Day 27 – 50 Stand Witness to Life in Reno on Sunday

Table of Contents

• Local Campaign News
  • 50 Stand Witness to Life in Reno on Sunday
  • Please Remember to Stay on the Sidewalk or Across the Street
  • Have You Encountered Disturbing the Peace or a Noise Nuisance?
  • Please Ask Your Church to Adopt A Day at the Sidewalk
  • Video Cameras Recommended
• National Campaign News
  • 298 Babies Saved
• Vigil Calendar
  • Reno Adopt A Day Calendar
  • Volunteers Needed Mon 7-8 am & 5-7 pm; Tues 7-8 am, & 5-7 pm; & Weds 7-8 am & 5:30 – 7 pm
• 40 Days through Scripture
  • Day 27 1 Corinthians 10 - 15
• National News
  • Exposing the Gendercide
• Take Action
  • Unions Attack Democrats Who Don't Support Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill
• Video Vignette
  • Development of the Unborn Baby
• Coming Events
  • Allow us to Announce Your Pro-Life Prayer Gathering Here
• Support the Effort!
  • Support 40 Days for Life with a Donation through our Website

Local Campaign News

50 Stand Witness to Life in Reno on Sunday

Today’s Life Chain event, at the corner of Sth Virginia and Sth McCarran saw over 50 people come out to bring the message that “Abortion Kills Children” to the streets of Reno.   For a peaceful 1 ½ hours these pro-life advocates stood silently while promoting the message of Life.   The event caught the attention of KOH News Talk Radio, as well as the Reno News and Review.   For the most part, those who drove by gave positive responses, but there was the occasional thumbs down or the single finger pointing to heaven.   The one that several noticed and had a hard time understanding was the young man driving by and shouting his disagreement with our message.   As he passed, a “Baby Onboard” sign was seen in the back window.   Several  people independently commented on the oxymoronic nature of these messages.

Are you prepared to promote a consistent message for Life?   When you come to the sidewalk at 5915 Tyrone Rd (for directions, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/westend ), please bring some of the referrals to local pregnancy resources that we provide to offer to the women who come to the abortion site.   If you haven’t seen this handout, please download a copy from our website.   There is a link to it located on the team page, or you can go to it directly at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/resources .   These resources provide the women with the opportunity to fully explore their choices before they end up at a dead end.

If you need any brochures to assist the women you meet at the sidewalk choose life or to promote the campaign, please contact Carol Marie at 530-412-1573 or come to the Life Chain event on Sunday to request your copies.

Before you go to the sidewalk to pray and/or sidewalk counsel, please sign our Statement of Peace, located at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/statementofpeace .    Those who participate in 40 Days for Life are asked to commit to being peaceful, prayerful and lawful while we are at the sidewalk.

Please Remember to Stay on the Sidewalk or Across the Street

Just a quick reminder that we don’t want to be in the street when we come to pray.   Please stay either on the sidewalk or on the dirt across the street when you come to pray.   We also are not allowed to block vehicles entering or exiting the driveway of the abortion site, nor can we block pedestrians on the sidewalk.   Thank you for your continued cooperation.   If you are asked to move by a police officer, please comply immediately and ask for his name and badge number.   We’d like to keep track of any encounters between those who are volunteering at the sidewalk and the Reno Police department, so please email us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or call us at 530-412-1573.  

Have You Encountered Disturbing the Peace or a Noise Nuisance?

Have you been to the sidewalk and been subjected to a noise nuisance while there?   Did you know that the City of Reno has a code that specifically addresses disturbing the peace and public nuisances?

Sec. 8.12.020. - Disturbing the peace.

It is unlawful for any person to commit a breach of the peace. Such breach shall consist of:

1. Fighting or challenging to fight; or
2. Conduct or words calculated to provoke violence or a violation of the law by the person to whom the conduct or words are addressed; or
3. Making annoying, lewd, malicious or threatening telephone calls; or
4. Willfully and unreasonably subjecting a person or neighborhood to any noise which is likely to disturb the peace of persons of reasonable and ordinary sensibilities.

