Dave Buerstetta on striving to do justice and love others while walking humbly with God
I must admit that the list of national observance days and months is overwhelming and often tedious if not down right ridiculous. For instance, January sports National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week and National Handwriting Analysis Week. This month is National Get Organized Month, Oatmeal Month, and National Polka Music Month, among many others. (Ok, my …
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It has been a very busy day in the anti-human trafficking world! Most notably, President Obama used his time at the Clinton Global Initiative to deliver remarks about human trafficking, including new initiatives to engage the fight. As the President rightly stated, this issue is important to all of us: It ought to concern every …
Happy Independence Day to all my USAmerican readers! It's been a while since my last post on human trafficking, so what better day to rectify that than today, the national holiday celebrating freedom? Ok, sure, most of us just use today as an excuse to blow stuff up. Doesn't mean we can't try to redeem …
This video is amazing! Not sure how long it has been around, but a friend sent it to me today and I had to share. Be sure to watch it all the way to the end. Admittedly, I'm not familiar with Stop the Traffik, but they seem to be doing good work in Europe. …
Big thanks to all who attended our anti-trafficking event this week! If you were there, I'd love to hear from you: What did you think of the film? What did you learn from the guest speaker? What questions were left unanswered? Share your thoughts in the comments! The event is over, but of course the …
8-year-old me: "Dad, why is there a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, but no Kid's day?" My Dad: "Because every day is Kid's day." It's an old joke, and it's just true enough to be a little funny. It can never be more than a little funny though, because, for the estimated 13-15 million …
"I’m not seeing a lot of cases where there’s not coercion,” she added. “The average age where a girl is forced into prostitution is 12 to 14. And most of these 16- or 17 year-olds are being run by pretty vicious pimps." National Human Trafficking Prevention Month is winding down, but the actual work of …
I'm in the midst of planning a screening of the documentary, Call + Response, at my church. National Human Trafficking Prevention Month will be over by the time we show the film on February 15. But, at risk of being cliché, any time is a good time to fight slavery. While exact figures are exceedingly …
There are as many as 27-30 million slaves in the world today. Yes, today. Today, January 11, 2012, is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. But just one day is truly not enough. And, honestly, "merely" raising awareness is just not enough. Fortunately, this year President Obama declared all of January as National Human Trafficking Prevention …
Hi. I’m Dave. And I have 46 slaves working for me. Can I still call myself an abolitionist? Back in September, Slavery Footprint went live during the Clinton Global Initiative. The demand crashed their servers. I remember hearing about it in September and I’m pretty sure I even started through the process of calculating my …
All That I Can't Leave Unsaid 