The Human Trafficking Awareness Team
Messiah’s “Human Trafficking Awareness” team is part of our Social Justice Ministry.
Human Trafficking Awareness is at the intersection of working for long-range change in the areas of racial justice and homelessness, and responding to immediate needs through our community outreach team.
When did Messiah begin its journey with Human Trafficking Awareness?
In 2023, we held an information night with a variety of speakers: detectives from the city of Madison police and Dane county sheriff's departments, Jan Miyasaki with Project Respect, Diane Hanson with United Madison and Jevon Diming with Pierre Outreach Safe House.. We learned human trafficking happens in Dane County, Wisconsin, the United States and the world. We learned that due to generational trauma, some people are more vulnerable than others.
If you are interested in being a member of this group in order to receive information and possibly take action steps, please contact Elizabeth Crummy at volunteer@messiahchurch.com
Human Trafficking Awareness News
Jennifer Ginsburg, Director of Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center, will speak at all the services on November 22 & 23, 2025. Jennifer will also have a chat session Sunday, 11/23 from 9:20am-10:20am in the Community Room.
The mission of Safe Harbor is to reduce trauma and promote healing for children and adults with intellectual disabilities who are victims of or witnesses to crime. Safe Harbor provides a trauma-informed, safe, child-friendly environment for best practice forensic interviews; immediate and ongoing advocacy for affected children and families; coordination and support of multi-disciplinary investigations and responses.
You may be asking yourself “What is Human Trafficking?”
Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception in order to be exploited. In every region of the world, traffickers exploit vulnerable women, girls, men, and boys of all backgrounds for profit. Even without knowing, we might have come across its victims. Traffickers often use violence, blackmail, emotional manipulation, removal of official documents, fraudulent employment agencies, and fake promises of education and job opportunities to trick and coerce their victims.
Human trafficking takes place for many exploitative purposes:
Contact: Nancy Battist, battistnancy@gmail.com or Elizabeth Crummy, volunteer@messiahchurch.com if you have ideas you would like to see happen.
