Endorsements
National pro-life and pro-family leaders have been lining up to endorse the nationwide 40 Days for Life campaign. Here are comments from some of them…
FR. FRANK PAVONE
National Director, Priests for Life
Pastoral Director, Silent No More Awareness Campaign and Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries
www.priestsforlife.org
“Abortion will end when local communities say it will end — no sooner, and no later. We have the power to stop abortion, even while it remains legal. Now is the time to mobilize, sustained by prayer. Women and men who have lost children to abortion need to hear the witness of others who have experienced that pain and have found healing. 40 Days for Life is an opportunity for a local community to hear that witness. The men and women of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign are looking forward to participating and I strongly endorse the 40 Days for Life effort. I look forward to promoting it nationwide and participating in it in many communities.”
CARMEN PATE
Co-Host, Point of View Radio Talk Show
USA Radio Network
www.pointofview.net
“40 Days for Life is an opportunity for the body of Christ to see God work in extraordinary ways as we come together in repentance for the travesty of abortion. The results, I believe, will be nothing short of miraculous as hearts are healed, restored, and emboldened to embrace life for future generations.”
ROYCE DUNN
Founder and Director, Life Chain
www.lifechain.net
“40 Days for Life is cause for everyone in pro-life to rejoice. Imagine what will occur across America when pro-lifers in many cities and towns resolve to pray earnestly and urge God to anoint their labors and use mightily their witness against the curse of abortion in their local neighborhoods. Imagine the lives that will be saved and hearts changed. Imagine the huge number of new pro-life recruits. 40 Days for Life is blessed with committed leadership, superb prep materials, and marvelous passion. It is flexible and doable. Most important of all, it values and relies on God, the giver of life. I look forward to many faith-building reports of its success.”
JANET FOLGER
President, Faith2Action
Author, “The Criminalization of Christianity”
www.faith2action.org
“We are one judge away from protecting children again — if there was ever a time to fast it is now. Join in the ‘high octane prayer’ that moves the mountains. There is nothing more powerful we can do.”
JOE SCHEIDLER
National Director, Pro-Life Action League
www.prolifeaction.org
“Ora et Labora — prayer and action — are our most powerful tools in the battle against the abortion culture. The 40 Days for Life program combines the two
beautifully, with the potential of bringing down the culture of death. Compassionate, dedicated pro-life Christians praying fervently for 40 days and 40 nights, 24 hours a day, at the very places where abortions are performed, is an ardent call for God to work miracles as He pleases. The Pro-Life Action League is conducting a 40 Days for Life vigil in our campaign
to keep Planned Parenthood from opening a major abortion clinic in Aurora, Illinois. In my book, CLOSED, I make it very clear that all my efforts in the pro-life battle are based on my personal commitment to the combination of prayer and action. I not only wholeheartedly endorse the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil, but I believe it is absolutely necessary for ultimate victory over the evil of abortion, and I believe the time is right.”
NOREEN JOHNSON, M.D.
Former Abortion Provider
“Without a doubt, you can be a part of a movement in your locale that will negatively impact the kingdom of darkness as it fuels the abortion holacaust. During the 40 Days for Life in my community, I witnessed an increase in the unity of the Body of Christ, a decrease in abortions and also an increase in volunteers working in various pro-life venues in our community. Come fast and pray with members of your community and join this global effort.”
JIM SEDLAK
Founder, Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP)
Vice President, American Life League
www.all.org/stopp
“Every successful fight against Planned Parenthood has always had prayer as its foundation. The intense prayer and community involvement that is fostered by the 40 Days For Life will bring a tremendous spiritual presence at the Planned Parenthood facilities where it takes place. We, at American Life League’s STOPP project, wholeheartedly endorse this effort.”
FR. TOM EUTENEUR
President, Human Life International
www.hli.org
“40 Days for Life unleashes in an organized fashion the most potent force that we can muster against the culture of death — prayer and sacrifice. The only way we will definitively conquer the death industry is by applying the spiritual resources that the Lord has entrusted to us, and I wholeheartedly endorse the 40 Days for Life campaign for that reason. May God produce abundant fruits out of so much sacrifice and prayer!”
PROF. JANET SMITHProfessor of Moral Theology
www.shms.edu“I am very proud that my community, Ann Arbor, has signed on for 40 Days for Life. I am confident that the power of prayer and sacrifice that this community can generate will save the lives of many babies and the souls of their mothers — and we hope of the abortionists as well. I am very grateful to all who are doing the hard work of organizing this venture locally and nationally. Let us all line up behind the Good Shepherd and follow his example of prayer and sacrifice in service of advancing the Kingdom of God.”
DR. SONNY FORAKER
Founder and Director, Pastors for Life
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Pearland, TX
www.fbcpearland.org
“Pastors for Life believe in the spiritual strategy of prayer at the very doors of the abortion centers. Therefore, we wholeheartedly support the national 40 Days for Life! It’s the desire of this campaign to seek God’s favor with humility and contriteness of heart. Victory will come, not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord. That’s why it is important to go to the abortion facilities and pray! The success of this campaign is based upon our faithfulness in obedience to God�s command.”
JIM NOLAN
President, Crossroads Pro-Life
www.crossroadswalk.com
“The 40 Days for Life campaign is a real and effective tool to help increase awareness of the sanctity and dignity of each and every human life �- born and unborn. The members of Crossroads Pro-Life will be participating in this great effort during the coming 40 days and we pray that it will help to convert many hearts and minds for life!”
MOLLY WHITE
Executive Director, Redeemed for Life Ministries
www.redeemedforlife.com
“God does answer prayer and 40 Days for Life is an answer to prayer for me personally. This is the most exciting opportunity for believers all over the nation to unite together to pray and fast for the end of abortion in America. 40 Days for Life will give each believer the opportunity to be a light unto the world by our unity in prayer and fasting and our acts of love and kindness towards those who are lost and those who are hurting. This campaign is a wonderful opportunity to minister to hurting women, men and family members.”
DR. JOHNNY M. HUNTER, D.D.
National Director, Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN, Inc.)
www.learninc.org
“The 40 Days of Life campaign has already proven to be effective when it was first used. As you know, Jesus considered our lives to be worth the 40 days of wilderness testing for Him. This is a specific amount of your most valuable resource, which is time, to embrace that which God has given human beings to experience time — that’s life! If 40 days in jail could save a child’s life, there are Christians who would sit behind bars. If 40 days of no meat could save a child’s life, there are Christians who would eat fruits, vegetables, cakes and pies. Because of 40 Days for Life, a child will have a birthday. The question for your consideration: ‘Is a lifetime for a child worth 40 days to you?’”
JACK AMES
Director, Defend Life
www.defendlife.org
“The 40 Days for Life campaign is the most exciting opportunity to strengthen and expand the pro-life movement that I have seen since way back in 1972 when I first became active. I like it because it has worked successfully in communities across America, some of which had virtually no local pro-life movement before the campaign. I like it because it can unite all wings of the pro-life movement as well as bringing countless persons into the movement who consider themselves pro-life but never have been actively pro-life! I like it because it could be the first step in bringing down Planned Parenthood, the Goliath of the abortion industry!”
HAYWOOD ROBINSON, M.D.
Former Abortion Provider
“To all soldiers in the fight and struggle for life: I heartily endorse 40 Days for Life and look forward to my second opportunity to participate. I live in College Station, Texas, and am proud to say I participated in the first 40 Days for Life. Awesome things happen when God’s people fast and pray, especially when there’s the unity, focus, and a cause so close to God’s heart. Please seek the Lord for personal direction in this matter.”
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“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves” -Proverbs 31:8