40 Days for Life
A Vision of Healing for Central Ohio
Our nation is sick and in need of healing. The blood of millions of aborted children cries out as do the martyrs under the heavenly altar, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” (Rev 6:10). Millions of women lament and weep, greatly mourning as Rachel did, “weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more” (Jer. 31:15).
Every day throughout the world, 115,000 children die from abortion. This number is staggering and more than we can comprehend. Every week, as many children are die in abortion as there are people living in the City of Columbus! Abortion is a global crisis.
Every day in the United States, 3,700 children will die from abortion. While smaller, this number is still hard to grasp. Today more children will die in our nation’s abortion holocaust than people who lost their lives in the incomprehensible 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Abortion is a national crisis.
Every day in Franklin County an average of 15 children die from abortion. Columbus Public Schools’ average first grade class size is 18 to 23 students. Every day almost an an entire classroom of children will be torn limb from limb in their mother’s womb and thrown out as medical waste along with used syringes and bloody bandages. Abortion is a local crisis
And this local crisis demands a local response.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
This is the clarion call of 40 Days for Life:
After His disciples had unsuccessfully tried to exercise a young boy of a demon, Jesus charged the demon to leave the boy and never return, which he did. When the disciples asked Jesus why they had been unsuccessful, He replied, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.” (Mark 9:29)
As we come to the close of the 40th year of legalized abortion in our country, could it be that what we are dealing with one that can only come out by prayer and fasting?
I believe so.
40 Days for Life is a focused, community-wide campaign of fasting and prayer, outreach and constant vigil at a local abortion center. It goes to the core of the abortion crisis – the spiritual wickedness that has led so many in our community and throughout the world to believe that abortion is good for women, good for families, and good for our community.
40 Days for Life is a simple but radical solution to the local crisis of abortion. It’s simple because it’s a natural extension of our Christian faith – praying, fasting, and sharing God’s truth and love with those around us. It’s radical because it calls for a radical faith and a radical commitment. It calls for a faith that is confident in God’s promises: “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.” (1 John 5:14-15). It calls for a commitmeent to do what others may think is foolish, but “. . . the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.” (1 Cor. 1:25).
Join us in our campaign to bring an end to abortion in Columbus! Join us in 40 days fo prayer and fasting, and join us helping to cover some of the hours for prayer at the vigil site. 24 hours a day for 40 days - 960 hours of non-stop prayer!
• When the abortionist and his staff arrive at work
– we’ll be there.
• When someone goes out to grab lunch or take a smoke break
– we’ll be there.
• When their working day is over and they head for home
– we’ll be there.
We’ll be there praying for the women, for the families, for our community – and for the abortionists and their staff. We’ll be there witnessing the love of Christ to a fallen and hurting world.
The question is, Will YOU be there?
Beth Vanderkooi
Executive Director
Greater Columbus Right to Life |
Katelyn Evans
40 Days for Life Coordinator
Greater Columbus Right to Life |
