Vocal Point-Mike Johnson

Topic: Fallout from State-Sanctioned Atheism.

The American framers said our rights come from God. But what happens in a nation where there is no acknowledgement of God? Since 1917, atheistic Communism began to spread in Russia and in the Soviet Union. And the rights of people went out the window. While the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s, Russia and Ukraine are still dealing with the fallout of 70 years of forced atheism and collectivism. Some of the victims we don’t necessarily think about are the young people of Russia and of Ukraine, where many children and teenagers end up in sex and labor trafficking. But there is hope. Adam McManus writes, “through the Illinois-based Slavic Gospel Association-supported ministry called Orphans Reborn, trained volunteers from 6,300 Evangelical churches across the former Soviet Union visit orphanages every week to develop relationships with the older orphan teens. That way, when the orphans age out at the age of 18, they get plugged into a Christian community and hopefully even a family to protect them from sex trafficking, slave labor, organized crime, and suicide.” Michael Johnson, the president of the Slavic Gospel Association, joins Jerry Newcombe to discuss this ministry to young people in the former Soviet Union.  www.sga.org