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Copyright 2007, Te Not For Sale CampaignAll Rights Reserved. Content may not be published or reproduced in anymanner without expressed written consent o Te Not For Sale Campaign.

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ver the past year, we have been greatly encouraged by theresponse rom churches and aith communities across the United

States towards the issue o human tracking. In less than nine months,more than 2500 congregations verbally committed themselves as Abolition-

ist Churches, arming their stance against modern-day slavery in all its orms and

declaring their unity with those that are oppressed. In conversations with leaders across denominations, the biggestquestion we continue to hear is what can our church do to make a dierence right now?In response, we at the Not or Sale Campaign humbly oer a plan o action toward eectively changing the sociological,environmental, political and economic actors that allow human tracking and slavery to continue, both in your regionand on a global scale. We recognize that congregations vary widely in their respective demographics, location, andresources, and understand that each group will nd their own niche within the network o Abolitionist Churches. TeNot or Sale Campaign team looks orward to working with congregations as you commit to take action on behal othose that are being exploited.

Above all, we believe the ollowing to be a living document that changes and grows as our collective experiences growtogether. Our role at the Not For Sale Campaign is to acilitate the abolitionist interactions, listening sessions, education-al moments, and to continue building up a platorm or action that eectively connects the local and the global.

Gods speed and blessings on our collective walk in bringing reedom to those in bondage.

David Batstone, President

Kique Bazan, Executive Director

Mark Wexler, Managing Director

A note from

the Not for Sale Campaign

Co-Founders

David Batstone,

Kique Bazan,

and Mark Wexler


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Index - The Abol it ionist Church Handbook

INTRODUCTION Page 4

SECTION ONE GETTING STARTED Page 5

SECTION TWO EQUIPPING FROM WITHIN Page 7

SECTION THREE LOCAL OUTREACH Page 10

SECTION FOUR INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH Page 15

SECTION FIVE BECOMING A REFUGE CHURCH Page 17

APPENDIX Page 19


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Tank you or your interest in becoming an AbolitionistChurch, devoted to combating modern slavery in all its orms.

Over the past year all o us here at the Not or Sale Campaignhave been attempting to create, locate, tie together, and pres-ent the best practices o the modern abolitionist movement. Ourhope is that this handbook clearly and accurately presents these bestpractices or communities o aith, while casting a vision or successulcollaborative abolitionist work in your church and with the Not or SaleCampaign.

It cannot be overstated that this handbook is oered as a jumping o point. Do not be mistaken about the realities acing

all o us in this ght; truly this handbook cannot be set-in-stone, because collectively we ace too many unknowns mov-ing orward due to the fuid nature o tracking. Slavery is pervasive and evasive. It changes ace and tactics rom city tocity, country to country.

Slavery lives on the ringes. It nds haven in darkness. Tis reality is clear. It is here where we nd our call to action:ogether we must cast light by collectively building a ast moving, relevant campaign that dares to dream o a world thatghts or and ensures reedom or all.

As a church (and global society) we nd ourselves ar behind in the ght. It is undeniable, however, that together we canstem the tide! Tere is beauty in the hope delivered through Gods unbending grace. Amen.

It is in this spirit that we invite you to join the give and take that is the abolitionist movement as ostered by the Notor Sale Campaign. Yes, you will nd that the campaign is a fuid process, and oten fuid in practice. Tere is no ully

perected rule o operation to draw rom. Te reason or this is stated above. In this deeply interconnected world, ull oshadows, both virtual and real, we cannot combat this evil using the same old tactics. In other words, we cannot contestCriminality 2.0 by running Campaign 1.0. Only by laying down dierences and pooling respective resources and abili-ties can we build a movement with lasting eect, creating holistic change to combat slavery in our world.

We hope that you choose to walk this pathway with us. I you do eel the call to participate with us, you will undoubt-edly create lasting change in the ght to end human tracking. Te truth is backyard abolitionists like yoursel are theNot or Sale Campaign.

We look orward to collaborating with you.

Mark Wexler

Director, Abolitionist Church NetworkCo-Founder & Managing Director, Not or Sale Campaign

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GETTING STARTED

Stirring your congregation to action.

He has showed you, O man, what is good.

And what does the Lord require of you?

To act justly and to love mercy

and to walk humbly with your God.

Micah 6:8 (NIV)


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Outfit yourself by expanding your personal knowledge about slavery.1.

