Monday, March 1, 2010

Day 13 - Please Ask Your Church to Adopt A Day & Join Life Chain

Day 13 – Please Ask Your Church to Adopt A Day & Join Life Chain

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Local Campaign News

Please Ask Your Church to Adopt A Day & Join Life Chain

Thus far, our campaign success in maintaining a nearly constant vigil at the sidewalk has been possible because people like you have stepped up and requested that their pastors support Adopt a Day through their church.   The vast majority of the churches that have stepped up to this challenge have been Catholic, but this campaign is by no means a Catholic endeavor.   The national director of 40 Days for Life is not Catholic, and many of the campaigns around the country are led by non-Catholic Christians. Many of our local regular prayer volunteers are themselves not Catholic and we would like to see our campaign better reflect the entire body of Christ as we Pray to End Abortion.   Won’t you please approach your pastor and request that your congregation join on the sidewalk to defend the most innocent and defenseless children be protected from abortion?

What we have found is that those who come to the sidewalk grow in the depth of their relationship to Christ.   Being there where the killings are done also creates a sense of just how serious this issue is and increases the intensity of the prayers that it will come to an end.   These are the spiritual benefits of participating in this campaign at the frontlines, not to mention the benefits that occur when a mother sees those who love her child enough to come out of their comfort zone to plead for the innocent life.   We can’t save every child that is brought to the abortion site, but on occasion, we see the fruit of our labors, through an innocent life saved.   Won’t you come to Pray to End Abortion?

We will also be holding a Life Chain on March 14.   This event started as a gift from God to a small ministry in Yuba City, CA in 1987 and in 2009 over 1700 locations held a Life Chain event.   This non-denominational Christian effort is for those who call Jesus Christ Lord, and are willing to declare abortion a grave evil that defames the name and holiness of God (Leviticus 18:21).   For more information on Life Chain, call Elizabeth Labat at: 504-296-8670

Video Cameras Recommended

It has been recommended, and I’d like to encourage you to consider this recommendation, that those coming to the sidewalk bring a video camera when you come to pray.   Place the camera in your car, or on a tripod on the sidewalk, to videotape you while you are standing in prayer.   It is prudent that we have a video record of all that occurs at the sidewalk, as we gather peacefully, prayerfully and lawfully.

To sign up on the vigil calendar go to: www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe or for the Carson City vigil site, go to: www.vigilcalendar.com/carsoncity.   If you’ve already registered, your username is your email address.   If you have forgotten your password, there is a simple mechanism by which your password can be sent to your email address.   If you still have difficulty getting registered, feel free to send your questions to: 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or call: 530-412-1573.

Join our Facebook group for 40 Days for Life Reno Tahoe, at: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=50059641315

Join the Carson City Facebook Fan page at:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/40-Days-For-Life-Carson-City/262781127002?v=wall&ref=search

National Campaign News

107 Babies Saved

World-wide, there are a reported 107 babies saved during the current campaign.   The incredible thing is that we know from local experience that there are saves that aren’t reported to the sidewalk, sometimes for years afterwards, and sometimes they are never reported to those who come to pray and council the women entering the abortion site.   Praise God!

Vigil Calendar

Reno Adopt A Day Calendar

Date Church Contact Phone
Tues – Mar 2 Our Lady of Snows Parish, Reno Donna Kelly (775) 827-1901
Wed. – Mar 3 St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral, Reno Charles Teachout (775) 846-9275
Thurs – Mar 4 Valley View Christian Fellowship Theresa Cobb (775) 853-8345
       

Bring Adopt-a-Day to your church by contacting us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or by calling Carol Marie at (530) 412-1573.

Volunteers Needed Mon 5-7pm, Tues 7-8am & Weds 7-8am, 1-3 pm & 6-7 pm

Thank you to the volunteer who has signed up to fill the Monday 7-8 am timeslot that was previously open. We are still looking for someone to come to the sidewalk from 5-7 pm. Could you give an hour or two after you have finished your workday on Mondays for the next 4 weeks, and help us complete the coverage on Mondays?

On both Monday and Tuesday, we are looking for a prayer volunteer to come to the sidewalk at 7 am.   Is this near your route to work? If so, could you spend an hour of prayer at the sidewalk to begin your day?

On Monday, we also have a gap in our prayer coverage from 5-7 pm. Thanks to the Our Lady of Snows Parish, our sidewalk will be covered in prayer from 8 am – 7 pm. Praise be to God for all our faithful prayer volunteers.

