Street Report May 2-7,, 2005

>   1295 babies saved since January 2000 !  

Angela with save Elizabeth and daughter Sara

Klara, Hope Clinic employee, going into hospital after another botched abortion

Proclaimers speaking with Victoria 14 wks save

Husband of hospital patient came to pray with proclaimers

Death Toll May 2-7, 2005

 Hope Clinic- Granite City, IL  Home of the American Family Extermination Camp “destroying families one child at a time"

Monday- Bag n’ Tag 148 babies from past week’s massacre

Tuesday- 28           NC, MI, MO, IL             Two Hispanic women brought a young girl .These were the same women who visited the mill last week telling lifesavers how no one really cares about them and they needed rent money. Proclaimers took up a collection and gave them a donation to help with the rent bill .  Later that day proclaimers even found eight different jobs they could apply for employment with. Only to our dismay did these same women who lifesavers prayed with and tried to help bring a girl to kill her baby.   

Wednesday- 23          KY, MO, IL    Hispanic women and young girl returned for second day of the  late-term abortion. Possible botched abortion as a young couple slowly came out of the mill. Katrina watched as this young girl held her belly and cried, “It hurts, it hurts!” to her male companion. She doubled over when they got to the car. The boy ran back to the death camp. He then returned to the distraught girl who was in excruciating pain and he took her back inside the Hope(less) clinic. 

Thursday- midnight abortions 15         KY², MO, IL             National Day of Prayer- A handful of proclaimers made up the hedge and stood at these gates praying for the repentance of our Nation and the mothers and fathers who stood in line to sign the death warrant out on their babies.

A young mother whose baby boy is due in three weeks that was saved from the Hope(less) jaws of death stood in the gap and tried talking to the mothers about, “How happy she was that she chose life for her baby.”  

Friday- 21       MO, IL            2 saves       Three lifesavers cared enough to lay their lives down for their lil brothers and sisters in the womb and stood in the gap. A Missouri family of five came back out of the extermination camp, they had three small children in tow. We asked, “Did you save your baby?” Angrily the man said, “Yeah!” We then asked, “Can we offer you some resource numbers if you need help?” “No,” he yelled…”But you didn’t kill your baby right?” He then said, “She’s too far along.” “We will pray for you and your family sir...” They then drove away.

Latter-Rain Ministries from Litchfield , Illinois brought approximately 30 young missionaries to these gates of hell to proclaim the name of Jesus. They played acoustic guitars and did a Jericho march around this deathcamp. This city of slaughter was under conviction of the sight of the Lord’s army singing God’s praises, as cars drove by honking and cursing.

Sara shared her testimony to the mothers going in as she held up her three old son, curly haired Joshua who was conceived from an act of rape. “He is a blessing,” as he tried giving the mothers happy face stickers and Jesus stickers.

A Young girl named “ Victoria ” from Missouri came out and we smiled and asked if we could help her with our free resources, she said “No, thank you.” We asked, “You didn’t kill your baby did you?” She smiled and said, “No,”. She then told us she was 14 weeks pregnant, Angela asked if she would like to see a picture of her baby. “Yes, but my ride has to get going.” I asked her if she could feel her baby? Sometimes it feels like a fluttering, or bubbling sensation. “Yes, I can feel that.” We exchanged phone numbers and a promise to keep in touch.. PTL!

Saturday- 38           DE, CO, IA, MO, IL           2 saves      One day before Mother’s Day as mothers and grandmothers walked their children into this extermination camp. We held out beautiful pink and blue carnations in honor of motherhood to the mothers, some took them. A few mothers were visibly upset and found themselves at a place they didn’t want to be at. Angela and Bro. John read scripture and engaged in words of warfare outside these gates. A physically challenged mother walked back out and told lifesavers she didn’t go through with the abortion and left this crime scene.

A remnant of lifesavers showed up at the Pregnancy Resource Center “Walk for Life” over in St. Louis , Missouri . This is a mega-huge, once a year event where thousands of pro-life Christians collect pledge money and walk for babies. This was an opportunity to hand out nice invitational flyers encouraging walkers that they can help some more after this event and throughout the year, literally saving babies at death’s door. Approximately 500 flyers were printed out. Proclaimers and their children handed the flyers out and placed some on cars for those already inside the park for their walk. These flyers were to inform and educate these pro-lifers about the Granite City abortion clinic that specializes in late-term abortions and the need for any who want to do more, after the Walk, and to come to the clinic and take a stand and speak out for the lives of the 150-200 babies that are slaughtered every week!

