Wear a RED X tomorrow

God often asks His people to do things that make other people ask: "Why do you do that?"  One of my favorites is the time the people of Israel cross over the Jordan River into the Promised Land, and Joshua has a man from every tribe pick a rock from the river and heap the twelve stones up into a pile "to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?'’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.” (Joshua 4:6-7)

Tomorrow (February 27), people all over the world are going to paint a red "X" on their hand.  "Why?" you might ask.  (This is the correct response!)  

And all those people (those of us with X's on our hands!) can reply: "We are wearing the red X to bring attention to the problem of slavery in the world today.  Today, it is estimated that 27 million people are enslaved. That is more than were enslaved at the height of the African slave trade!

I'm inviting you to go to http://enditmovement.com to get informed and then tomorrow, before you go out to work, school or wherever, paint a red "X" on your hand.  When people ask "Why?" tell them that you want to see slavery end.