My friend, Jeremy Stanbary, has a production company called Epiphany Studios. He is a talented actor and has created a drama called "The Vitae (Life) Monologues" from interviews he has done with men and women who have been affected emotionally, spiritually, and physically by abortion. While Jeremy is Catholic in background, this drama does not promote Catholicism. It exposes the aftermath of abortion and points people to Christ.
Jeremy interviewed me and others and has woven our stories together into a powerful piece that I would recommend you view. This is not a political or religious drama; it explores the rationalizations and justifications we had/have for choosing abortion; it exposes the lie that choosing abortion "helps" men and women; it blows the lid off the cover-up that after abortion, things will be "normal" again.
Through the use of the real stories of those of us who have been left drowning in abortion's wake, the truth about the reality of "choice" is laid bare. After this truth is exposed, the truth about the forgiveness of God for sinners and the redemptive power of Jesus Christ to heal and restore those who are suffering becomes the ultimate focus of the piece.
The drama is available to be used in many settings. It is 80 minutes long, with a shorter version available for schools. This production is not for the faint of heart. While not graphic in imagery, the stories told are powerful and gripping, yet not "sensationalized". Jeremy has handled the material with care and sensitivity. I encourage you to check out the promo. Maybe you could use this as a pro-life outreach in your community to expose abortion for what it is: a lie from the pit of Hell, used to attack the image-bearers of God.
Thanks, Jeremy, for investing in this project!
View the promo:
www.youtube.com/EpiphanyStudio
If you're interested in having one of Epiphany's professional, inspirational, and educational plays performed at your church, school, college, conference, youth event, or fundraising event, please click here to visit their website and view/download booking information.
Epiphany Studio Productions
2527 University Ave. NE #2
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55418
Tel. (651) 336-3302
www.EpiphanyStudio.com
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Post-Abortion Recovery Classes Starting Third Week of June
Call 612-746-5663 and talk to Therese or go to www.conquerorspostabortion.org.
Link to prayer calendars for PCC's around the country!
Please pray for the welfare of PCC staff and volunteers. Pray for the spiritual support of local churches, for unity of purpose and partnership in ministry. The May and June calendars are posted on the web – follow this link: http://www.bfl.org/AboutUs/PrayerCalendar.aspx
A Day in the Life of a Pregnancy Care Center
from Sue Ellen Doenier:
A day in the life of a Pregnancy Care Center can be an emotional and spiritual roller-coaster. Each day carries potential for great joy and great loss. Every encounter with a new client brings a unique challenge. There are clients who come once and are never seen again and others who return often for multiple pregnancies; some who listen, accept help, and make life-affirming changes and others who use the system to get what they want. Clients come for pregnancy tests, post-abortion counseling, material help, parenting classes, encouragement, and answers.
It’s hoped that each client will be met with compassion, truthful information, and an opportunity to hear about forgiveness and a new life in Jesus Christ. When this truth hits home, there is cause for celebration and deep satisfaction in being part of God’s ministry.
But often words meant to instill comfort, hope, and insight are met with defiance or apathy. Many clients act according to their own “wisdom” – which can easily lead a volunteer counselor down a path of disappointment and discouragement. When abortions are carried out, the volunteer counselor may be the first or only one grieving loss of life, and volunteers can become prey to false guilt, asking themselves, “What if…”
Even with its challenges, volunteering at the Center is a good way to gain perspective. It offers a different outlook on life and another reason to be thankful. It presents an opportunity to forge a relationship with someone for whom Christ died. It hones listening skills and strengthens a believer’s ability to share the gospel. In the course of a day, a volunteer is involved in situations where his or her strengths and flaws surface. How will he or she handle the temptation to judge someone who has made ungodly choices? It’s a good way to get to know yourself.
So who are PCC workers? Are they extraordinary people? Spiritual giants? No, they are just sinners, saved by grace, wanting to share the love of Christ, realizing they have been saved to serve, believing that they “can do all things through Christ.” They are people who have their own set of circumstances to deal with, but believe that God is at work through it all to build His kingdom.
A day in the life of a Pregnancy Care Center can be an emotional and spiritual roller-coaster. Each day carries potential for great joy and great loss. Every encounter with a new client brings a unique challenge. There are clients who come once and are never seen again and others who return often for multiple pregnancies; some who listen, accept help, and make life-affirming changes and others who use the system to get what they want. Clients come for pregnancy tests, post-abortion counseling, material help, parenting classes, encouragement, and answers.
