Starting off the Summer Right!

Hello there! :)

So last night my grandparents flew back home, marking the official end of my family graduation celebration. I was terribly sad to see them go (yes, I cried) but part of me is glad that summer can actually begin. I know it sounds terrible, but for me, guests are just hard work, especially if they are your beloved grandparents! I wanted so badly to spend time with them as much as I could, but I also had to make appearances and others' grad parties, and I was picking up babysitting jobs and trying to help mom keep the house clean and food cooked, and it was just a lot (yeah mostly my fault, but I've never been good at seeing where the "too much line" is, much less actually steering clear of it...). So in that regard, I'm glad its over. And now, summer (the relaxing, getting stuff done part) can truly begin! Yay!

To kick off the summer, my beautiful, crazy, passionate, (most importantly) Jesus-loving, friends; Halle (who can be found blogging here) and Leslie had put together an awareness rally, event thing about modern-day slavery and the End It Movement. Since we got back from Passion 2013 these two have been the ones who have really run with the question of "How can I take what I've learned back home with me," and I for one couldn't be prouder of them! They called people all over our little county and found a parking lot we could use and set up tents and made info boards and invited speakers and advertised and it went over really really well. (Like I said, I'm proud!) But the night before, Les called me and asked if I would be willing to do some "event photography." Of course I agreed, and I was truly excited to help in whatever way that I could, and I love taking pictures! But of course, I wasn't actually sure what she wanted, and what I was hoping to do exactly. All that to say, for my first time at doing any kind of event photography, and it being a last minute deal, I'm pretty happy with it. Wanna see some?

Letting people know where it was!

 

Caption this...?

They estimated that about 80 people stopped by. That's crazy!

The presentation/ speaker portion.

Some people looking at an info table.

Capturing this moment of the actual "shining a light" was so hard!

I think its safe to say they were excited with how it turned out!



I'm still so shocked at the numbers and statistics of modern-day slaver, and how prevalent an industry human trafficking is today. I'm so glad however, that there are people who are working tirelessly to bring awareness, and justice for the victims. I wrote about this as one of my first posts, and that has SO many good links if you're looking for more information! It's right here. Please learn more and don't be afraid to see what you can do to help bring justice to such a HUGE number of people.