I just learned the exciting news: another abortion clinic has closed in La Puente, CA, and I wanted to alert you to our upcoming Alexandria 40 Days for Life campaign launch this Thursday!
This important pro-life victory in La Puente is thanks to Almighty God and the La Puente 40 Days for Life campaign team, as well as to YOUR prayers. We know God never lets our prayers go unanswered or unheeded -- so a big THANK-YOU to all who have participated in past 40 Days for Life campaigns, or just prayed to end abortion!
We know the fight to end abortion is above all a spiritual battle, so this victory in La Puente shows first and foremost the power of God. However, we also see what can happen when one community bands together in prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil, and community outreach through 40 Days for Life, and I'm really looking forward to conducting our sixth local campaign this fall with you!
I won't give specific details now, but I just wanted to let you know that our official launch date is this Thursday, July 27, so please forward this message to anyone you know who may be interested in joining our team, and be on the lookout for more information at that time!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Summer of Mercy in MD: July 30-Aug. 7
Dear Friends, Please read this message from Charlie Baile, and join in their focused pro-life effort (www.summerofmercy.com), at least in prayer and fasting on the dates indicated if you can. Jacinta
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Fall 2010 News Archived
NOTE: The news and updates from our fall 2010 campaign has been retired from our main site menu. The articles can be accessed at http://40daysforlife.com/alexandria/index.cfm?load=page&page=30. Please contact the campaign coordinator if you have any questions. Thank you!
Bereit to Speak in DC Tuesday
National 40 Days for Life director David Bereit will speak at the DC Theology on Tap evening at Ireland's Four Fields (3412 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC), on Tuesday, July 19, 7:30-8:30pm. The event is sponsored by the Young Adult Ministry Archdiocese of Washington. Event summary follows:
DC’s Summer Theology on Tap Six Pack, Living in the City 2.0 concludes with David Bereit, the National Director of 40 Days for Life. The evening begins with happy hour at 6:30 and the talk will follow at 7:30. Following the Q&A period, we’ll draw the winner of the iPad 2!
David Bereit became an outspoken pro-life advocate after Planned Parenthood announced plans to build an abortion clinic in his Texas town in 1998. He helped to start and build a local grassroots coalition that rallied 60 churches and thousands of people together and dramatically reduced abortions in the region. In 2005 he moved to Washington, DC where he served as executive director of American Life League and national director of Stop Planned Parenthood until being asked to lead the national 40 Days for Life campaign. His pro-life work has been featured in the media hundreds of times, including coverage on Fox News, HBO, ABC, NBC and CBS television stations, numerous radio programs, and in over 100 newspapers across the country including USA Today, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. David and his wife Margaret have two children.
Theology on Tap is a program of the Office of Young Adult Ministry that reaches out to young adults interested in exploring the role of faith in their daily lives. Held at Ireland’s Four Fields (3412 Connecticut Ave., NW - just one block south of the Cleveland Park Metro), Theology on Tap provides an opportunity to explore your faith and mix and mingle with young adults from across the DC metro area.
DC’s Summer Theology on Tap Six Pack, Living in the City 2.0 concludes with David Bereit, the National Director of 40 Days for Life. The evening begins with happy hour at 6:30 and the talk will follow at 7:30. Following the Q&A period, we’ll draw the winner of the iPad 2!
David Bereit became an outspoken pro-life advocate after Planned Parenthood announced plans to build an abortion clinic in his Texas town in 1998. He helped to start and build a local grassroots coalition that rallied 60 churches and thousands of people together and dramatically reduced abortions in the region. In 2005 he moved to Washington, DC where he served as executive director of American Life League and national director of Stop Planned Parenthood until being asked to lead the national 40 Days for Life campaign. His pro-life work has been featured in the media hundreds of times, including coverage on Fox News, HBO, ABC, NBC and CBS television stations, numerous radio programs, and in over 100 newspapers across the country including USA Today, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. David and his wife Margaret have two children.
Theology on Tap is a program of the Office of Young Adult Ministry that reaches out to young adults interested in exploring the role of faith in their daily lives. Held at Ireland’s Four Fields (3412 Connecticut Ave., NW - just one block south of the Cleveland Park Metro), Theology on Tap provides an opportunity to explore your faith and mix and mingle with young adults from across the DC metro area.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Sidewalk Counseling Session on Sunday
Friends,
As many of you know, DC's abortuaries are among the most active in the country. Each Saturday the foot traffic is unbelievable and there is a small army of hip, inviting deathscort volunteers smilingly ushering in woman after woman. So many of the world's pressures push vulnerable women to "just get rid of it" and abort their child. Unfortunately there are very few volunteer sidewalk counselors present to counter these lies.