It’s hoped that each client will be met with compassion, truthful information, and an opportunity to hear about forgiveness and a new life in Jesus Christ. When this truth hits home, there is cause for celebration and deep satisfaction in being part of God’s ministry.
But often words meant to instill comfort, hope, and insight are met with defiance or apathy. Many clients act according to their own “wisdom” – which can easily lead a volunteer counselor down a path of disappointment and discouragement. When abortions are carried out, the volunteer counselor may be the first or only one grieving loss of life, and volunteers can become prey to false guilt, asking themselves, “What if…”
Even with its challenges, volunteering at the Center is a good way to gain perspective. It offers a different outlook on life and another reason to be thankful. It presents an opportunity to forge a relationship with someone for whom Christ died. It hones listening skills and strengthens a believer’s ability to share the gospel. In the course of a day, a volunteer is involved in situations where his or her strengths and flaws surface. How will he or she handle the temptation to judge someone who has made ungodly choices? It’s a good way to get to know yourself.
So who are PCC workers? Are they extraordinary people? Spiritual giants? No, they are just sinners, saved by grace, wanting to share the love of Christ, realizing they have been saved to serve, believing that they “can do all things through Christ.” They are people who have their own set of circumstances to deal with, but believe that God is at work through it all to build His kingdom.
Remembering Jelani Brinson
On April 17 Jelani Brinson went missing; on April 25 his body was discovered in a pond at a golf course. As of yet, the cause of death is not known. Jelani was a client of Metro Women's Center, but he was also a friend of my son, Lewis. They graduated from Fourth Baptist Christian School together and played soccer together. Jelani and his girlfriend, Dena, have a 9 month old daughter, Zion, and were working on their relationship and raising their daughter together, yet living apart.
Arrangements: A wake will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at St. Peter Claver Church, 375 Oxford St. N., in St. Paul, followed by a funeral at noon Friday.
I have been thinking a lot about Jelani this week, as I am sure many people have. I was thinking about his quick smile and his inquisitive mind as he tried to "dig" deep to figure out this whole "God" thing. He was not content with a simple answer to a question about spiritual things. He made me think about "why" I believe what I believe.
I remember he and Dena coming to my office one day after Zion's birth. Both Dena and Jelani had big smiles of pride as they watched their daughter. They did let me hold Zion, but it was not long before Jelani said, "Ok, give her back." In this ministry it is refreshing to find young men who delight in their children. So many of my clients go through their pregnancies without any support from the father of the child. While the relationship was not perfect, both Dena and Jelani were trying to figure out what the next part of their lives would look like as they raised Zion.
I have been struggling to understand the removal from the life of someone who clearly was seeking to do right by his child and to understand what the purpose of his life should be. Maybe there is no answer for this, other than the fact that God allows what He allows for His purposes.
from To Glorify God by Dr. Nell Collins:
When we don't understand the "why" we can remember that:
His way is perfect: Psalm 18:30a, Romans 4:20, Luke 10:21b.
We can trust Him: Proverbs 3:5-6.
He has full authority in our lives: 1 Cor. 6:19-20.
Peace and quietness will come as we depend upon Him: Isaiah 26:3-4.
Here are my random thoughts as to what might come out of this situation:
Maybe Jelani's death will cause others to stop what they are doing that is displeasing to the Lord and turn to Him in repentance.
Maybe there are family members who need to understand God in a more personal way who will be changed by his death.
Maybe there are strangers who will be touched by this story who will make changes in their broken human relationships and renew or begin a relationship with God.
Maybe there will be fathers, young and old, who are not connected with their children, who will take another look at what is important and reconnect with them.
Maybe his death will cause us all to slow down and help each other.
Someone said once, "Grief can not be DRY-CLEANED away; it must be WASHED away with tears." We are grieving; God knows and cares.
I was thinking that everything that happens to us either conforms us or deforms us. We each have to decide which it will be. The Word says, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that, good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." Romans 12:2
I pray that Jelani's death will have an impact, I know it has caused me to ponder many things. God uses everything in our lives to accomplish His purposes (Romans 8:28-29); He gives, withholds, or removes things for His purposes.
Here are some more thoughts from To Glorify God by Dr. Nell Collins regarding a Biblical approach to loss and grief:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 says:
"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
What this means to us:
GOD assures us what will happen in the future.
We sorrow, but not without hope.
View the unseen rather than the seen.
Focus on the eternal instead of the temporal.
We should have a secure eye on the resurrection.
God's has a plan for those who have been redeemed.