(Code 1966, § 11.12.090; Ord. No. 5047, § 1, 9-28-99; Ord. No. 5387, § 1, 11-5-02)

And further on in the code regarding Nuisances:

Nuisance or nuisance activity. That which is injurious to health, or injurious, indecent and offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or is against the interest of public morals, decency, safety, peace and order, including, but not limited to, an attractive nuisance, a nuisance per se, criminal activity, the presence of debris, litter, graffiti, garbage, rubble, abandoned, unregistered or junk vehicles or junk appliances, curfew violations, or any other activity, behavior or conduct defined by the council or Nevada Revised Statutes to constitute a public nuisance. Nuisance or nuisance activity includes unreasonably creating, allowing, or engaging in any activity, conduct or use of property that subjects a person or neighborhood to noise which is likely to disturb the peace of persons of reasonable and ordinary sensibilities. [Reference NRS 268; NRS 268.412; 1997]

Sec. 8.22.035. - Nuisances per se defined.

Any of the following conditions are a nuisance per se as constituting conditions which annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health or comfort of any considerable number of persons:

(1)     An unsafe or dangerous building; …

(25)   Any other condition which creates a blight to adjoining property, the neighborhood or the city, or a nuisance, health, safety or fire hazard identified as such under the conditions set forth in the International Fire Code, International Building Code, Uniform Abatement of Dangerous Buildings Code, Washoe County Solid Waste Management Code, or any other Reno Municipal Code or Washoe County Code or the Nevada Revised Statutes.

While we need to be accountable for our own behavior and ensure that we ourselves do not in any way cross over from prayer and an exercise of our Free Speech to being a public nuisance, we should also be protected from those who seek to disturb our peace or use noise as a nuisance towards us.   The Reno Police Department Non-Emergency number is: 775-334-2677.   I recommend you program it into your cell phone.   If you do contact the police for an incident of Disturbing the Peace or a Noise Nuisance, please also contact us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or 530-412-1573 and let us know how your call was handled.   Please get the name of the officer with whom you spoke, as well as their badge number.   If a report was taken (this is what is required for them to follow-up on the matter) be certain to ask for the case number and provide that to us as well.

Please Ask Your Church to Adopt A Day at the Sidewalk

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 Jesus, Our Lord and Savior.   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 soon 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?

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

298 Babies Saved!

World-wide, there are a reported 298 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 for all those who are saved from abortion and the women who are spared the trauma!   Praise God also for those who have been brought to the healing of Our Lord Jesus Christ through the witness provided at the sidewalk.

If you’re not already getting the daily updates from the National 40 Days for Life campaign, go to our website: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe and sign up to receive updates at the top right corner of the page.

Vigil Calendar

Reno Adopt A Day Calendar

Date	Church	Contact	Phone
Sun – Mar 21	Bishop Manogue High School	Matt Schambari	(775) 336-6000

Bring Adopt-a-Day to your church by contacting us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or by calling Carol Marie at (530) 412-1573.   We will schedule your church for a day at the sidewalk.

Volunteers Needed Mon 7-8 am & 5-7 pm; Tues 7-8 am, & 5-7 pm; & Weds 7-8 am & 5:30 – 7 pm

Which hour during the week can you cover with prayer?   We especially need you to stop by the sidewalk before going to work.   This would give you the opportunity to be present when the doctor and his staff arrive for their day of work.   We would like them to see that we are praying for them as their day begins.

Perhaps you can take an early lunch and come to the sidewalk at 11 am, staying to pray for an hour.   Or would you be able to swing by at the end of the work day to pray from 5-7 pm?   We like to continue our prayers at the sidewalk even after the doctor and his staff have left for the day.   If the weather turns, praying from your car still provides the spiritual benefit to the site, but seeing a prayer volunteer standing in inclement weather has turned more than one person from abortion or from participating in the industry, as they see the strength of our commitment.   Help us maintain a constant vigil for 12 hours of the day, from 7 am until 7 pm daily.   Please register using our online calendar, so we can be certain that the sidewalk is covered in constant prayer.

The business of selling death is typically busiest in Reno on Weds through Friday.   Won’t you please commit to pray at the sidewalk for an hour on these days to assist us in filling the schedule?  

