Modern Slavery & Missions

"The most upsetting feature of all of this, brilliantly displayed in one book I would recommend, entitled “Not for Sale”…, simply points out that there are more slaves in the world today than were bartered and bought during a 400 year period of North Atlantic slavery in the past. That is very hard to believe, but the statistics really back that up. The often quoted nearly 30 million slaves in the world today are a very unavoidable reality …The reason I bring this up here, however, is that this is not simply a world problem to be prayed about. It’s something that Evangelicals have got to do something about and in fact are doing something about, but perhaps not as prominently as they could he or should be”

(Editorial Comment, Ralph D. Winter. "Mission Frontiers" , September-October 2007 29:5 pg 4)