This is an interesting, thought-provoking piece by my friend Jim:
THE BUZZARD:
If you put a buzzard in a pen 6 feet by 8 feet that is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason: a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.
THE BAT:
The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkably nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.
THE BUMBLEBEE:
A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.
PEOPLE:
In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to do is look up! That's the answer, the escape route, and the solution to any problem! Just look up.
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, but Faith looks up!
Arrangements: A wake will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at St. Peter Claver Church, 375 Oxford St. N., in St. Paul, followed by a funeral at noon Friday.
I have been thinking a lot about Jelani this week, as I am sure many people have. I was thinking about his quick smile and his inquisitive mind as he tried to "dig" deep to figure out this whole "God" thing. He was not content with a simple answer to a question about spiritual things. He made me think about "why" I believe what I believe.
I remember he and Dena coming to my office one day after Zion's birth. Both Dena and Jelani had big smiles of pride as they watched their daughter. They did let me hold Zion, but it was not long before Jelani said, "Ok, give her back." In this ministry it is refreshing to find young men who delight in their children. So many of my clients go through their pregnancies without any support from the father of the child. While the relationship was not perfect, both Dena and Jelani were trying to figure out what the next part of their lives would look like as they raised Zion.
I have been struggling to understand the removal from the life of someone who clearly was seeking to do right by his child and to understand what the purpose of his life should be. Maybe there is no answer for this, other than the fact that God allows what He allows for His purposes.
from To Glorify God by Dr. Nell Collins:
When we don't understand the "why" we can remember that:
His way is perfect: Psalm 18:30a, Romans 4:20, Luke 10:21b.
We can trust Him: Proverbs 3:5-6.
He has full authority in our lives: 1 Cor. 6:19-20.
Peace and quietness will come as we depend upon Him: Isaiah 26:3-4.
Here are my random thoughts as to what might come out of this situation:
Maybe Jelani's death will cause others to stop what they are doing that is displeasing to the Lord and turn to Him in repentance.
Maybe there are family members who need to understand God in a more personal way who will be changed by his death.
Maybe there are strangers who will be touched by this story who will make changes in their broken human relationships and renew or begin a relationship with God.
Maybe there will be fathers, young and old, who are not connected with their children, who will take another look at what is important and reconnect with them.
Maybe his death will cause us all to slow down and help each other.
Someone said once, "Grief can not be DRY-CLEANED away; it must be WASHED away with tears." We are grieving; God knows and cares.
I was thinking that everything that happens to us either conforms us or deforms us. We each have to decide which it will be. The Word says, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that, good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." Romans 12:2
I pray that Jelani's death will have an impact, I know it has caused me to ponder many things. God uses everything in our lives to accomplish His purposes (Romans 8:28-29); He gives, withholds, or removes things for His purposes.
Here are some more thoughts from To Glorify God by Dr. Nell Collins regarding a Biblical approach to loss and grief:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 says:
"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
What this means to us:
GOD assures us what will happen in the future.
We sorrow, but not without hope.
View the unseen rather than the seen.
Focus on the eternal instead of the temporal.
We should have a secure eye on the resurrection.
God's has a plan for those who have been redeemed.
This is an interesting, thought-provoking piece by my friend Jim:
THE BUZZARD:
If you put a buzzard in a pen 6 feet by 8 feet that is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason: a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.
THE BAT:
The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkably nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.
THE BUMBLEBEE:
A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.
PEOPLE:
In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to do is look up! That's the answer, the escape route, and the solution to any problem! Just look up.
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, but Faith looks up!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
"In Times Like These, We Need a Saviour"
This week has been interesting. It feels as though every phone call and client contact has been one of great intensity. It is often that way, as every call can be about life and death at a pregnancy center. This week the calls have seemed especially desperate. I am so thankful to be able to rely on the WORD of God as I seek to help people in crisis. I have been meditating on the hymn sited below in order to help me stay focused this week; maybe it will be an encouragement to you also. I have often told my clients that we need to be "super-glued" to the Rock that is Jesus! I found this great story about holding on to hope. HOPE you enjoy it. too!
The Anchor
In times like these, we need a Savior.
In times like these, we need an anchor.
Be very sure, be very sure
Your anchor holds, and grips the Solid Rock
The rock is Jesus, yes He’s the One.
This rock is Jesus, the only One.
