The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College will host international human trafficking experts Lisa Thompson and Patricia Green at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters, as part of its 2007-08 series of presentations. It is free and open the public.

As liaison for the abolition of sexual trafficking for The Salvation Army’s national headquarters, Thompson works closely with The Salvation Army’s branches in developing countries where trafficking is widespread. She helped launch the Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking, as well as the Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking, a partnership of faith-based, human rights and child advocacy organizations dedicated to establishing an international movement to eradicate trafficking of women and children. She works with The Salvation Army’s International Anti-Trafficking Task Force and The Salvation Army’s U.S. National Anti-Trafficking Council. A former policy representative for the National Association of Evangelicals, she has helped shape public policy, including playing a vital role in Congress’s passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000.

Green is a noted preacher and speaker on issues of sexual exploitation, trafficking and prostitution. A New Zealand native, she is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God New Zealand, a mission partner with World Outreach International Mission and a social worker. In 1988, Green founded Rahab Ministries, an outreach to Thai women in prostitution, and worked there until 2004. Since then, she has focused on the issues of combating trafficking and sexual exploitation internationally and travels extensively as a consultant to new and fledgling Christian ministries to women in prostitution. Green currently lives in Berlin, Germany, where she continues her work. She was instrumental in beginning an outreach, Alabaster Jar, for women working on the streets.

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