A Message from Coach Joe About Friday's Game

 
NOAH Jaguars and fans,
 
Friday night our players will compete in a football game against the #3 ranked Metro Christian Academy team. It should be a good game. More importantly to me it is a game that has been dedicated to raising awareness about a major crisis in our city, state and world. I have witnessed firsthand the destructive nature of the sexual slavery and violence. I have talked with prostitutes and former prostitutes and counseled with young girls who have been victims of abuse (both "date rape", forced and coerced sexual behavior, and physical abuse). It is tremendously harmful and destroys lives. It is estimated that around 300,000 teenage girls each year in the United States become victims of human trafficking into the sex trade. The average age that a girl enters prostitution is 13! As a coach and a dad, I have spent this week speaking to our young men about the "demand" side of this crime. Girls are trafficked into slavery because there is a demand for purchased sexual activity with young girls. That it is an awful perversion of God's plan of exclusive love in the commitment of marriage and it happens because men are looking for a substitute pleasure for what they are missing in Jesus Christ.
 
Below you will find a couple of videos and a link to a website with information about this subject. Please join us in this effort.
 
Also - Metro Christian Academy has been collecting loose change all week to donate to this cause and we are asking all of our NOAH fans to bring their loose change Friday night in hopes that we can contribute more in a night than they do all week! Pray about busting your piggy banks! Hope918 is a ministry committed to not only raising awareness but is seeking to rescue and help those rescued to recover back into a productive spiritual life.
 
The Tulsa World ran a brief article about this event in Thursday's sports section and it is very important to me as a coach that we model a commitment to be about bigger issues than just football.
 
Your help is appreciated. Come cheer us on and help this important cause.
 
www.hope918.com
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9HUZ6Y_Yuo - the first 5 minutes and 13 seconds are very good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvnRYte3PAk
 
 
Coach Joe