Be very sure, be very sure
Your anchor holds, and grips the Solid Rock
(“In Times Like These” by Ruth Caye Jones)
One of the most fascinating men who ever lived was a sea captain named James Cook. I have always been interested in reading about him, because I have traveled to many of the places where he explored the world of the late 1700s in a creaky sailing vessel, Resolution, with a sister-ship named Discovery.
I live here in Alaska on a bluff across the bay of Cook Inlet, which goes into Prince William Sound, named by Cook for the English king's third son. Our largest city, Anchorage, lies at its entrance. Captain Cook's two ships anchored here for repairs after a near-disastrous leak had sprung in the Resolution, but on his charts it was called "Cape Hold-with-Hope". They had left England to find the elusive passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, but it was never found, and afterwards they would head out into the Alaska peninsula, which in turn fractures into the Aleutian chain.
Finding a suitable anchorage always concerns sailors. Along the coast of Cape Horn, in 1578, Sir Francis Drake's chaplain wrote:
"The winds were such as if the bowels of the earth had set all at liberty, or as if all the clouds under heaven had been called together to lay their force upon that one place. The seas...were rolled up from the depths, even from the base of the rocks, as if they had been a scroll of parchment...The impossibility of anchoring or spreading any sail, the most made seas, the lee shores, the dangerous rocks, the contrary and most intolerable winds...all offered us such small likelihood of escaping destruction, that if the special providence of God himself had not supported us, we could never have endured this woeful state..."
Ruth Jones's "In Times Like These" speaks of such situations where all that can be done by man's efforts is exhausted, and were it not for the LORD, we could not make it through our trials to lower our anchor into the safe "Cape Hold-with-Hope".
Surely, all of us are familiar with such moments where terror could overwhelm our minds when all about us we see the waves roaring and rising above our heads. Cook had once been shocked to discover worms had eaten away at his ship, and another time that coral had ripped the hull and ice coated the rigging as they navigated through the icebergs of Antarctica. It was never easy, nor was it ever certain they would return back to England safely. How many times their journals reflect their trust in the Lord.
The Anchor
In times like these, we need a Savior.
In times like these, we need an anchor.
Be very sure, be very sure
Your anchor holds, and grips the Solid Rock
The rock is Jesus, yes He’s the One.
This rock is Jesus, the only One.
Be very sure, be very sure
Your anchor holds, and grips the Solid Rock
(“In Times Like These” by Ruth Caye Jones)
One of the most fascinating men who ever lived was a sea captain named James Cook. I have always been interested in reading about him, because I have traveled to many of the places where he explored the world of the late 1700s in a creaky sailing vessel, Resolution, with a sister-ship named Discovery.
I live here in Alaska on a bluff across the bay of Cook Inlet, which goes into Prince William Sound, named by Cook for the English king's third son. Our largest city, Anchorage, lies at its entrance. Captain Cook's two ships anchored here for repairs after a near-disastrous leak had sprung in the Resolution, but on his charts it was called "Cape Hold-with-Hope". They had left England to find the elusive passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, but it was never found, and afterwards they would head out into the Alaska peninsula, which in turn fractures into the Aleutian chain.
Finding a suitable anchorage always concerns sailors. Along the coast of Cape Horn, in 1578, Sir Francis Drake's chaplain wrote:
"The winds were such as if the bowels of the earth had set all at liberty, or as if all the clouds under heaven had been called together to lay their force upon that one place. The seas...were rolled up from the depths, even from the base of the rocks, as if they had been a scroll of parchment...The impossibility of anchoring or spreading any sail, the most made seas, the lee shores, the dangerous rocks, the contrary and most intolerable winds...all offered us such small likelihood of escaping destruction, that if the special providence of God himself had not supported us, we could never have endured this woeful state..."
Ruth Jones's "In Times Like These" speaks of such situations where all that can be done by man's efforts is exhausted, and were it not for the LORD, we could not make it through our trials to lower our anchor into the safe "Cape Hold-with-Hope".
Surely, all of us are familiar with such moments where terror could overwhelm our minds when all about us we see the waves roaring and rising above our heads. Cook had once been shocked to discover worms had eaten away at his ship, and another time that coral had ripped the hull and ice coated the rigging as they navigated through the icebergs of Antarctica. It was never easy, nor was it ever certain they would return back to England safely. How many times their journals reflect their trust in the Lord.
A word from the Word: “One Lord”
This is an encouraging thought from my friend Jim White:
Verse for the day: Psalm 2.2 “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed.”
