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email | 7/8/2011 | email

Posted on 07/08/2011 8:17:21 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue

Dear Pittsburgh 40 Days for Life family,

A good friend and true warrior for the unborn just gave me some bad news yesterday. I want to share it with all of my 40 Days for Life family so we can all be praying. There are dark clouds on the horizon here in Pittsburgh. This friend was looking on Google Earth, over Neville Island, and he noticed a large construction project, which has the name "Planned Parenthood". I checked it out for myself. It is true. It looks like Planned Parenthood is building a new facility (a very large one) on Neville Island. It is right on Grand Avenue, between Front River Rd. and Elsie Street...right on the edge of the river. It is near the 279/65 bridge. You can see it for yourself by going to http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3932650. You need to click on the overhead view (on the right), pan to the far left side of the island and zoom in till you see the "Planned Parenthood", right next to the Subway Restaurant. We know that all across the world, Planned Parenthood is moving away from the small clinics of the past, and is building new, large "mega-abortion" facilities. They are usually built rather like fortresses, where there is no access for sidewalk counselors to offer information to women who are entering. They also include the appropriate medical facilities to enable them to do later term abortions, which is big money for them. It is very fitting that Planned Parenthood would choose a site like Neville Island, which is only accessible by a bridge.

I have had a sense of dread since speaking to my friend yesterday. However, this morning while reading my bible, I read in 1 Chronicles 5:20 that the Israelites "Cried to God in the battle, and He granted their entreaty because they trusted in Him". It says He helped them to defeat the enemy because "the war was of God". Now that is encouraging, because we know that the battle against abortion IS a war of GOD! This coming 40 Days for Life campaign (September 28 - November 6) is going to have immense signifigance for Pittsburgh. Now more than ever, we need to be praying, fasting and witnessing. Let's all pray that Planned Parenthood themselves will fall into the trap that they are laying for others in Pittsburgh's Neville Island. Let's pray that those walls will never be built...that not one child will be killed inside that empty space. Pray they will go bankrupt, however you feel the Lord leading you...PRAY! You know, it is no accident that our pro-life community is more united now than a year ago. Through our 40 Days for Life campaigns, we have begun to build a united network and can communicate through emails and gatherings. This is of the Lord's doing...for such a time as this. He has equipped us to fight this battle that is coming to our town. So, have faith in Him and do not be discouraged.

It is also no accident that Bernie Conklin has felt called to lead weekly "Jericho Marches" around the Planned Parenthood on Liberty Avenue for the past few Saturdays. She said she will continue to have these marches every Saturday at 8:00 am all during July and into August. She even has a shofar now! So, if you feel called to participate, come to Planned Parenthood any Saturday morning. Maybe we can begin some Jericho marches around the construction site on Neville Island. I will let you know if that happens.

Here are some dates to mark on your calendar, pertaining to our up-coming fall 40 days for Life campaign: Tuesday, July 19th, 7pm - First planning meeting at St. Paul Cathedral's Synod Hall in Oakland (open to anyone wishing to be involved in the fall campaign) Sunday, August 14th, 7pm - 40 Days for Life Benefit Concert by Intent (www.intentworship.com), held at Word & Worship Church, 1200 Wolfe Avenue, North Braddock. PLEASE COME SUPPORT OUR FALL 40 DAYS AT THIS EVENT!!! Saturday, September 24th, 3pm - Kick-off Event for 40 Days for Life held in Phil's Parking Lot, located at 917 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh

Lastly, if you are interested in sidewalk counseling abortion-bound women and men, I want to make you aware that there will be a national sidewalk counseling seminar held in Minnesota on August 5th and 6th. To get details, go to http://publicactionnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/national-sidewalk-counseling-symposium.html . Meredith Parente is planning to attend this seminar, and would be like to have someone else join her. Please reply to this email if you are interested, and I will put you in touch with her.

That is it for the updates for right now. I will be on vacation with my family all next week, so may not be replying to emails as promptly as usual. If anyone finds out any details about the new Planned Parenthood facility on Neville Island, please share whatever information you discover.


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KEYWORDS: moralabsolutes; pittsburgh; plannedinfanticide; plannedparenthood; prolife
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This is an email I received this evening. If you need proof that Pittsburgh has emerged as one of the most progressive, leftist cities in the U.S., look no further. For a small/moderate-sized city, we already have 3 abortion clinics in operation plus a large women's hospital that does late term abortions. This is sickening. Just sickening. Please pray, Pittsburgh FReepers.
1 posted on 07/08/2011 8:17:27 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; martin_fierro

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2 posted on 07/08/2011 8:18:10 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: surroundedbyblue

I heard somewhere they were building an Abortion Superstore in Houston too.

Our tax dollars need to stop financing this pure evil.


3 posted on 07/08/2011 8:29:02 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Quix

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4 posted on 07/08/2011 8:29:59 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Darwinism is to Genesis as Global Warming is to Revelations.)
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5 posted on 07/08/2011 8:30:44 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Darwinism is to Genesis as Global Warming is to Revelations.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

I was on Neville Island at the hotel near the Subway last week and didn’t see any signs of construction there, but who knows?


6 posted on 07/08/2011 8:31:16 PM PDT by mak5
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To: mak5

THat’s interesting. Perhaps tomorrow I should drive by & check it out. THe google earth picture clearly shows a construction site labeled Planned Parenthood. I have no reason to think the 40 Days for Life people would spread unsubstantiated stories but perhaps they jumped the gun.

