The biggest Lenten 40 Days for Life campaign yet is finally here! February 14-March 25

40 Days for Life ^ | 02-14-18 | Shawn Carney and team

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Jos, Nigeria

February 17, 2018

Jos is again emphasizing community outreach in this, its sixth 40 Days for Life campaign.

Maureen, the local coordinator, and her team held a presentation for students at a school in the area … and she said it was quite successful.

The main kickoff event took place at the Catholic chaplaincy at the University of Jos, where once again the team was encouraged by the response from young adults.

“May the Lord strengthen each and everyone throughout this campaign,” Maureen prayed, “so that more lives will be saved.”

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DAY 5: The next 7 days

February 18, 2018

Tomorrow we have some inspiring news coming … so watch your inbox! But first I have a question:

Have you found your closest 40 Days for Life campaign?

Don’t sit this one out!

Can’t go to a vigil? You can still help save a life and we tell you how in this new episode of the 40 Days for Life podcast.

If you haven’t signed up yet, make a commitment to go out over the next 7 days. Going out and praying is what makes the difference … and saves lives from abortion.

Do you have an hour over the next 7 days?

There is so much momentum! I just returned from the kickoff event in Spokane, Washington after speaking at their first campaign 10 years ago in the spring of 2008.

Kickoff events have been happening all week and we have seen great media coverage, support from clergy … and lives saved — a great report on that is coming tomorrow!

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Phoenix, Tempe and Glendale Arizona

February 18, 2018

Three Phoenix-area campaigns joined together to start this 40 Days for Life campaign … with help from Catholic Bishop Thomas Olmsted (center) and 40 Days for Life board chair Matt Britton (third from left).

“We had a blessed night full of encouragement and hope to lead the good fight for life,” said Nancy, the Phoenix coordinator.

Jim, the leader in Tempe, said all three campaigns “were challenged to invoke the power of prayer to confront societal evils and stand in peaceful, public witness against the atrocity of abortion.”

“It was a wonderful blessing to be gathered in prayer,” added Lisa, the coordinator of the Glendale campaign. “Let us continue to go in prayer to end the violence of abortion knowing that the Lord is with us.”

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Newburgh, New York

February 18, 2018

The Newburgh team is on board for its eleventh 40 Days for Life vigil.

At the campaign kickoff, one of the Newburgh leaders said “it was a blessing to be led in prayer and hear the Word of God from Bishop Dominick Lagonegro from the Catholic archdiocese and Pastor Eric Loyd from Valley Bible Baptist Church.”

Kickoff attendees were invited to “prayerfully consider coming out to pray and stand peaceful witness at Planned Parenthood.”

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DAY 6: 14,000 saved!!!

February 19, 2018

It’s a Good News Monday … and we have great news!

We are now aware of 14,000 babies saved from abortion since 40 Days for Life began in 2007!

You can meet a few of them in this powerful video.

Praise God! These 14,000 babies are just the ones we know about and can confirm. Your presence makes a difference!

This moving video celebrates life and includes the emotional phone call from a 40 Days for Life volunteer who witnessed a save just last week.

God has answered your prayers!

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Video

https://40daysforlife.com/2018/02/19/day-6-14000-saved/

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Memphis, Tennessee

February 19, 2018

“We just saved a baby!” exclaimed Kathy, the 40 Days for Life leader in Memphis.

A woman approaching the abortion center actually asked the volunteers to pray that her abortion would go well! Obviously, Kathy and the vigil participants prayed that she would not have the abortion at all … but still, the young woman went inside.

An hour later, she came out. “I could not do it!” she told Kathy. “I did not have the abortion.”

“We hugged, we prayed, we exchanged phone numbers,” Kathy said. “I told her I would find help for her.”

The Memphis campaign got off to a huge start with the best-attended kickoff event they’ve ever had — and Memphis has been part of 40 Days for Life since 2008.

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Pensacola, Florida

February 19, 2018

“Thanks for being there!”

Those were the words a woman leaving the American Family Planning abortion center offered the 40 Days for Life vigil participants who were standing in prayer outside.