The title of Messiah considers the Lord Jesus as the final or greatest of all prophets, the final Priest and the final King. In Psalm 2.2 both God and His Messiah are distinguished. The Apostle John spends considerable time developing the theme of Jesus as God uses the N.T. word “Messias” which is no less than the ANOINTED one.
The whole body of O.T. prophetic Scripture concerning Jehovah’s Coming One (Messiah) who would come to redeem man is involved in these Scriptures. The Messiah, the Christ, is fallen man’s one and only hope. It is to Him that “God gave the Holy Spirit without measure” (John 3.34). In Him was “all the Godhead fully and bodily (Colossians 2.9).
The writer of Hebrews describes our Glorious Lord in the opening verses of the epistle:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;” Hebrews 1.1-3
“If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator;
If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist;
If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist;
If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer;
But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Savior.”
Author unknown
JESUS IS THE ANOINTED ONE!
Verse for the day: Psalm 2.2 “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed.”
The title of Messiah considers the Lord Jesus as the final or greatest of all prophets, the final Priest and the final King. In Psalm 2.2 both God and His Messiah are distinguished. The Apostle John spends considerable time developing the theme of Jesus as God uses the N.T. word “Messias” which is no less than the ANOINTED one.
The whole body of O.T. prophetic Scripture concerning Jehovah’s Coming One (Messiah) who would come to redeem man is involved in these Scriptures. The Messiah, the Christ, is fallen man’s one and only hope. It is to Him that “God gave the Holy Spirit without measure” (John 3.34). In Him was “all the Godhead fully and bodily (Colossians 2.9).
The writer of Hebrews describes our Glorious Lord in the opening verses of the epistle:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;” Hebrews 1.1-3
“If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator;
If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist;
If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist;
If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer;
But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Savior.”
Author unknown
JESUS IS THE ANOINTED ONE!
Baby Born!
Yippee! Another baby was born last night! I will never tire of witnessing the miracle of birth--to see a baby emerge from a place of safety, and to realize that this person was created by God from egg and sperm that are invisible to the human eye but when combined form a visible human being! Seeing a birth always helps me refocus on MWC's mission of "Saving babies in Minnesota, one woman at a time."
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Let the Record Show:
from Pro-LifeNews.com:
The following is a compilation of bill signings, speeches, appointments and other actions that President Barack Obama has engaged in that have promoted abortion before and during his presidency. While President Obama has promised to reduce abortions, and some of his supporters believe that will happen, this long list proves that his only agenda is promoting more abortions. While President Obama has appointed numerous other abortion advocates to key positions, we only include the appointments that pertain to policies on abortion.
You can find this complete listing online at LifeNews.com.
Post-Election / Pre-Inauguration
Pro-Abortion Presidential Record - 2009
The following is a compilation of bill signings, speeches, appointments and other actions that President Barack Obama has engaged in that have promoted abortion before and during his presidency. While President Obama has promised to reduce abortions, and some of his supporters believe that will happen, this long list proves that his only agenda is promoting more abortions. While President Obama has appointed numerous other abortion advocates to key positions, we only include the appointments that pertain to policies on abortion.
You can find this complete listing online at LifeNews.com.
Post-Election / Pre-Inauguration
- November 5, 2008 - President Obama selects pro-abortion Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his White House Chief of Staff. Emanuel has a 0% pro-life voting record according to National Right to Life.
- November 19, 2008 - President Obama picks pro-abortion former Sen. Tom Daschle as his Health and Human Services Secretary. Daschle has a long pro-abortion voting record according to National Right to Life.
- November 20, 2008 - President Obama chooses former NARAL legal director Dawn Johnsen to serve as a member of his Department of Justice Review Team. Later, he finalizes her appointment as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of the Legal Counsel in the Obama administration.
- November 24, 2008 - President Obama appoints Ellen Moran, the former director of the pro-abortion group Emily's List as his White House communications director. Emily's List only supported candidates who favored taxpayer funded abortions and opposed a partial-birth abortion ban.
- November 24, 2008 - President Obama puts former Emily's List board member Melody Barnes in place as his director of the Domestic Policy Council.
- November 30, 2008 - President Obama names pro-abortion Sen. Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State. Clinton has an unblemished pro-abortion voting record and has supported making unlimited abortions an international right.
- December 10, 2008 - President Obama selects pro-abortion former Clinton administration official Jeanne Lambrew to become the deputy director of the White House Office of Health Reform. Planned Parenthood is "excited" about the selection.
- December 10, 2008 - Obama transition team publishes memo from dozens of pro-abortion groups listing their laundry list of pro-abortions actions they want him to take.
