Dear Friend of Life:
Our staff is growing!
We’d like you to meet the newest member of the Sidewalk Advocates for Life National Team, Jeff Reedy! (Go here — and be sure to scroll down a bit — to learn more about him:https://sidewalkadvocates.org/
Jeff is now serving as our Shipping Coordinator — truly filling a huge need, due to the nature of our work — as well as the co-leader for our DFW LIFE Runners chapter (seehttps://sidewalkadvocates.org/
This is what Jeff wanted to share with all of you, our dear partners in this great work…
Hello! My name is Jeff Reedy, and I am very excited to be working with Sidewalk Advocates for Life. I have been pro-life for as long as I remember. When I was in high school, I found myself asking myself the question “when is it OK for a woman to have an abortion?” and the answer I came up with — after prayer and reflection — was “never.” I realized that God has a purpose and plan for every person — and that purpose and plan start before the person is born. Taking the life of an unborn person is always wrong, no matter how they were conceived. So from that moment, I became very passionately prolife!
I met Lauren when she was a student at Texas A&M University, involved in our local parish and volunteering as a prayer volunteer and sidewalk counselor with the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life and 40 Days for Life. When I would volunteer to stand and pray at the abortion clinic in the area, I would talk to her many times. When I learned that she had started Sidewalk Advocates for Life, I immediately added it to my prayer list and prayed for it, and her, every day. I was thrilled when I learned that there was an opportunity for me to help in a “hands-on” way and put feet to my prayers.
I continue to pray every day that the organization and my involvement continue to grow and help put an end to abortion and save babies’ lives, across our nation and around the world.
Friends, thank you for supporting us in this work to save lives, transform hearts and end abortion through the grace of God!
Don’t forget! Applications to bring Sidewalk Advocacy through Sidewalk Advocates for Life to your local community are now open through November 30!
If your town or city would be blessed by Sidewalk Advocacy training, tools and support, we would LOVE to be a blessing to you and help you save as many lives as possible through God’s grace!
We provide…
- a small program manual that tells you how to set up and run SAFL in your town/city
- a comprehensive, professional 4-hour training DVD with training workbooks
- tools such as flyer templates, bulletin announcements, literature options, pro-bono legal services (through 3 pro-life legal organizations) …and more!
- full-time staff support
- a place on our Locations tab on our website, so people can find you
- a program that has a national reputation for being peaceful, prayerful & law-abiding
We know you’re busy — so we make it easy for you!
Questions about the program? Feel free to email us at info@sidewalkadvocates.org!
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL (NOVEMBER 9-15, 2014): “ENEMIES & ALLIES”
by Jeff Reedy, Shipping Coordinator & DFW LIFE Runners Co-Leader, Sidewalk Advocates for Life
Verse(s): “In the same way, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting than over ninety-nine upright people who have no need of repentance.” — Luke 15:7
Reflection: This is an important verse and concept for us to remember as we go about our daily lives, but especially as we engage in the spiritual and conceptual warfare that is the pro-life movement today. It is easy to vilify abortion doctors, clinicians, and politicians that support the pro-abortion agenda. It is easy to find ourselves hating, not just what they teach, but those people themselves. It is so important for us to remember the verse above, which reminds us how precious it is to our Lord when people repent and come back to Him.
Certainly we keep this in mind when it comes to ideas like Project Rachel, which gives hope to women who have had an abortion and then find themselves regretting it. But we should also keep in mind how our Lord’s admonition to love our enemies comes into this, as well. When we consider such stories as Former Planned Parenthood Director, Abby Johnson, we see that someone who was so recently our “enemy” has now become our friend, we see God’s great generosity and His love toward people who are currently misled in their beliefs and actions.
Faith Challenge: Let us remember to pray for an end to abortion every day. But let’s not forget to pray for the conversion of the souls of those who are currently performing abortions, helping with abortions, or pushing for legislation that enables abortions. While their agendas are certainly our enemy, the people themselves are children of God, lost and wandering without the shepherd they need so desperately.
Let us rejoice when they come home. And let us continue to pray that they one day do just that.