“She stated that she had changed her mind about aborting her baby,” said Ernie, the Pensacola coordinator. She took a pamphlet and the volunteers told her about the help she could find at numerous places in her area.

“It’s a powerful reminder why we need to be there in love on the sidewalk over these 40 days and beyond,” Ernie said.

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DAY 7: Just be there

February 20, 2018

So many people say they’re reluctant to pray at a 40 Days for Life vigil because “I wouldn’t know what to say.”

The truth is that oftentimes … you don’t need to say a thing. Just be there – and pray!

Volunteers at the 40 Days for Life vigil in Columbia, South Carolina say a car leaving the abortion center pulled up beside them.

These people had come for an abortion – something they felt they had to do because the girl who had the appointment was only 15 years old.

But they changed their minds.

“We just thought about it some more,” said one of the people in the car.

Would they have “thought about it some more” if people had not been outside praying? What could have happened if no one had been there?

“Thank you to those who came out to pray,” said one of the Columbia leaders. “God used you!”

He can use you, too! But we have to go. We have to be there!

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

February 20, 2018

“Love saved a life at Planned Parenthood today!”

That was the joyful message we received from Nikki, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Pittsburgh.

A young woman took some pro-life literature outside the abortion center … but walked in anyway. When she left a while later, she walked past the vigil and crossed the street.

But it was there that a volunteer got her attention, and invited her to visit the mobile pregnancy help center … where she saw the ultrasound image of her 8-week-old child.

“I feel very confident that she will choose life,” the volunteer said.”We exchanged phone numbers and I will keep in touch with her. Please pray for this beautiful woman and her child!”

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Roman, Romania

February 20, 2018

Roman is taking part in 40 Days for Life for the first time … and yes, it’s cold there!

The first day of the campaign, one of the team members said, dozens of faithful Christians turned out to launch the vigil – despite the weather. “Brrrr! Today we passed the test of the cold!”

The chill has not discouraged them from praying together for the lives of the unborn. “The missionaries of life are on duty,” the team member said, “no matter the weather outside! They do not abandon their mission.”

It always helps, of course, when more volunteers arrive with hot tea.

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Joining in prayer to end abortions and save innocent children.

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It’s a question one of the local 40 Days for Life leaders asked recently: “Where is your heart?”

In other words, what do you think is important?

Just the day before this 40 Days for Life campaign started, Planned Parenthood showed exactly where its heart is.

The headline on their own news release said it all: “Planned Parenthood announces sweeping initiative to expand reproductive health and rights state by state.”

To sum that up in two words: more abortion.

Planned Parenthood’s vice president termed it “going on the offense” because “everyone deserves the freedom and opportunity to control their lives at the most basic level.”

Everyone, of course, but the innocent child in the womb.

But that’s where your heart is – with the babies and their mothers. And that’s why we continue to pray.

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Columbia, Missouri
Kathy, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Columbia, was praying at the vigil on a day on which Planned Parenthood had to call two different repair crews.

One team came to replace a broken security camera. Then a locksmith arrived when the staff couldn’t lock the door as they were closing.

“Planned Parenthood spends a great amount of money on security cameras and special locks to secure a building where the lives of innocent babies are taken and the lives of their mothers and fathers destroyed forever,” Kathy said. “This is where their heart is.”

If your heart is with the innocent lives being ended at Planned Parenthood and the moms whose lives are shattered, “we eagerly await your coming to share your heart with those on the sidewalk and those who feel called to this dreadful place of death,” Kathy said.

“You are always welcome.”

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Douglas, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Sioux Falls, was alone at the vigil on Day 1 when a car pulled up ... and a woman walked over.

“Seeing my pro-life sign,” he said, “she asked if it was okay for her to pray also.”

The woman said she had five children and her husband was pro-life. “She’d never heard of 40 Days for Life, but she’d passed the Planned Parenthood facility many times, and always felt compelled to pray.”

