We believe that the Church plays a vital role in the fight against human trafficking. Below are a variety of resources your church can use to help educate the congregation and be involved in the fight against human trafficking.
Advent and Lent Devotional Studies
The FAAST Lenten Study guide takes you from Ash Wednesday to Resurrection Sunday, exploring a new theme each week and hoping to help understand how our actions contribute to human trafficking. Yet, we can change our actions and find forgiveness and repentance on the cross. Download this year's guide here.
The FAAST Sunday Advent Guide is for your Church or Small Group to use. This Guide provides a verse, meditation, prayer, song options, as well as a story from a survivor to help highlight the theme for the week. We pray that you will find encouragement from these stories and meditations on God's restoring work for each of us.
The FAAST Advent Devotional is for individual use. Each day of Advent, we meditate on a verse, specifically looking at how a survivor of human trafficking can find hope in said verse. We conclude each day with a prayer. Our hope is that these devotionals will bring you closer to Christ during the Advent season. We desire you to have a better understanding of what Christ's birth meant for each one of us, and that you will find encouragement from the stories shared by survivors.
Bible Studies and Prayer Guides
Change Agents
A 7-lesson curriculum to:
- educate children and families about human trafficking
- prevent children from becoming victims
- empower children and their families to make a difference
Human Trafficking Prevent Bible Study
This study will give you tools to stop trafficking before it starts in your own home/community. If every adult was aware of the issues and complexities surrounding labor and sex trafficking, they could take steps so their children would be protected and the supply would cease.
Human Trafficking Awareness Bible Study
This nine-lesson study looks at different forms of human trafficking, God's heart for the exploited, and what the Christian's response should be.
The Salvation Army's Prayer Guide
The Salvation Army created this prayer guide to help people effectively pray about human trafficking.
Prayer Guide
This guide will walk you through how to run a prayer event, as well as provide topics and scriptures to pray through.
Mobilize the Congregation and Church
Freedom Sunday
Freedom Sunday is a day where believers come together in prayer and worship on behalf of those who are trafficked. Services are dedicated to fighting human trafficking and educating their congregations, as we lift our voices to God for those who are most needy.
Engage Together's Church Engagement Kit
Engage Together has put together a beautiful resource and engagement guide for churches and faith communities.
Trauma-Informed Congregation
Find out more about how you can help your congregation become trauma-informed.
FAAST has created Awareness Posters. Feel free to download and hang up in your church and community, with the appropriate permission. Find out more on our Awareness to Freedom page.
Stop Trafficking by Reducing Demand
Human trafficking is run on the principle of supply and demand. How are you contributing to the demand?