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75% no-show rate!

40 Days for Life starts TODAY in 377 cities around the globe…

…and today we are in uncharted waters as politicians calmly and coldly advocate for infanticide. It’s unprecedented.

This is NOT the campaign to sit on the sidelines.

This radical onslaught against born and unborn children is a clear sign that Planned Parenthood and its allies are desperate. But it’s also a reminder that our work is not done yet.

Matt Britton, Sue Thayer, and I recorded a new video to put the current state of the abortion crisis into historical perspective and to encourage YOU as you hit the streets these next 40 days. Watch the video in the player above or click here: https://youtu.be/gIF7ruNEJz8

You CAN make a difference. Former abortion workers report that when someone prays in front of an abortion facility, the “no-show” rate for abortion appointments can go to as high as 75 percent!

Be that someone. Sign up TODAY to pray at the 40 Days for Life vigil closest to you:

https://40daysforlife.com/browse-campaigns/

40 Days for Life Updates

Las Vegas, Nevada

40 Days for Life Campaign Director Steve Karlen just visited the busiest late-term abortion facility in Las Vegas for the city’s first-ever spring campaign.

It’s a daunting location, and the facility built an eight-foot fence to inhibit sidewalk counselors. One of the center’s abortionists has a disturbing record of complications–including a woman who died due to a “negligent performance of pregnancy termination.”

“Las Vegas is known as ‘Sin City’,” Steve said. “But as Scripture reminds us, where sin abounds–grace abounds all the more.”

Indeed, lives are being saved. A pregnancy center next door to the abortion facility recently celebrated its 30,000th baby saved from abortion, and the director told Steve that the campaign “definitely, DEFINITELY” makes a difference.

The opening kickoff event featured strong turnout spanning Christian denominations. About a third of the attendees said it was their first time getting involved in 40 Days for Life!

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Campaign Strategist Chris Davis kicked off the campaign in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The weather was cold, but spirits were high as Chris shared a personal testimony about his own pre-conversion crisis pregnancy. “I was 38, feeling that I should have known better,” Chris said. “I show women on the sidewalk a picture of my son and encourage them that if I could choose life at age 38, they can do it at 28 or 18 or whatever age.”

After speaking, Chris was approached by a now-elderly man whose crisis pregnancy came at 59 years old. He and his young-adult daughter attended the rally together.

Scripture and Prayer

Blow the trumpet in Zion! Proclaim a fast, call an assembly. Gather the people, notify the congregation. Assemble the elders; gather the children and the infants at the breast … Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Spare, O Lord, your people.” —Joel 2:15-17

Lord, we ask for the strength, courage, wisdom, determination and stamina to carry out this mission according to Your will. Guide us, we pray, as we go forth and proclaim Your truth.

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Here again is the link to find your closest 40 Days for Life vigil: https://40daysforlife.com/browse-campaigns/

DAY 2: Baby saved in first hour!

There’s nothing quite like day 1 of a 40 Days for Life campaign.

Today we received the first report of a baby saved from abortion–during the vigil’s first hour!

While much of the 40 Days for Life world was still sleeping, volunteers in Birmingham, England helped an abortion-bound mother choose life.

“We had save number one during our first shift,” said Isabel, the local leader. “A lady was given a leaflet on her way in–she carried on inside but came out 15 minutes later and said she’d changed her mind and was keeping her baby. Praise God!”

Praise God, indeed!

Later that day, the faithful prayer warriors were joined by Bishop Bernard Longley.

On Sunday, Bishop John Keenan and Pastor Darnell Starks spoke at Birmingham’s kickoff rally. The highlight of the day was an appearance from a couple who chose life with help from the 40 Days for Life team during a previous vigil.

“They came back to say ‘thank you’ to everyone,” Isabel said. “And received a standing ovation from the packed hall.”

40 Days for Life Updates

Lincoln, Nebraska

40 Days for Life Outreach Director Sue Thayer spoke to a full house at the campaign kickoff event in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The leadership team in Lincoln rents an office across the street from the abortion facility and has “a perfect view of all that goes on.”

Most of the time, that is. “The snow is so deep that the windows are partially blocked,” Sue reported.

Of course, that’s no problem. For 40 days, the faithful prayer warriors in Lincoln won’t need the window. Undeterred by the snow, they’ll be keeping an eye on Planned Parenthood from the sidewalk.

Chester County, Pennsylvania

Lincoln wasn’t the only part of the country covered in snow for the start of the campaign. The Chester County campaign launch coincided with the beginning of a snowstorm!

“It did not dampen the prayers being offered for successful campaigns throughout the world,” Paulette in West Chester said.

With the community hosting its 23rd 40 Days for Life campaign, it will take a lot more than snow to keep the pro-life faithful away from the vigil!

Scripture and Prayer

In those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. — Acts 6:1

Father, in the Church’s desire to engage our communities with the Gospel, let us gain wisdom from those who have gone before us and cherish their experiences and perspectives. Help us to appreciate every soul in the body of Christ and minister properly to everybody.

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