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)."

Visit...

HUGE & EXCITING NEWS:Audra just got word this morning that we will be getting a visit from Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life (National) Spring Campaign Director! We would definitely encourage anyone who could make it out to the vigil site for his visit to do so. He is a very encouraging speaker and you will be blessed!!

WHEN: SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH @ 12:30

Hope to see you all then!

During our last leadership meeting before the kick-off of the Spring 2009 campaign, Audra emphasized the range of emotions that we may experience while out at the vigil site. As a past participant, I can verify that you do have moments where your emotions run the gambit while out at the vigil site in prayer; those emotions went anywhere from sadness, sorrow, anger, fear, indignation, etc. How do we handle these emotions? I think that first and foremost, of course, we look to God and ask for His help and guidance to act in a loving way. In His infinite wisdom, God reminds us in 1 Corinthians 13:1, 4-7 that:

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal…Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

I hope that I can keep these verses at the front of my mind during this campaign; I hope that they will shape my heart and mind for the entire 40 days. However, last night at the Kick Off Rally, another point was made that seemed to have a great impact on more than one of us. Our speaker Maureen Yockey, Executive Director of Alternatives Pregnancy Center (Denver, CO) shared with us her first response anytime she is asked why she thinks that abortion is wrong; her simple response is “Because it hurts women”. She was careful to tell us that she does not imply that this is the ONLY reason she is against abortion, but she feels like it is an important piece of the puzzle that is often left out of this issue. She nudged us to remember that there are always at least two victims from an abortion, the baby and the mother.

So, my prayer is that if I daily join these thoughts with the wonderful words God has given us in 1 Corinthians, the first emotion that I will have for all the people (mothers, babies, fathers, grandparents, clinic workers, etc.) we are praying for during this time God has called us to will be…love.

At the end of this post I want to share a video of a song that God continued to “put in my path” last fall during the campaign. I honestly think that He did it to keep reminding me that there are a variety of victims of abortion and many of them are the mother’s left behind to deal with the decision she made.