Douglas told her that this was a good day for her very first time of sidewalk prayer, since it was also the first hour of the first day of the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil ... and now she was the first volunteer.

“She then knelt down in the snow and prayed for about 15 minutes,” he said. “What a joyous encounter!”

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DAY 9: “Can’t I just pray at home?”

February 22, 2018

Many hear about 40 Days for Life and respond:

“God hears our prayers wherever we are. I can stay home and pray.”

Of course, and we need to do that first and foremost. But the urgency of abortion calls us to take Christ to the darkest corners of our culture … just as millions of missionaries have done throughout the 2,000 year history of Christianity.

Let me tell you a story.

This simple sign with the message “choose life” is a popular one for 40 Days for Life volunteers in Cluj-Napoca. Romania.

And it’s a life saver.

A young woman – a high school student – was on her way for an abortion because she didn’t want her mother to find out she was pregnant. Her boyfriend was also pressuring her to abort.

But when she arrived for the abortion, “I saw this banner, this one with this little blue-eyed baby,” she said. “I felt I did not want the abortion and I wanted this baby.”

She and the friend who accompanied her then started a conversation with two women at the 40 Days for Life vigil who promised their support and connected her with others who could help.

When the young woman returned home, the child’s father increased his pressure. But she told him she would be having the baby, and he could either accept that or leave. A few days later, he came to her in tears … asking for forgiveness.

The meeting with the two women would have never happened – and the child might not be alive today – if those volunteers had chosen to pray at home instead of at the vigil.

It does make a difference!

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Waco, Texas

February 22, 2018

When John, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Waco, went to check on the vigil, he found “two lovely families praying and playing together.”

The new Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Waco is on a heavily-traveled highway. “Our prayer vigil and signs are clearly in the public square at this location,” John said. “This gives us a major opportunity to deliver on the community outreach goal of 40 Days for Life.”

He said the sight of children at the vigil sends a very strong message. “The elderly guy in the photo with the children is me,” said John. “I find 40 Days for Life to be a very invigorating experience.”

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Wellington, New Zealand

February 22, 2018

Each morning, three young children walk past the 40 Days for Life vigil in Wellington on their way to school – two boys and a girl.

“The first day, the girl tried to understand what we were doing,” said Clare in Wellington. “With words and actions, I tried to explain that we are praying for mothers and babies.”

A few days later, Clare was praying outside the hospital where abortions take place when a small voice called out, “Hello! Hello!”

It was the little girl.

“She handed me a yellow rose and then followed her ‘brothers’ up the hospital path. The boys also had roses in their hands, stopped and planted them in the garden,” Clare said. “It was so beautiful to witness their innocence and simple offering.”

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DAY 10: “You need to have an abortion”

February 23, 2018

“She didn’t want to have an abortion,” said a 40 Days for Life team member in Manchester, New Hampshire.

“But she felt like she had no choice.”

In fact, a doctor had told this woman that abortion was her only option because of the risk of disabilities. Thankfully, the day she arrived at Planned Parenthood, there were people praying and counseling on the sidewalk.

The abortion industry targets children with disabilities. However, this cold mentality toward these children is no match for the love a mother has for her child. Here’s an example.

Manchester, New Hampshire

A woman was on the verge of tears as she told her story on the sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood in Manchester.

In Boston, a doctor had told her the pregnancy could create serious long-term health problems for her … and her child could face significant physical and mental challenges.

Abortion was the only “choice” she was offered.

One of the sidewalk counselors gently mentioned adoption, but as she’s already the mother of a small child, she said “I could never give my baby away.” She then turned and walked into Planned Parenthood.

When she left the building, she went back to the vigil. At first she had been told she could take the abortion pill, but now it was too late. She would have to have a surgical abortion, which she didn’t want.

The sidewalk counselor told them where they could obtain a second opinion … and also offered help at the local pregnancy center.

“When she had arrived, she looked defeated,” the volunteer said. “But when they walked out of Planned Parenthood for the last time … she came out looking strong and confident.”

She told the counselor, “I won’t do it!”

Please keep this mother and her child in your prayers.