Are you coming? If so, I’d love to see you there! Click here for more information!

May the Lord God Almighty who is always Faithful, always Good, always Just be over all that you’re doing.

Hey Everybody!

LOGOFF needs your help. I’m tired of hearing about factories collapsing on innocent people. I’m tired of hearing about food that’s illegal in other countries being perfectly fine in the US. I’m so tired of people emailing me and saying “where can we get fair trade stuff in North Carolina?” and it’s so hard for me to tell them. So, I want to kickstart LOGOFF so that we’re able to get our website and work done quickly!

What is LOGOFF? Click here!

If you want to be a part of the team that helps us raise $50,000, let me know! Email nycurbanproject@gmail.com and get involved.

“The revolution that has swept the food industry is expanding to retail: origins matter,” says the New York Times.

What would it look like for people to finally rise up and demand that things be different. Click here to read this article and share it far and wide! Let’s make something happen!

Would you take a moment to pray for the people who picked the cotton in your shirt, stitched the inseam in your jeans and attached the brim to your hat? Our God is good and desires for His Goodness to be shared by all of creation including our brothers and sisters in factories around the corner and around the world.

How do we even being to approach the overwhelming problem of human trafficking? Click here to read Raleigh Sadler’s take on what is necessary to fight human trafficking!

5000+ people have come to NYCUP Spring Break, Summer Immersion, Feed 500 and other workshops and worship nights where we’ve called students and volunteers to faith in Christ and action compelled by the Love of God!

After the Price of Life NYC we need to double that! What would it look like for 10,000 people per year to be equipped to fight sex-trafficking and labor slavery and love vulnerable people around the corner and around the world? We think it looks like this! We think it looks like NYCUP!

We develop students and leaders with the character and capacity to change the world and to do that we need to double our capacity!

Would you consider giving $1000 to NYCUP before July 1?  Or a monthly pledge of $100 for month?

And, would you consider praying for Priscilla and I as we lay a foundation of serving New York City for the next 20 years?

If the answer is “YES”, email nycurbanproject@gmail.com OR click here to give right now!

We are so excited for spring and for our new organic cotton shirts that just arrived from India. Made by survivors using 100% fair trade material and eco-friendy ink, we hope to share our mission and our freedom products with you! Please let us know if you are free Monday or Tuesday to help fold and package these shirts with love for the person who will purchase it.

Contact lisa@nominetwork.org or call (212) 300-2098 for details. Time will be at 6:30 pm. Location will be provided for volunteers.

After five weeks of NYCUP Spring and Winter Break I smiled. I smiled because we did our first ever Winter Break with 12 brave students and staff from the University of Delaware. At Session 2, I got to see Zack Kattwinkel from JMU and just “liked” his post about moving to Memphis soon to teach. I’m so happy because I remember him, Luke and Teddy dancing in front of the M&M store in Times Square protesting in a snowstorm.

 
I laugh because there were three Adrian’s at during Session 3 and “Appleman” did a poem after Domenicia and who knew that “all that” was inside both of them. Session 4 was great because all my friends were there! Glo from Rutgers, Charles from Cornell, and Trevor from NYU. I work with the best colleagues in the country. And Megan, Jaryd and Lauren were a joy to have again after NYCUP Summer 2012. And man, Ben and Jerry’s twice in one day with 45 friends from City, Hofstra, Hunter, Union and more is just Good.

 
Oh and one more thing – whoever put the note in my pocket from Psalm 77, I am grateful.

I also cried a lot.  At NYCUP, we say things like “you can’t testify to a freedom you don’t know anything about” and since we are into talking about sex-trafficking and labor slavery, there is a bit of freedom for us to experience before we can fight for it. I had more conversations about rape, sexual assault, depression, neglect, violence, anger and shame than I ever have. To feel the weight of the sin that nailed Jesus to the Cross and continually give that over to Him was crippling. And as I stood in front of students at Columbia University I crumbled under the reality that Jesus went to the Cross for every student that had been violated and shared their stories with me. He laid down His Life that I might be free to love lavishly on every one of of His kids that comes to NYCUP; and not just for them but all of the massage parlors that we found, the woman we saw beaten in the street and the children who stay in the park after we left each day.

We serve a Mighty, Awesome, Wonderful God who loves higher, longer, wider and deeper than our finite minds can comprehend and our tiny hearts can hold.

 
Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Amen.

What’s up with NYCUP this week? We’re coming to Columbia University and Barnard College with 3 GREAT EVENTS!

THURSDAY: St. Paul’s Chapel @ 7:30pm

What does Jesus have to say about rape, violence, modern-day slavery and other injustices? Jonathan Walton answers that question at Columbia University!

FRIDAY: GOOD Friday Prayer & Worship @ 7:30pm

Led by Courtney Wong we will enter into a time of worship and prayer and reflection on the Cross of Christ and the love and grace

SATURDAY: “Trafficked” in Barnard College (Held Hall 304) @ 7:00pm w/ Special Guest Actress Heather Matarazzo! 

Plain and simple this will be a powerful night of performance and a dynamic panel. Come and be informed, inspired and equipped to fight sex-trafficking and labor slavery around the corner and around the world.

For questions, please email nycurbanproject@gmail.com.