AMAZING GRACE Acts Speak Out Against Modern Day Slavery
Artists featured on MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE MOTION PICTURE AMAZING GRACE are speaking out to raise awareness of modern day slavery, a social injustice still endured by millions of people worldwide.
Now in theaters, Amazing Grace tells the inspiring story of William Wilberforce, the man behind a movement 200 years ago to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. The inspired-by CD includes Chris Tomlin's recording of "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)" which serves as the theme song to raise funds for anti-slavery efforts led by The Amazing Change campaign and the Geneva Global Fund.
Tomlin said, "What this movie shows is the truth that every life matters and that you can make a difference right where you are. That's the amazing thing about God. He takes ordinary people and does extraordinary things with them."
Although slavery today is illegal around the world, National Geographic estimates there are still 27 million slaves working in rice mills, brick kilns, on plantations, in brothels, and in other places where human dignity is stripped in the name of greed and oppression.
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Other artists featured on MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE MOTION PICTURE AMAZING GRACE include Smokie Norful, Nichole Nordeman, Steven Curtis Chapman, Martina McBride, Avalon, and Jars of Clay.
In response to the slavery issue at hand, GRAMMY and Stellar Award winner Norful said, "It appalls me, it upsets me to no end, but ultimately it moves me to a place where I have to ask both myself and God, ‘What can I do?'"
Nordeman, a two-time Gospel Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year winner said, "Hearing a number like that, 27 million people in modern day slavery, my first impression was shock, followed quickly by embarrassment that I was so unaware. I hope that this film and this soundtrack promote awareness first and then activism."