerpt from Donald Miller's October 4th post blog explaining what I mean (and remember at this point we had not yet raised the $125,000)...