Hey everyone, I’m Justin Trapp, and this is the Ministry Minute.

Right now, somewhere in Pakistan, a child is stomping mud with bare feet in 120° heat.

She’s making bricks. So are her parents. So were her grandparents. They were born into slavery.

Brandon McNace is doing something about it.

Brandon was a pastor, a former real estate guy from Iowa.

He had no plan to become a modern-day abolitionist.

But during a trip to Brazil, two strangers on two different days gave him the same prophetic word.

God was calling him to set the captives free.

Months later, he connected with a man in Pakistan who said, “We’ve been praying for years. God told us someone was coming, and we think it’s you.”

Brandon didn’t have a budget. He didn’t have a strategy. He didn’t have a nonprofit at that point.

He had $11,000 on a credit card and a shanky plane ticket to L’ore.

When he landed, he was met by armed guards, questioned, surrounded, and asked point-blank, “Are you here to overthrow our government?”

His response, “No, I’m here to help your people.”

That trip, he freed his first family.

Through his nonprofit, Exodus 51, Brandon and his team legally pay off the debts that bind Christian slave families in Pakistan’s brick kilns. Just $250 on average per person.

Then they provide 6 months of housing, food, education, job support, and a connection to a local church. More than 11,000 people have been set free and counting.

Brandon says the hardest part isn’t the heat. It’s when you free one family and the others are watching, waiting, praying.

Sometimes they’ve never seen hope before until it walks in and hands the freedom to the person next to them.

One mother told him, “We’ve been praying for this for generations.”

Your calling might not put you in a brick kiln in Pakistan, but Brandon’s story reminds us that God still sets the captives free. And he does it through ordinary people who dare to say yes.

I’m Justin Trapp, and this is the Ministry Minute.

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