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How can one girl change the world? It all began with a heart for justice and a little black dress. In 2012, sixteen-year-old Bethany Winz decided to make a difference. To raise awareness, she determined to

- wear the same black dress every day for a year to bring attention to the lack of choices slaves have
- come up with new ways to accessorize the dress each day
- use her blog and pictures of her outfits to raise money for agencies helping those who were being trafficked

Her yearlong journey was one of hope, discipline, and sometimes disappointment. She celebrated some successes yet despaired at the depth of the problem. As she found her identity tied to the things she did, Bethany discovered that while she stood for freedom for others, she also struggled to find her own freedom in believing that she was loved just as she was. This moving book shows readers that their voices matter, they can make a difference, and sometimes the smallest gestures have lasting impact.
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One girl. One dress. One year. For freedom.

When sixteen-year-old Bethany Winz learned about the millions of men, women, and children around the world trapped in slavery, her stomach churned. How can anyone do that to another human being? she wondered. And why aren't we doing something?

This is the story of Bethany's "something."

Journey with her as she wears the same black dress every day for a year to focus attention on the lack of choices people in modern-day slavery face and raise money to help end human trafficking. As Bethany works to bring freedom to people worldwide, she'll discover how much she too needs freedom. You'll be inspired not only to change the world in your own way but also to experience the life-changing freedom of God's irrepressible love.

"Bethany is part of a brave new generation of leaders following Jesus as they engage with some of the world's most difficult issues--and most vulnerable people. I encourage you to listen to her creative and courageous voice inviting others on a journey to freedom!"--Jennifer Roemhildt Tunehag, cofounder and core team member, European Freedom Network Global Human Trafficking Task Force, World Evangelical Alliance
"Raw, witty, and unafraid, One Dress. One Year. is a primer on moving from passion to action that is courageously honest about the inevitable stops at disillusioned and disheartened along the way. This book is a must-read for any young person passionate about justice but unsure where to begin--or if their efforts will even matter."--Jim Martin, vice president of spiritual formation, International Justice Mission; author of The Just Church

Bethany Winz is studying social justice at Trevecca Nazarene University where she's learning to love Nashville and urban farming. She already loves Jesus, hot tea, good books, and bacon. She processes the world by writing and blogs about the adventure of growing up and what she's learning about justice at www.bethanywinz.com.

Susanna Foth Aughtmon is the author of All I Need Is Jesus and a Good Pair of Jeans, My Bangs Look Good and Other Lies I Tell Myself, and I Blame Eve. She coauthored A Trip around the Sun with Richard Foth and New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson. A pastor's wife and mother of three, Susanna blogs about life's adventures at www.tiredsupergirl.com.

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Bethany Winz is studying social justice at Trevecca Nazarene University where she's learning to love Nashville and urban farming. She already loves Jesus, hot tea, good books, and bacon. She processes the world by writing and blogs about the adventure of growing up and what she's learning about justice at www.bethanywinz.com. She grew up in Orlando, Florida, with her parents and her brother.

Susanna Foth Aughtmon is the author of All I Need Is Jesus and a Good Pair of Jeans, My Bangs Look Good and Other Lies I Tell Myself, and I Blame Eve. She coauthored A Trip around the Sun with New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson and Richard Foth. A pastor's wife and mother of three, Susanna assists her husband, Scott, in various ministries at the church they planted in Redwood City, California, and blogs about life's adventures at www.tiredsupergirl.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baker Books (March 1, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801018366
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801018367
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.37 x 8.5 inches
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    Susanna is a storyteller and loves making people laugh. Laughing is her favorite. She graduated from Bethany University with a BA in Social Science emphasizing psychology and early childhood education. She and her hilarious husband, Scott, (he paid her to say that) have three giant teenage boys. They are the joy of her life (when they are not trying to scare or tickle her.) After the birth of their first son, Susanna decided to stay home as a full-time mom and follow her passion of writing. She loves connecting with her readers and hearing the stories of how Jesus has turned their lives inside out for the better. For fun, she likes to eat chocolate, read lots of fiction and drink coffee with her girlfriends.

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    Bethany grew up in Orlando, Florida, but now calls Middle Tennessee home. She's studying social and environmental justice at Trevecca Nazarene University where she's learning about the relationships between injustice around the world and the way we relate to our planet and one another. When she's not in school, you can find her cooking, drinking tea, hanging out with people she loves, and reading books (or trolling the internet, depending on what kind of day it's been). She processes the world by writing and blogs about the adventure of growing up, life with chronic illness, and what she's learning about justice at www.bethanywinz.com.

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Janet Cruz
5.0 out of 5 stars Encouraging book for anyone setting a goals, sometimes they don't turn out how you hope, but God still uses it for good!
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2016
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One Dress. One Year is a book you won't want to put down. As you read it you feel her excitement to make a difference in this world, you grieve with her over the unkindness some people put off on one another. Sometimes we set these huge goals and we want so much for them to turn out exactly how we planned and when we don't we can get so discouraged. I loved reading how Bethany kept plugging away and relying on God to help her through the year.
Even though I personally know the author and some of the journey she went through, I found myself in awe that this was written by someone so young. This is a testament that God can use us in our youth in mighty ways. Bethany has a heart for the millions that are overlooked each day, I have no doubt that God will use her in mighty ways for His Kingdom.
This book will be a required read for all of my children as they enter High School. Thank you Bethany for baring your soul and encouraging us to think of others more than ourselves.
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Bekah
4.0 out of 5 stars Still Opening Eyes to the Truth of Slavery, Even After Her Experiment Ended
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2016
I like to switch up the kinds of books I read to get a well-rounded reading experience. This week was no different. I read One Dress. One Year. by Bethany Winz with Susanna Foth Aughtmon.

