Global Center for
Women & Justice

Recent Articles and Topics of Interest:

• Major Sporting events are hot spots for sex tourism. The World Cup and the Olympics draw in thousands of spectators and tourists. Just as shopkeepers stock up their supply rooms for the increase of demand, so do those who traffic human beings and sell them as sex slaves. Pray for South Africa during this year's World Cup: June 11 - July 11, 2010. Click here for a prayer guide for the event.

• June 10, 2010: Man gets 17 and a half years in prison for sex trafficking. Read more here!

• Human Trafficking Awareness Day is January 11, 2010 - Be sure to check out "The Cost of Demand" video and join GCWJ in 27 DAYS OF PRAYER FOR 27 MILLION HELD IN SLAVERY WORLDWIDE January 11 - February 7. Click here for a Prayer Calendar.

Upcoming Events & Volunteer Oportunities: 

Click Here to view the GCWJ fall list of events

• First Live2free meeting of the semester Monday, August 30th, 2010 10-10:50AM  Heath 1010
  Interested in Law?  Interested in working with children?  Don't miss special guest J. Robert Flores at the first Live2free meeting of the semester.  He'll be sharing his expertise in Child Pornography and Child Obscenity Law to better equip us to address growing concerns on exploitation of children on the internet, in media, and in our own communities.
• Spirituality & Survival Workshop Monday, September 13th, 2010 10-10:50AM  Heath 100
  Join Vanguard's student chapter of Christians for Bilblical Equality and the Global Center for Women & Justice as we hear from pastors and ministers about the obstacles in ministry and faith.  Join us to discuss deepening your faith and how not to become stressed and burnt-out in ministry.  *SOUL CARE CREDIT OFFERED.
• Human Trafficking Awareness Week September 20th-25th, 2010
  Vanguard's Live2free club and the Global Center for Women & Justice present Human Trafficking Awareness Week.
  Check back for time and locations for a human trafficking film screening, holiday shopping guides for slave-free products, other educational opportunities on modern-day slavery, and wrap up the week at the Sex Trafficking Prayer Weekend beginning at 4PM on September 24th and ending at 4PM on September 26th.
• Sex Trafficking Prayer Weekend  September 24th-26th, 2010 Great Commission Hall
  Live2free and the Global Center for Women & Justice invite you to join in observing the International Weekend of Prayer and Fasting for Victims of Sex Trafficking.  Please join with us as we lift our petitions to God to free the captives and loose the chains of injustice.
  Visit prayer stations in the Great Commission Hall beginning at 4PM on Friday, September 24th.  The display will close at 4PM on Sunday, September 26th.
• Conversations '10 Dallas, Texas September 29th-October 1st, 2010
  Join the Global Center for Women & Justice at Conversations '10, the biennial Network for Women in Ministry conference!  Contact Tina Kroona at gcwj@vanguard.edu, 714-556-3610 x2242 by September 1st for a scholarship to attend the conference.
• Domestic Violence Awareness Month:  October 2010
  Vanguard's Live2free club and Global Center for Women & Justice present Domestic Violence Awareness Month during October 2010.
  Join us every Monday morning in October at 10AM in Heath 100 for a different Seminar:
  October 4th:  Dating Violence Seminar
  October 11th:  CSEC (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children) Seminar
  October 18th:  Child Abuse Seminar
  October 25th:  Pornography Seminar
  *SOUL CARE CREDIT OFFERED!
  For more information or to get involved, contact Live2free president Tiffany Wong at tiffany.wong@vanguard.edu.
• White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week October 24th-30th, 2010
  Join Vanguard's Live2free club and Global Center for Women & Justice in observing White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week, October 24th-30th, at Vanguard as we complete Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
• Candlelight Vigil October 28th, 2010 7:30PM Heath Lawn
  Join Vanguard's Live2free club and the Global Center for Women & Justice as we complete Domestic Violence Awareness Month by interceding for victims of violence at a Candlelight Prayer Vigil at 7:30PM on the Heath Lawn on October 28th, 2010.  *SOUL CARE CREDIT OFFERED.
• Champion City Run 2010 November 13th, 2010 Yuma, Arizona at Champion Church
  Join Live2free and Vanguard's Global Center for Women & Justice and walk or run at the Champion City Run 2010 in Yuma, Arizona.  We will be running for Live2free, bringing awareness of human trafficking slavery.  November 13th, 2010 in Yuma, Arizona at Champion Church.  Register online at active.com or championchurch.org.
• Women in Leadership Series 2010 November 15th, 2010 7PM Needham Chapel
  Join Vanguard's Global Center for Women & Justice at the 2010 Women in Leadership series featuring Rohanda Sciortino as she shares her success in overcoming poverty, filth, hunger, abuse and loneliness to affluence, order, fulfillment and excellent relationships.  *SOUL CARE CREDIT OFFERED.
• International Day for Abolition of Slavery/World AIDS Day December 2nd, 2010 9PM The Cove
  Join Vanguard's Live2free club and Global Center for Women & Justice on International Day for Abolition of Slavery and World AIDS Day Event in the Cove at 9PM.  More details to come.
  

Contact GCWJ: GCWJ@Vanguard.edu; (714) 556-3610 x2242

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