In the late 1990s, evangelicals began to wake up to the breadth and brutality of sex trafficking. But one group was way ahead of everyone else.
The Salvation Army has a history of fighting sex trafficking that stretches back to 1881. Thatâ??s when Elizabeth Cottrill of the Armyâ??s Whitehall Corps began taking women and girls who had escaped sexual slavery into her home. When demand overwhelmed capacity, the Army rented a house and put Florence Booth, wife of the Salvation Army foundersâ?? eldest son, in charge. Over the next 30 years, she expanded the specialized ministry to 117 shelters.
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