Olga Murray has redeemed thousands from slavery.

In 1989, Murray — a lawyer working for the California Supreme Court — learned that a rural, impoverished village in Nepal felt cornered into selling their daughters into servitude. Families there had less than a dollar a day to care for themselves. Every year at their annual Maghe Sankranti Festival, they sold off their daughters to help fund their family’s needs.

When Murray heard of this she created the Nepal Youth Foundation, offering poverty-stricken families a piglet or a kid goat to raise and sell, in exchange for a promise to keep their daughters. Because of Murray, the whole village of Tharu in Nepal has been saved.

Slavery touches all of us.

Perhaps God has broken our chains, but others nearby are enslaved in addictive, destructive habits, or victimized by someone else’s. We hold the key to free them. We have Jesus. We have prayer. We have fasting. We can make an accountability phone call once a week. We can send an encouraging text. We can offer a safe haven. We can take someone to the doctor. We can help pay for counseling.

Like Murray, we can extend our creative God-given ideas and resources, and with Jesus as our lead, we too can redeem lives.