            Unfortunately, just as the walk was finishing, the CEO Mark Dungan and two women organizers for this walk made a decision to remove and discard all of the flyers before anyone could return from the walk to read them! One proclaimer from our group was left, with a baby in her arms and a little one near by, to plead with the heads of this organization to please let this word get out to these people, who have a heart for the unborn. Debbie, crying, begged them to please let her put the flyers back on the cars…but Mr. Dungan said “No!!” They stood there holding three oversized trash bags filled with the flyers. They belittled and tormented this prayer warrior, they told her that these flyers would let women at this event know where to go for a partial- birth abortion and it gave directions. Debbie couldn’t believe her ears. At one point she said, “We’re not here for your money,”…But you see, this organization was threatened by this little remnant, they didn’t want the truth to come out. They didn’t want other pro-life Christians to know there is a more effective way to fight the battle and save lives. Unfortunately, a lot of pro-life organizations have turned into huge financial ministries and lose their focus on the cause. They don’t want to share a slice of pie from their kingdom. It’s sad, this is why the pro-life movement will never win. These types just want to play a good game, not to win the battle over abortion. Just to ensure and further their careers.

            But God is faithful! Those few walkers who received the flyers, who now know, broke down in tears after learning about “those horrors that go on in that abortion clinic”. God’s will, will be done! He has ordered us to… “Expose the unfruitful works of darkness. For it is shameful to even speak of those things which are done by them in secret.” Ephesians 5:11-12. We will continue, we will go on… “Therefore, I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed. He is near who justifies me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together…” Isaiah 50:17-18

125 babies were killed.  4 babies saved. 1295 saves since January 2000 and 20 babies have been adopted!

            This is my commandment, that you love one another as I loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Nehemiah

Turn to Nehemiah. To catch up, Nehemiah lives in exile, he’s enslaved to King Atarxeres and he looks sad. The king says, “What’s up?” Nehemiah tells him he’s bummed that Jerusalem has no wall after much prayer. The king says, “Whatever you want, go”. God heard Nehemiah's prayer and he turned the heart of the king to favor Nehemiah.  He gave him papers to travel with and supplies to build the wall.  And he let him go to do the work.  All that for a slave--the cupbearer, the guy who

tasted the food and drinks to make sure they weren't poisoned, or spoiled.

            So Nehemiah goes to Jerusalem and in 3:10, Sanballat is disturbed that Nehemiah is on the case.  But by 3:19, Sanballat is ticked and making fun. "What is this you are doing, {Nehemiah}?" the asked.  "Are you rebelling against the king?" Nehemiah responds v. 20. "The God of heaven will give us success.  We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it."  We are trying to rebuild the walls of the family, and of the Church! Why can't Christians WAKE UP and realize this!!!!!!

  Supporting CPC’s is not enough

During pro-life outreaches to the churches we frequently run into perplexed Christians who cannot understand why we ask them to maintain a Christian testimony outside the local abortion clinics. Their chief defense against such action is that they support a crisis pregnancy center. This act, in their thinking, absolves them of any further responsibility in the matter of abortion. But does it?

            As I worked at counseling women at a crisis pregnancy center I was confronted one day by a tearful, angry woman. “Where were you when I needed you,” she cried. “If you had been at the abortion clinic when I had my abortion, I would have kept my baby!” What about these women? I knew that if we took our counseling to the street in front of the abortion clinic we could save even more lives.

            Today, many in the churches want us to accept that supporting a CPC is enough and that they have no further responsibility in the matter of abortion. However, that excuse falls flat when we consider the thousands of women who will never take advantage of the CPC’s, which today mostly offer their assistance to women who have already decided to carry their babies to term. It is my estimate that approximately 10,000-13,000 abortions take place in Granite City each year.

            Are we just to abandon these women to the hands of the abortionists only to come to their aid after the fact with “post-abortion counseling?” This is the equivalent of the priest and the Levite passing by on the other side of the road to avoid their responsibility to render aid to the beaten man. Jesus told us to follow instead the example of the Good Samaritan. Did the Samaritan simply pray for the beaten man when he retuned to the comfortable confines of his local church? Did the Samaritan open an office where beaten and robbed people could make appointments for assistance? This sounds absurd, of course, but this is how the church has largely dealt with the matter of abortion.

            The abandonment by the church of the women and their pre-born children scheduled to die at our local mills is an intolerable situation. The crisis pregnancy centers offer support to women who have decided to keep their babies, but the CPC’s cannot reach the hundreds of women per week who have scheduled to kill their babies at our country’s abortion mills nor are they designed to. But sidewalk counselors and prayer teams can. The effectiveness of a peaceful Christian testimony at the mills is proven to save lives and change hearts.

            We find often-hostile resistance form the pastors who intimidate their congregations into silence, thus bringing the bloodguilt of those aborted children they abandoned upon them and their congregations. Supporting a crisis pregnancy center, while admirable, is not enough. Let’s give abortion-bound women and their babies meaningful assistance that we, as a Church, provide to those who have decided to give birth. Let us follow the example of the Good Samaritan, find the abortion site nearest us and, as Jesus said, “Go and do likewise.”

            Be encouraged~ Angela

Tune in to today’s Small Victories radio program, AM 630 KJSL, at 1:00 P.M.  Today's guests are  Pastor David Lackey of OSA Birmingham, AL, and Sarah, a rape victim. Replays Friday at 8:00 P.M. Sunday at 1:00 & 10:00 P.M. and Wednesday & Monday at 12:00 A.M.