Friday, October 9, 2009

Day 3 - Abortion Worker Quits!

Abortion Worker Quits!

National Campaign DailyIntention

We pray for God’s giftof strength as we strive to protect human life during 40 Days for Life.

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NationalCampaign Daily Intention

We pray for God’s gift of strength as we strive to protect humanlife during 40 Days for Life

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what youwill eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life moreimportant than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at thebirds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet yourheavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
—Matthew6:2526 —

Billionsof dollars are spent each year on diet plans. But Jesus tells us to stopworrying so much about our bodies, and instead to trust in God’s care for ourphysical needs.   
Whatwould happen if the people who had started on a low‐carb diet this year hadinstead gone on a diet of heavenly food?   For non‐believers thatdiet would include trusting in Christ for their salvation, and for believers itwould include a renewed prayer life, a new Bible study, or even a spiritualfast.

Thisdiet doesn’t include giving up on certain kinds of foods.   What thisdiet includes is giving up on anxiety by resting in the loving arms of Christ,trusting that He will provide.   Such a spiritual diet also frees usfrom our worries, and allows us to freely praise Him and serve others.  Christ’s words bear repeating:

ThereforeI tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or aboutyour body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and thebody more important than clothes?   Look at the birds of the air;they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Fatherfeeds them.   Are you not much more valuable than they?

Thispromised provision teaches us the inestimable worth of our lives.  He will not allow us to go without.   This intimateknowledge and care for human life on the part of our gracious God is whatmotivates us to seek for the preservation of human life in all its stages.

DennisDiMauro
Lutherans for Life

NationalCampaign News

AbortionWorker Quits!

In my messageto you on Tuesday, I said, "When it comes to 40 Days for Life, expect theunexpected!"

And yes, eventhough I said that, the e-mail message I received from Tim Palmquist with the40 Days for Life team in Bakersfield, California was REALLY unexpected.
Tim wrote,"An employee of the Bakersfield Family Planning Association abortioncenter has just quit!"

The womanwalked out of the building and spoke to Rosa, who was taking part in the prayervigil, and told her, "I'm done with this place!" The woman also saidshe had turned in her uniform. Rosa quickly offered a hug, which the formeremployee accepted.

All this time,another vigil participant was watching. It was the first time she had ever goneto pray at an abortion center. Rosa turned to her and said, "Do you seethe power of prayer?" After seeing this amazing turn of events, the newvolunteer said she wants to spend much more time at the vigil during these 40days.
This happenedWednesday -- yes, the FIRST DAY of this 40 Days for Life campaign!

WOW!

Jim in GreenBay, Wisconsin writes, "Michael and I just walked the first shift of thisyear's vigil." He and Michael really didn't know each other well at first."But now we do. 40 Days for Life has a way of bringing folkstogether."
Jim describesthe late night/early morning scene as warm, slightly muggy, but beautifullyquiet. "We counted three horn honks with thumbs-up signals," henoted. "We also spoke to a young couple who were walking across thehospital parking lot. The young woman saw our signs and shouted encouragementsaying, 'We're not aborting! We're having a baby!' Michael and I shouted backour approval and encouragement.
Michaelobserved how we never, ever know how our presence impacts people. This vigil,like the prayer that it is, reaches far beyond those whom we can see and feeland touch -- which is just how the hand of God operates.

Local Campaign News

Procession& Kick-off Rally Rousing Success

Inaddition to the untoppable success of a life saved, our campaign started on theright note with a well attended Procession and Kick-off Rally.  There were 50 participants of these evening events, and the reaction ofpassersby was, for the most part, strongly in support of our message thatAbortion Kills Children, as we asked that on-lookers Pray to EndAbortion.  
Andif the presence of a great group of new volunteers weren’t enough, we were alsoblessed with the presence of signs that are new to the sidewalk.  Each day, he drove by and saw the faithful witness of Richard and Tony, as theystood with their signs, imploring those who pass by to pay attention to thetruth that Abortion Kills Children, and praying that each mother headed to theabortion site might change her mind and spare her child.   But henoticed that their signs seemed difficult to read for the those who weredriving by for the first time.   The more he saw them, the more hefelt that he needed to do something to help, but he didn’t know what he coulddo to make a difference.   Finally, he took it to prayer, and afterpraying he felt called to donate large format signs that he could leave withthese constant prayer warriors, who are at the sidewalk 5 mornings each week.  Come see them yourself, these 8 foot long, 2 feet high signs, that read“Abortion Stops A Beating Heart.”

VigilSupport Needed This Weekend

Withthe campaign off to such a start, now is not the time to let up on ourPrayers.   Please come to the sidewalk this weekend and join as wePray to End Abortion.   And please, sign-up in advance on the vigilcalendar on-line, so we can know what hours are already covered.   Toregister for the hours when you’ll be at the sidewalk, go to: http://www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe   Ithank you in advance for your support.