You are welcome to sign-up or simply show-up to pray at the sidewalk at any time of the day or night when you are available to join us.   Your prayers have value well beyond anything we can see and we welcome whatever contribution you can make to the effort as we Pray to End Abortion.

Please register the hours when you can come pray at the sidewalk by going to our on-line calendar at:  www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe

40 Days through Scripture

Day 13: Luke 20-24 (including: Luke 23:44-49)
It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun.   Then the veil of the temple was torn down the middle.   Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit”; and when he had said this he breathed his last.   The centurion who witnessed what had happened glorified God and said, “This man was innocent beyond doubt.”   When all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts; but all his acquaintances stood at a distance, including the women who had followed him from Galilee and saw these event.

Would you have traveled from Galilee to be there by the side of Christ on the cross?   Today, the most innocent are dying every weekday at 5915 Tyrone Rd. Are you willing to come and pray for these and their mothers, who know not what they do?   Please, be present.  

Without your prayers, the women who enter the abortion site will leave deadened to their potential as mothers.   They will be scarred physically, emotionally, and spiritually.   Is it possible that your prayers and the witness of your peaceful presence will be what is needed to prevent her a lifetime of regret?   Could your prayers be sufficient to spare the life of an innocent child?

And if the Centurion, responsible over 100 Roman soldiers, and who had most likely participated in many crucifixions, was able to see the innocence of Christ, is it not possible Dr. Stutes can also come to realize that the children he has been ripping from their mother’s wombs are also innocent.   Let us continue to keep him and his staff in our prayers, that they may come to know, love and serve Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Join us as we read the New Testament over the course of the 40 Day campaign.     

To get the complete 40 Days Through the New Testament list, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/renotahoe/NewTestament, print it out and get started now.

National News

Abortion Uber Allies

[Population Research Institute] by Steven W. Mosher - Ignoring the polls and the House of Representatives, President Obama is pushing ahead with a health care bill that will force Americans to pay for abortions.

He has proposed what he calls a “targeted set of changes” to the Senate-passed bill, which have the effect of making a bad bill for babies even worse. (An 11-page summary is available on the White House website here).

Bear in mind that the Senate bill (H.R. 3590) already promotes abortion in multiple ways, making it the most pro-abortion legislation since Roe v. Wade. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), a cautious critic at best, posted a study of the anti-life provisions of the Senate bill that ran no fewer than thirteen (13) pages.

Now comes Obama's version, ladling on $11 billion for “Community Health Centers.” Planned Parenthood will be the beneficiary of much of this money, as the President helps his friends at the abortion organization get even richer off our tax dollars.

Obama also wants to subsidize private health insurance that covers abortion, and to mandate that even non-subsidized plans to cover abortion, in effect forcing all of us to pay for someone else's abortion.

The House bill (H.R. 3962), on the other hand, has no place in Obama's plan, patently because it was stripped of its abortion language by the Stupak-Pitts Amendment.   To Continue Reading

Planned Parenthood’s Response to Undercover Sting Videos

[US News and World Report] Posted: February 25, 2010 - By Deborah Kotz – For nearly two years, Lila Rose has been a thorn in Planned Parenthood's side. The UCLA student has taken a hidden video camera to various clinics across the country and posed as a minor who is several weeks pregnant by a much older boyfriend. Her aim is to see if clinicians follow state laws regarding the reporting of statutory rape and getting parental consent for abortions. In nine cases, her videos suggest they weren't.

In fact, two weeks ago Alabama put a Birmingham Planned Parenthood clinic on probation after an inspection triggered by one of Rose's videos. State health inspectors found that the clinic failed to get the signature of minors on its forms verifying parental consent for abortions. Vanessa Cullins, Planned Parenthood's vice president for medical affairs, told me the national office is "concerned" and that this affiliate will soon be merged with a Georgia affiliate that "has more resources."

In one of the videos, taped in July 2008 at a clinic in Memphis, Rose poses as a pregnant 14-year-old who wants to have an abortion immediately. She's told that as a minor she has to bring a parent along but then convinces the receptionist to allow her to talk to a counselor. During the ninth minute in this unedited video, Rose says that she's 14 and her boyfriend (who's not with her) is 31 and then asks if he's going to get in trouble. "No," the counselor says. "You promise?" Rose asks. The worker then says the boyfriend could if she tells her manager but adds, "I'm not going to tell anybody. Please don't say that I told you this. ... Just say that you have a boyfriend 17 years old." Tennessee state law defines statutory rape as someone at least four years older than the victim having sex with someone older than 13 and younger than 18. The state requires a reporting of such cases to authorities.

