by storymustchange | Oct 13, 2014 | Devotional
When my kids were younger, I made up a simple tune to Numbers 6:24-26–the priestly blessing–and sang it to them as a bedtime prayer. I still sing it occasionally, even though they’re in middle school and high school now, and they look at me with an...
by storymustchange | Aug 25, 2014 | Devotional
God had interrupted him before. In 2009 when Brian Jennings and his wife adopted a daughter from Ethiopia–a sister to their two young sons–God interrupted their tidy, set ways with bigger dreams and deeper love than they’d ever known. So a year...
by storymustchange | Jul 7, 2014 | Devotional
She runs a tourist shop in the Dominican Republic. “After I heard about sex trafficking,” she told Blackbox, “I began to see it everywhere around me.” “One day in my shop, I noticed a 50-year-old white man walking next to a 13-year-old Dominican boy. They browsed the...
by storymustchange | May 26, 2014 | Devotional
“It’s too much.” That’s what we said when we first heard about sex trafficking. We said it again later, when we met real boys who’d endured real atrocities in an entire industry built on abuse. We cried and prayed again, “Lord, it’s too much!” Too much pain. Too much...
by storymustchange | Feb 9, 2014 | Devotional
“In justice ministry,” said Blackbox Director of Prayer Shane Wood, “you must be broken. But the brokenness cannot debilitate.” We hear stories of the sex trafficking industry–stories of truckers in India picking up children on the side...
