In The Shadow of the Valley

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Most assume sex trafficking starts with a brutal kidnapping - like in a movie. However, it’s often a long process: seduction, coercion, seasoning, and recruiting. VAST (Valley Against Sex Trafficking) works diligently to bring awareness about trafficking while restoring God-given dignity to survivors of this dark market. Heather Evans, co-founder of VAST, is here to share sobering stats, and lessens the appeal and glamour often associated with this social justice movement. Are you part of a middle-class church? Then you worship in one of the most common sources fueling the sex industry due to the common use of pornography - so much to your surprise, this hits quite close to home.The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals has a few copies of Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir by Rachel Lloyd that we would like to giveaway.Heather Evans serves at VAST where you can find links to additional resources and does counseling at Evans Counseling Services. She also writes - check out her blog.BooksSomebody's Daughter by Julian SherHands that HealGood News About Injustice by Gary A. HaugenWalking Prey by Holly Austin SmithArticlesReflections on Prostitution Sting (PDF)What I have Learned (PDF)The song at the end of today's episode, "Real", was written by John Hufford. John wrote this song in honor of VAST's ministry to victims of the sex trafficking industry. You can visit his website here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman,
0:23.1	Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing
0:29.8	Evangelicals. Today we're joined by special guest Heather Evans. Heather is co-founder of Vast
0:36.7	Valley Against Sex Trafficking and is here to discuss
0:40.2	the nature of sex trafficking, how Vast is offering help and healing, and what you and your church can do
0:46.2	as well. Let's listen in.
0:57.8	Well, thank you for joining us today.
0:59.3	It's great to be with you.
1:03.2	We have a topic here that we're going to be covering today that's very sensitive.
1:05.4	It's very sobering.
1:07.8	It's a very serious issue.
1:10.9	An issue that we're hearing a lot of talk about today, which is a good thing, but also an area where the church could use some good counsel and some good guidance
1:18.5	in knowing how to minister.
1:21.1	And that's the issue of sexual trafficking.
1:23.8	And it's our privilege to have with us as a guest, Heather Evans.
1:27.7	Heather is the co-founder of Vast, which stands for Valley Against Sex Trafficking.
1:33.0	It's located in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.
1:36.2	She's also a counselor with Evans counseling services.
1:41.9	And as you can imagine from the fact that she has co-founded an organization
1:46.9	that seeks to address the plague of sex trafficking, Heather has not only a keen interest,
1:56.7	but she has a lot of experience that we think would be very helpful for Christians and for the
2:02.9	church to learn from. So first of all, Heather, thank you so much for joining us today.
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