Thanks to  Mary M’s daughter and son-in-law for this!

OLSOS Starlight Girls’ Choir

TOMORROW — Saturday, October 31st, we will be treated to a performance at the vigil site by the Our Lady Star of the Sea Starlight Girls’ Choir! From 10 to 11 am these young women will proudly and beautifully proclaim their faith in song, in support of the right for every human life to be protected from conception to natural death. Come hear them and add your prayers and witness to theirs!

Although Sunday, November 1st is the actual final day of the K40DFL, this time together will serve as our Vigil Victory Rally Celebration.  We will close with all joining in with the choir in singing all verses of the venerable hymn “Amazing Grace” (sheet of lyrics will be provided).  This hymn, first published in 1779, is by John Newton, a former slave trader and mentor of William Wilberforce, who was instrumental in ending this a travesty of justice of his time.  As we work to end abortion, this modern day injustice and denial of personhood, let us renew this old song as our anthem.

Due to the presence of youth, no graphic signs will be displayed during this hour of vigil and celebration.

Planned Parenthood recently began a blog called “I am EMILY X.” 
Well, woohoo!  Bremerton, WA just made the blog… http://iamemilyx.blogspot.com/ (See the Monday, October 19, 2009 entry)

It is an interesting analogy they make in this blog entry since, with PP as their church, I suppose abortion is a blood sacrifice on the altar of humanist ideology and selfishness to the evil one.

But they seem to forget that, regardless of one’s religion and even who one worships, the act of aborting the life of an unborn human person violates the correct ordering of rights as presented near the beginning of the US Declaration of Independence – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And, wow!  They must have been looking at the vigil site during one of our busier hours… “Protesters = 15″

Regarding the next post down on the “I am Emily X” blog:  Yes, we do know about the cases where abortion is used as part of the “solution” to incest and rape.  Problem is, abortion solves nothing in these situations; it only makes a devastating situation even worse by killing a human person who had no involvement in the wrong-doing, and heaping guilt on the woman victim.  Bigger problem is that these situations represent less than 1% of all excuses for killing an unborn child… What about the 99%+ where there is NO excuse beside lack of personal responsibility?

UPDATED INFO!

We will be conducting a Door Hanger campaign in the neighborhoods surrounding Planned Parenthood’s Riddell Road location on Thursday, October 22nd & Saturday, October 24th.  Sign up now!

We will go out in groups of at least two per route to provide an educational brochure that details the true anti-life nature of this organization which is causing so much silent damage to our community.  Planned Parenthood has conspired to take the lives of millions innocent and helpless infants in the womb, and has brought depression, tumult, and destruction to so many American families.  It’s time to combat Planned Parenthood’s big money PR machine and get clear and honest educational material to our community.  Doing so will help to rid our community of this diabolical presence that kills and harms rather than supporting and healing.

Monday, October 12th is the 20th day of the K40DFL Autumn Campaign… Can you believe it?

Darius Hardwick (Director of Northwest Regional Operations for the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform) will be the featured speaker at our upcoming  Midway Rally.  Come hear Darius, and rejoice with us that, nationwide, at least 141 babies (i.e., that many that we know about) have been saved from being aborted by our prayer, fasting, and outreach!

Date/time: Monday, October 12th, 7:00-8:30 pm
Location: Fire Station,  7600 Old Military Road NE, East Bremerton (near the Kitsap County Fairgrounds)

Snacks and refreshments will be provided; if you want to bring a pot-luck goodie, please do so, but no hot dishes please.

A couple pro-abortion counter protesters put in several hours on the road frontage opposite the K40DFL vigil site today. We honor them for not being fence-sitters on this issue as so many are.  While dialog was difficult with these two, one of them self identified as an atheist. That being a sincerely held belief, I think we can understand that the killing of the unborn doesn’t seem so unreasonable to such an individual. On the other hand, one would think that basic inalienable rights (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness) might cause an atheist some pause to reflect a bit further. In any case, we invite all with passion on this issue to come out and join us.  Dialog on this critical issue of our day can only bring light and positive change.

The vigil site in the aftermath of the violent tirade, but after vigil participants had collected the scattered pieces and reorganized things a bit.

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The violence taking place inside of Planned Parenthood spilled out onto the streets today.  A solitary man stopped near the vigil location, got out of his truck, and attacked.  He kicked a vigil participant, fortunately not causing serious injury, and the banners — on display as a part of the community outreach portion of the campaign — were ripped from their frames; one was stolen.

Four vigil participants were praying at the time of the attack, the license number of the perpetrator’s vehicle was documented, the sheriff was summoned, and a report was filed.  Hopefully, once identified and arrested, this man will receive education about his fellow Americans’ first amendment rights, and also a redirection of his upset toward Planned Parenthood — the cause of our prayerful presence, and an organization richly deserving of his outrage (but not his violence).

New banners will be ordered tomorrow, and should be up and in place by early to the middle of next week.  In the meantime, please consider signing up for an additional vigil hour or two… As this incident strongly indicates, we should have at least two vigil volunteers at every hour — for the sake of safety.

The old green van is back up and running, and will once again be parked in its usual spot beginning Wednesday, October 7th. Glenn says he isn’t sure what the problem was – it just seems to be fine now. This means the banner will be more regularly back at the vigil site. If you arrive at the site and no one/no signs or banner are there, call Glenn at 360/329-4985.

With the van not running, the banner has not been on-site at the vigil this week.  Glenn and Lori will be back this weekend and hope to effect repairs or find an alternate vehicle by early to mid next week.  If you have a vehicle that can be used for the purpose of storing and transporting the banner, signs, and other vigil items, please get in touch!  In the meantime, keep in mind that the banner is part of the 40 Days for Life campaign’s community outreach, and that your prayer is just as effective without it.

On Saturday September 26th, a janitor at Bremerton Planned Parenthood approached and talked to a vigil participant.  She really wants to quit working for them and hopes to join us at the prayer vigil soon!  She actually tried to join the K40DFL vigil last spring, but the day before she was to come and pray at the vigil she was bitten by a dog.

Are you also finding the devil setting up road blocks to your participation?  Don’t be too surprised, he will do everything he can to prevent you.  Plow right through those road blocks… their existence can be signs to you that you are doing what God wants you to do!