Former football player and famous Christian Tim Tebow has recently spoken out against the horrors of human trafficking, calling out the need for more action to be taken against this criminal activity. Tebow explained the vision his foundation has to combat the evil practice.
The former Florida Gators quarterback recalled his first experience with human trafficking when his father had freed several young girls from human trafficking. Tebow noted that before that event, he was unaware of the scale of the human trafficking.
“I’ll never forget the day my dad called me from overseas and told me he had just purchased the freedom of four young girls from traffickers. I was in my mid-20s at the time and completely unaware [of] human trafficking,” Tebow stated. “Even surrounded by a group of good men while on a long-term mission trip, no one around him was willing to step in to help the girls.”
He further explained how his father was motivated to perform a good deed and free these girls with the resources at his disposal. “So my dad, not wanting to leave these girls in the darkness they were in, decided to open his wallet and free the girls with the cash he had on hand,” he added.
Tebow continued, illustrating the power good has over evil. “There’s a saying that evil triumphs when good men do nothing. My dad was not going to be the man who did nothing. Had he just stood there silently, who knows where these girls would have been taken and what would have been done to them.”
“Years later, countless more human trafficking victims have been rescued around the world, ever right here in the States, because of the mission that began that day,” said the athlete, highlighting that this is an ongoing issue that his happening on domestic soil.
Tebow expressed how one cannot sit idle in the face of evil, illustrating the need to take action and fight the pervasive evil around the world. “While we are grateful for the impact we have had, I can’t help but feel that we are at a point in history–a point just like the one my dad faced years ago–where we cannot stand silently and passively watch as evil rages on,” he said. “We need to go faster. We need to reach more!”
Tebow previously appeared before Congress urging lawmakers to fund rescue operations to save children who have fallen victim to human trafficking all over the country. He informed a House subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government surveillance, calling for the government to assist in the rescue of thousands of children.
“I’m fortunate and humbled to be the chairman and the founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation, and we exist to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need,” Tebow said before Congress. “To sum it up, we strive to fight for people that can’t fight for themselves. Why we’re here today is to talk about the MVP…the most vulnerable people. That’s why we’re here today.”
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