Make It Zero: The Movement to Safeguard Every Child

by Mary Frances Bowley; Jennifer Bradley Franklin

Publisher:

Moody Publishers

, 2015

Overview

"When we correct the factors that keep children at risk, we can make a difference in the lives of those children and the adults they’ll grow up to be."— Mary Frances Bowley

Children are meant to imagine bright futures and chase them. But for the millions of at-risk children in America, hope is lost in the heavy fog of trauma. Make It Zero is a call to bring it back.

Tying shocking statistics to real stories, Make It Zero explores various forms of childhood vulnerability and offers specific ways for everyone to end them. It reveals the world of opportunity behind a single moment of compassion, and it teaches us that when we help the hopeless dream again, we ourselves come more alive.

A book for everyone—moms, dads, teachers, bus drivers, nurses, whomever—it calls us to fulfill our responsibility to children and build a world that is safe for every last one.

Each of us is only one person, but one person determined to act is powerful. Moments can multiply into movements and create groundswells of change. Make It Zero is your moment. Be inspired. Be empowered. Help bring hope to every child.

From the Back Cover

Be careful with this book.

The stories inside will change you. Poverty, hunger, abuse, neglect—threats like these are running rampant over our children, and these stories show it. But more so, they show hope—how ordinary people every day are banding together to rescue, protect, heal, and empower.

"Children are a gift, and we must do all we can to protect and strengthen them. Make It Zero informs you of factors that put our children at risk, inspires you with stories of people beating the odds, and gives tangible actions you can take to reduce the number of vulnerable children to ZERO."
—Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker

"Often, the sheer amount of evil that so many children undergo makes us feel powerless against it. Make It Zero woke me up to my responsibility to live with eyes wide open to the needs of children around me. And to find something in my own sphere of influence and faithfully do that one thing."
—Maggie Paulus, author of Finding God at the Kitchen Sink

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Praise for Make It Zero

"Testimonies that allow the pain of the past to bring hope to thousands and awareness to those that make a difference.

There is so much danger in the world today for our children. Our children are our hope for the future. With poverty, homelessness, drug abuse, prostitution, human trafficking, these problems will continue to grow for our children. This book is a compilation of testimonies of those that have escaped with the help of people and organization made of people that care. It can be overwhelming with the needs, however, this book reminds you that all you have do is care for just one person. In helping one person, you help many. This account is unique that it does not only tell their stories, but all the different organizations that behind the success of those that have overcome the odds. All because of someone who cared. Each chapter shares a story, how an organization came to walk alongside, and how you can be involved. Not everyone can foster but maybe you can tutor. In my area of the United States, their are several organizations that equip you and have a place for you to help families overcome poverty and bring families together to be strengthen. There is something you can do.

This is not a testimony of the gospel but the gospel at work as we are called to show mercy to the oppressed."

Reviewed by Jeanie Schwagerman on NetGalley, Feb 8, 2016

"Testimonies that allow the pain of the past to bring hope to thousands and awareness to those that make a difference.

There is so much danger in the world today for our children. Our children are our hope for the future. With poverty, homelessness, drug abuse, prostitution, human trafficking, these problems will continue to grow for our children. This book is a compilation of testimonies of those that have escaped with the help of people and organization made of people that care. It can be overwhelming with the needs, however, this book reminds you that all you have do is care for just one person. In helping one person, you help many. This account is unique that it does not only tell their stories, but all the different organizations that behind the success of those that have overcome the odds. All because of someone who cared. Each chapter shares a story, how an organization came to walk alongside, and how you can be involved. Not everyone can foster but maybe you can tutor. In my area of the United States, their are several organizations that equip you and have a place for you to help families overcome poverty and bring families together to be strengthen. There is something you can do.

This is not a testimony of the gospel but the gospel at work as we are called to show mercy to the oppressed."

Reviewed by Jeanie Schwagerman on NetGalley, Feb 8, 2016

Product Details

• Title : Make It Zero: The Movement to Safeguard Every Child
• Authors:
  • Bowley, Mary Frances
  • Franklin, Jennifer Bradley
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication Date: 2015
• ISBN: 9780802493729

About the Authors

MARY FRANCES BOWLEY is the Founder of Wellspring Living, an organization fighting childhood sexual abuse and exploitation since 2001. She has been a leader in bringing the fight against child sex-trafficking to Atlanta and is a founding member of the Georgia Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force. Mary Frances is the author of The White Umbrella and A League of Dangerous Women. She resides in Peachtree City with her husband, Dick.

JENNIFER BRADLEY FRANKLIN is a multi-platform journalist whose work appears in numerous publications, including USA Today. Make it Zero represents not only a friendship but also a dynamic partnership in the fight against childhood vulnerability.