Well, there was another army out at the battlefield Saturday! Mark Wolf counted 24 people!! That was not including a group from St. Patrick who were out there at 7:30 that morning praying.
Another week of meeting some new people! Tamra and Tony (?). I met both of their spouses the week before.
It's overwhelming all the support that is out at the Mill. People praying, counselors calling out to the women, trying to give them help.
There was a turn away even before I got there!!!
Jessica is 32 years old. She has two children and her husband just divorced her and she is pregnant. She didn't know what to do, so she was coming to the Mill for a consultation.
Kim and Tracey were talking with her, Jessica was crying. Kim and Tracey drove her down to Kinder Women's Center to get some help and encouragement.
Please pray for Jessica and her situation.
Laura and Christina accompanied me that day. Again, such a blessing to be with my sisters on the front lines. As we were parking, we saw a couple walking up the sidewalk, the girl crying.
We hung out in the back alley for a bit with some of the counselors, then made our way up front. There were quite a few women praying the rosary. A group that was volunteering at Kinder came down and joined the women in praying. AND- some Franciscan Friars came to pray as well!! The Friars were also singing, one of them was preaching words of life to the people in the lobby of the Mill. He was speaking of the Hope we have in Christ, that Jesus came to overcome death. Man, it was intense. I had to pull myself together, I was on the verge of loosing it. It's bittersweet being there every week. It's beautiful to see people of different backgrounds pulling together to fight for the unborn. It's terrible standing outside, knowing that the abortionist is dismembering babies inside.
Laura, Christina and I got to talk with an older woman named Cecile. I have known Cecile for a while, she comes into the office to buy supplements. She noticed my bracelet one day and commented on how beautiful it was. She said she's very active in the Pro Life movement. I told her I had been going to a Mill on Saturdays. She gets wide eyed and exclaims, "You go to Founders?!!" She goes down to Founders pretty often, but usually takes a break in the Winter.
ANYWAY- She was there Saturday. She brought coffee and donuts for everyone- even offering it to the people going into the Mill. They didn't want any.
Cecile is just a big, bubbly ball of joy! She views children as a gift and a blessing. It was wonderful to get to talk with her. And have coffee and donuts. :)
There were still a lot of cold hearts at the Mill, and a lot of women who walked in pregnant that came out no longer pregnant.
It was interesting to me, this guy I was watching. He was in the lobby, looking out the window at all of us standing out there, he was watching the Friars and others who were praying. Then he stepped outside, just stood there. He didn't look at us, he just stood there, face forward. His eyes looked a bit red. Kim was asking him to come and talk to her, she doesn't bite, she just wanted to offer him some help. She called out to him for quite some time. He just stood there. Never acknowledged we were there, never responded. He wasn't even smoking (most people who come back outside are smoking).
As all the counselors were wrapping up their day, he walked by, holding (I assume) his girlfriends hand. We found out from another SWC that the girl was here for a followup, so she had already had an abortion. Who knows why he watched everyone on the sidewalk, why he just stood outside as Kim was offering him help...
I was thinking about the scene in Amazing Grace:
"William Wilberforce cleverly traps a sailing excursion of well to do citizens, causing their boat to be stopped in the bay next to the slave ship Madagascar, which has recently delivered 200 slaves to the West Indies, although it started with 600. Standing on the Madagascar, Wilberforce admonishes his audience offended by the foul stench to remove the handkerchiefs from their noses saying, 'That smell is the smell of death- slow, painful death. Breathe it in; breathe deeply... Remember that smell. Remember the Madagascar. Remember that God made men equal.' (www.bpnews.net Feb 23, 2007).
I would encourage everyone to go out to the Mill. You need to see the battlefield. You need to see the hardness of some of these women's hearts. You need to see the brokenhearted women who feel they have no other option. You need to see the diversity of the Body of Christ who are all pulling together to end the wicked works of Abortion.
There is an average of 15 abortions a day in Franklin County. That's 105 a week, 420 a month, over 5,000 a year. Just in Franklin County.
These are babies.
Not numbers.
Babies.
Babies like Lydia, Gideon, Valiant, Grant, Tanner, Grace, Naomi, Keziah, Thomas...
Babies who are made in the Image of God.
O Church, will you rise up to protect the unborn?
O Church, will you rise up and help these women who feel they have no other option?
O Lord, will you forgive Your church for our sins of neglect?
O Lord will you ignite a fire in our hearts, swell them with compassion for these precious gifts?
O Lord, prepare us for this battle, send out Your warriors!
Tuesday marks the 40th Anniversary of the Roe v. Wade trial that made murder of the unborn a protected act by the government.
The abortionist, Dr. Blank, (who is at Founders that I go to on Saturdays) will have been killing babies for 40 years in February. When I'm there on Saturdays, there's probably anywhere from 7-10 women coming in for abortions. If you take that number from Saturdays only and do the math for 40 years... 14,560- 20,800 babies aborted...
Say each abortion he did costs $500 (depending on how far along the woman is, an abortion can cost upwards of $1000)... Saturdays only, for 40 years... $7,280,000.00 made during his career aborting babies.
It's baffling to me.
In closing, I'm going to share some words my sister, Laura, wrote thinking on her experience at the Mill:
I kept thinking about Joshua and the battle of Jericho as well (Joshua 6). They marched around Jericho, completely silent, once each day for 6 days, then on the seventh day, they marched around the city seven times, completely silent. Then at the end of the seventh time around, they blew the trumpets and cried with a great shout.
And the walls
came
tumbling
down.
But God's people had to be there for that to happen!!!!
May the walls of these abortion clinics tumble to the ground.
May the workers of this iniquity come to know Christ and expose the evils of this industry, as MANY former abortion workers have! May Christians stop saying, "Oh, somebody else will be there. Somebody else will do it. I don't have time. I'm so busy. That would be too difficult or too uncomfortable." What right & noble thing ever came about without inconvenience, suffering, and difficulty?
And I say this pointing the finger at myself too. I am so guilty of not taking action as well. I guess I just had no idea that sidewalk counseling & praying at abortion mills were even an option. I just assumed that anyone that stood outside of an abortion mill would just be yelling hateful things at the women going in there. I thought the only thing I could do to stop abortion was just to vote for 100% pro-life politicians and put a bumper sticker on your car. BUT THERE IS SO MUCH MORE YOU CAN DO!! When the Syrians were coming to seize Elisha, they had all of Israel surrounded with horses and chariots. His servant was afraid, and Elisha prayed that his servants eyes would be opened. His servant opened his eyes and saw the mountains were surrounded with horses and chariots of fire from Heaven!! Then God struck the Syrians blind, and they continued on to Samaria because they couldn't see where they were going. (2 King 6:15-23)May God surround these abortion mills & Planned Parenthoods with chariots of fire, and blind the people going in so that they walk down to Kinder Women's Center instead of killing their baby. May the love of Christ glow from the faces of all those who are praying and trying to counsel outside these abortion mills."
I pray I live to see the end of Abortion. Please take time to pray and fast for the end of Abortion.
To God be All Glory, Forever!
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