About Susan Allen Panzica

I’m a Jewish Jersey girl and came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as my Messiah at 24 years old. God met me right where I was – on the dance floor in a bar! It’s been a joyous journey ever since, well with a few non-joyous moments, but who’s counting? I gladly interrupted a career in NYC with the U.S. Customs Service (I was a Jewish tax collector!) to marry my chiropractor husband, work in his office, and raise a family – one precious girl, one precocious boy.

Now we’re empty-nesters filling our freed time with writing and music. I’m the writer, and he’s a worship leader and classic rock guitarist with The Cross Revolution Band. The official bio says I’m a speaker, Bible study leader, Sunday school teacher, discipler, and writer of the devotional blog Eternity Café. But for me, it all boils down to bringing an eternal perspective to earthly matters.

• He has planted eternity in the human heart. Eccl. 3:11
• For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Cor. 4:17-18
• For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come. Heb.13:14

I’m also an advocate fighting human trafficking. The more I heard about human trafficking, the more I wanted to do something. With no plan in mind, but a heart to help, a friend and I decided to show a movie.

Two months later, we were a group of 22. Now, I’m the co-founder and Executive Director of Justice Network which exists to educate, equip, and empower friends and neighbors to become advocates providing education about the facts and ways to fight the issue and directing support to those organizations rescuing victims. I’m a speaker and former board member of the NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking, the Justice Track of NJ CityServe, and co-creator of the global #HTchallenge. More about my journey as an advocate can be found in the story Somebody’s Daughter, also published in Chicken Soup for The Soul.