HOPE61
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Raising Awareness. Equipping the Church.
HOPE61, a ministry of OMS, mobilizes the church around the world to prevent all forms of human trafficking with collaborative training that equips churches to use their talents, abilities, and resources to address the vulnerabilities that lead to trafficking. The ministry emphasizes reaching out to all who are vulnerable to becoming involved in trafficking: victims, traffickers, and buyers.
| "For far too long, the church has off-loaded its biblical responsibility to respond to issues of injustice in its community. The church has not only the responsibility but also the best opportunity of all organizations to facilitate real change through the power of the Holy Spirit.” |
Inspired by Isaiah 61 and the hope we have in Jesus Christ, HOPE61 trains churches to:
- Understand what human trafficking is.
- Recognize what it looks like in their communities.
- Identify and use their talents, abilities, and resources to reach vulnerable people.
- Develop an action plan to reach their own communities for Christ.
HOPE61 offers three types of training:
Engage
A one-day workshop that equips churches to prevent human trafficking in their communities. Through the Engage training, participants learn what human trafficking is, why the church can and should be involved, and how the church can prevent human trafficking in their community.
Multiply
A multi-day workshop that dives deeper into the prevention philosophy, teaches the content of Engage, and equips new HOPE61 trainers to lead Engage training workshops. The church has the biblical responsibility to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ; through the Gospel, the church also has the opportunity to transform communities into those like God intended—communities where human trafficking simply cannot exist.
Empower
A Christian-based curriculum for anyone who teaches middle school youth to EMPOWER them to prevent human trafficking, particularly among their peers, and to have safe interactions online, with their peers and with adults in their lives. This material will be available in late 2025.
Your gift to HOPE61 will help prevent human trafficking around the globe as we train more national trainers and equip more churches to reach out to those in their communities who are vulnerable to trafficking.
For more information about the ministry of human trafficking prevention or to inquire about hosting an Engage training, contact us at [email protected].
“Human trafficking forcefully converts a human being to a commodity. One person profits by stripping rights and dignity from another person. There is no element of choice for the trafficked person; he or she is a product in a multi-billion dollar industry.” (The Exodus Road, 2021)
HOPE61, a ministry of OMS, equips the global church body to prevent human trafficking in their communities and to build bridges to sharing the Gospel. The ministry emphasizes reaching out to all who are vulnerable to becoming involved in trafficking, whether as victims, traffickers, or buyers.
Inspired by Isaiah 61 and the hope we have in Jesus Christ, HOPE61 trains churches to:
- Understand what human trafficking is.
- Recognize what it looks like in their communities.
- Identify and use their talents, abilities, and resources to reach vulnerable people.
- Develop an action plan to reach their own communities for Christ.
HOPE61 offers two levels of training:
Engage
A one-day workshop that equips churches to prevent human trafficking in their communities. Through the Engage training, participants learn what human trafficking is, why the church can and should be involved, and how the church can prevent human trafficking in their community.
Multiply
A multi-day workshop that dives deeper into the prevention philosophy, teaches the content of Engage, and equips new Hope61 trainers to lead Engage training workshops.
The church has the biblical responsibility to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ; through the Gospel, the church also has the opportunity to transform communities into those like God intended—communities where human trafficking simply cannot exist.
Your gift to Hope61 will help prevent human trafficking around the globe as we train more national trainers and equip more churches to reach out to those in their communities who are vulnerable to trafficking.
For more information about the ministry of human trafficking prevention or to inquire about hosting an Engage training, contact us at [email protected].
“Human trafficking forcefully converts a human being to a commodity. One person profits by stripping rights and dignity from another person. There is no element of choice for the trafficked person; he or she is a product in a multi-billion dollar industry.” (The Exodus Road, 2021)
