Joy Kirkland

Joy Kirkland is passionate about facilitating Gospel-centered responses to the sex and labor exploitation of immigrants and refugees in Europe and the role that local intercultural churches have in bringing justice and mercy to diverse European cities. Joy and her family have been living in Athens, Greece since 2012, where she serves as a trauma counselor and crisis interventionist with women affected by prostitution and human trafficking, unaccompanied refugee minor boys, and refugee women and girls. She is actively engaged in micro-business associated with the advance of justice for women via Threads of Hope.