Welcome to the Peoria 40 Days for Life Site

40 Days For Life 2010

From September 22 through October 31, the Peoria area will be uniting with many others, from coast to coast, and internationally, for a major simultaneous pro-life mobilization – the 40 Days for Life campaign. Faithful believers across America are praying that these efforts will mark the beginning of the end of abortion in America.

Mission

The mission of the campaign is to bring together the body of Christ in a spirit of unity during a focused 40 day campaign of prayer, fasting, and peaceful activism, with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus bringing an end to abortion. 

Track Record of Results

Between 2004 and 2009, some 241 cities in four nations have conducted 40 Days for Life campaigns with measurable, lifesaving results:

• More than 215,000 people of faith and conscience have joined together to pray and fast for an end to abortion
• Over 65,000 people have taken to the streets, forming peaceful prayer vigils outside of Planned Parenthood centers and other abortion facilities
• 1,561 children have been saved from abortion — and those are just the ones we know about
• Three abortion facilities have closed and gone out of business following 40 Days for Life campaigns outside their doors
• Dozens of abortion facilities have experienced sharp setbacks, cutting back hours and closing down for days at a time
• Eighteen abortion workers have quit their jobs
• Many individuals with abortion experiences in their past have come forward to start the healing process

Success Stories

• Green Bay, Wisconsin rallied 700 people - only two percent of whom had ever been active in pro-life efforts before - and saved two babies from abortion during the first hour of their campaign
• Kitsap County, Washington organized 150 people and sparked a flurry of news stories and letters to the editor of the local paper. During the campaign, and perhaps because of it, the local Planned Parenthood facility abruptly cut back its hours and closed two full business days a week
• Houston, Texas gained news coverage in the Houston Chronicle (a paper that actually funds Planned Parenthood), directed 120 pregnant women away from an abortion facility to nearby pregnancy care centers, and saw another local abortion operation go out of business
• Madison, Wisconsin united Catholics and Protestants from across the region and reported hearing from a source inside the local Planned Parenthood abortion facility that the clinic experienced the most turnarounds in its history
• Indianapolis, Indiana: Our local state-of-the-art Planned Parenthood abortion facility closed on at least two of their busiest abortion Saturdays. Sidewalk counselors believe the number of abortion decreased from an average of 20 a day to as few as five a day.
• Wilkes County, North Carolina: A local newspaper for the first time ever ran a positive front page pro-life article with two color photos. We had 50 churches sign up for days of prayer and fasting. Thirteen of them interacted with the pregnancy care center for the first time.

Read about more success stories and blessings in the campaign from the National 40 Days For Life site.

Get Involved

We can only image what kind of success will God grant to the Peoria area through the Days For Life campaign. Click here to be a part of it.

To gain a better understanding of why this campaign is needed in Peoria, click here for an explanation.

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