Several participants in the D.C. 40 Days for Life vigil have asked about training to become an effective sidewalk counselor. Dick Retta, a long-time sidewalk counselor in D.C., has agreed to host a sidewalk counseling training session this Sunday, June 26th at 2pm. We will be hosting it at the Neuhaus ( 838 18th St. S, Arlington, VA) -- easy walking distance from both the Pentagon City and Crystal City metro stations on the Yellow and Blue lines.
The reason to sidewalk counsel is not to make a statement, or to protest -- but to love these women and their unborn children. Sidewalk counselors are their last line of defense before they give into the pressure to make a terrible choice they can never undo.
Will you consider stepping outside your comfort zone and becoming a sidewalk counselor? If so, we hope to see you on Sunday.
What: Sidewalk Counseling Training and Organizing
Where: 838 18th St. S, Arlington, VA
When: June 26th, 2011: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Please invite others!
James
Campaign Coordinator, 40 Days for Life - Washington, DC
As many of you know, DC's abortuaries are among the most active in the country. Each Saturday the foot traffic is unbelievable and there is a small army of hip, inviting deathscort volunteers smilingly ushering in woman after woman. So many of the world's pressures push vulnerable women to "just get rid of it" and abort their child. Unfortunately there are very few volunteer sidewalk counselors present to counter these lies.
Several participants in the D.C. 40 Days for Life vigil have asked about training to become an effective sidewalk counselor. Dick Retta, a long-time sidewalk counselor in D.C., has agreed to host a sidewalk counseling training session this Sunday, June 26th at 2pm. We will be hosting it at the Neuhaus ( 838 18th St. S, Arlington, VA) -- easy walking distance from both the Pentagon City and Crystal City metro stations on the Yellow and Blue lines.
The reason to sidewalk counsel is not to make a statement, or to protest -- but to love these women and their unborn children. Sidewalk counselors are their last line of defense before they give into the pressure to make a terrible choice they can never undo.
Will you consider stepping outside your comfort zone and becoming a sidewalk counselor? If so, we hope to see you on Sunday.
What: Sidewalk Counseling Training and Organizing
Where: 838 18th St. S, Arlington, VA
When: June 26th, 2011: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Please invite others!
James
Campaign Coordinator, 40 Days for Life - Washington, DC
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Respect Life Update from Sister Clare
Saturday, May 28 - Respect Life Mass with Bishop Loverde will be at 8:30 a.m. at St. James Church, 103 N. Spring, St., Falls Church, VA, followed by the rosary led by the Bishop at the abortion facility at 900 S. Washington St., Falls Church.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
The 40 Days for Life Manassas Slide Show
The slide show is up on YouTube at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9493tAxWoY8
It is also linked to our website photo and video gallery at: http://40daysforlife.com/manassas/index.cfm?load=page&page=186
Great job by Mike Baldwin putting it together!
Tim Jackson
Campaign Director
40 Days for Life-Manassas
Building a culture of life, one prayer at a time
Some Additional Accounts, Spring 2011: Part Three
Hello Everyone!
Isn't this the most beautiful pro-life vigil you have ever seen?
While Liam and I were standing outside of the abortion clinic praying on Friday, we noticed a few kids passing by and slowing down. We asked if they were here to pray... and to our surprise, they said yes. Then many more kids came, with their moms. Then the Sisters of St. Joseph joined us too. They were all from Queen of Apostles Church in Alexandria, VA. It turns out, there were 40 of us at the vigil. You'll see 39 of us in the picture, since Liam took it. We prayed together for about an hour. They were very good kids!
Happy Palm Sunday, and a Blessed Holy Week.
