Caring Through Technology

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Caring Through Technology

Sarah, the matriarch of this refugee family, told me over dinner one evening that she loves the Lord so much and she prays all the time. Like her Biblical namesake, Sarah is a mother of many and a woman of great faith. Although she has witnessed great suffering firsthand, she has also witnessed God’s faithfulness to her family. Out of the many prayers that Sarah has prayed for provision, God has used the people of CATC through CarePortal to answer a few of them.

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God of the Details

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God of the Details

Our God is one of the intimate details. He uses his people to accomplish his care for the vulnerable, the weary, and the lost. Every step of the work had disruptions, but God was using these diversions to form relationships, to show people his love through his Church, and to carry out his plan. God is not far away. He is near to the brokenhearted. He may not be working in a way that seems obvious to you or to me, but he is working none the less, and his work is perfect.

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Freed to Love

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Freed to Love

Slavery still exists today.

Human trafficking is a global slavery that starts by means of abuse, coercion, grooming, false promises, exploiting the vulnerable, and forcing them into a life of slavery usually through forced sex work or forced, unpaid labor. Those in the foster care system, minority populations, LGBTQ youth, refugees, and their children, homeless youth, and runaways are at the highest risk of being trafficked. Those who have suffered physical, emotional, sexual, and spiritual abuse are also at the highest risk of being trafficked. These populations are all people, all a part of this world just like you and I, yet they remain unseen and unheard in day-to-day life.

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