Pro-Abortion Presidential Record - 2009
- January 5, 2009 - President Obama picks pro-abortion Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as the chairman of the Democratic Party.
- January 6, 2009 - President Obama chooses Thomas Perrelli, the lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael in his efforts to kill his disabled wife, as the third highest attorney in the Justice Department.
- January 22, 2009 - Releases statement restating support for Roe v. Wade decision that allowed virtually unlimited abortions and has resulted in at least 50 million abortions since 1973.
- January 23, 2009 - Forces taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations. Decison to overturn Mexico City Policy sends part of $457 million to pro-abortion organizations.
- January 26, 2009 - President Obama's nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, James B. Steinberg, tells members of the Senate that taxpayers should be forced to fund abortions. Nominee erroneously says limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional.
- January 29, 2009 - President Obama nominates pro-abortion David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General.
- February 12, 2009 - President Obama nominates pro-abortion Elena Kagan to serve as Solicitor General.
- February 27, 2009 - Starts the process of overturning pro-life conscience protections President Bush put in place to make sure medical staff and centers are not forced to do abortions.
- February 28, 2009 - President Obama nominates pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius to become Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- March 5, 2009 - The Obama administration shuts out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, make the invitation list as do other pro-abortion groups.
- March 9, 2009 - President Barack Obama signs an executive order forcing taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research.
- March 10, 2009 - President Obama announces the creation of a new foreign policy position to focus on women's issues. He names Melanne Verveer, an abortion advocate, to occupy the post.
- March 10, 2009 - Reverses an executive order to press for more research into ways of obtaining embryonic stem cells without harming human life. The order President Obama scrapped would have promoted new forms of stem cell research.
- March 11, 2009 - President Obama signs an executive order establishing a new agency within his administration known as the White House Council on Women and Girls. President Obama's director of public liaison at the White House, Tina Tchen, an abortion advocate, becomes director of it.
- March 11, 2009 - Obama administration promotes an unlimited right to abortion at a United Nations meeting.
- March 11, 2009 - Obama administration officials deny negative effects of abortion at United Nation's meeting.
- March 17, 2009 - President Barack Obama makes his first judicial appointment and names pro-abortion federal Judge David Hamilton to serve on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
- March 26, 2009 - Announces $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that has been criticized for promoting abortion and working closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations.
The Provider Conscience Clause
The following letter came from a supporter in response to the recent actions of our President regarding the removal of the conscience clause for health care workers. We at Metro Women's Center whole-heartedly object to this unloving, inhumane action! Puppies and kittens are given more love and respect than babies! Seeds are cherished as future plants and trees! Why aren't our children so cherished?
Dear Mr. President Barack Obama:
I really do not understand your heart position in the matter of abortion, let alone the "ruling" you desire to force loving and caring doctors to commit such an un-oathful following through of what they are sworn in as doctors to accomplish - Save the lives of and restore the well-being of people, the human race!
I strongly object and raise my hand and the hand of a precious little one that I killed many years ago! I still cry outside, but tremble inside of just what that precious and innocent baby could have been, the love he/she would have received and given even though conceived in sin! I am guilty of murder, but thank God, I know my Lord and Savior has forgiven me as I have been washed with Jesus' blood, but never completely able to forgive myself. Now I have two beautiful daughters - one biological and one adopted! Thank God that my adopted daughter's mom had the audacity to carry on and complete her mission as one chosen to deliver a healthy girl, or our quiver would be semi-empty.
Please protect our rights! Please stand up for the true majority that have continued in the ethics of our America! We all came from somewhere else, some many and some few years ago. We all have rights--yes, we can allow those rights to be given to the unspeakable unborn baby, too! It is right now - in your hands! Please don't be like Pilate and wash your hands of the guilt of what you are attempting by not deeply thinking it through.
One thing hurts to think about, and that is the perception of a seed in a farmer's eyes - that cherished seed is already a fruitbearing, full-blooming plant in the eyes of the planter! Just as mentioned in the book Travelers' Gift by Andy Andrews, our American land was already in the eyes of Christopher Columbus long before anyone else could even try to see it!
What is in your sights for our country? Take away the cherished tenderness of a tiny babe, and what truly is left? You are correct--diminished care for elderly (and we will all get there some day) is a problem, and the uncaring need to reach out and help others. But how can we help others if we can't even stand up and take care of our own who are without a voice! Who is most important? Who?
