Day 7 Daily Email From David Bereit...

Although all of the daily emails that we get from the national group are encouraging, I found this one to be particularly poignant. It is always a thought to me of how devastating it is for many of the fathers of the lost babies. Today's email certainly drove that home...

"I watched him head down the street, alternating between wiping the tears from his face and punching the buildings in anger and frustration as he passed them. Eventually he headed back toward the parking lot. As he approached, I went to him first. All I could think to say was that I was so very sorry for his loss. He began to cry again. Then a truck pulled up leaving the parking lot with his girlfriend and her mother inside. The girl's mother yelled at him to get in and cursed him as he opened the door. He had one foot inside, then stepped back out and closed the door. As she drove away he promptly sat down on the curb and cried like a baby. Three of us sat down beside him -- all men -- and cried with him. Eventually, he began to talk. He was probably in his very early twenties. He told us that his girlfriend did not want to keep the child because she feared they would not be able to provide for him. He asked her how she could destroy a life based on a hunch. He told her this child had a heartbeat and a soul and deserved to live. He even tried to convince her to, at the very least, put the child up for adoption. I was struck by the fact that this young man knew all this simply because his heart told him it was true. He was wise well beyond his years and he was hurting terribly. I was struck by the clear reality that fathers have so little to do with whether their own children live or die. I also couldn't help but notice that despite the high volume of Planned Parenthood volunteers around, none of them approached him. Before I left him, he stood up to hug me. All I could tell him was what I truly believed -- that today, his child knows that his/her father fought for it. That to his child, he is a hero and that someday he would know that also.Please pray for this young man and others like him.The tragedy of abortion is real and happening everyday. No one knows that better than he.I sincerely hope this young man comes to embrace the exceptional advice he was given; but that will most certainly take time. I cannot even begin to imagine the anguish.This is a first-person account of what abortion does to fathers. Who knows how many others have walked in his shoes, as there are more than a million abortions every year -- and more than 50 million since the 1973Roe v. Wade decision that opened the floodgates to abortion on demand."

Just wanted to share here in case you don't get the daily emails.

Has it been almost 6 months???

Well, the answer is yes! In exactly 4 weeks we will be kicking off the Fall 2009 campaign for 40 Days for Life in Boulder and it will run from September 23 - November 1. We are praying that all of you will again be praying along side us, whether that be with us out at the vigil site or from your home or churches. We wanted to give you a quick heads up on a couple of dates to put on your calendar:

Cast The Vision -
Saturday, September 19th at 4:00pm
8125 Ute Hwy (same as Hwy 66)
Longmont, CO
(Directions: Come North on Hover through Longmont. Go west on Hwy 66. Once you have passed "The Agricultural Heritage Center" on south side of the road,
look for blue and grey balloons on north side of Hwy 66. Turn north onto dirt road and travel 3/4 mile north. You will cross over two ditches. Stay left when road forks. Our driveway is the first one on the left. Two story house, detatched garage, off white with green trim. For questions about directions, please call Val at 303 684 8345).

AND

Kick-Off Rally -
Sacred Heart of Mary
6739 South Boulder Road
Boulder, CO 80303
303-494-7572
Wednesday, September 23, 7:00pm
Joining us will be:
Father Gerry Schnackenberg from Epiphany Anglican Church
Suzie LaVelle from Sacred Heart of Mary's Memorial Wall
Commander Johnson of the Boulder Police Department

Please come and join us! Also, please remember that we have a Facebook page set up especially for our group and anyone who would like to pray along with us. You will find us at Facebook here.

We are so excited to see what the Lord has in store for 40 Days for Life this fall; we have NO doubt that God will be moving!

A Word of Gratitude...

What a wonderful 40 Days for Life we’ve had! The response and participation that we enjoyed for our Boulder campaign was much larger than for our first campaign in the fall of 2008 and our prayer is that our participation will grow even more for the upcoming fall of 2009! What a blessing it was to stand alongside all of you out at the Boulder Abortion Clinic and petition our Heavenly Father concerning all of those affected by the procedures that take place inside that very sorrowful place. We are thankful that our vigil was 100% peaceful on our part and we can only pray that many lives were touched by our presence even if we may not be aware of it. Indeed, we are commanded in the Scriptures many times that we must be in prayer; as Paul shares in Romans “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” (Romans 12:11&12)

We may never know the results of our efforts in front of BAC this side of Heaven; however, we pray that Jesus is pleased when His own are obedient and humbly serve. There were many different experiences and stories that came out of this campaign, mostly positive, and it is a great joy to know that the Lord will use those experiences to advance the work of His Kingdom.
On behalf of your 40 Days for Life – Boulder leadership team we want to express what a blessing each one of you are! Whether you were physically able to make it out to pray with us at BAC or you were praying along with us elsewhere, we are humbled to be able to count ourselves your prayer partners. It seems appropriate to share these verses with you “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace…” (Philippians 1:2-7).

We are truly humbled and in awe of your commitment. God bless you all and we look forward to our continued partnership in this work of the Lord!

Ugh...

A post from another blog that reminds us of one of the many reasons we must remain faithful in our stand for life. Very disturbing...


http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/?p=2335

Please Join Us!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Our spring campaign's midpoint rally will be at 7:00 p.m. Friday March 20 at Harvest Baptist Church in the Gunbarrel area of Boulder.

Guest speaker will be Pastor Jim Tarr, of Christ Community Church in Basalt, CO. He will speak on the power of prayer and fasting. He and his wife have completed two 40 day fasts. Kyle Peterson will lead music and worship! Hope you all can join us!

7493 Old Mill Trl
Boulder, CO 80301
(303) 530-4412

Feel free to call John or Val if you have questions about directions:
John (303) 917-8536
Val (303) 229-2152

For Your Calender...

Franciscan Friars of the Renewal To Pray With Us at Boulder Abortion Clinic

Dates: March 12, 2009
Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM

Fr. Conrad Osternaut and Brother Simon Dankoski of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal are giving the parish mission at St Tom's this week and would like to join us for prayer at the Boulder Abortion Clinic on Thursday at 1:00. Viewers of EWTN may already be familiar with Fr. Benedict Groeschel's religious order. To pray with these men would be a grace! Consider yourself warmly invited to join them in peaceful, prayerful witness to a culture of life.

Cool Vigil Happenings...

Audra shared this in an email on Wed. (3/4/09) night and I wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance to read it! God is definitely moving...

"So, today, the same two women came to the clinic, but what was kind of odd-they both came by the same cab-driver. I had waved and smiled at him as he dropped the first young lady and so I must having been staring at him as he finished dropping off the other woman. He pulled his cab alongside where we stand, slowed down and said, "Excuse me, but may I ask what you all are doing out here?" I said we were praying. He held his hands together and said, "Praise God!" I asked him his name and he said it was Jackie. When I began to ask him if he would mind taking some of our Pregnancy/Post Abortion info, he completed my sentence and said, "...and hand it to them? Sure!"

If that were not remarkable enough, one of the vigil participants had asked if the Lord would send only Jackie back to pick the women up later. The first cab driver that pulled up was unfortunately not Jackie, but he drove away without picking anyone up. Moments later, Jackie comes back, gets out of his cab, smiles and waves at us as he goes into BAC and then personally escorts the first young woman that went into BAC back to his cab!

How much must the Lord love this woman to surround her with His people and give all of us an opportunity to help her!

Please keep Jackie, the Lord's Taxidriver, in your prayers!

In Christ Our Hope,
Audra

Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and billows have gone over me. The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me-a prayer to the God of my life (Psalm 42:7-8)."