We suggest that you start by reading and watching, in combination, Not for Sale: Te Return of the Global Slave radeand How We Can Fight Itand Not for Sale: Te Documentaryto advance your individual knowledge about modernslavery. Tese media pieces are designed to provide contextual inormation about tracking, individual stories oenslavement, and eature abolitionists people like yourselwho are combating slavery today. o purchase thesestarter materials go to Not or Sales Freedom Store.

Resource: www.secure.notforsalecampaign.org

Deliver a sermon about the realities of human trafficking.2.

Impart a message o awareness and hope to your congregation. Explore a theological response to realities known toGod and unknown or unseen to us.

Inorm the campaign about your sermon, and we will post it on our website to share with others.

Contact Information: [email protected]

Fly a Not for Sale Campaign flag of freedom outside your congregational meeting space to declare3.

your unity through Christ with those who are enslaved.

Te ag is also a statement to the public o your commitment to see modern-day slavery ended in our lietime. TeNot or Sale Campaign provides these ags at cost to churches that commit to being an abolitionist community.

Contact Information: [email protected]

Approach your churchs leaders or laity about declaring your4.

church an Abolitionist Church and become a member of the Un-

derground Church movement Network.

What does it mean to be an abolitionist church? Essentially it is a publicstatement that slavery is wrong in any orm and a commitment to act toend it. Dont wait or others to act. Te movement starts with you. akethe rst step together as a community o aith.

Declare your congregation as an Abolitionist Church (online sign-up process coming soon). Stand against human tracking by statingin name that your congregation is opposed to modern-slavery in allits orms. By building a wall against slavery we orm a collective orceto ensure reedom or all people enslaved today.

Be a leader within the abolitionist movement by becoming an Under-ground Church (online sign-up process coming soon). Our collective gits, talents, and resources can move theght to end slavery in greater capacity than as individual congregations.

Underground Churches orm a aith-based brain trust, which is squarely placed on the oreront o the 21stCentury abolitionist movement. Underground Church members take a direct and active role in growing thelocal and global abolitionist networks by participating in regular conerence calls with Not or Sale Campaign

staf. Te calls aim to share best practices, updates, action steps, and will include special speakers.

Overall, to efectively combat modern-day slavery we must stand unied; the Underground Church aims to bethe collective voice o the aith-based response to modern-day slavery.

A Not for Sale flag flies at Beverly UMC in

Beverly, New Jersey

Watch more from CBS NEWS:http: / /www.cbsnews .com/sec t ions / i_video/ main500251.shtml?id=3261066n


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EQUIPPING

FROM WITHIN

Assessing and building upon your churchs

collective gifts, talents and abilities.

Learn to do right!

Seek justice, encourage the oppressed.

Defend the cause of the fatherless,

plead the case of the widow.

Isaiah 1:17 (NIV)


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Form a prayerful, spiritual, moral, and ethical wall against slavery and trafficking at your place of1.

worship.Stand with people whose voice has been silenced; declare your unity with them. Gather in collective voice and spiri-tual calling. Tis can take the orm o:

Gather or weekly/monthly prayer. ake newspaper and video clips rom that week or month and orm aprayer wall against tracking by upliting victims and survivors.In Minneapolis networked churches send periodic e-mail prayer requests rom abolitionist organizationslocally and globally.Corporately pray during weekly servicesuse the Not or Sale Campaigns ve-week prayer sheet.

Resource: See Appendix I, Not or Sale Campaigns fve-week prayer sheet

Educate your congregation by forming focus groups, conducting book studies, viewing films and docu-2.

mentaries, and inviting abolitionist movement leaders to speak about the issue of trafficking and slavery.

Start by corporately reading Not or Sale: Te Return o the Global Slave radeand How We Can Fight It and discussing as a group. Tis book is an easy-to-read look at

the overarching issues surrounding human tracking and is a great place to begin to learnabout modern-day slavery and to deepen your understanding o the sociological, political,spiritual and economic actors that are allowing the practice to continue.

Subscribe to Not or Sale Campaigns electronic magazines(e-zine) Te Underground and Te X-it, which oer insight romabolitionist thought-leaders such as David Batstone, Mark Wexler, andothers. Critically lauded or their content and presentation, these e-zinesprovide a quick and easy way to build understanding and learn how to takeaction to combat modern slavery.Resource: www.notorsalecampaign.org/Subscribe

Host a viewing o Not for Sale: Te Documentaryor other flms about human tra-fcking or your church and local community.While it is possible to get inormed aboutthe issue o modern-day slavery through books and printed materials, nothing impacts thesoul like seeing the aces o those who are in bondage, ootage o the perpetrators that areexploiting these innocent people, and meeting the workers who are on the ront lines o thebattle to end slavery in our lietime.