Marie
Marie
Some Additional Accounts, Spring 2011: Part Two
Yesterday while at the vigil, I was feeling a little down by the recent news that the Senate did not vote to defund Planned Parenthood. I also didn't have a sign or my rosary, so I wasn't feeling all that prepared to stand vigil. I did have my 40 Days for Life t-shirt on and Christian prayer book :). While praying, a man stopped in his car and I said hi, and thought I had talked to him before, but he said no, this was his first time to talk to us. He asked what we do there. I said we're praying to end abortion in front of two abortion clinics. He said he is Muslim and it's terrible that these kinds of things happen. He said he sees us standing there a lot and asked if we accept donations. I said well, yes, for our material. As I fumbled through my bag, I found a 40 Days for Life leaflet and when I looked up to give it to him, he was handing me $20. I was so touched... and I still am. I said thank you and asked for his name. He said "Ali," and please pray for his son, who is in intensive care. He drove off and I waved goodbye, a bit teary-eyed. I could not help but thank the Lord for the encouragement He brought me through that man, and for the support we have in this battle for Life.
Maria relieved me from the vigil and I asked her to give you the $20. So, you probably know about the story, but I thought I'd recount it again.
God Bless, Jacinta. Never lose faith, hope, or love.
Marie
Marie
Some Additional Accounts, Spring 2011: Part One
Jacinta,
Here is my account of what happened on Tuesday:
I arrived at the Duke Street clinics at 11:30 just as the rain stopped and the sun came out. No one was there which surprised me because throughout the 40 days I have always been there with someone. I was holding my sign when a large white van turned into the parking lot and the driver waved at me. He was a young man with more braids than Bob Marley! A few minutes later I turned around and saw the driver and his friend walking toward me. "I saw your sign. Is there an abortion clinic here." he asked. "Yes, there are two," I said. "Oh, that is terrible," he said. He then told me he had dropped off a 16-year-old girl at the clinic. He was to wait for her. He asked me if he could stand with me. He said, "Do you have another sign?" I went to my car, grabbed another sign and some literature for him to give to the girl. We talked some more. The driver is Jerry. His friend is Jeffrey. Jerry said, "I am off on Fridays. Could I come here then and will someone have a sign?" I said that we would love to have him, his friend and anyone else join us. I told him that 40% of all black babies are aborted; he was shocked. I asked for his phone number which he wrote on one of our pro-life pamphlets.
Since that meeting I have talked with Jerry twice. He does not know what the girl will do but he did give her the literature. He is planning to come to the vigil site tomorrow around 10 o"clock. Unfortunately, I can't be there tomorrow but I told him I would meet him on Good Friday at 10 o'clock and any Friday thereafter. He was enthusiastic about the suggestion. I have contacted Liam and he will look for Jerry tomorrow as will Debby whom I just met today. Mary Ellen suggested that we invite Jerry to the Sunday celebration. That would be great.
I should have known that something good would happen when the sun appeared from the clouds. I am so glad I was on the sidewalk with my sign.
Gail
Here is my account of what happened on Tuesday:
I arrived at the Duke Street clinics at 11:30 just as the rain stopped and the sun came out. No one was there which surprised me because throughout the 40 days I have always been there with someone. I was holding my sign when a large white van turned into the parking lot and the driver waved at me. He was a young man with more braids than Bob Marley! A few minutes later I turned around and saw the driver and his friend walking toward me. "I saw your sign. Is there an abortion clinic here." he asked. "Yes, there are two," I said. "Oh, that is terrible," he said. He then told me he had dropped off a 16-year-old girl at the clinic. He was to wait for her. He asked me if he could stand with me. He said, "Do you have another sign?" I went to my car, grabbed another sign and some literature for him to give to the girl. We talked some more. The driver is Jerry. His friend is Jeffrey. Jerry said, "I am off on Fridays. Could I come here then and will someone have a sign?" I said that we would love to have him, his friend and anyone else join us. I told him that 40% of all black babies are aborted; he was shocked. I asked for his phone number which he wrote on one of our pro-life pamphlets.
Since that meeting I have talked with Jerry twice. He does not know what the girl will do but he did give her the literature. He is planning to come to the vigil site tomorrow around 10 o"clock. Unfortunately, I can't be there tomorrow but I told him I would meet him on Good Friday at 10 o'clock and any Friday thereafter. He was enthusiastic about the suggestion. I have contacted Liam and he will look for Jerry tomorrow as will Debby whom I just met today. Mary Ellen suggested that we invite Jerry to the Sunday celebration. That would be great.
I should have known that something good would happen when the sun appeared from the clouds. I am so glad I was on the sidewalk with my sign.
Gail
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