Matt Robertson, the Director of Relational Advancement at Agape International Missions, is dedicated to combating sex trafficking through connection and communication. With extensive experience in fundraising, business development, and leadership, he led teams and managed projects across various sectors. His strengths lie in team building, problem-solving, and process improvement, all of which have contributed to organizational growth and impact.
Matt brings strong presentation and communication skills, along with cross-cultural sensitivity and adaptability, to every endeavor.
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Matt
All of us in the anti trafficking space are seeing a huge blessing from this. For ame we’re seeing people that are giving extra gifts, people that are are found us they want to give to a Christian organization they’re giving to ame we’ve got events coming up at churches that are doing screenings doing, talking about the movie.
Brett
So this is really this is interesting, right? Because the sound of freedom movie just hit right. And it’s, it’s, it’s exploding across the country. I don’t know where the numbers are at now, last I checked was 130 40 $50 million. Right and rising, but just talk about the what you thought of the movie, right? And also be, you know, how it’s helping to spread awareness and, and showing, you know, what’s out there in a way that, you know, inspires action.
Matt
Yeah, I was really encouraged by the movie, not only the movie itself, and the story that it tells because of how it’s raising awareness of this issue. People that maybe knew a little bit about it, or even people that didn’t know about it, or really, you know, try and deny that it was an issue. You can’t ignore the success of this movie. And all of us in the anti trafficking space are seeing a huge blessing from this. For ame. We’re seeing people that are giving extra gifts, people that are are found us they want to give to a Christian organization they’re giving to ame, we’ve got events coming up at churches that are doing screenings, doing talking about the movie. And so we’re seeing a huge benefit from this. Absolutely.
Brett
And was there anything in particular about the movie where you’re maybe you’re watching, you’ve been five and a half years, right? You’re like, well, the way that they you know, they they in that context, or the way that they approach the strategy or anything about that, that maybe you could pull out for someone who’s just not in it every single day, like you got a QR mat?
Matt
Well, I think the important thing to keep in mind is that trafficking is very, it’s very broad. It’s very diverse, it’s very complex. And not everyone is traffic the same way. Sometimes it’s through kidnapping, sometimes it’s through coercion. Sometimes it’s families that are desperate selling a child to feed the other children or to feed a habit. And so it’s not just one size fits all. Not everyone has traffic the same way. So I think it’s important for people to realize that trafficking is happening everywhere. It’s happening. Overseas, it’s happening in the US, it’s happening in influential neighborhoods, where people are throwing parties drawing kids in drugging them or promising, promising a job modeling. So it’s, it’s happening everywhere. And it doesn’t happen exactly the same way. Every time and not exactly the same way. Every time. It happens in the movie.
Brett
Interesting. Yeah. So the diversity of just how, how this happens, right? Just not thinking it’s just a one size fits all, or just overseas or just another countries or just in you know, less affluent neighborhoods. And there’s, it’s, it’s, it’s complex, and it’s it it’s it’s, it’s it’s happening nearby us right. And that’s, that’s, that’s the sad that’s the sad part. That’s why it’s gonna take massive action and massive awareness and a lot of prayer and a lot of fight and a lot of grit to continue to help and you know, women and children and men see, right it’s not just women and children’s also men too, right? Yeah, absolutely. Children, right. It’s diverse but just all human trafficking and so, by the way, if you want to take action right now, you can go to aim free.org That’s aim free.org And you can give and if you weren’t a good you put fight the good fight. There’s a $5,000 mash, we put that in the notes
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About Matt Robertson
Matt Robertson is a Director of Relational Advancement at Agape International Missions. He has a passion for fighting sex trafficking by connecting with people and sharing the transformational ministry of AIM through relationship building, networking and strategic marketing and communications.
Twenty-four years of Fund-raising, Business Development, Customer Service, Management, Leadership Development and Process Improvement experience directing teams up to 25 staff across multiple departments. Twelve years combined Project Management experience, on varied projects (Strategic Initiative Development and Implementation, Software Product Development, Lean Process Improvement Design and Implementation and Affordable Housing).
Matt has exceptional skills in team building, developing vision and strategy, networking, problem solving, process improvement, and change management. He has led an organizational capacity building and process improvement efforts by reducing time to market for new products, improving reporting and accountability systems, streamlining distribution of funds to field projects, updating and documenting operational policies and procedures, and creating associated training materials. He built a team of competent and decisive mid-level managers in a cross-cultural environment.
Matt has strong presentation, communication, and meeting facilitation skills. Cross-cultural sensitivity, diplomacy, and adaptability.
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