What is it about little boys and super heroes? As kids we all dream of beating the bad guys, saving the world, and defending “truth, justice and freedom!” Then we grow up.

For most of us, we decide that the bad guys are over there, out of our reach. We decide that truth, justice and freedom are for the government and certain “saints” to deal with. We put our capes away, get a real job, pay the bills, raise our kids, retire and die without ever having fought the bad guy, rescued a damsel in distress or done any of the things we dreamed about as children.

However, I’ve spent the last few weeks rubbing elbows with some people who refused to put their capes away when they grew up. Men and women who decided that the defense of the weak and the pursuit of truth, justice and freedom were more important than a 401k or even a fraction of what we would consider a normal life.

Debbie Walker, Evan and Leah Henck, Greg and Mala Malstead, and Sunayna, to name a few really challenged me. Listening to their stories was like watching a movie. “Could someone’s life really be this interesting?” I found myself asking.

The workers with Freedom Firm pour all of themselves into the pursuit of truth, justice and freedom, but they are not these untouchable “saintly” figures that we would assume them to be. They are normal, as normal as you or I.

Only they have given their lives to a call of saving girls forced into prostitution. They have moved to India and go without many conveniences which even the poorest in the western world enjoy. I’m not sure if even the caped crusader or the man of steel have done as much good as these normal people have done.

I saw a marker board with tons of names of girls which they have seen rescued from brothels. Freedom Firm did the investigation, led the raids, and now is fighting in court to see justice served for these girls.

There is so much we could learn from these modern super heroes. I learned so much from them. Sometimes I think I’m a dreamer. I think about things which may be a bit beyond a former gang member with no college education.

But the flipside is I serve a God who took a shepherd boy to defeat a giant, who took unlearned men to change the world (Acts 4:13), and who has taken a few normal people to India to battle an entire culture of corruption and oppression.

In India brothel keepers pay cops not to rescue enslaved girls. In India judges are paid off and tyrants go free. In India a girls’ life and dignity is worth about one US dollar. In India there is a cycle of violence and corruption which gives enslaved girls little hope of freedom.

However…In India there are heroes who aren’t afraid of the powers that be…they believe in a greater power. In India there are people who defy corrupt judges and policemen in the name of truth and freedom. In India there are men and women who refused to put their capes away. Thank you Freedom Firm, for letting me learn from you.