S lavery is an ugly part of our past that we would gladly forget. But what if you were to discover that slavery is not a thing of the past? What if you were to discover that slavery exists today in every part of the world, including our own country? I was stunned a few years ago when I began to understand the magnitude of the global human trafficking issue. Experts say that 90 million people are living as slaves somewhere in the world.

These days we are afraid to have a hero. Because over and over, heroes keep falling off their pedestals. Another one did last year on Thanksgiving Day. Tiger Woods is the most highly paid professional athlete on earth. He’s been greatly admired and sought after by many around the globe. Then the script of Tiger’s terrible Thanksgiving was revealed in the media. What was initially reported as a single car accident was part of something much bigger. That accident damaged a tree, a Cadillac Escalade, a reputation.