Bethany was sixteen years old when she decided to do something tangible and entirely out of her comfort zone in order to help raise awareness about modern day slavery. She'd learned in junior high that slavery wasn't something that happened only way back in the olden days, but it was {sadly} alive and well at this very moment. Sickened by the idea of humans treating other humans in such a degrading way, she wanted to do something.

So she made a black dress and wore it every single day for one year. Talk about the ultimate capsule wardrobe! During that year, Bethany blogged about her adventure, shared {sad but true} facts about modern day slavery, and challenged readers to give money to reputable organizations working to end trafficking.

The book is a quick read {just 146 pages} and part of each chapter shares excerpts from her original blog posts, including some of the slavery facts she shared and how she wore the dress that day. {Using accessories, she actually wore it differently every day.} The rest of the book shares her thoughts, her ups and downs, her fears and triumphs during that year of explaining her experiment and raising awareness.

Though not marketed as a young adult book, I would say that the writing style {which holds true to the teen voice that Bethany was when she completed this experiment} would make a teen audience the logical draw to read this book. Having said that, I recognized my teen self in Bethany and was able to relate to her as I read, even though I'm not that age {kind of by a long shot} anymore. And I did learn things about modern day slavery that I did not know.

One thing I really appreciated about this book was that her experiment was not the wild success she hoped for when she set out. {Hang on! Stick with me.} Her goal at the start of her year was to raise $100,000 for her cause, and when all was said and done, she raised less than $10,000 in a year. She wrote regularly about her frustration that all her efforts {through social media, blogging, making connections, speaking to groups, etc.} didn't make the wild impact she hoped it would. She wanted people to care and jump on board and they didn't with the intensity that she desired.

And yet...her work still mattered. I think that truth spoke the most loudly to me as I read. We are conditioned to believe we have to do something crazy huge to matter, but being obedient to the call of the Lord is what matters. Bethany did that. She kept her commitment to wear the same dress every day for a year and came out on the other side a different girl in her own heart. And while she didn't raise what she wanted to raise, she DID make an impact for organizations working against trafficking, and she did raise awareness. I'm glad she was able to share her story in book form especially because her campaign didn't achieve what she hoped it would. It seems that the only people who get book deals are those who have some massive story, and it was refreshing to hear from an ordinary person who tried something new and different.

Check out Bethany's website if you'd like to see more of the actual dress and the ways she wore it, and if you have a teen in your life who feels passionate toward social causes, this story might provide the needed encouragement to take a stand and trust God with the outcome, big or small.

* Baker Books provided a copy of this book to me in exchange for a review. *
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Jeanne Browne
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Bethany for your book educating us on how to fight human trafficking!
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2016
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Bethany is a great writer for being such a young age. There were parts that were slow but overall I liked the book and Bethany's heart is in exactly the right place. I respect and honor her courage for sacrificing for this incredibly worthy cause of stopping human trafficking. Keep the faith girl, you are making an impact!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't recommend
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2020
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I just couldn't get into it it's so sad and depressing. More like a depressed persons personal journal that got published. It wasn't what I was expecting. I'd probably watch YouTube videos on different ladies reasons why the do Dressember if I want to wear a dress for a cause.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2016
As much as I enjoyed "Julie and Julia," I sometimes get wary of "stunt blogging." The idea of trying to do some strange or unusual thing (and documenting it the whole way) in order to make a statement about something. Things get even more complicated when this is combined with social justice. It can be difficult to tell sometimes what the "awareness" is actually being raised towards (e. g., ice bucket challenge).

But I appreciate Bethany Winz's (pre-ice-bucket-challenge) take on this, because she at least had the maturity to admit that the conflict is there. When she was 16, she decided to wear the same dress every day for a year, in order to raise awareness (and funds) for victims of human trafficking. The idea being that victims do not have choices, and this project would, in some small way, show her and others what it's like to let go of one of the choices we get every day.

This is a quick read, and most of the book involves the things she did during this challenge--speaking about it to different groups, finding accessories to vary her look, enduring health problems, growth pains, and insecurities. In some ways it is a refreshingly honest look at doing a "challenge" like this. This book would probably appeal very well to teenage homeschoolers like her, especially those who also liked the book "Do Hard Things."

One of my favorite quotes came as she summed up her project at the end:

"I now realize that taking a stand for justice doesn't have to involve a big, dramatic, gesture intended to change the entire world. Maybe it's something much smaller--righting wrongs one relationship at a time. I've found that discovering who I am has much less to do with impressing people and much more to do with living a life of faithfulness wherever God has placed me."

I think this is a very valuable lesson to take away from this, especially in our image-obsessed society, and I appreciate her willingness to be honest.

I also appreciated the tidbits and facts shared about human trafficking and the different organizations that are doing something about it.

Disclosure: I received this book free from Baker Books through the Baker Books Bloggers [...] program. The opinions I have expressed are my own, and I was not required to write a positive review. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 [...]....
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