There’s an exciting new movement inspired by the Holy Spirit in Atlanta: “Calling The Church to Unity (CTC2UNITY)”, whose purpose is to “break ground, remove walls and build bridges” amongst the disciples of Jesus Christ in Metro Atlanta!  This is a crucial element in our fight to end prenatal murder in GA. 

I am excited to announce their first quarterly city wide event: “The Upper Room; The Church in One Accord” in the Georgia State Capital June 30, 2008, 11:30am-1:30pm.

CTC2Unity Coordinator Carla Tibbs invites all to “gather in One Accord in the Capital and agree to agree with the Holy Spirit regarding His Church. This is a time to gather our selves as One Body in a demonstration of the Unity. No frills! No Perks!  … Come and link arms with us as one family, one church, one body.  I am not asking you to join an organization. Just be the family of God joined together. I am asking you to link with us as we full fill the prayer of Jesus that we would be one as He and the Father are one.”

The event will begin at 11:30am with greeting and fellowship time; 12noon to 1PM is designated prayer time, with time for closing remarks and fellowship concluding at 1:30pm.

Volunteers are welcome and needed:

A. show up early during set up to pray and prepare the atmosphere for prayer.
B. we will have two teams, one for set up and a second for tear down.
C. greeters to bless and hand out prayer guides and vision focus

Your participation will encourage others, so please RSVP to Carla Tibbs asap.  Also, please make sure to contact her in advance if you’d like to volunteer. 

Carla can be reached at 404/863-5841 or by e-mailing her at callingthechurchtounity@yahoo.com.  Directions and parking info for the Capitol can be found at: http://sos.georgia.gov/museum/map_directions_access.htm

Also, CTC2Unity has a working meeting every Monday and all meetings are open!  All are welcome and encouraged to attend!  The next two meetings (June 16 and June 23) will be at 7pm at The City Center, 6502 Gresham Street , Union City , GA. 30291.  The locations for subsequent Monday nights are to be announced.

Beanie Babies are helping “Sidewalk Counselors” to save real babies!

Well, actually God is the one saving the babies AND their Moms.

Here is the “rest of the story”:

There are eleven or more abortion mills in the Atlanta Metro area & they all do abortions at least 3 or 4 days a week at the rate of 10-30 a day (sometimes more). We want desperately to be able to help the Lord save all those babies every week.

The women and their unborn babies do not need the false compassion of abortion, but true love, real love, love that is life giving. The Beanie Babies help us portray that kind of love to these often desperate women and men. The “sidewalk counselors” and their prayer partners with them at the abortion mills are the last hope for changing minds and saving families. We are all trying to take the love of Jesus to these woman and their vulnerable unborn babies.

Several months ago one of the counselors tried the idea of having Beanie babies work for her in gaining entry into the consciousness of some of these moms. And guess what, the Beanies are so cute and loveable that it worked! Moms are stopping to talk with us, Moms are believing that we are there out of love! And moms are changing their minds.

We put the little Beanie Baby in a clear plastic bag, together with a nice note, contact info and a list of all the Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the area plus the national help number - 1-800-395 HELP (remember that one).  Others attach sandwich bags with the info inside to the stuffed animals with a rubberband.

Now, you know what Beanie Babies are helping us to do! I would like to be able to supply all the “Sidewalk Counselors” with an unlimited supply of Beanies. They don’t need to be new, just clean and they don’t have to be the “brand” name (Ty). So, if you could ask your friends, neighbors and relatives for all their forgotten Beany Babies, we can place them where they will be loved again!

We’d love to have you on the sidewalk praying with us, so anytime you can come, just let me know.  I go on Friday mornings at 6:15, but there are other times available.

You may bring the Beanies to me at St. Brigid Catholic Church, or I can come and pick them up. I remember from working Beacon of Hope’s yard sales that each year a huge number of stuffed toys of all sizes are donated. Usually at least 2 large black garbage bags of Beanies are donated. So, they are often an item that people are willing to give up - since the idea of “getting rich quick” from their Beanie Baby collection has passed! 

Please pass this request along to your friends and contacts and get those Beanie Babies to us so they can help save families!

God Bless!

Nancy

Please contact Nancy at iam4life2@aol.com or Margarita at 770/231-9807 to arrange donation of Beanies or other stuffed animals!