Begin an assessment of your churchs demographics, location, and resources.3.

Who attends your church? Use our assessment orm (see appendix II) to glean names, contact inormation, occupa-tions, abilities, talents, and individual resources. Pass this out at programs or services to locate interested individuals

who may want to participate in your churchs abolitionist group.

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Gather and display news articles on the subject of human trafficking.4.

Corporately pray or tracking victims and perpetrators you read and hear about. Discuss and learn rom the ar-ticles to urther enhance your understanding o tracking. Modern slavery cases take on numerous looks and aces.

Tings to consider:Do cases hold similarities/diferences by region, city, state or country?Note consistencies and/or inconsistencies in work by service providers which in many cases are under-und-ed and under-supported. For example, is there a service provider organization specically assisting victims otracking in your area?

What services do victims need and are they receiving them; how can your congregation assist?What was law enorcements response?Who was treated as the victim/perpetrator?Look or patterns and ways in which your congregation can intervene to help. By using your churchs person-al assessment orm (section 2, step 3) as a guide, think through how your congregation, and other partneringaith communities, can respond where needs arise.

Build a resource center.5.

Be a place where your members as well as others can learn about human tracking and how they can take action. Asyou educate and inorm your own congregation, become a resource on the issue o human tracking in your com-

munity. Actively work to educate and inorm others outside o your church body. Consider hosting a lending libraryo inormational and action resources such as books, inormational pamphlets, law enorcement statistics, inorma-tion about political actions taken and not taken, documentaries, lms, prayer guides, etc. (We will be more thanhappy to recommend - and provide - these resources when they become available to us).

Be innovative in promoting your resource library. For example, create a slavery on your church website, and/or haveone-on-one discussions with other church leaders. Be creative!

Draft and shepherd an abolitionist resolution through the prescribed pro-6.

cess in your Conference, Diocese, District, and Denomination.As your congregation grows in knowledge and action about tracking in your

town, city, region and globally, become a beacon or con-tinued action within your overall church structure.

By raising the issue o modern slavery in your aithcommunity, you will collectively assert the call oraction to combat tracking throughout society.You will be proclaiming, as a moral call, thatenough is enough. It is time or us all to act.

Resource: See Appendix III, sample resolution.

Refer to the Not for Sale Campaign website for updates7.

and ways to connect into Abolitionist work locally and globally.With regular news updates, and inormation on projects, the Not orSale Campaign website is a quick and efective way to bridge the gap

between being inormed and being active.

Familiarize yoursel and your congregation with the website. With your mon-etary contributions to the abolitionist ght we are continually constructing and

tweaking the site so that it can more easily be used to equip your community with efective tools or action andprovide examples rom around the world.

Resource: www.notorsalecampaign.org

Follow in the ootstepso the trailblazing

Greater New Jersey Conerenceo Te United Methodist Church,

which unanimously votedto become an Abolitionist Conerence

in June 2007and has called or the entireMethodist Denomination

to declare itselan Abolitionist Denomination.


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Make use of your churchs gifts, talents and abilities

to take action and make a difference!

We cannot separate action for justice

from the proclamation of the Word of God.

Pedro Arrupe, SJ


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Start by meeting with other faith communities to let them know your desire to see all congregations in1.

your region acting together to combat trafficking.Provide them with resources and inormation. Encourage them to stand with the worlds enslaved by declaring theircongregation an Abolitionist Church and become a member o the Abolitionist Church Network. Oer them ac-cess to your resource library, news clippings, lms, and more. Continually educate others in your area and grow thenumber o abolitionists in your area. Oer, in humility, guidance and vision to work collectively.

Connect with local/regional service providers who work with victims. Ask them what their needs are2.

and support them in their efforts.What better way to start outreach in your area than by assisting victims o tracking in your town? Please note thatthis requires time and eort in the orm o building and maintaining a relationship with service providers who arerightullyprotective o victims.

Ater perorming an assessment o your churchs resources and talents you can better gauge what you can providevictims. Creatively work with service providers by rst nding out theirneeds! Serve as a conduit or other aith communities to service pro-vider organizations in your area, both aith-based and not.

