A Special Tribute

An Inspiring Story About the Ascent 121 Journey By: Ascent 121 Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Megan Jessup-Smyth May I share a story with you? Ascent 121 was inspired, in part, by a young lady I had worked with at my previous job who lost her life in a shoddy hotel room, at the hands…

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Prayer Journey is a sobering dose of reality

by Laci Knieper I went into the experience of the Prayer Journey pretty well aware of the issues at hand. I have fostered children. I have mentored survivors of sexual trauma and trafficking. I myself am a survivor of sexual trauma and commercial sexual exploitation, and not a stranger to some of the places we…

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