ComingEvents

First Saturday Rosary, Oct 3rd,9:00 am
Calling all Pro-Life Catholics (andothers who are interested) to pray the Rosary at the abortion site on Saturday,May 2nd at 9:00 am.   Join us as we pray the Gospel.
This monthly rosary continues yearround, as the faithful gather to Pray to End Abortion.  We will continueour prayerful faithful witness until this clinic is closed for good!
Respect Life Mass – Oct 4th,9:30 am
Join Bishop Calvo as he celebrates theannual Respect Life Mass and leads a Rosary Procession on Sunday, October 4,2009, at 9:30 a.m., St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral, 310 West Second Street,Reno.  A Rosary Procession along the river in downtown Reno will followthe Mass.
Life Chain Sunday – Oct 4th,2 – 3:30 pm
On Sunday, Oct 4, from 2 – 3:30 pm wewill join hundreds of Life Chains across the nation, as we hold signs at thecorner of S. Virginia and McCarran, proclaiming the truth that Abortion KillsChildren.   We make this statement with a prayerful attitude, askingall who participate to remember that we come to share the Truth of Christ inLove.   Join us as we call all to appreciate the precious nature ofthe innocent unborn.
Allow us to Announce Your PrayerGathering Here
Gather together to Pray to EndAbortion!   When you have plans, let us know and we’ll let othersknow through our updates.

40Days through Scripture

Day3: Matthew 13 – 18
Including:  Matt 18:6-9   Whoever causes one of these littleones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a greatmillstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of thesea.   Woe to the world because of things that cause sin!  Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!  If you hand or foot causes you to sin, cut if off and throw itaway.   It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippledthan with two hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal fire.   Andif your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.   It isbetter for you to enter into life with one eye than with two eyes to be throwninto fiery Gehenna.

Whenwe allow laws like legalized abortion to stand, are we not guilty of leadingthese girls to the sin that damns them?   Are we not obliged to findthem and bring them to repentance through Jesus, Our Lord?   Do wenot need to tear from the fabric of our land and the Laws that guide it, anytraces of abortion as a legal option, so that the entire land not rot under theevil it perpetuates?   We must exorcise abortion laws from our landnow.

Toget the complete 40 Days Through the New Testament list, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/renotahoe/NewTestament, print it outand get started now.   It’s never too late to start reading thebible.

International News

More on Dominican Republic Passage ofComplete Abortion Ban

[LifeSiteNews,September 24, 2009, (C-FAM) BySamantha Singson] Last week, lawmakers in the Dominican Republic gave theirfinal approval to a pro-life constitutional change despite fierce criticism andpressure from UN agencies and abortion advocates to defeat the measure. The Dominican Republic’s National Assembly easily ratified a revision ofArticle 30 in a vote of 128 in favor with 32 opposed. The article now statesthat "the right to life is inviolable from conception until death."

Whilethe measure was widely supported by Dominican parliamentarians, it met withstaunch opposition from international abortion proponents and even UN agencies,which are officially neutral on abortion. Last April, when the right-to-lifeprovision was first debated, two UN officials interjected themselves into thedebate. Nils Kastberg, UNICEF's regional director for Latin America and theCaribbean, called on Dominican legislators to consider liberalizing abortion sowomen would not be forced into "unsafe procedures." Kastberg alsosuggested that lawmakers would be "hypocrites" unconcerned with thenation's higher-than-average teen birth rate.
UnitedNations Program for Human Development coordinator Miguel Ceara Hattoncriticized the article stating the constitutional revision encourages theincidence of clandestine abortions and maternal deaths and disregards a woman’sright to life.  Hatton also took aim at the Catholic Church stating thatit had "influence in everything" and that, "for following adogma [the Church] has become a source and a motor for social exclusion in theDominican Republic. The dogma is placed ahead of the needs of the population,health, housing and better living conditions. "
Contraryto the positions these UN officials took, the United Nations website maintainsthat "the legal status of abortion is the sovereign right of eachnation" and that the organization "does not provide support forabortion or abortion related activities anywhere in the world."

Full story at LifeNews.com   See LifeSiteNews September 18 initial coverage of this development

NationalNews

Boy EntersGuilty Plea to Attempt to Kill Fetus

[ALL Pro-Life Today, Sept 24] A Williamsburg-area teen who triedto abort his girlfriend's pregnancy last year by giving her a bottle ofGatorade laced with a drug meant for cows entered guilty pleas Tuesday injuvenile court to charges of attempted third-degree murder and aggravatedassault.   The original story can be found at: http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/522832.html?nav=742   Additional Daily NewsSummaries clipped by American Life League can be found at: http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12210


VideoVignette

"Christian" Liberals on Abortion.

Watch andsee how this young woman really understands the basics of Pro-Life and cancommunicate it clearly.   If a kid can get it, what excuse do theliberal “Christian” voters have?
GetInvolved!

Senate FinanceCommittee Begins Markup of Health Care Bill

[NCHLA, National Committee for a Human Life Amendment] OnSeptember 22, the Senate Finance Committee began markup of America’s HealthyFuture Act, the health care reform bill put forward by committee chairman Sen.Max Baucus (D-MT) as the chairman’s Mark. Committee members have filed wellover 500 amendments. Both the latest version of the chairman’s Mark and theamendments can be found at: finance.senate.gov/sitepages/legislation.htm.To correct flaws in the chairman’s Mark, Sens.Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Michael Enzi (R-WY) have offered several amendments onthe protection of life and conscience.

Action Alert

For an Action Alert that focuses on three of the Hatch/EnziAmendments see: nchla.org/actiondisplay.asp?ID=278. The Alert is directed to Senators who serve on theFinance Committee. A list of committee members can be found at: nchla.org/datasource/idocuments/111SenFinCmte.pdf.

Among the Senators on the committee is Nevada’s JohnEnsign.   Please contact him and encourage him stand firm against theHealth Care Reform unless it protects the lives of the unborn and thevulnerable.
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