Engage Injustice
What is Engage?
Baby girls are abandoned in the garbage, boys kill with automatic weapons, mothers needlessly die while giving birth, teenagers are trafficked for sex …. This is not God’s dream for humanity. His heart breaks over situations like these and more.
God is moving on behalf of those who suffer. He is speaking to people across the planet. People everywhere, even those who do not know God yet, are rising up to say “no more!” What about you? Is God stirring your heart to get involved. Are you interested in taking action that makes a difference?
Our aim is to gather DTS students and staff together and anyone else with a heart for the issues that are on Gods heart to worship, pray, receive teaching, and seek God’s heart for the whole world through engaging the issues that affect the world around us with an interest in extending the ministry of Jesus to those who suffer from injustice. Is it human trafficking, justice issues, poverty, HIV/AIDS, genocide? We don’t want to just have awesome times of worship, prayer, and teaching, but to go beyond that and ask God how we can be a part of bringing change to the world. As we seek God who has the answers and whose heart is with those who are without a voice, what is our response? What is your part to play? Engage by going out and doing what He leads us individually and corporately to do.
Baby girls are abandoned in the garbage, boys kill with automatic weapons, mothers needlessly die while giving birth, teenagers are trafficked for sex …. This is not God’s dream for humanity. His heart breaks over situations like these and more.
God is moving on behalf of those who suffer. He is speaking to people across the planet. People everywhere, even those who do not know God yet, are rising up to say “no more!” What about you? Is God stirring your heart to get involved. Are you interested in taking action that makes a difference?
Our aim is to gather DTS students and staff together and anyone else with a heart for the issues that are on Gods heart to worship, pray, receive teaching, and seek God’s heart for the whole world through engaging the issues that affect the world around us with an interest in extending the ministry of Jesus to those who suffer from injustice. Is it human trafficking, justice issues, poverty, HIV/AIDS, genocide? We don’t want to just have awesome times of worship, prayer, and teaching, but to go beyond that and ask God how we can be a part of bringing change to the world. As we seek God who has the answers and whose heart is with those who are without a voice, what is our response? What is your part to play? Engage by going out and doing what He leads us individually and corporately to do.
Human Trafficking
What is Human Trafficking? "The greatest and most shameful regrets of history is always about the truth we failed to tell."
—Haugen 2005
—Haugen 2005
- TRAFFICKING IS…
to be deceived or taken against your will, bought, sold and transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of human organs, farm labour, domestic servitude. - TRAFFICKING IS…
where family members and friends deceive parents to release their children or sell them for as little as $20 each, selling them on to local gangmasters or serious organised international trafficking rings. - TRAFFICKING IS…
growing. 2–4 MILLION men, women and children are trafficked across borders and within their own country every year. More than one person is trafficked across borders EVERY MINUTE, which is equivalent to five jumbo jets every day. a trade that earns twice as much worldwide revenue as Coca Cola. - TRAFFICKING IS…
where victims usually suffer repeated physical abuse, fear, torture and threats to families to break their spirits and turn them into saleable commodities. a person can be sold and trafficked many times. - Stop the traffik
Engage HIV/AIDS
Around 2.6 million people became infected with HIV in 2009. Sub-Saharan Africa has been hardest hit by the epidemic; in 2009 over two-thirds of AIDS deaths were in this region.
The epidemic has had a devastating impact on societies, economies and infrastructures. In countries most severely affected, life expectancy has been reduced by as much as 20 years. Young adults in their productive years are the most at-risk population, so many countries have faced a slow-down in economic growth and an increase in household poverty. In Asia, HIV and AIDS causes a greater loss of productivity than any other disease. An adult's most productive years are also their most reproductive and so many of the age group who have died from AIDS have left children behind. In sub-Saharan Africa the AIDS epidemic has orphaned nearly 15 million children.
In recent years, the response to the epidemic has been intensified; in the past ten years in low- and middle-income countries there has been a 6-fold increase in spending for HIV and AIDS. The number of people on antiviral treatment has increased, the annual number of AIDS deaths has declined, and the global percentage of people infected with HIV has stabilized.
However, recent achievements should not lead to complacent attitudes. In all parts of the world, people living with HIV still face AIDS related stigma and discrimination, and many people still cannot access sufficient HIV treatment and care. In America and some countries of Western and Central and Eastern Europe, infection rates are rising, indicating that HIV prevention is just as important now as it ever has been. Prevention efforts that have proved to be effective need to be scaled-up and treatment targets reached. Commitments from national governments right down to the community level need to be intensified and subsequently met, so that one day the world might see an end to the global AIDS epidemic.
Around 2.6 million people became infected with HIV in 2009. Sub-Saharan Africa has been hardest hit by the epidemic; in 2009 over two-thirds of AIDS deaths were in this region.
The epidemic has had a devastating impact on societies, economies and infrastructures. In countries most severely affected, life expectancy has been reduced by as much as 20 years. Young adults in their productive years are the most at-risk population, so many countries have faced a slow-down in economic growth and an increase in household poverty. In Asia, HIV and AIDS causes a greater loss of productivity than any other disease. An adult's most productive years are also their most reproductive and so many of the age group who have died from AIDS have left children behind. In sub-Saharan Africa the AIDS epidemic has orphaned nearly 15 million children.
In recent years, the response to the epidemic has been intensified; in the past ten years in low- and middle-income countries there has been a 6-fold increase in spending for HIV and AIDS. The number of people on antiviral treatment has increased, the annual number of AIDS deaths has declined, and the global percentage of people infected with HIV has stabilized.
However, recent achievements should not lead to complacent attitudes. In all parts of the world, people living with HIV still face AIDS related stigma and discrimination, and many people still cannot access sufficient HIV treatment and care. In America and some countries of Western and Central and Eastern Europe, infection rates are rising, indicating that HIV prevention is just as important now as it ever has been. Prevention efforts that have proved to be effective need to be scaled-up and treatment targets reached. Commitments from national governments right down to the community level need to be intensified and subsequently met, so that one day the world might see an end to the global AIDS epidemic.