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AFL encourages you to join the 40 Days for Life Campaign!
This fall’s 40 Days for Life fall campaign, from September 28 – November 6, 2011, will be the largest and longest internationally coordinated pro-life mobilization in history! Registered participants include 291 locations in 48 US states plus Washington, DC and Puerto Rico; seven Canadian provinces; and countries including Australia, England, Spain and, for the first time, Germany and Argentina. Forty-six of the cities have signed up for their first-ever campaigns. (Visit: www.40 Days for Life.com for the full list of locations.)
Over the last four years, the 40 Days for Life campaigns have united 400,000 participants in peaceful fasting and prayer for an end to abortion, including 13,000 church congregations. Best of all, 4,313 lives have been reported as spared from abortion. In addition, 14 abortion facilities completely shut down after local 40 Days for Life campaigns, and 53 abortion workers have quit their jobs and walked away from the abortion industry.
To really appreciate the importance of participating in a 40 Days for Life campaign, read Pamela’s Reflection which was written on April 1st of 2011: “First experience with the prayer vigil 40 days for life. What a surreal experience. It wasn’t until I got home in the quietness of my bedroom that I wept. I wept for the fact that in the middle of a busy city – people coming to and fro – passing right in front of the building where I am not allowed to enter the inner white line – people standing at the bus stop – the young girl who comes out in a daze still under the influence of medication, with her dad on one side and her mother on the other smiling – she can barely walk as they pass me by – they walk away and she reaches over and grabs her daddy’s hand and her mom strokes her back – how is this happening – how have we gotten to this point – how can we pass this place where women are choosing to allow someone to suck the very life out of them while they literally suck a child from the safety of their young womb. And how can we not weep every day for a generation lost. But instead things fill our lives and consume us and all this takes a back seat to our own problems, our own comfort zone. And when I go back next week – what will have changed – my heart Lord, yes my heart will never be the same. Every day at the center I speak to young women and now I have visited the place where some of them have destroyed a part of themselves and then returned to allow me to see the spiraling down and the pain – the “problem” replaced by a loneliness and sorrow that cannot be fixed. Pregnant again, now often trying to replace the child that they have forsaken physically, but now cling to emotionally. The cycle continues – I have come full circle. A man who showed up at the end of our shift put my unspoken thoughts into words – “I thought to myself – should I go to the Stations of the Cross at church, or should I go live the stations in front of the abortion clinic?”
We strongly encourage churches and individuals to join a vigil in your area; it will change your life!