By Flip Benham - Operation Rescue/Operation Save America

Twenty years ago in Atlanta, Georgia, God birthed a movement fueled by the Gospel of Jesus Christ and immersed in a single word – “repentance.” This move of God radically changed the face of American Christianity and the pro-life movement. All this took place twenty years ago at the Democratic National Convention in downtown Atlanta. It was here that the Church of Jesus Christ dared to allow the theology of the church house to become biography in the streets.

I stood amazed as I watched by television in Dallas, Texas. Precious Christians were laying their lives down in front of abortion mill doors so that others, who could not speak for themselves, could live. I saw gentle Christians, young and old, black and white, male and female, being thrown into paddy wagons and carted off to the Fulton County Jail because they were living out their faith at the very gates of hell – the local abortion mills in Atlanta.

Click here to continue reading at the OSA web site

Immediately, our investigative team went into action and we have uncovered incredible evidence that could lead to the permanent end to a leading abortionist’s career of death spanning over two decades.

This abortionist operates in Atlanta under the guise of a loving Ob-Gyn. However, in addition to his Ob-Gyn practice, he performs late term abortions for three other abortion clinics, including his own. Also this doctor has a medical research company which did the research for the RU-486 pill.

Right now we are in the process of putting the case together surrounding the deaths of women from botched abortions performed by this Doctor of Death. We are working with attorneys, private investigators and the families in order to achieve justice.

This investigation is costly in terms of necessary travel, legal counsel, garnering documents, and spending time researching. Please consider making a generous contribution to our work. Make your checks out to ProLife Unity, put Abortionist Investigation in the subject line, and mail to: 4901 Ascot Bluff, Acworth, Ga. 30102.

Thank you for your financial support and prayer support on this important project as we seek to end the prenatal murder holocaust in Georgia.

For Life and Liberty,

~Jenny Hodges

(The pre-natal murder center, “Abortion Services & Counseling” is located within Governor’s Ridge Office Park, but we are not permitted to park or go within the office park.  Praying and holding signs on the sidewalk, however, are 100% permitted.)

You are encouraged to wear patriotic colors and make your sign tie into Memorial Day - for example: “What have our soldiers died for if we allow the murder of our own children?”; “Pre-natal murder: is this what our soldiers died for?”; “40,000 US citizens are terrorized & murdered by abortion each year in GA”; “Free Help is available - prenatal murder is not your only choice: 1-800-395-HELP”; “Innocent US citizens killed in Building 23”, “Hurting after an abortion? Call 1-800-395-HELP”, “Jesus Heals & Forgives”, “Free Help is available 24/7; come talk to us”, etc. etc.

Governor’s Ridge Office Park is located at 1640 Powers Ferry Road, Marietta, GA 30067 (between Windy Hill and Terrell Mill Rds).  Please call Margarita at 404/824-5269 for further information or directions.  I’ll return your call asap.  God bless you!!

Brenda and I rejoice in the blessings of a large family.  We have fifteen children—no adoptions, no twins.  We are now 25 strong.  It is our privilege to raise children to love and serve God.  Psalm 127:5, “Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them” is true today as it was the day God inspired it to be written.

Before we were married, we made two important decisions.  One, Brenda would not work outside our home after we had children, and second we would do nothing to prevent the conception of children.  We wanted to obey the command to “present your bodies a living sacrifice” Romans 12:1, and leave the number of children we had to God’s wisdom.  It is by faith that we have trusted that He will not test us above what we can bear — and He has not.

We have raised our children using the Ten Commandments.  In Deuteronomy 11:18-21 God promises us, as parents, that our days and the days of our children would be “as the days of heaven upon the earth,” if we would do these three things:

1. Meditate on and follow God’s law ourselves,
2. Teach His law to our children daily, and,
3. Display His law, specifically, the Ten Commandments, in our home.

One day I looked back on the failures of my home, and I realized that we didn’t have a copy of the Ten Commandments displayed in our home, we were not teaching them to our children on a daily basis, and Brenda and I were not meditating on them.  We were not doing even one of the three things that God said we were to do to have a home that was “like heaven on earth.”

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Mr. Wysong pioneered the effort to help women sue abortion clinics for malpractice.  Since beginning this effort, the number of abortion clinics nationwide has dropped from 2000 in 1986 to fewer than 750 in 2007.  If you would like to talk to him about this program, or you have an abortion problem, or want to schedule him to speak, call him at 1-800-634-2224.  Or write him at: American Rights Coalition, P.O. Box 22188, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37422.

“Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents.” Jeremiah 2:34

For more than 20 years I have fought abortion.  In 1986, God allowed me to pioneer the Abortion Malpractice Effort.  “Abortion may be legal but malpractice is not!” Abortion has two victims: one dead, one wounded.  In 1986 we began playing offense.  Hundreds of women have sued abortion clinics for malpractice.  The number of abortion clinics in this country has dropped from 2,000 in 1986 to fewer than 750 at the end of 2007.

But at the same time, every baby that could have been aborted in 1973 after the Roe v. Wade decision can still be aborted in 2007.  The only difference is today’s methods are more barbaric.

It is time to ask: Why, as God’s people, have we made so little progress against such an obviously sinful practice?  I would offer three reasons.

1. There is little prayer—public or private.  In most churches, if public prayer is made at all from the pulpit, it is once a year on Sanctity of Life Sunday.  And further, congregations are not encouraged nor exhorted to spend time in earnest, private prayer.  “…ye have not, because ye ask not.” James 4:2

2. There is little knowledge of God’s law. “They that forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them.” Prov. 28:4 We are unfit to contend with the “Goliath of Abortion” when not even 1% of Christians who regularly attend church can name all ten of the Commandments.

3. As God’s people, we have yet to repent of our own abortions. I am talking about deacons taking their daughters to abortion clinics. I am also taking about the widespread use of IUDs and birth control pills among Christian married couples. Both contraceptive devices work at least part of the time by aborting a newly conceived baby at a week to two weeks after conception.  A beam is in our own eye!

On April 26, 1989 the U.S. Supreme Court heard the Webster Case.  The State of Missouri had passed a law that said, “Life begins at conception.” Frank Sussman the attorney for the abortion industry said if Missouri were allowed to have a law that said that life begins at conception, then the Court would have to deal with certain forms of birth control.  He went on to say: “The most common forms . . . of contraception today—IUD’s, low-dose birth control pills, which are the safest type of birth control pills available—act as abortifacients.  They are correctly labeled as both.” No reputable medical authority will dispute his statement! How is it, that an ungodly attorney for the abortion industry, knows this information, and the church of Jesus Christ, which is supposed to have “the manifold wisdom of God,” doesn’t seem to know it?

“Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!  I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.  Ps 81:13-14

How did we come to this place of aborting our own children?  First, we made the assumption that God’s command at the Creation “Be fruitful, and multiply” did not apply to our generation. Second, we no longer saw children as the Lord’s blessing as stated in Psalm 127, 128 and elsewhere.  We seem to have forgotten that “the just shall live by faith;” and further forgotten that we are commanded to “Present your bodies a living sacrifice…which is your reasonable service.” Until 1930 every Christian denomination declared birth control to be sin.  Today, a Christian couple going to the pastor of the typical Bible-preaching church will receive the same counsel about family size and birth control methods (with the exception of abortion) as they would if they had gone to the local director of Planned Parenthood.

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he saw the people dancing around the Golden Calf and said to Aaron, “What did this people unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?” And Aaron said… “Thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief.” Similarly, pastors think that the people before them in their congregation have their hearts set on birth control.  They do not; they just don’t know Certainly there are some few who and will defend their right to practice birth control with the same vehemence that the godless defend abortion.  Abortionists see abortion as the most fundamental right in our Constitution and in the eyes of some worldly Christians; birth control is THE most fundamental Christian liberty. 

It is estimated that abortifacient birth control methods account for more than 13 million abortions a year.  Ten times the number of all the surgical abortions per year!!! 

My friend, you and I are among the watchmen on the wall (Ezekiel 3:17-21).  If we will not cry out and sound a warning to the flock, their blood, and the blood of the little children that they will spill, will be on our hands in the Judgment.  I know that many of you have never heard or even imagined the information that I have just given.  I would simply ask you to be like the Bereans; see if these things are so; if they are, obey God.  There is a well researched, free, downloadable book by author and pastor Randy Alcorn, Do Birth Control Pills Cause Abortions? @ http://www.epm.org/bcp.html.

