TExTING!
Read this great idea in Shawn’s email for today and make similar signs for your area!
Nothing is more powerful in saving lives than prayer
and fasting. But in addition to that, 40 Days for Life
campaigns are adding something else — texting!
Of the thousands of moms that have chosen life during
these campaigns, some have actually sent text messages
to the volunteers outside the abortion center, telling
them of their last-minute decisions to keep their
babies — and thanking them for being there.
I just got a note about how at least one 40 Days for
Life location is using text messaging BEFORE women
even enter the abortion facility to help save lives
... and frustrate Planned Parenthood.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
Many Planned Parenthood abortion centers force clients
to turn off their phones because the phones supposedly
interfere with their equipment. Eileen in Indianapolis
says it’s more likely that the phones interfere with
their business.
“Perhaps it’s because they might communicate with
someone,” Eileen said, “who might persuade them to
leave and not have an abortion.”
Prayer volunteers are now holding a sign next to
Planned Parenthood’s driveway that says, “Pregnant?
Confused? Txt choice” — and it shows a text number.
A woman who texts to that number will be put in touch
with a counselor.
There’s also a code on the sign that a smart phone
can read. The code leads to a web page that gives
information on contacting a counselor.
“Thank God for wonderful volunteers and creative ways
to continue our ministry,” Eileen said. “We are trying
to be as wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove.”
EASTON, MARYLAND
Bobbie is helping to coordinate Easton’s first 40 Days
for Life campaign. Her efforts must be working. A
Planned Parenthood staffer came out to the sidewalk
to tell her to go home.
“I calmly explained what we were doing and that we
had permission to assemble through November 4,”
Bobbie said. The staff member insisted that they
don’t do abortions at that location.
“But, you do refer [for abortion] and we are praying
for you and the staff, the clients and babies,”
Bobbie responded. The woman said she needed no prayer
and marched off. “So I quietly prayed for her!”
The campaign hasn’t been easy. “We are struggling,”
she said, “but the benefits and results of the vigil
are amazing.”
HOUSTON, TEXAS
It was a rainy day in Houston, but the sidewalk
outside Planned Parenthood was filled with people
praying. The inconvenient weather did not deter them.
But it did seem to have a big impact on Planned
Parenthood’s escorts.
Around 8:30 that rainy morning, the escorts got in
their cars and left — and did not return. In fact,
the escorts just haven’t been around much — “the
first time in the twelve campaigns we have organized
in Houston that they have not opposed us with escorts,”
said a 40 Days for Life team member.
The Houston team also tells of a woman who talked to
volunteers after her Planned Parenthood appointment.
Her pregnancy test was positive. But after she told
the Planned Parenthood staff she wasn’t interested
in an abortion, she was told they couldn’t help her.
“That surprised her,” said a 40 Days for Life leader,
“but not us.”
One of the volunteers in Houston has posted a video
showing some of the people standing vigil outside the
Planned Parenthood building, which is one of the
largest abortion centers in North America.
To see the video, please go to:
http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=3353
