FBI Presents Award to Baptist Church for Fighting against Human Trafficking

Will Maule : May 23, 2019
Faithwire.com

"It's very humbling, to be honest. That was my first feeling ... to be recognized with such a great group from all the states and the different FBI field offices. It was a beautiful picture of how it takes all of us working together to make our world a better place..." -Kay Bennett, North American Mission Board

[Faithwire.com] The Federal Bureau of Investigation has presented a prestigious crime-fighting award to a Louisiana Baptist church for its tremendous work fighting human trafficking. (Image: FBI.gov/via Faithwire)

Earlier this month, FBI Director Christopher Wray presented the Baptist Friendship House of New Orleans with its 2018 Director's Community Leadership Award for its partnership with the FBI in rooting out networks of human trafficking across the city of New Orleans.

Missionary worker Kay Bennett, who is with the North American Mission Board, accepted the award on behalf of the faith community at the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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