Be sure to report back to your congregation the ndings o

the local anti-tracking group and provide avenues orinvolvement by your community members.

I your area does not have a service provider and youeel called to galvanize the ormation o an organiza-tion, the Not or Sale Campaign has many contactsthat can assist in the intellectual and tangible needsor the creation o a service provider.

2a. Medical Care. Most victims are in need oadvocates to assist them in obtaining medical care,even while they are in the medical system. Considercoordinating a group o medical proessionals in your

aith community and sphere o infuence to be involvedin caring or and working with victims who are coming toreedom and wholeness.

2b. Counseling/Mental Health. Victims have oten been through im-mensely traumatic experiences and would greatly benet rom proessional counselingand mental health services. As you commit your church to being a House o Reuge, realize that the people you willbe helping may be deeply scarred at many levels mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually and they may takea signicant period o time to stabilize or even become unctional.

2c. Translation. Victims may speak little or no English. Consider coordinating a database o those in your sphere oinfuence who are multi-lingual and are open to assisting tracking victims as they navigate the legal and medicalsystems on their road towards recovery.

2d. Job Placement. Assistance in locating and procuring a job is key to the long-term assistance or a survivor. Con-sider coordinating a group o business owners and career counselors to assist survivors in job training and placement.

2e. Short and Long Term Housing. Survivors are in need o both short-term and long-term housing.

2f. Companionship/Friendship. Many victims suer another orm o silence and ear ater being reed rom tra-ckers. Building long-standing and meaningul relationships is essential to the rehabilitation o a survivor.

Resource: Appendix IVList o ederally unded local-level service providers contracted to work with victims o trafcking.

In the San Francisco Bay Area,the Not or Sale Campaign is assisting inthe process o building a local abolitionist

coalition. Consisting o communities o aith,business leaders and members, university

students, and concerned citizens, the coalitionbuilds awareness about local trafcking cases,

assists local service provider SAGE(Standing Against Global Exploitation),and is working to expose trafcking cases.


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Reach out to political leaders (e.g. mayor, city council,3.

governor) and begin to find out what, if anything is being

done in your community to fight human trafficking. Regardlesso how much is being done, these contacts will give you a knowl-edge base to guide your decision making regarding what needs tobe done on a governmental level and how you can help.

Make local police and law enforcement officials aware of4.

your presence and desire to be involved in combating trafficking.

Remember, human tracking crimes usually dont just stop at trackingtheyoten extend into kidnapping, rape, assault, thet, and even murder.

Be mindul about reaching out to your local law enorcement ocials. Dialogue about local level tracking. Askabout assessments and taskorces. Do they exist? Why or why not? I you sense any derision begin the process oshiting outlook and action through steady interaction and conversation. Encourage your local enorcement ocersto seek out training (the Not or Sale Campaign can assist in locating and providing training) to better equip lawenorcement to act upon the red fags o tracking.

We cannot stress enough the importance o building a healthy working relationship with local law enorcement. Iyou are to make headway, a solid relationship will be key to productive actions.

Attend local anti-slavery coalitions, discussions, conferences, and meetings.5.

Te more you know about what is going on in your region and abroad, the more eective you will be in changingthe environmental actors that allow human tracking and slavery to continue.

Search out existing local level coalitions. Find ways that your congregation might plug-in and assist their eorts.Remember that your goal is to enhance any existing groups by enriching their work by oering the collective gitso your congregation and the assistance ound within the collective strength o the Abolitionist Church amily. I acoalition does not already exist, invite others to gather and begin the process o building an abolitionist coalition.

Offer to provide a meeting place for the abolitionist coalitions in your area to meet.6.

Sometimes acilities and locations can be hard to come by.

Connect with universities to encourage them to become involved in the shaping of policy and societal7.

understandings of trafficking.

Encourage university students in your congregation to bring a Not or rade Show to their university. Te Not orrade Show is designed to train students how to start the groundbreaking Slavery Mapping Project that was rstimplemented in 2006 by students at the University o San Francisco. You can book a rade Show by contacting Notor Sale Project Director, Allison rowbridge.

o learn more about the Mapping Slavery Project, which exposed human tracking in San Francisco, by contactingthe Executive Director, Enrique Bazan.

