Headline Speaker
Esther Gitobu
Esther Gitobu is from Kenya and has been serving as a Global Ministries Missionary in Zambia and Cambodia for 20 years. She returned to her motherland Kenya in 2020 where she has continued with her ministry.
Previously, Esther worked for the Central Bank of Kenya for 10 years before her calling to full-time Missionary service. Her passion in helping young people, especially young women, pursue their vocational goals led her to create “The Eagles Foundation.” The Foundation focuses on mentoring young people and raising funds for Scholarships for students in need in Kenya, as well as building dormitories to enable girls who live far from the colleges to have a safe place to live while they attend college.
In 2018, Esther was recognized and honored for her work by Gaia Women Wellness Co. Fence in New York City. This award was created to honor Women who are advocates for others.
St. Timothy on the Northshore has supported Esther for many years both in Cambodia and Kenya. She will be visiting us to share the impact the church’s gifts are making in Kenya and how we can continue our partnership in touching more lives.
Guest Speaker
Diane Amos
Diane Amos is the founder of Free NOLA, a faith-based non-profit serving the Gulf Coast region in the fight against human sex trafficking. Prior to Free NOLA, Diane served as the Executive Director of the New Orleans Dream Center, which served the population of New Orleans with free health care services, such as medical visits, dentistry, chiropractic, pregnancy care and veterinarian services.
Diane’s passion for serving others garnered her the Dr. Edward B. Shils Award for outstanding humanitarian of the year, a worldwide award presented annually to one individual. This same drive is what Diane brings to Free NOLA today with a desire to see the “captives set free”, the motto for Free NOLA.
Free NOLA was founded because of the Super Bowl 2013, which would bring human sex trafficking to the forefront. She became passionately involved with this issue. Just prior to the Super Bowl 2013 over 53,000 people were trained to recognize and report human trafficking. Over 341 hotels/motels were personally contacted and provided with information packets and coded soap.
Through the Free NOLA program, she continues to hit the issue head-on with programs of awareness, education, training, intervention, outreach programs and victim assistance rescue, one life at a time.