On the weekends, while we aren’t encountering women on their way into the abortion site, we do have the opportunity to have an impact on those who are driving by on Airway or those who walk past.   Please come to the sidewalk and assist us in covering the sidewalk with prayer, 7 days per week for 40 Days, 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.   The names of those who sign up on the calendar are hidden from all but a small and select group of volunteers who can assist others in registering their hours on the calendar, so you needn’t fear that you might be harassed by anyone opposed to our prayers, nor do you need to fear that posting your hours is a form of boasting that you are being pious in your prayers.   Signing up simply allows us to coordinate our efforts so we can determine where we have holes in our volunteers efforts, allowing us to best use our time while ensuring we maintain a constant prayer covering at the sidewalk.

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.   If you haven’t already done so, please sign a Statement of Peace, by going to www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/StatementofPeace.

40 Days through Scripture

Day 27 1 Corinthians 10 - 15 (including: 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11)

Now in regard to spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be unaware.   You know how, when you were pagans, you were constantly attracted and led away to mute idols.   Therefore I tell you that nobody speaking by the spirit of God says, “Jesus be accursed.”  And no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the holy Spirit.

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.   To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.   To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit; to another mighty deeds; to another prophesy; to another discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues.   But one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing them individually to each person as he wishes.

What gifts of the Holy Spirit belong to you?   How are you using them to give Glory and Honor to God?   In what are they meant to be used to support Life from the moment of conception through natural death?   Take the time, use your gifts wisely. 

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

Exposing the Gendercide

[Survivors ] – A couple of weeks ago, during a conversation with Cheryl Conrad, Director of Operations for Survivors, she mentioned a "Walk" concerning infanticide in India due to sex-selection abortions.  She told me that they were having an event in San Francisco as well as events all over India and that we should attend.

I prayed about it, got the okay, and excitedly agreed.  I emailed the event organizer, a woman named Nyna Pais Caputi, and shared our interest in attending and also how my personal testimony had a great deal to do with her event.  Upon learning my story, she asked me to speak at the event.  Honored, I gladly accepted her invitation.

I must admit I had some apprehension at first.  I had never been around my own people before, my own heritage.  You see, I am East Indian myself, but I had a much closer connection to this event than my ethnicity alone.

As I looked through the website for the event, www.petalsinthedust.com , trying to get a grasp of the organization's vision, I viewed a trailer for a documentary Nyna and her husband Gino are currently filming called "Petals in the Dust."  It was here that the shocking statistics listed at the beginning flashed before my eyes, as well as many heart-wrenching stories. That's when I realized how identical these stories were to my own.

My birthmother was from Punjab, India.  She was married to a successful professor in Punjab, and had two beautiful daughters, but in a matter of a couple months her entire world changed.  In 1991 her husband died suddenly of a heart attack.  Already devastated by this shocking event, she found that she had something more to worry about:  She was pregnant, and on top of it all, it was a girl.

For centuries the female gender has been looked upon as a burden to society in many regions of India.  Families who have only female children and no males are considered social outcasts -- "cursed by the gods" by many organized religions.  Over the years this problem has grown so prevalent in India's culture that female infanticide and feticide has become a silent part of their lifestyle.   To Continue Reading

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

Take Action

Unions Attack Democrats Who Don't Support Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill

[LifeNews.com, Washington, DC] - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents nearly two million workers in over 100 occupations across the United States, is coming under fire.   The labor union is pressuring Democratic lawmakers who oppose the pro-abortion health care bill.

In some cases, the union is threatening pro-life Democrats and others who are undecided on the legislation with supporting primary election opponents if they don't vote yes on the bill or motions to make the bill law.

The House is expected to vote as soon as this week on the Senate bill that includes abortion funding and promotion.

According to the Plum Line blog, Rep Mike McMahon of New York met recently with Mike Fishman, president of SEIU 32bj, the largest property workers union in the country.

Fishman threatened McMahon with dropping its support for him if he voted no and finding a primary opponent to run against him.

He let us know he’s not supportive of the health care plan, Fishman said, according to Plum Line. We've let him know that we can't support somebody who doesn't support it. We are going to begin talking to other unions about finding someone else for that seat." "We're sending a message to Democrats: If you can't support this, we can't support you," he added.

ACTION: Contact SEIOU to complain at http://www.seiu.org/a/contact.php

Full Story at LifeNews.com

Video Vignettes

Development of the Unborn Baby

This video shows a vignette of photos of the development of a healthy child before and after birth.   

Coming Events

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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