The Mercy Seat gathering in Atlanta, hosted by Bound4Life Atlanta and Bound4Life chapters across the state of Georgia, was a huge success and blessing! Over 100 people gathered to pray for the state of GA in front of the State Capitol for 7 hours!! You know that it is God when so many believers from many different backgrounds and denominations gather to pray and worship Jesus! The purpose of this day was to stand in silent prayer before the doors of our justice system and plead the blood of Jesus. Because of the blood of Jesus, we can go before the throne of God and cry out for Mercy! Thank you for your blood Lord! As I stood in front of the Georgia state capitol, I was amazed at the thought of thousands of others gathering to pray at the same time in every state. What did it look like as the Lord looked down on the earth? I pray that He was pleased with His children. We certainly felt the pleasure of God in Atlanta. We had an amazing time of prayer as we stood with LIFE tape, gathered in small groups, and also worshipped our Judge, our lover, and our friend Jesus.

My favorite part of the entire day was at the very end as we worshipped the Lord unhindered full of JOY dancing upon injustice. It was a beautiful sight as we danced all over the steps and the front of the capitol. It was truly an honor! We were also blessed to be joined by a key legislator who has been a voice in the GA General Assembly for LIFE. Thank you for all of you that joined us on this historic day!

Please feel free to e-mail us any impressions, prayers, or testimonies you received! Thank you Jesus for unifying your Bride! Have Mercy on us oh Lord! Have mercy! Bound4Life Atlanta holds a silent siege (silent prayer meeting) in front of the capitol twice per month. Check out the http://www.bound4lifeatlana.com for siege times and additional information. Thank you for your stand for LIFE. Bound4Life Atlanta stands will you in the CAUSE!

For the Cause,
Cathy Coburn
Bound4Life Atlanta Director

The suggested topics of meditation and prayers for each hour in the Prayer Guide were profoundly beautiful and inspired, focusing on the Passion of Our Lord and 7 key moments in which He shed His blood for us.  I plan to use this Prayer Guide often now while praying outside the prenatal murder centers around Metro Atlanta, pleading His blood upon them.  One of the most striking meditations in this Prayer Guide for me was the following:

Can you see yourself resting your head on Jesus’ chest like John did? Can you
hear his heartbeat? Shhhh–listen closely. What do you think is on his heart?
Today an estimated 50 million dreams of Heaven have been legally aborted in
America since 1973. Every baby in the womb first originated in the heart and
mind of God. How does the Father feel when His dreams are aborted? One
third of this generation has never had the chance to fulfill God’s purposes in
the earth.

As I meditated on Our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane, the thought struck me that the wombs of abortion-minded mothers are new Gardens of Gethsemane in which Jesus unites Himself with these children, these eternal thoughts of His Father.  In the Garden, Jesus foresaw and awaited the pending betrayal by His friend and the horrendous suffering to follow.  In the wombs of these women today, Jesus holds these little ones as He foresees and awaits the final blow of betrayal by their own mothers and the horrendous suffering to follow.  He asks us, “Will you not watch one hour with me?” Bound4Life provided such a powerful opportunity to answer this call of Our Lord.  I pray that I may be faithful in following His call to keep watch with Him in prayer and outreach at the centers of killing in our midst. 

The heat that day and hard concrete in front of the Capitol certainly made for a challenging 7 hours, but they also proved a blessing for me in helping me to enter more deeply into the Throne Room of prayer, past the barrier that the flesh can be.  As Jesus told the Apostles that night when He found them sleeping, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak”.  It’s easy to fall asleep and begin to lose that spiritual connection with the babies, moms & dads that you can only get by “staying here and watching with (Him)” at the places of killing.  An event like Mercy Seat, in which the leaders had enough faith in us to ask us to stand, sit or kneel in silence in such harsh conditions for so many hours on behalf of the preborn and their parents and all who in some way condone or ignore this great evil, was a highly effective spiritual tool for disciplining the flesh, submitting it more & more to the dominion of Christ, so that we can be strengthened in our will to endure the hardship of continuing to go out to pray and sidewalk counsel at the mills, courthouses & Capitol as often as possible and in our homes and/or churches daily. 

In these times that we live, I believe it is of utmost importance that we all stay close to each other in prayer, gathered around Our One Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in the Garden, watching and praying for one another intently.  May we have many more events like The Mercy Seat! 

As Cathy mentions in her article above, the dancing in the Spirit at the end of our 7 hours was absolutely beautiful and a joy to the spirit --- seeing so many young people dancing in front of the Capitol - dancing in the triumph already won by Jesus over death and injustice - was a powerful witness to drivers going by to the JOY true believers have in Christ, our Victor and LIFE! 