The counselor did tell Rose that she'd need to see a judge if she wanted to have an abortion without her parent's consent. The counselor said that she should tell the judge that her boyfriend was also a minor to protect him from a statutory rape charge.

A similar scenario had occurred when Rose took her hidden video camera to an Indianapolis clinic a month earlier.

A Planned Parenthood spokesperson who didn't want to speak for attribution says that the counselor on the Memphis tape was no longer an employee by the time the tape was released. Nonetheless, the clinic immediately retrained all its staff, the spokesperson says. According to a December 2008 statement from Planned Parenthood of Indiana, the Indianapolis clinic dismissed two employees who were featured in Rose's video, and the president of the state organization said that "we've already made changes to tighten procedures and reinforce our reporting policies with all health center staff across the state."   To Continue Reading

For more Pro-Life related news, go to our website: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/News

Abortion 101

Contraception is Harmful to Women

Contraceptives have long been unhealthy for women, but now, even such pro-choice media outlets as the New York Times are reporting on the fact that even the newer birth control pills have serious health risks  (see: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/health/26contracept.html) and condoms, long promoted as a way of reducing the risk of contracting disease, have been found to  increase risky behavior, resulting in an increased risk of exposure (see: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09101901.html)  As recently as Monday, Oct 19, 2009, Cincinnati.com published a piece outlining how women are harmed by the failed contraception / abortion cycle, as well as the poor relationships that use of contraceptives encourages.

Coming Events

Life Chain Rally – Sunday March 14, 2 – 3:30 pm

Mark your calendar Spring Life Chain Rally held on Sunday, March 14, from 2-3:30 pm at South Virginia and South McCarran in Reno.   We will stand to give witness to the truth that Abortion Kills Children.   Signs are available at $1 apiece.   Churches are encouraged to make them available to their congregants for a $2 deposit, allowing those who would like to keep them, and others who would like to get their deposit back to return them. Please contact Elizabeth Labat at: elizabethlabat@gmail.com or you can call her on her cell phone at: (504) 296-8670. 

Allow us to Announce Your Pro-Life Prayer Gathering Here

Gather together to Pray to End Abortion! When you have plans, let us know and we’ll let others know through our updates.

Support the Effort!

Support 40 Days for Life with a Donation through our Website

Do you believe in the work we are doing as we Pray to End Abortion?   If so, please support the effort with a donation to cover our expenses. Donate Now

For more information on 40 Days for Life, Reno/Tahoe, visit our local website, at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe , look for us on Facebook, or Call: Carol Marie at 530-412-1573.

To receive your own copy of these updates, as well as information from the National Campaign, go to http://www.40DaysforLife/renotahoe and request to receive updates. 

If you prefer to only receive our local updates, send an email with “Please Add Me to 40 Days for Life” on the subject line to renotahoe@40DaysforLife.com

Campaign Materials

Free 40 Days for Life Items - Bumper Sticker, Bracelet & More.

Heritage House, is offering a Promotion Pack of 40 Days for Life items through their website for the amazing cost of $0, they are even picking up the postage.If you have wished to place a bumper sticker on your car, but I haven’t had one on hand when we’ve seen one another, our you haven’t yet got one of the rubberized bracelets, but you’d like one, now is your chance to get these and more items,for free.They aren’t even requiring that you enter your email address to receive this promotion, although, I encourage you to do so, and they will continue to keep you informed of the many great items they place on sale during the course of the year.And if you see something on sale and would like to purchase it for our 40 Days for Life campaign, I would gladly accept the help in making their many excellent pro-life items available!To receive your free promo pack, go to: http://www.40dayspromopack.com/40dayspromopack/signup.asp

Two Hearts Catholic Books & Gifts to Carry 40 Days for Life Items

Truly, pictures are worth a thousand words.To make it possible for us to communicate more effectively with those who witness our campaign, Millie has stocked Yard signs, Rally signs, New colored precious feet, Pro-life buttons, Static and Bumper sticker available @ The Two Hearts,33 Winter Street, Reno NV and St. Rose of Lima Church (weekend Masses).

More information

Please share this truth, among others relative to abortion with those who follow your Facebook posts! For more information on 40 Days for Life, Reno/Tahoe, visit our local website, at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe, look for us on FaceBook, or Call: Carol Marie at 530-412-1573 Please forward this message to anyone you know who might be willing to Pray to End Abortion.

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