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| "Breaking The Chains Of Human Trafficking" |
| *** Important News *** Anti-trafficking law up for review - we are hoping to add some things to strengthen this law. Please contact your legislator and encourage them to vote for the new changes we have submitted. Click here to see the original bill that was passed. |
| RECENT & UPCOMING EVENTS March- Press release of meeting with Nicaragua trafficking Minister to read the full release click on link above March 9th, 2010 Benefit Concert - Lipscomb University 7-9 pm March 19-21, 2010 Missions Get-Together TN Baptist Convention Gatlinburg, Tn September 4-18, 2010 Bombay Teen Challenge Mumbai, India November 20, 2010 Third annual Chattanooga Fun Run January 21, 2010 Lipscomb University Nashville, Tn December 2009 Blakemore Nazarene Church Nashville, Tn |
| FREE FOR LIFE MINISTRIES would like to thank Dave Ramsey for a grant of his Financial Peace University programs in both English and Spanish to benefit victims rescued from sex trafficking and labor trafficking in the middle Tennessee area. We believe that this gift will help empower these young women to become future leaders! |
| Watch Colette Bercu representing Free for Life Ministries, Inc. on the Harvest Show (Direct TV) 6-3-09 Her interview starts about 20 minutes into the show. |
| Free for Life International |
Free for Life announcement September 15, 2009
Reaching Out, Romania
Reaching Out, Romania
If you know our story, you know working with Reaching Out is where Free for Life began. In 2005, founder of Free for Life Colette Bercu had seen a television show where, to her horror, a girl was purchased on camera by undercover reporters in Romania. Her heart broke. Iana Matei had taken that young girl into the Reaching Out shelter once she was rescued, and Colette contacted her to see if she could somehow help. Over the past 3 years we have dedicated our lives to the fight against human trafficking, and to helping Reaching Out and Iana in any way we could. We have been so blessed to extend financing, prayer, and emotional support to Iana to help her continue running the shelter. We have been confident in knowing that the money Free for Life has been able to raise for them has not only gone to meet the needs of all of the girls in the shelter, but also for pressing operational expenses. Iana Matei writes: “For the last three years of commitment to support Reaching Out and to personally encourage me, thank you. For all the times when we encounter problems, when electricity was cut off, or the gas, when there were no money to pay bills, or wages, you stood by me, pray with me, gave me hope, and for that I thank you. I applaud you for your dedication, and I admire your sacrificial love." We are grateful God has given us the opportunity to have been a small part of the journey of restoration in the lives of these young women. Additionally, we have also been blessed to know Iana personally and call her friend. And So it is with a mixture of sadness and joy that we are writing this announcement to say Free for Life International will no longer be actively working with Iana Matei and Reaching Out Romania. One of the goals of Free for Life is to seek out additional partnerships to help meet the financial needs of the shelters we support. We have done it! Free for Life has found and connected such a donor with Reaching Out. The requirement for this new partnership is for an exclusive relationship. All ties with other funders are dissolved. This includes Free for Life International. On behalf of Free for Life we wish success for Reaching Out and pray God's most abundant blessing on their work. Please join with us as we celebrate this victory and have accomplished our mission of support with this shelter in Romania. With your generous participation we press forward to help meet the financial, emotional and spiritual needs of The Peace Rehabilitation Center in Nepal and Nicoya and Friends in Nicaragua. We are eager to discover new opportunities that may arise with other shelters around the world that are struggling even now as Reaching Out was, to keep their doors open. This is how we began, and this is how we will continue as we grow. Let us not grow weary in this fight against slavery. Thousands of children and women are waiting for Free for Life International to extend the help they so desperately need. Help us help them. Colette Bercu CEO/Co-Founder |
