Austin Bevere talks about Messenger Rescue and how we can all join in the fight against human trafficking.
well we’re gonna we have one more video
we’re gonna show you after I’ve talked
to Austin why don’t you give me some
help in welcoming Austin Bevier to the
stage how you doing man doing
fantabulous
so Austin why don’t you first tell us
what is Pearl Alliance and how did it
start okay so basically everyone okay so
for those of you that don’t know pearl
Alliance is a branch of my parents
ministry that’s specifically designed to
raise funds stop human trafficking and
the per just to raise awareness also
about human trafficking and it started
after my mom visited places like
Thailand and Cambodia where human
trafficking is just thriving and this
evil is growing every day and so my mom
came back from this and she’s like I
have a full-time job I travel I speak
but I need to do something and so that’s
how her line started and so how did you
personally how old are you first 19 he’s
19 years old everybody single and works
yeah so how did you personally get
involved in this thing well it’s kind of
an interesting story
last summer I visited Hillsong London
and actually stayed at the pastor’s
house there and I went over there
actually to figure out what I was
supposed to do in life I had no clue I
was frustrated I was out of high school
I was like I can’t go to college my dad
wrote a book called driven by eternity I
don’t know if you have ever heard of it
kind of freak the crap out of me I’m
like I don’t know what I’m supposed to
do with my life dad like can I live in
your house still life so anyway I went
over to London and just tried to get a
loan and figure out what I was supposed
to do but anyway after a while I got
discouraged and I just I was like you
know what got you have a plan for me I’m
gonna start seeking you instead of what
you’ve called me to do and yeah right
after that God just began to pour
himself in my life in an amazing way and
one day as I was doing my laundry
that sounds like quite a spiritual like
really cuz it wasn’t most it was its
origin okay no no is actually folding
but anyway yeah God just spoke to me
he’s like Austin will you do this for me
we take care of the people are stuffing
will you take care of the poor and I was
like yeah totally like I’d love to do
that I was like thank you for telling me
but anyway I had no clue how is gonna
come about but God just gave me a
glimpse of his plan for the future of my
life and I just kind of tucked that away
for a week I was like that’s awesome I’m
gonna do something about this well
anyway a week later I was talking to my
mom and she she’s like no I was like I
was like mom I had this amazing vision
from God and she’s like wow that’s crazy
because I want to start a branch of our
ministry that helps out women and
children him trafficking I was like mom
I’m your man I will I will definitely do
that so I flew back a week later and
have been working on prayer lines ever
since so that was how long ago did you
actually start like Jewish Jewish yeah
so this is a brand new initiative and
it’s very exciting Austin why don’t you
tell us why why should people care about
this project that you’re doing and these
kind of projects in general well it’s
crazy it’s kind of what Gina mayo talked
about tonight over the last couple of
months like my whole life I was a
freaking legalist I did pop dependent
solely on myself to figure out my own
salvation and one day I just cracked and
I was like I can’t do this anymore and
God just came to me and he swooped me up
and he’s held me in his love ever since
and I’ve had such a peace in my life
ever since and just for me to take this
love that I’ve been given and this
freedom and just to sit on my butt and
do nothing while people out there is
suffering like that’s that’s almost as
bad as human trafficking in itself like
it is my job to take what God has given
that desertions taking amen
so that’s why I got involved I mean
there’s kids our age around the world
being sold 20 to 40 times a day for less
than it cost for us to go see a movie
here in the US and is also what Jeany
man was talking about these girls are
getting something that was meant to be
so pure and an element of God’s love
that he’s allowed us to express to one
another and they are just there being
frickin ruined like they’ve lost all
sense of love and so that’s why we need
to get involved we have been given God’s
love and we need to go out there and we
need to show these women and children
God’s perfect looks oh dude that is that
is amazing one one laughs I don’t know
if you you notice this for those of you
look from the back he is pretty buff and
the only guy in the room that’s probably
buffer is me and so that’s why I thought
that’s why I thought both of us should
come up here and and if if you’d like to
say what I heard him I’d say tomorrow
night will be arm wrestling right here
on the stage so it’s gonna be powerful
go home and practice I’m gonna go home
and do like a hundred and fifty push-ups
yeah that’s a good idea so um one more
thing I mean the most important thing
here for the people in the room what
what can people do in a practical sense
to get involved to like make a
difference in people’s lives on the
other side of the world
okay well prolines has three major ways
the first one is prayer and you guys are
gonna be pumped after this conference
you want to you’re going to want to go
out and just touch the world and I don’t
want you to go out there just like with
the like chickens with their heads cut
off
you need to have purpose and that’s what
prayer does it takes your passion and it
puts it into purpose and so we need to
just be praying that God would show us
what we’ve done what we need to do
excuse me and also we to be praying for
the victims and human trafficking just
for that hope would be instilled in
their heart and that they would know
that there’s people out there the church
that cares for them and that we’re
coming from and never give up and never
lose faith so that’s the first way the
second way would be to raise awareness
you guys you’re the church you’ve been
given God’s creativity you’ve been given
his insight and his wisdom you guys are
the difference makers and you need to go
out and you need to tell your friends
about human trafficking and you need to
say hey this is a problem I mean I don’t
even know what human trafficking was
till last year that’s how that’s how
soon it was that’s how recent in my
history that I’ve known about this and
it can’t be the reason human trafficking
continues is just because people didn’t
know I mean we need to make difference
in that way and then the last way is
raising funds which is uh overtaking two
offerings tonight but anyway now that
was a joke and all it wasn’t ready to
give yes those wallets out no I’m just
kidding yeah we just encourage people
it’s a tangible hands-on way to get
involved and we encourage you to do
fundraising and the whole reason I’m
here is because I was here in the summer
and Ashley card came up to me and she’s
like Austin I love putting on
fundraisers for organizations like this
will you come back and be a part of one
I was like heck yeah you know it yeah so
anyway yeah that’s that’s that’s what I
envisioned for Pearl lined you guys not
everybody necessarily vlinc leaving what
they’re doing right away just right now
where you’re at to use the gifts you’ve
been given and the voice you’ve been
given to raise awareness and funds to
stop human trafficking so those are the
three ways you can get involved and I
encourage you all to do it it’s
incredible
well guys here’s what I want to
encourage you to do if you’re if you’re
a youth pastor in the room or a pastor
and you have the ability to put together
some sort of a fundraiser why don’t you
talk to Austin say hey man we’re gonna
do our own fundraiser for Pearl Alliance
and I get get involved in this cause or
maybe you’re a student and you want to
like bring awareness to your school find
some ways of bringing this kind of stuff
into the school get the message what’s
the website dude it’s Pro Alliance org
Pearl Alliance or your name like I’m
wearing the shirt we actually have these
new today George
how much of those shirts they’re $20 and
I know that’s marked up and right now
the economy sucks but oh oh geez Wow
this could be you for $20 that’s it
and if you go to the bay for $15.99 and
give yourself a jack and Jones shirt
just like this yeah so obviously I’m
surrounded by stud nests I don’t even
know do you
but yeah seriously that’s one of the
problems with my life is that I
intimidate people you know guys like
Jordan looking good the tacky anyways
guys like seriously seriously it yeah so
it’s $20 more than half of it goes
towards stopping human trafficking
the only cost we took out of it was the
cost to make it and I think we did a
pretty dang good job
and so there’s men’s and women’s sizes
so you guys don’t look like called baggy
and guys will look oh yeah but anyway I
mean it it’s Ted on us but like Jordans
wearing a girl’s shirt and that’s really
cool tonight this is just falling out