Contact inormation: Allison rowbridge, [email protected]; Kique Bazan, [email protected]

Team with a law school to assist or help build an anti-trafficking program or legal clinic that assists8.

victims by helping them through the legal system.

Help bridge law students/proessors over to a local service provider that works with victims. Sometimes our role is tobe a conduit or others actions.

Te campaign will assist you building outcontacts and associations with organizations

that can aid you in these endeavors.

Contact Inormation:[email protected]


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Offer experiential support and information to other churches as they implement different steps towards9.

fighting slavery in their region and abroad.Your knowledge and eedback can greatly assist others and increase their eectiveness in impacting their community!Even your encouragement alone can make an incredible dierence.

Reach out to the migrant communities in your area..10.

Many victims o tracking are migrant laborers promised employment but aced with the horrors o orced laboronce they arrive in our country. alk to local labor organizations tooer your support.

Ensure that nurses, ER doctors, practitio-11.

ners, and other local doctors are aware of

the signs of trafficking.

Approach doctors and hospitals and inormthem as to what they should be looking or interms o tracking.

Make use of your gifts!12.

Begin to amiliarize your congregation with the ve Not or Sale Campaign

platorms or action and encourage them to use their individual talents and skills to make a dierence:

Te students working on the mapping projectat the University o San Francisco work closelywith organizations that are closely associatedwith the citys Latin American population.

Free to Be(ocused on communities o aith)

You are taking this step by becoming an AbolitionistChurch!

Free to Learn(ocused on schools/universities)Connect with the administration and student leadersat local high schools. Not or Sale has developed a cur-riculum to accompany the Not or Sale: Te Return o theGlobal Slave rade and How We Can Fight It. eacherscan use the curriculum to teach their students abouttracking. Consider encouraging them to hold a Notor Sale Week, where the issue o human tracking canbe highlighted in student activities, specic classes, etc.

In 2006 20 students rom the University o San Fran-cisco, members o the Erasmus social justice living/learningcommunity, launched the frst Mapping Slavery Project,committed to combating modern-day slavery on a local levelin the San Francisco Bay Area.Watch a Fox news clip eaturing the Mapping SlaveryProject at USF: http://www.ktvu.com/video/13208293/detail.html

University o San Francisco students presenting research fndings.


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Free to Work(ocused on businesses/business leaders)Reach out to local businesses and speak to themabout becoming a Free To Work company, dedi-cated to removing slave labor from their consumerproducts and/or promoting abolitionist principles

through their supplier networks. Contact the Not orSale Campaign or more inormation and help in imple-menting these steps o action or businesses.

Free to Create(ocused on artists/musicians)Encourage the artists in your congregation to becomepart of the Free To Create platform. oo oten weunderestimate the power o the song, pen, canvas andsculpture. One o the most powerul ways to impact apersons heart even without their permission - is via a

brush stoke, musical note, or lyrical passage. Reach outto other artists and raise awareness in your community.Plan shows, concerts, viewings, and regular meetings tocreate together in the spirit o reedom and emancipa-tion o the enslaved. Contact the Not or Sale Campaignor more inormation and resources on how to join orimplement a Free o Create chapter in your region.

Free to Play(ocused on athletes/teams).Athletes are ghting slavery by holding Free to Playgames, dedicated to raising awareness and unds. Otherteams are stitching Free to Play patches on their uniormor their session to inorm others that there are millionso children in our world who are not ree to play. Indi-vidual athletes, such as Brian Boitano, are taking Free toPlay challenges.

More inormation about the Not or SaleCampaigns fve platorms can be ound on the

Not or Sale Campaign website:NotorSaleCampaign.org.

erri Carter, a visual artist,http://notorsalecampaign.org/ree-to-create.html

Free to Create: Artists are aiding this21st century abolitionist movementby lending their ability to inspire oth-ers to act. Tere may be congregants

in your community who are willingto do that same in your area.

ake a Free to Play Challenge alongwith a World Champion and Olym-pic gold medalist. Watch Brian Boita-nos Challenge: http://www.youtube.com/user/reetoplaycampaign


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Human trafficking thrives in communities where

vulnerability in all its forms exists. Participate in

prevention work, which includes social, economic,

environmental, legal/judicial, spiritual, educational,health and other aspects around the world.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees,

you hypocrites!

You give a tenth of your spicesmint, dill and

cumin. But you have neglected the more important

matters of the lawjustice, mercy and faithfulness.