I pray your soul is searched deeply and you find a quiet prayer closet to speak to your Lord and Maker on this matter, not just bow down to the loud and whiny to make a break with our country's loving and giving heritage. My 7-year-old prays every morning over breakfast for you to love the babies and let Jesus shine through you as you do your best as our President! Please, make her proud.
With deepest respect,
A proud citizen of the United States of America who desires to help this country continue in G.R.A.C.E. and power!
Dear Mr. President Barack Obama:
I really do not understand your heart position in the matter of abortion, let alone the "ruling" you desire to force loving and caring doctors to commit such an un-oathful following through of what they are sworn in as doctors to accomplish - Save the lives of and restore the well-being of people, the human race!
I strongly object and raise my hand and the hand of a precious little one that I killed many years ago! I still cry outside, but tremble inside of just what that precious and innocent baby could have been, the love he/she would have received and given even though conceived in sin! I am guilty of murder, but thank God, I know my Lord and Savior has forgiven me as I have been washed with Jesus' blood, but never completely able to forgive myself. Now I have two beautiful daughters - one biological and one adopted! Thank God that my adopted daughter's mom had the audacity to carry on and complete her mission as one chosen to deliver a healthy girl, or our quiver would be semi-empty.
Please protect our rights! Please stand up for the true majority that have continued in the ethics of our America! We all came from somewhere else, some many and some few years ago. We all have rights--yes, we can allow those rights to be given to the unspeakable unborn baby, too! It is right now - in your hands! Please don't be like Pilate and wash your hands of the guilt of what you are attempting by not deeply thinking it through.
One thing hurts to think about, and that is the perception of a seed in a farmer's eyes - that cherished seed is already a fruitbearing, full-blooming plant in the eyes of the planter! Just as mentioned in the book Travelers' Gift by Andy Andrews, our American land was already in the eyes of Christopher Columbus long before anyone else could even try to see it!
What is in your sights for our country? Take away the cherished tenderness of a tiny babe, and what truly is left? You are correct--diminished care for elderly (and we will all get there some day) is a problem, and the uncaring need to reach out and help others. But how can we help others if we can't even stand up and take care of our own who are without a voice! Who is most important? Who?
I pray your soul is searched deeply and you find a quiet prayer closet to speak to your Lord and Maker on this matter, not just bow down to the loud and whiny to make a break with our country's loving and giving heritage. My 7-year-old prays every morning over breakfast for you to love the babies and let Jesus shine through you as you do your best as our President! Please, make her proud.
With deepest respect,
A proud citizen of the United States of America who desires to help this country continue in G.R.A.C.E. and power!
A Joy and Sorrow Week
This week has been a mixed bag. We lost two babies to abortion this week. Even though we tried to encourage, offer tangible support, share biblical truth and prayed for the hearts of these mothers to turn towards their children, the deeds were done. We hope to stay in contact with the dear women and offer them help if they have problems in the future. Pray for our staff--we grieve these losses and are concerned for the futures of the moms.
A precious client that we have worked with during her recent pregnancy gave birth to twins in mid-March. We knew that one of the babies was most likely not going to survive. This woman carried both babies to term, and when they were born, she loved them both. On Sunday, April 5th, one of the babies died. We grieve with this mom, and she has given me permission to share her story with you and to ask you to pray for her. She is a single mother with two other children to care for. Even in the face of a lot of challenges, she carried her babies to term and allowed the Lord to determine the fate of her children. She exhibited the unselfishness and being others-oriented (and she is not even a Christian) that we see in
Philippians 2:3-4:
Thankfully, it is Easter Sunday this week, and we will be celebrating our RISEN SAVIOR! Sorrow on Friday, but joy comes on Sunday! Thank God for the hope provided us by our resurrected LORD!
Happy Easter to you all!
Colleen
A precious client that we have worked with during her recent pregnancy gave birth to twins in mid-March. We knew that one of the babies was most likely not going to survive. This woman carried both babies to term, and when they were born, she loved them both. On Sunday, April 5th, one of the babies died. We grieve with this mom, and she has given me permission to share her story with you and to ask you to pray for her. She is a single mother with two other children to care for. Even in the face of a lot of challenges, she carried her babies to term and allowed the Lord to determine the fate of her children. She exhibited the unselfishness and being others-oriented (and she is not even a Christian) that we see in
Philippians 2:3-4:
"Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others."
Thankfully, it is Easter Sunday this week, and we will be celebrating our RISEN SAVIOR! Sorrow on Friday, but joy comes on Sunday! Thank God for the hope provided us by our resurrected LORD!
