People of faith are also invited to fast throughout 40 Days for Life. Souls are being won for God as well. Each day during 40 Days for Life, individuals, churches, families, and groups will be asked to join together in prayer for a specific request so the entire Body of Christ can unite around a common focus. Kitsap County, Washington. Charlotte, North Carolina.
40 Days for Life has contributed to a groundswell of pro-life support worldwide. We believe that when God's people fast with a broken, repentant, and contrite spirit, our heavenly Father will hear from heaven and heal our lives, our churches, our communities, our nation, and our world. Around-The-Clock Vigil. He also wrote The Beginning of the End of Abortion and To the Heart of the Matter. The Bryan/College Station Planned Parenthood joined the list in 2013. It also serves as a call to repentance for those who work at the abortion center and those who patronize the facility. Pro-Lifers in places like Houston, Manhattan, Indianapolis, Toronto, London, Sydney, Mexico City, Cape Town, Bogota, Moscow, and Hong Kong stand together in prayerful solidarity.
Amidst the sixth 40 Days for Life campaign in Bryan/College Station, Abby Johnson - Planned Parenthood's employee of the year - changed her mind about abortion, and she turned to the 40 Days for Life team for encouragement as she left her job. The building where thousands of lives were taken has been redeemed and now serves as the international headquarters for 40 Days for Life. Before long, campaigns had been hosted in all 50 states. That's the type of impact that led an ACLU spokesperson to describe 40 Days for Life as the "greatest threat to choice. A tragedy of epidemic proportions, abortion is the leading cause of death in the world, taking more than 50 million lives every year.
Shawn is a regular media spokesperson, and his work has been featured on hundreds of outlets, including Fox News, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Drudge Report, The Guardian, USA Today, and Christian media including The Christian Post, National Catholic Register, Sirius XM Catholic Radio, EWTN Radio, and Focus on the Family. During this time, he helped lead the first ever local 40 Days for Life campaign. In less than six weeks, more than 1, 000 new volunteers helped ensure all 960 hours of the vigil were covered. If your community has a college campus, many students can be impacted through an intense 40-day campus outreach. In 1998, Planned Parenthood opened an abortion center in Bryan/College Station. Green Bay, Wisconsin. If you do not have an abortion facility or Planned Parenthood office in your town, you can still conduct 40 Days for Life; however, you will need to select a different location which has some strategic significance - perhaps near city hall, a courthouse, or a highly visible intersection. He has executive produced award-winning pro-life documentaries. With God's grace, this movement will continue until every abortion center goes out of business for good. During that hour of prayer, they found themselves drawn to the timeframe of 40 days-a timeframe God consistently uses throughout salvation history to transform His people. People of faith rallied against it, but in time the office was built and Planned Parenthood opened. A door-to-door petition and education drive reaches out to every household in your town or city. But four members of the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life realized they needed to ask God how He would have them end abortion in their community. Shawn began as a volunteer in the pro-life movement while still in college.
These two Texans are among the more than 200 abortion workers to experience conversion and leave their jobs through 40 Days for Life. During 40 Days for Life, the message is taken proactively to every corner of your community. Those who are called to stand witness during this 24-hour-a-day presence send a powerful message to the community about the tragic reality of abortion. Hundreds of cities in dozens of countries across all six populated continents have now hosted 40 Days for Life campaigns.
Where do you start when it comes to addressing such a global catastrophe? For four individuals in Bryan/College Station, Texas, the answer was to start locally and to start with prayer. 40 days is a timeframe God consistently uses throughout salvation history to transform His people. Shawn lives in Texas with his wife and eight children. The campaign made local, state, and national news. This feature is under construction. Since 2007, 40 Days for Life participants report tens of thousands of lives saved from abortion during a campaign.
It is a peaceful and educational presence. Christ told us some demons can only be driven out by prayer and fasting. A grassroots, door-to-door effort reached more than 25, 000 households. Prayer keeps us rooted in the fact that it is our desire to carry out God's will. Media outreach is conducted through carefully targeted news stories, talk shows, and editorials.