You should have practiced the latter, without

neglecting the former.

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Learn first hand about modern day slavery by joining the Not for Sale Campaign staff on an immersion1.

trip overseas.

Meet people who have been tracked and the brave groups that are working to rescue and restore survivors. Learnabout the causes and solutions to human tracking in person. See the progress that is being made as well as whatstill needs to be done. Tese excursions are a lie-changing experience that will impact your mind, heart and spirit.Find out more by contacting Not or Sale Campaign Executive Director, Kique Bazan.

Contact Inormation: Kique Bazan, [email protected]: www.notorsalecampaign.org/global-immersions

Consider bringing a team overseas to volunteer with an2.

international abolitionist organization.

Our internationally based partner organizations are in needo specialized groups or individuals to assist their eorts.Consider teaming with Not or Sale to serve and assist inbuilding and sustaining inrastructure such as educational andhealthcare programs and acilities.

Consider supporting and partnering with a sister congrega-3.

tion in the spirit of abolition.In collaboration with a sister congregation, which will have a grasp o cul-tural and societal norms, take aim at reeing victims and providing care or survivors.

Explore your own backyard for global reach.4.

Many denominations have preexisting global social advocacy and action networks. Ensure that they are working tocombat modern slavery.

Connect your existing network with Mark Wexler, director o the Abolitionist Church Network to build a platormor collaborative action with your extended church network.

Contact inormation: Mark Wexler, [email protected]

Medical Students rom Emory University inAtlanta will be traveling Tailand to begin

the process o building a sustainable healthcareacility serving the 150+ kids at our partner

organization, Buddies Along the Roadside.


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As survivors exit the life of bondage

they will require restoration.

I know that God will not give me anything that I cant

handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.

Mother Theresa


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In order to be set ree, those in bondage need advocates who are willing to represent and assist them, rst inregaining their reedom, and then in healing rom their experience and recovering their lives. By committing yourchurch to be a House o Reuge, you are declaring your church to be a place where those who have been victims orwitnesses o human tracking or slavery can come or help, saety and support.

Beyond being a signal to the community that you are standing in solidarity with those who have been tracked or heldin bondage, we oresee the Not or Sale Campaigns orange fag o reedom becoming a modern day north star, a signto tracking victims and the enslaved that your congregational meeting space is a place where they will nd reuge.

Declaring your church as a House o Reuge is a major commitment, and one that shouldnt be taken lightly. We havehighlighted a ew concerns that should be taken into account, and we highly recommend that you pursue this optiononly ater careul consideration.

Security.1. Te reality o human tracking is such that those who are operating tracking rings may be involvedin larger crime circles, like the Russian Maa, the riad organizations out o Asia, drug cartels in South America,US-based rings, etc. I you choose to directly oer your church as a House o Reuge and begin to advertise youracilities as such, you may need to consider the need or protective services.

We highly recommend building a strong relationship with local and ederal law enorcement agencies, and appriseyoursel o any and all inormation about organized crime activity in your region prior to declaring your church as a

House o Reuge.

Facilities.2. I your church is set up in such a way that you are able to house tracking survivors, consider oeringyour acilities to local service providers that are assisting survivors.

We strongly encourage collaborative work with an existing service provider that is already serving those who arebeing rescued rom tracking rather than attempting to duplicate services. I there are no NGOs working withvictims, contact Not or Sale Campaign sta and we will be happy to connect you with organizations in other citieswho may be able to provide guidance in how to initiate a program in your community.

Contact Inormation: [email protected]

Please also see Section 3, Steps 2-2f.3. Tese steps describe the need to locate and procure translation services, health

and mental care services, job placement services, and more.

If you embark on the path to becoming a House of Refuge, we strongly encourage you to contact Abolitionist4.Church Network Director Mark Wexler prior to committing to this task.

Contact Inormation: Mark Wexler, [email protected]

As your congregation commits to being an Abolitionist Church, and

continues to take steps towards raising awareness and taking action on the

issue of modern-day slavery, you may consider the possibility of going a step

further and becoming a House of Refuge for those who have been

trafficked in your region.


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Appendix - Abol i t ion ist Church Handbook

I NOT FOR SALES 5-WEEK PRAYER SHEET

II CHURCH ASSESSMENT FORM

III SAMPLE RESOLUTION

IV FEDERALLY FUNDED SERVICE PROVIDERS IN YOUR AREA


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