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Over twenty-seven million people suffer from modern day slavery, this includes over two-hundred thousand child slaves in just western to central Africa. On Ghana’s Lake Volta live seven thousand of those children. Slaves as young as four years old are malnourished and forced to work seventeen hours daily. Hearing of their plight, I had the responsibility to act. I was given the opportunity to visit Lake Volta and help rescue eight young boys from a life of bondage and enter into a life of freedom. These statistics compelled me to action, but seeing lives treated as property ignited a passion that would not be forgotten.

Jesus tells us faith without work is dead, and I believe God provides us opportunities to live out this call. My call was Ghana Rock, a night of praise and worship to bring funds and awareness of the child slavery epidemic on Lake Volta. It started as a question, “Can a sixteen year old with no experience, plan and organize a concert from start to finish to end child slavery?” Together with a team of eight teenagers and God’s constant faithfulness, the answer was clearly, “Yes!” The event was an enormous success; we were able to raise over forty-thousand dollars, bring three nationally recognized Christian artists, and unite the community for a common cause.

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