Women Need Love - Not Abortion

Fall 2009 Campaign: Sept.23-Nov.1

  Prayer for Fall 2009                       
Lord Father, 
We pray that Your Holy Spirit will cause a fire to burn in hearts and minds for downtown Phoenix and ignite a response of participants and leaders for the Fall 2009 Campaign. 
Amen

You Can Help Save Lives

This fall, from Sept. 23-Nov.1st , 2009, our community will be uniting with other cities across North America and around the world for a massive coordinated pro-life mobilization - the 40 Days for Life campaign.  People of faith are praying that, with God's help, this effort will help bring an end to the tragedy of abortion.  People of reason want the world to know the truth of abortion, and so too, seek abortion's end.

40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign that has generated measurable lifesaving results in more than 200 cities where it has been implemented.  Some locations have reported as much as a 28% drop in local abortion numbers and hundreds of new people getting involved in local lifesaving ministry efforts.  The 40 Days for Life campaign is made up of three key components:

Prayer and Fasting: inviting people of faith throughout our city to join together for 40 days of fervent prayer and fasting for an end to abortion

Peaceful Vigil: standing for life through a 40-day peaceful public witness outside local Planned Parenthood abortion locations

Community Outreach: taking a positive, upbeat pro-life message to every corner of our city through media efforts, church presentations, petition drives, and public visibility

We have no idea just how big the 2009 campaigns will be  -- or how many more lives will be saved -- but it promises to be an exciting year!

                
                    Take a stand for life

While all aspects of 40 Days for Life are crucial in our effort to end abortion, the most visible component is the peaceful prayer vigil outside the local abortion mill.

You can help make a life-saving impact by joining our local vigil at:

            7th Ave. Center Planned Parenthood
                         4417 N. 7th Avenue 
                         Phoenix, AZ 85013

                          (NE corner of 7th Ave & Roma Ave)
                    between W. Camelback and W. Indian School



                 Contact us
 
We are looking for people to step forward to work as leaders in a team effort to coordinate the 2009 fall campaign.   To learn more, or let us know how you feel called to serve God in this effort, please contact:


Beth Straley and James Hallgren,
bethvs-40daysforlife@cox.net
480-671-6001

PRAYER  by Father Frank Pavone
Father, you are the God of hope. Your word fills us with the vision of the world to come, when every tear will be wiped away, and death will be no more.

Father, how we need that hope, how we are strengthened by that vision! Keep our hearts focused on heaven, and diligent in the labors of earth.

As we struggle against the culture of death, root our souls in the assurance of victory. We pray through Christ our Lord, Amen

 Check for Fall Updates on the National site, too.
        www.40daysforlife.com/ 
     40 Days is also on Facebook         

            Learn more about the national 40 Days for Life campaign.