The Anglican Freedom Network (AFN) is a group of concerned individuals and organizations dedicated to the cause of eliminating human trafficking and human slavery worldwide through collaboration, resource sharing, training, and prayer.
“He has delivered us from the darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.”
About
The Anglican Freedom Network (formerly Anglican Rescued Kingdom Network) exists to provide a united effort to combat the evils of modern-day human trafficking, exploitation and slavery. Our mission is to connect individuals and organizations with one another to raise awareness, educate and train, inspire prayer and advocacy, and gather resources into one accessible place. We seek to do this through the network of Anglicans worldwide and by cooperating and working with other religious and secular entities that are tackling these difficult issues. Our hope is not only to educate people of every age to the horrors of these global issues, but also to connect them to effective ways to get involved in ending human trafficking and slavery.
Get Connected
Registration is Open for Breaking the Chains:
Responding to Christian Persecution & Human Trafficking Conference
This conference is sponsored by our Anglican Persecuted Church Network and our Anglican Freedom Network.
We will worship, pray, advocate, and hear testimonies and from experts in the field of Christian Persecution and Human Trafficking. Come be equipped and activated!
Monthly Prayer Gathering
Each month we gather to learn from an agency or person who is working in the human trafficking field or helping those who are enslaved and we pray for their ministry as well as those who are enslaved or being trafficked.
Prayer Requests for Safe House Project
1. For God’s light to be stronger than the darkness of trafficking, knowing that God’s word states that “Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John1:5).
2. For Safe House Project’s staff and volunteers to persevere in their work to help survivors exit trafficking and find true recovery.
3. For more and more resources for survivors, including trauma-informed care, legal pathways, safe transportation, and safe housing for survivors and children.
4. For more training for healthcare providers, law enforcement, educators, social services, and community organizations to recognize and appropriately respond to trafficking indicators.
5. For Safe House Project resources to be utilized in the most effective way to benefit survivors leaving the life of trafficking and eradicate human trafficking altogether.
6. For Legislators and lawmakers to increase awareness around trafficking, as well as increase protections for the most vulnerable.
7. For Trafficking Survivor Equity Coalition to advance survivor-informed legislation and create systemic change.
8. For Safe House Project to expand its programs across the nation and globe wisely, looking to best serve all of our stakeholders in our efforts to eradicate trafficking.
9. For continued fortification of survivor after-care, so that every survivor is given the opportunity to grow and continue support, even after leaving a residential program, through connections to community, therapies, education, and support systems.
10. That Safe House Project’s Survivor Support Team continues to discern and gain insight into the best resources and programs serving survivors across the country and the world.
11. For Safe House Project’s work certifying safe homes, that God would grant staff discernment and wisdom as they support each home in providing excellent, compassionate care to survivors stepping out of trafficking.
12. For the deep and sustaining hope that God has not stepped away, that He is still working, still moving, still ruling and reigning. Hope for the vulnerable who need protection. Courage for those who see a door and must be brave enough to walk through it. And hope for those ready to begin again.
13. For strength and rest for the weary—increasing the rest and renewing the strength of those team members (staff and volunteers) working hard on behalf of survivors and against human trafficking.
14. For the promotion of Simply Report, a new app that empowers everyday Americans to safely, anonymously, and effectively report suspected human trafficking in real-time. Think of it as the ultimate, “see something, say something” platform.
15. For more active volunteers for our ambassador program, leading their own communities in awareness of trafficking, and providing resources for those communities.
Meet the Leader
Anthea Kotlan
As a recovering perfectionist with a love for coffee and tea, Anthea Kotlan has dedicated over a decade to serving her Diocese as a women’s ministry leader. Her desire to see women leaders receive training and encouragement led her to join the Women’s Leadership Network team under the Next Generation Leadership Initiative with the ACNA (Anglican Church in North America). She hosts a monthly online gathering for women lay leaders as part of her work there.
In 2015, her awareness of the problem of human trafficking led to the formation of a group at St. Timothy’s Anglican Church in Spring, Texas. This group met monthly for five years to pray. They also hosted various awareness events and partnered with Houston-area anti-human trafficking organizations to raise funds. Once a year, this group hosted a Prayer Service on Super Bowl Sunday, bringing people from multiple parishes and the local area together to intercede and worship.
Anthea writes, blogs, and speaks about soul tending and discipleship, with a focus on the Psalms, at www.antheakotlan.com. She is a proud mother to two incredible adult daughters, wife to a bi-vocational Anglican priest, and grandmother to three wonderful grandchildren. She serves on a church plant team with her husband at All Saints in Conroe, Texas.
If you are being trafficked, call 911 or if you need to report a tip to the authorities, please contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline. If you have any concerns about a potential trafficking situation, call 1-888-373-7888, text HELP to BEFREE (233733), or email help@humantraffickinghotline.org.