Lastly, it was a great encouragement to have one of our state legislators praying with us!  I hope that many more will follow suit at future prayer events. 

I highly urge you to check out the Bound4Life website:  http://www.bound4lifeatlana.com, and here’s a link to The Mercy Seat website while it’s still up: http://bound4life.com/themercyseat/.  You can download the Prayer Guide here: http://bound4life.com/images/mercyseat/PrayerGuide.pdf

(Go to this link, and scroll down mid-page)

Now South Dakota, via Vote Yes for Life, is trying again, this time with exceptions: life of the mother, rape and incest.

We need to identify things that are harmful to our cause. To allow for any exceptions, to say that it is ok to kill the baby in certain cases, is not in accordance with scripture. See Duet. 24:16- Children are not to be put to death for the sins of their fathers. Also, Deut 24:17-18, children without fathers are to be protected from injustice by the entire society (that means you and me).

We are calling what is evil good when we accept any legislation that allows for the murder of innocent life. There is a way that seems right to man, but is an abomination to God. Our conscience has become hardened to evil.

Furthermore, we have entangled ourselves in false arguments. To say that prenatal murder is acceptable for the life of the mother is a false argument. Medically it has never, NEVER, been considered an abortion if medical intervention is used that saves the mother and ends in the death of the baby. But to intentionally kill the baby while trying not to harm the mother is certainly a horse of a different color. That is always and absolutely murder in every instance.

Ultimately, we must recognize that life and liberty are inextricably bound. If the civil government grants the right to life, they also grant the right to liberty. This is why our liberties and freedoms have been so completely eroded in this country. Babies in the womb cannot be murdered because the right to life is granted by God. Any legislation that gives to the civil government the right to grant or withhold that right is intrinsically evil.

We must come to see that God is not a big bowl of warm fuzzies. The Bible teaches us that God is a consuming fire, and that He hates the hands of those who shed innocent blood. Our God is a God who kills people, who brings forth horrific judgement on those who defile His land and His people. The judgement that befell the Jews in 70 A.D. was horrific. Jesus warned his disciples to be watchful of the times when this great judgement would befall God’s people who rejected and crucified our Christ. Reading through the Old and New Testament is a demonstration that God is a jealous God, and will not abide an evil people who claim to be His and then defile themselves by serving false gods and committing horrific crimes.

We have murdered over 50 million innocent Americans in only 35 years. Our children will inherit a country devastated by debt to foreign countries, an immense tax burden (we are one of the most taxed people on the planet), and bioethics that have reduced humanity to less than animals. We are legislated to the point of insanity (the Georgia House passed a bill on Friday allotting the same penalty as smoking a joint to selling marijuana flavored candy--flavored candy.  We are not even allowed to drive in this state without our seat belt on). Our dollar is failing, and some countries are refusing payment for products in U.S. dollars. The Federal Reserve is a farce, debilitating our economy and stealing from the population through bogus banking practices and printing billions in “money” that is backed by nothing. And though Bush ran on a platform promising a non interventionist foreign policy, we are entrenched in a war that is bleeding our already financially wounded country dry.

We are in a time of judgement because God’s people continue to call what is evil good. “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, turn from their wicked ways and call on Me, then I will hear them.”

To accept any legislation that says it is all right to kill innocent life in some cases is evil. It is calling what is evil good. A half truth is not a truth.

“ And, after all, what is a lie? ‘ Tis but the truth in masquerade.” Lord Byron

Let us not shirk in our duty or faint in the way, but demand that which is ours to have: God given Life and Liberty. We have only to reach out our hand and take it! If God is before us, who can be against us? If only we could see the power that is within our grasp! Was it not Elisha who stood boldly against the army of the King of Aram? Elisha prayed for the eyes of his fearful servant to be opened and his servant beheld the hills full of horses and chariots of fire ready to protect Elisha (2 Kings 6). If only our eyes would be unveiled in order that we would stand firm and fast and resolute in this urgent time.

If ever a day came to stand without compromise and with unbending determination, brothers & sisters, that day is upon us. As Washington urged his men when failure loomed large and the light of hope was growing dim, “Today let us fight not for ourselves nor for our families, but for the millions of unborn Americans who will come after us.”

The Duty is Ours, The Outcome is God’s.

For Life & Liberty,
Jenny