Truly, it does not surprise me. The PP here in Pgh has been trying desperately to stop sidewalk counseling by any & all means - local ordinances, courts, harrassment - you name it. This spring, I was praying with a priest & the “pro-choice” escorts surrounded him & got within inches of his face, staring him down while taking his picture with their cell phones. A group of us quickly surrounded him even more closely & blocked their access to him. Creeps. Another one of our priests was hit over the head by a pro-abort who then started chanting and gyrating her pelvis at him as he recited the rosary. Sickos. We have a big problem with evil in this city. It’s not the nice little small city/big town it once was. Instead, it’s being overrun with New Age wackos, homos, feminists, enviro-greenies, and progressives.


7 posted on 07/08/2011 8:37:04 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion; Joya; Dr. Brian Kopp; Mad Dawg; betty boop; Salvation

One of the frequent speakers at Kansas City IHOPrayer

I forget his name, Joya will likely know and may have a link to the audio . . . or video . . .

anyway—he has documented several cases where CHRISTIANS across denominational lines meeting together to pray and worship and fast against abortion in their area have seen clinics close, abortion clinic owners and MD’s fall dead etc. etc. etc.

I am increasingly convinced, that’s the only answer. The forces of Marxist globalism are determined to use abortion as a major way to reduce the population . . . along with euthenasia and homosexuality . . . on top of the death camps . . .

PRAYER . . . THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL BUT MIGHTY TO THE PULLING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS . . .

Certainly the demonic forces over the abortion business comprise a serious stronghold in the spiritual and physical realm.

II CORINTHIANS 10:4

New International Version (©1984)
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
New Living Translation (©2007)
We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

International Standard Version (©2008)
For the weapons of our warfare are not those of the world. Instead, they have the power of God to demolish fortresses. We tear down arguments

GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The weapons we use in our fight are not made by humans. Rather, they are powerful weapons from God. With them we destroy people’s defenses, that is, their arguments

King James Bible
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

American King James Version
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

American Standard Version
(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

Bible in Basic English
(For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places);

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty to God unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,

Darby Bible Translation
For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful according to God to the overthrow of strongholds;

English Revised Version
(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strong holds);

Webster’s Bible Translation
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

Weymouth New Testament
The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons, but are mighty for God in overthrowing strong fortresses.

World English Bible
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

Young’s Literal Translation
for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,


8 posted on 07/08/2011 8:49:31 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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9 posted on 07/08/2011 8:56:44 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Quix

Quix,
I think you may be referring to the 40 Days of Life campaign - hugely successful!!! All Christians, united in fasting & prayer twice a year saving babies, changing hearts, & shutting down clinics. I don’t know where you live but there may be a campaign in your area since it’s become an international movement.


10 posted on 07/08/2011 9:03:44 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Before I read any further...did anyone from FR verify this claim (I’m on dial-up) or are we to believe an email solely?


11 posted on 07/08/2011 9:08:40 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Palin/Perry 2012)
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To: mak5

I was at a family reunion two weeks ago and part of our group was staying at the hotel. I didn’t notice the construction either.

Great evil is afoot on Neville Island.


12 posted on 07/08/2011 9:12:51 PM PDT by sneakers ("Obama is like the dog that chased a car and caught it. Now he doesn't know what to do with it.")
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To: Outlaw Woman

Again, I have not confirmed this. The info was in an email sent by the Pittsburgh coordinator of the pro-life 40 Days for Life campaign. I did look at the Google Earth photos & they clearly show a construction site of a rather large structure that is labeled “Planned Parenthood”.


13 posted on 07/08/2011 9:17:02 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: surroundedbyblue

What I’m referring to may have been a part of it but I’m a bit skeptical.

The groups I heard about sounded very local and very spiritually intense.


14 posted on 07/08/2011 9:28:38 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: GeronL

The one in Houston is up and running. 610 Loop and I-45. Very close to University of Houston campus and Black population area.


15 posted on 07/08/2011 9:41:53 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Probably think they will need it sicn eOhio is trying to pass the heartbeat bill through the Senate.That bill mkaes abortions after the heartbeat can be heard illegal except for health of the mother,rape, and incest


16 posted on 07/08/2011 10:01:49 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Quix
The groups I heard about sounded very local and very spiritually intense.

That's what 40 Days for Life is - a coalition of small local groups. It started in Texas. That first group is the one who prayed Abby Johnson out of Planned Parenthood there.

17 posted on 07/08/2011 10:37:28 PM PDT by nina0113
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To: surroundedbyblue

Does Google Earth itself show the same thing as the photos you were sent?


18 posted on 07/08/2011 10:45:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: sneakers

Neville Island anagrams to Ladies’ Vell Inn. Vell is an old word that can mean to cut the turf from (land) as for burning, or a slaughterhouse term for the abomasum of milk-fed calf used for the preparation of rennet for junket tablets.

Maybe lame, but anyone who can come up with a better one is welcome.


19 posted on 07/08/2011 11:00:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: nina0113; Joya

PRAISE GOD, THEN!

I really haven’t followed such very closely.

I think that Joya is more up on those things than I am.


20 posted on 07/08/2011 11:05:22 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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