Happy Easter to you all!
Colleen
Thursday, April 2, 2009
“Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done."--WHAT?!
- from PCC List
Episcopal Divinity School names abortion extremist as dean
EDS is “pleased to announce the appointment of Katherine Hancock Ragsdale as the school’s sixth president and dean.”
This is a woman who sermonized in August 2008: “Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. I want to thank all of you who protect this blessing – who do this work every day: the health care providers, doctors, nurses, technicians, receptionists, who put your lives on the line to care for others (you are heroes — in my eyes, you are saints); the escorts and the activists; the lobbyists and the clinic defenders; all of you. You’re engaged in holy work.”
Episcopal Divinity School names abortion extremist as dean
EDS is “pleased to announce the appointment of Katherine Hancock Ragsdale as the school’s sixth president and dean.”
This is a woman who sermonized in August 2008: “Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. I want to thank all of you who protect this blessing – who do this work every day: the health care providers, doctors, nurses, technicians, receptionists, who put your lives on the line to care for others (you are heroes — in my eyes, you are saints); the escorts and the activists; the lobbyists and the clinic defenders; all of you. You’re engaged in holy work.”
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
from our good friend Jim White
Scripture: Luke 4.1-15
Verse for the day: Luke 4.13 “And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.“
Galatians 6.1 "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness;”
Temptation is a common experience, and our batting average for resisting it is not always impressive. Our experiences are a lot like the seat belts on cars a few years ago. If we did not fasten them, that infernal buzzer kept annoying us. We knew that the seat belts were not made to hurt us or unnecessarily restrict us. They were there to keep us safe, and the buzzer was our friend. But instead of doing what we knew was probably best for us, we would stick the belts behind us, fasten them and thus shut off the buzzer that was reminding us to do the safe thing.
Christians know deep down inside what is right. We even know that the right thing is the best thing for us. And God coaches us from the inside with His "buzzer," the Holy Spirit, to help us resist temptation. But we often choose to ignore the buzzer and look for a way to shut it off. We ignore God's signal and follow our own, even though experience shows us that things get messed up when we do not listen to Him. We need to understand a little more about how Satan uses temptation and how we can win the battle. An understanding of the kinds of strategies Satan uses to defeat us can help us overcome temptation.
There are several principles about temptation for us to think about:
1. Satan is always looking to tempt us to sin, to discouragement, or to loss of our testimony.
2. Satan ALWAYS lies to us.
3. When Satan tempts, God ALWAYS limits him and provides our escape.
4. We (mature believers) have a responsibility to encourage and restore slipping believers.
God has warned (as our experience has warned us) that Satan in the “Master Deceiver” and he has a whole pouch of tools at his disposal, but we have the promise of God found in I John 4.4 that God within us is “greater than he that is in the world”.
BUT NOT ETERNALLY!
Hillary Clinton Gets Margaret Sanger Award
Excerpts from acceptance speech - chilling!
Comment: Mrs. Clinton could not be more in the pocket of the pro-abortion folks if she tried! What happened to making abortion rare? We have had 35 years of birth control information being distributed to women and girls all over the world, yet the abortion rate continues to climb and new methods of destroying the pre-born are popping up every year. There can be no doubt that the agenda of the "powers that be" is to try to make women believe that they can only achieve economic and social success if they do so with the "right" to abortion as their greatest defense. God help us! When did we become afraid of children?
Comment: Mrs. Clinton could not be more in the pocket of the pro-abortion folks if she tried! What happened to making abortion rare? We have had 35 years of birth control information being distributed to women and girls all over the world, yet the abortion rate continues to climb and new methods of destroying the pre-born are popping up every year. There can be no doubt that the agenda of the "powers that be" is to try to make women believe that they can only achieve economic and social success if they do so with the "right" to abortion as their greatest defense. God help us! When did we become afraid of children?
Get to Know Your Pregnancy Resource Center
In a Pro-Choice World, Life is a Choice: Respect Diversity!
Metro Women's Center would like to invite you to a
"Get-to-Know-your-PRC" (Pregnancy Resource Center) Morning Coffee
on Monday, April 13th from 9-12 am.
Whether you are for us or against us or don't know anything about us, we welcome you to come and have a tour, a muffin, and a cup of coffee or tea.
For directions to our center, go to our website at www.metrowomenscenter.org
Questions? Call 763-533-8642
"A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."
Proverbs 15:1
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