Stop Slavery

04/23/2024

I was honored to be a guest on the Storytelling at Scale podcast.

I love doing a podcast as the host but it's fun to be on the other side of the microphone as well.

Today's guest Buddy Rathmell ran anti-human trafficking operations in South East Asia for over 20 years. But Buddy didn’t have a law enforcement background, ...

04/17/2024

The latest BAM School podcast with Alan Briggs just dropped. He is a genuine guy that came highly recommended from multiple people I respect and I was not disappointed.

In fact, I told Alan at the end he has the most tweet able comments per minute of any guest I have ever had.

We talk about burnout, healthy leadership and living life wisely.

Links to the podcast and youtube in the comment.

07/24/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW-8WzjoVLg&ab_channel=BuddyRathmell

06/30/2023

My summer office. 😉

09/15/2021

That other people don’t?

01/15/2020

Hey Guys, It's time to update and refresh the Stop Slavery website. It's been 5 years or so since Alexander Sartore and Peter Vanosdall helped me build our current one. If you are skilled in either Squarespace or Wordpress (or another tool you recommend) and would be willing to donate your time to further the cause of Stop Slavery let me know. You can either pm me or email me at [email protected] to talk further if you might be interested. I love to give quality recommendations if you are looking to break into the web design space as well. ;-)

12/16/2019

What a blessing to visit Sok and her ministry in Siem Reap for their annual Christmas party. It's so encouraging to see her work for the Lord and how greatly God has used her in the lives of the children in her village. I passed on the grubs. ;-)

12/07/2019

Buddy was invited to emcee this year’s BAM Conference in Silicone Valley and to give the closing address to the 470 attendees. It was great to be with so many people that are focused on furthering the Kingdom through business.

Some comments from this year’s attendees:

“One of the most relevant conferences on missions that I’ve ever attended.”

“BAM Conference’s … content is focused and directed at providing practical solutions and skilled people to forward the Gospel of Jesus throughout the world.”

“We did not invent BAM but a generation later it is exciting to see crowds of young people asking the questions that we once asked so they can go and build Kingdom businesses of excellence.”

“The Lord is advancing His global mission in and through Redemptive Kingdom entrepreneurship. The BAM work of Mark and his team is playing an expansive role in that mission. The 2019 BAM conference was a rallying point for Jesus loving business professionals to grow, learn, and re-charge.”

“This is THE conference to meet practitioners and mentors and to learn what God is doing in the world through BAM.”

“The BAM movement is now more relevant than ever as the church awakens to the role and influence of business in culture, and business professionals awaken to the spiritual depth the church can offer our broken business models.”

“The BAM conference rekindled my passion for God’s mission in the world.”

Buddy enjoyed the opportunity to connect with so many business as mission practitioners that are making a difference in the US and around the world and to encourage and challenge them and to be encouraged by their lives at the same time.

He also had the privilege of helping to plan for next year’s BAM Conference in Chicago that will be taking place on Oct 2-4, 2020. If you are interested in Faith and Work or Business as Mission please make plans to join us in 2020 in Chicago.

12/04/2019

A great reminder from Jen on what we are to be about as disciples and disciple makers as Jen addressed the senior class of 2019

08/03/2019

Nan’s Story

AT FIRST… She was lured from her Northern Thai village home and promised a job serving food in a Karaoke bar in Southern Thailand. Instead, she was forced into prostitution. She was 16 years old. Two of her traffickers were eventually convicted of their crimes.

THEN… She married a violent man who inflicted emotional and physical abuse, even while she was pregnant with their daughter. When the beatings continued and included harm to her infant daughter, Nan escaped. She did not realize at the time that the was pregnant with a second child.

NOW… She is a single mother, struggling to care for her two children (2-year old daughter and 7-month old son) as well as her ailing mother and teenage sister.

HER PLAN… Nan would like to support her family with a beverage-vending business. This would require a motorbike with a sidecar attachment and supplies. The total cost is approximately $2000-$2500 USD ($1000 for a used motorbike $1500 for a new moterbike, and $1000 for the cart and supplies). Nan feels she can be successful with such a business, as she has some experience helping a friend with a similar business. She also feels that she can deliver her daughter to nursery school on the motorbike, and keep her son with her while she works. We already have $200 given to help Nan.

If you would like to give go to www.StopSlavery.org/donate and select Nan Drink Cart Fund from the project list.

Even if you are not in the position to give right now you can help Nan by liking, commenting and tagging someone you think might want to give to this sort of project.

05/29/2019

One of the areas of human trafficking that is often overlooked is labor trafficking at sea. Great article today on the horrors.

Enslaved, beaten, malnourished, and so desperate for water he had to collect condensation to drink: Rahmatullah left Indonesia seeking better prospects at sea -- instead he endured a living hell. The global fishing industry is riddled with forced labour, anti-trafficking experts say, warning that co...