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London-based = rescue=20 organization putting slave traders on notice

Alan Good=20
Special to The London Free Press

April 12, 2006=20

Cambodia. A clandestine meeting is = arranged=20 between a multi-national team of law enforcement professionals and = a=20 highly qualified legal staff. They are conducting criminal = investigations=20 into crimes of slavery and sex perpetrators in foreign lands.

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Jamie McIntosh = helps free=20 people from injustice. =

Hidden cameras provide evidence of children = as young as=20 five living in a brothel. A squad of 60 police officers converge = on the=20 site, rescuing 37 girls.

Elsewhere, police posing as = customers=20 rescue fifty-four people, some children, from breaking rocks day = after=20 day: prisoners of a slave ring.

This is not a television = program,=20 but the efforts of a Bible-based organization that has its centre = of=20 operations here in London.

International Justice Mission = (IJM)=20 Canada is a human rights organization that rescues victims of = violence,=20 sexual exploitation, slavery and oppression in overseas contexts = where=20 local authorities cannot be relied upon for relief.

The=20 international arm of IJM was founded by Gary Haugen, who served as = the=20 Officer in Charge of the U.N. investigation into the Rwandan = genocide. In=20 2001, Londoner Jamie McIntosh conveyed his vision for establishing = a=20 Canadian partner agency in the fight for justice. The London = office was=20 later set up within downtown law offices.

Jamie McIntosh = attended=20 Beal High School, then UWO, before venturing south where he = obtained a=20 Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Studies from North Central Bible = College in=20 Minneapolis. He also served as a pastor in a California outreach = centre.=20 Returning to London in 1998, Jamie spent four years with = Compassion=20 Canada, taking people overseas. There, he witnessed the injustices = committed on people in foreign countries, often by people from the = Western=20 nations, or the local rich, who often forcibly evict poorer = families from=20 their lands.

McIntosh assists individuals who cannot speak = for=20 themselves, advocating for the freedom of those imprisoned, as we = are=20 encouraged to do in Proverbs 24:11 (NLT), "Rescue those who are = unjustly=20 sentenced to death; don't stand back and let them die." =

According=20 to National Geographic Magazine, there are more people in slavery = today=20 than were extracted from Africa in 400 years of slave trade. Added = McIntosh: "It costs approximately $700 to rescue one person from = slavery=20 and $1,400 to rescue one girl from a brothel."

Comparing = what his=20 organization accomplishes to the Underground Railway that brought = slaves=20 to freedom, McIntosh related that lights were left on homes along = the way,=20 signifying they were safe houses for the escaping slaves. =

"We can=20 hang out that light to serve others," says McIntosh, who attends = Glad=20 Tidings with his wife and son. Although global in focus, IJM is a=20 locally-based, locally-run organization looking for volunteers and = churches to pray. Londoners can help by offering their time, = donations, as=20 well as opening the doors to their churches for McIntosh to share = what IJM=20 is all about.

"There is an urgent need and few resources=20 available," McIntosh said, challenging churches not to ignore what = is=20 occurring in foreign lands.

Rev. Jamie McIntosh and = International=20 Justice Mission can be seen on their website (see link).=20

WEB: International = Justice Mission=20 Canada

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London-based=20 rescue organization putting slave traders on = notice=20
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