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Author, Speaker, & Consultant
Overview
Author, Speaker, & Consultant
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How can the local church be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ if we aren’t being his eyes and ears, too? How can we love someone if we don’t even know they exist?
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Human trafficking can affect as many as 50 million people globally. The problem is that, most often, trafficking victims are hidden in plain sight behind our assumptions. In other words, human trafficking is the exploitation of vulnerabilities for commercial gain. Exploiters are looking for those who are marginalized and stigmatized, and they are looking for people in dire straits.
For this reason, human trafficking can happen anywhere because there are vulnerable people everywhere. But what would happen if the local church began to notice those most at risk of exploitation in their communities? Raleigh Sadler believes that the local church is God's answer to those most vulnerable. He is the founder and executive director of Let My People Go, the author of Vulnerable: Rethinking Human Trafficking and the Let My People Go Handbook, and the host of the MercyCast, a podcast about learning the art of compassion through life's adversity.
His passion is to see the local church fight global injustices, like human trafficking, by loving those whom traffickers most often target. He believes that God motivates people like you and me to love other vulnerable people by becoming vulnerable for us.
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Press and Publications
Press and Publications
In an age of outrage, few causes unite more people, like the human trafficking crisis. But if you ask someone how they feel about those who are prostituted, homeless, and undocumented in their communities, their responses may be different — even hostile. That’s because our presuppositions often blind us to the reality that it is easy to see victims as villains.
But what happens when we stop inferring a narrative upon our neighbors and instead decide to listen to their story? Each link on this page tells a story of how God invites his church, which consists solely of vulnerable people, to love those most susceptible.
“Sadler explains that clergy have a particular responsibility to mobilize and inspire our communities to care for those who are vulnerable.”
“‘Everyone has vulnerabilities,’ said Raleigh Sadler. ‘If you address vulnerability you are addressing prevention, intervention – everything at once.’”
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