20 Questions with Phil Gazley

1. Name: Phil Gazley

2. Age: 47

3.Hometown: Stanford-Le-Hope Essex, England

4. Where you are on the planet right now: Colorado but leave for Albania Sunday

5: Favourite Book: Bible

6. Favourite Movie: The Thin Man

7. Favourite Band: Death Cab and Postal Service

8. Favourite Food: Curry

9. What you wanted to be when you grew up: Helicopter pilot

10. Your ‘day job’: Social justice advocate

11. Your dream: My kids spending their lives loving God and loving their neighbor

12. What you do for fun: Watch movies, play guitar, walk and shop in thrift stores

13. What opened your eyes to the reality of human trafficking: Working with refugees

14: What you are doing to change it: Speaking, training and services

15. Specific justice issue you’d like to address most: Demand and law enforcement training

16. Country you consider to have the greatest need: Mauritania

17. Literature/ media you recommend to help people get acquainted with the issues: Kevin Bales’s Books, Polaris Project, Love 146 and your local state or provincial network

18. Heros you look to for inspiration: Errol Martens, Rob Morris, my friends in Denver that work in this field and most of all Caren, my wife!

19. Organizations, groups you know of effectively addressing the injustice of human trafficking: Loads – Freedom Project International, Love 146, Exodus Cry, Polaris, Salvation Army, YWAM, Free the Slaves

20. How the modern-day slave trade will be abolished: When this generation of all ages puts down the coffee cups and goes out there to talk to at risk young people, girls on the streets, to take flowers to girls in strip joints, tell people at gas stations to “call this number if you see a closed up van”, when law enforcement has to be trained in trafficking so they never see a prostitution case the same way again, when conservative evangelicals get to know immigrants and lay aside politics for biblical truth of mercy trumphing over judgement, when we go to women and girls in community groups in vulnerable countries and share life and priniciples for staying away from manipulative men, when our churches and communities see that pornography and gambling are funding slavery and talk about trafficking in their 12 step programs, when jail terms are such that it is not worth it to “go there”, when men and women can have a healthy view of sexuality that prevents the horror of continual commercial sex abuse, when bosses pay their workers a decent wage and we can see debt bondage stopped at the place of origin, when domestic victims get the same help as international victims and the healing, peace and self sufficiency of all victims is what we are all about, when we see some traffickers change their lives completely and act as an example for others, when corporate complicity is recognized and punished, when we all know we can do something and do it.