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Compass31 Founders
Compass31 Founders

Meet Our Founders

KJ & JENNISUE JESSEN

As an American survivor of human trafficking, Jennisue Jessen knows the depths of trauma a body can endure. Still, she also knows the great lengths Jesus will go to redeem those held in captivity.
 
She was sold into the sex trade at age four, but God provided for her rescue and escape at age 17. In 2011, Jennisue and her husband KJ, founded Compass 31, an international NGO that fights human trafficking through prevention, restoration, and leadership development.
 
Now she puts the love of Christ into practice by empowering other survivors to be catalysts for change and training national leaders to prevent human trafficking through education. Jennisue is a Presidential Appointee who served a 2-year term on the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, where she, alongside a group of peers, helped to inform federal counter-trafficking policies.

 

52,596+

Lives Impacted

43+

Prevention Programs

5+

Restoration Projects

80+

Organizations Trained

52,596+

Lives Impacted

43+

Prevention Programs

5+

Restoration Projects

80+

Organizations Trained

It’s All In The Name

Why Compass 31?

Compass 31 was God’s idea, and setting captives free is His work. Jeremiah proclaims that He is the Father to the fatherless and the Redeemer of the captive.

“Watch now… as I gather My people from the ends of the earth…On that day, I will lead them beside quiet streams of water and take them upon a straight path where they will not stumble. Why? Because I am their father” – Jeremiah 31:8-9 

God holds the compass. He has the map to redemption. Our name celebrates the promises He proclaimed in Jeremiah 31. We are honored to have a front-row seat to seeing freedom unfold again and again.

 

 

The Nicene Creed

Statement of Faith

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried.

On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy universal and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

Amen.