How does Every Child Ministries get the slaves freed?
Basically we try to negotiate a settlement whereby all the shrine slaves would be freed at a big public ceremony on a given day (called the Liberation) and the shrine leaders would sign an agreement that slavery is ended in that place. We try to help the leaders gradually understand how much value could be released into their own community by doing away with the system and empowering the young women now enslaved in the shrines to use their gifts for the good of the community. We also give some compensation to the shrine for the loss of their free labor system. Liberation of shrine slaves is a process of persuasion and we cannot tell ahead of time how long it will take or how it will go. Prayer is a big part of the process, too. We do not have the power to open the minds of anyone, but God has all power. We also try to disseminate information to break the bonds of secrecy that have been enforced on the shrines for so long.
