Natalie Grant recently gave the Trevor Talks podcast a personal account of his journey founding the anti-trafficking nonprofit Hope For Justice. The organization recently played a key role in the passage of new labor trafficking legislation in the United States.
Natalie Grant has been one of the most consistent and pivotal voices in faith-based music over the past few decades, garnering 8 GRAMMY nominations and a myriad of Dove Awards (an event she also hosted). But when she began hearing about the issue of human trafficking, her heart was stirred and moved. Knowing nothing about the human rights crisis, she began training herself to take action.
“It’s scary to take a step when you don’t know what you’re doing,” Natalie recalls of those early days. “You don’t have to be an expert, you just have to be ready. When you’re ready, it’s amazing what God can do through your life.”
In 2014, that desire gave birth to Hope For Justice, an organization Natalie co-founded. Since then, the organization has grown into a global network of experts fighting human trafficking through prevention and awareness, rescue operations, and restorative aftercare services. Most recently, they drafted key sections of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2021legislation that introduces a zero-tolerance policy for federal agencies regarding human trafficking in supply chains.
All of this great change has been accomplished by small steps of faithfulness, despite the obstacles: “Overnight success is not about building what it takes to sustain it over the long term. You really need the setbacks. You need the challenges. You need the valleys. We learn more about God’s character in the valleys than we will ever learn on the mountaintops.”
This is a perspective to which Natalie Grant has hung on through challenges in her personal life, including surviving cancer that threatened her vocal cords. Her work with Hope For Justice is part of how she continues to focus on what really matters. “Singing was never the goal, it was just the tool. And God has a lot of tools,” she freely admits.
More of this personal story was recently shared in Natalie’s latest book, Dare to Be, written in collaboration with her ministry partner Charlotte Gambill. The book is available everywhere now.
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Author: Jessie Clarks
