Melissa also got the opportunity to participate and present at a special two-day workshop on human trafficking, held with 14 senior leaders of the Myanmar Council of Churches, International Justice Mission, United Nations Inter-Agency Project to Combat Trafficking in Women and Children and NGOs in Thailand.

This opened doors for her to edit the English script for Heifer International Mekong Region Program's Training and Education Program, as well as do the voice over for their promotional video of the work they have done and are doing in the Yunnan Province of China.

Melissa also lived in a Karen Hill tribe village in the Northern Thailand for a month doing ethnographic research on the Karen people, comparing their creation accounts and eschatology to that of Christianity.

Melissa was a student activist throughout college. She was the agency coordinator for service trips at the Agape Center at Messiah College, led an International Justice Mission chapter for 3 years, as well as an Invisible Children chapter and led service  trips in Harrisburg, PA; South East DC; Camden, NJ; and New Orleans, LA.

In 2006, she was 1 of 3 students from her school selected to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and layout the groundwork for future help.

Melissa is also the director of Outreach & Evangelism for her home church, heads up their Harvest Program Food Distribution Ministry, organizes community outreaches.

"Too often students are inundated with all that's wrong in the world and not any viable options of how they can directly change it using their specific talents and gifts God has given them. People want to give of themselves, not just donate their money, and that's an approach that is needed. JESUSpolitik provides students with creative ways to get involved, where their interests and talents specifically matter."   

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Delainna Batoon, Executive Director

Delainna Batoon grew up in Bittsburg, Germany where her military parents were stationed before moving to the Washington DC area, where she currently resides.

Delainna has a heart for world issues and loves the Lord. Aside from her work with JESUSpolitik, she is  also heavily involved in her church. Delainna also is a proud wife and mother.

Why "Radical Love & Action."?

Radical Love - "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, For God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation of our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." 1 John 4:7-11

& Action. - "What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them "Depart in peace, be warm and filled," But you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe - and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?" James 2:14-20