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Read MoreWe are very excited to announce that Elaine St. Clemmons has just joined A Way Out Ministries as the Operations & Women’s Services Director. She came aboard in early January to manage daily operations and the residential program for survivors of sex trafficking. Elaine received her B.A. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and M.P.A. from Troy University. She has over 10 years of organizational leadership experience in 5 different non-profit organizations. In her time in management at non-profits, she has excelled at building and implementing systems, building and growing internal talent, and helping organizations increase in their efficiency and care of staff and other stakeholders. She fully believes that God gives us all different gifts and feels that her gifts are working behind the scenes supporting staff and seeing the gaps in the systems. She loves to have the stakeholders come together, see where the bottlenecks or source of gaps are, and work together to construct creative and dynamic solutions. She longs to be a catalyst for team members to feel seen, heard, and to have the resources and training to be most effective.
Read MoreA Way Out: From Darkness to Light takes you inside the hearts and minds of five sex trafficking survivors. Casondra, Leah, Iris, Kelsea, and Maria share the intimate details of their journeys of healing, highlighting pain from their past, redemption through Jesus Christ, and the growth in their Christian walks while in the A Way Out Ministries program. Get ready to laugh and cry as you see life through their eyes.
Read MoreA Way Out Ministries announces that Kaitrin E. Valencia has been hired as executive director to lead the organization in the fight against pornography and human trafficking.
Read MoreI got here, I walked in, and they said, “We’ve been praying for you!”. I was like, “You don’t even know me. Why are you praying for me? What are you praying about?” My first Bible study here. I was sitting over here on the floor in this room. I wouldn’t look at anybody. I had my hat. I had my knees to my chest. Just so shut off to the world. So beaten and torn down. Just feeling like a piece of dirt. You hear all these people praying.
Read MoreThe way he abused me and made me feel, led me to feel like I wasn’t worth anything, and the way he had sex with me. I felt like opened a can of crazy in my mind; like very abusive sex. One day I was like, if I’m going to go through this, I’m going to get paid to do it.
Read MoreCarol’s empathy and faith have been the light and the compass that led her down the path to becoming Director of Victim Assistance at A Way Out Ministries. ”I do believe that the Lord, over time, knew where He was sending me.”
RE + NEW + ALL spoke with Carol about her work with A Way Out and how they help trafficking survivors rebuild their lives. She also shed light on the challenges survivors face, misconceptions people still hold about trafficking, and some surprisingly simple yet powerful ways people can help.
Read More2020 has been a year of adapting. Whenever we felt like we were getting a handle on navigating what 2020 threw at us, it felt like another thing would arise and we would have to start again. This may be a common feeling across the globe with all that happened this year. The outbreak of Covid-19 sent many grappling to navigate the seemingly new world.
Read MoreMy life was nothing but complete darkness from the time I was thirteen until nineteen. Now that I am on the flip side of things, I can see some similarities and differences regarding my life and my choices then and now. The way I live is totally different from the way I lived before I was chosen and called to live in the light.
Read MoreJoin the movement! Giving Tuesday is a global movement of generosity to support local communities, and the organizations that work daily to better them. It is a time for people to come together in unity and peace. In a year like 2020, we need this more than ever. This has been a year unlike any other full of difficulties for nearly everyone, and A Way Out has not escaped the struggle in navigating the difficulties 2020 has set before us. However, we believe that love and compassion still exist, and by the Grace of God, we have made it to December!
Read MoreWhat if the simple purchase of a single candle meant you could help A Way Out raise much-needed funds AND provide employment opportunities to human trafficking survivors?
For the entire month of November, that’s exactly what you’ll be able to do!
Read MoreFor nearly thirty years A Way Out Ministries (formerly CCV Memphis) has been on the front lines against the sex industry, and during that time we have assisted over 650 women. After years of rescuing and restoring a wide range of women that come off the streets, from pimps, out of prison, jail, strip clubs, etc. we can assuredly tell you that the sex industry (in every form) is intent to destroy mind, body, and soul.
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