My, my. It has been a while. I've gotten out of blogging practice and I blame facebook. FB is like a one minute commercial as opposed to an hour long program; less commitment, faster communication but lacking substantial personal connection and plot. But FB is so quick and non-committal that it's addicting and completely distracting....

I'm in Colorado, been here for about two weeks now. I flew in from a conference in Slovakia to be a part of a YWAM conference in Colorado. I can't even begin to describe the coolness of the Colorado conference. My team and I led a corporate prayer time for human trafficking on the first morning. The reactions of the 800+ attendees brought tears to our eyes. Everyone was outraged. Everyone was crying. Everyone was praying fervently that God would move out in justice. It was incredible, encouraging and so moving to watch such a huge number of people take on the issue.

That afternoon (and the next afternoon for that matter) I taught workshops on trafficking. I was incredibly jet-lagged, had only slept six hours over the course of 54 hours, my hands were shaking from exhaustion and I could hardly think much less speak... but somehow I survived. People told me the workshop didn't go as disastrously as it felt. Only by the grace of God!

All my free time was spent talking with people interested in trafficking, selling t-shirts we had made, advertising a YWAM counseling school that I'm staffing next summer (which will focus on training counselors that can deal with victims of injustice), networking with bases and ministries who want to address trafficking, and interviewing three women who had personal experience with trafficking--who knew! I was completely worn out and brain dead but it was very much worth it. I can always catch up on sleep later right? And I have the freedom to dictate my own schedule... time off is always a necessity after something like this.