Amazing Things God Did in 2020

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:06.400 I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours and me. Lord. 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:10.789 I welcome to the Gospel Center pro life podcast. This episode we're going 3 00:00:10.830 --> 00:00:14.109 to share with you some highlights from two thousand and twenty, things that God 4 00:00:14.189 --> 00:00:17.750 did on the sidewalk at the abortion centers and things that he's doing in our 5 00:00:17.789 --> 00:00:20.910 nation, even in spite of the chaos and confusion. Stay with us. 6 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:36.929 I felt show passish, touch your heart. Use All right, welcome to 7 00:00:37.049 --> 00:00:43.609 the Gospel Center prolife podcasts. Appreciate you guys tuning in and appreciate you guys 8 00:00:43.929 --> 00:00:47.649 share this podcast, because we know that you do, because if you don't, 9 00:00:47.969 --> 00:00:53.039 you're bad person. And so please do share this podcast. Please review, 10 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.320 give us a good review, thumbs up review, actually, five star 11 00:00:56.439 --> 00:01:00.920 review would be great. And in the Lord may give you extra points or 12 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.719 something. I don't know. I'm sure jewels in your crown. You never 13 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:07.390 extra jewels. Now take it carown. Yeah, exactly. So we wanted 14 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:12.750 to bless you, guys that listen and the tune into the podcast, with 15 00:01:12.909 --> 00:01:18.579 some highlights from two thousand and twenty. It's been an amazing year with a 16 00:01:18.859 --> 00:01:25.180 lot of rough spots, yeah, but there's been some great news on our 17 00:01:25.780 --> 00:01:29.219 front. Yeah, there's been some good news. It's been some struggles. 18 00:01:29.379 --> 00:01:32.019 There happened two thousand and twenty, I think. I don't think we have 19 00:01:32.140 --> 00:01:36.489 to tell you guys that it's been quite the year. Yep, with all 20 00:01:36.530 --> 00:01:42.129 of the craziness. And one of the worst things of all is that Alex 21 00:01:42.209 --> 00:01:46.849 Trebek died. I said that was very sad. That was sad. Yeah, 22 00:01:46.890 --> 00:01:49.959 and then there's some kind of disease has been going around or something. 23 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:56.200 I forget. I've heard something about setting. Yeah, so it's been rough. 24 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.719 It's been a rough year and it's but it's two thousand and twenty. 25 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:02.590 So there's twenty and twenty vision, twenty and twenty. I think that's something 26 00:02:02.629 --> 00:02:10.150 we really have seen this only pastors probably two thousand and nineteen, probably December 27 00:02:10.150 --> 00:02:14.789 two thousand and nineteen, or maybe they're their New Year's message for two thousand 28 00:02:14.789 --> 00:02:16.939 and twenty treat stone, two thousand and twenty vision and how this is going 29 00:02:16.939 --> 00:02:21.419 to be. UF fision ninety nine point nine person probably, and if they 30 00:02:21.460 --> 00:02:24.300 didn't, they missed a good opportunity to touch on that. But I think 31 00:02:24.419 --> 00:02:28.060 for some they were maybe if they had a vision of how wonderful things are 32 00:02:28.099 --> 00:02:31.770 going to be. Maybe they were surprised. Maybe their surprised. However, 33 00:02:32.810 --> 00:02:37.969 we're not sharing gloom and doom at at all. We're sharing how lights God 34 00:02:38.050 --> 00:02:42.889 did some stuff, some amazing stuff, I'm pretty amazing things, yeah, 35 00:02:43.009 --> 00:02:46.439 that we're going to give glory to God for. And so we thought we'd 36 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:50.560 do a podcast highlights of two thousand and twenty. What has god been doing 37 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:53.360 through previously cities for life? We're going to talk about that a little bit. 38 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:59.069 Yeah, now, Love Life, right, and so what's the Lord 39 00:02:59.150 --> 00:03:02.110 Been Doing? Well, he's been doing some pretty amazing things. I like 40 00:03:02.229 --> 00:03:07.150 to say amazing. I guess different amazing. Okay, I think. I 41 00:03:07.229 --> 00:03:09.789 think amazing is a step above amazing. Okay, do you think? Well, 42 00:03:09.870 --> 00:03:14.060 then it's definitely amazing things that, yes, talk of. Amen. 43 00:03:14.580 --> 00:03:19.340 Yeah. So one of the first things, because this has been the the 44 00:03:19.699 --> 00:03:23.460 big story in the news, of course, is coronavirus. Right. We 45 00:03:23.580 --> 00:03:29.330 did a podcast last week, couple weeks ago, right, yeah, about 46 00:03:29.449 --> 00:03:32.650 the vaccine. Somebody, guys can. That just got posted last weekend. 47 00:03:32.650 --> 00:03:37.569 Yeah, right, and you guys can can partake in that and argue with 48 00:03:37.650 --> 00:03:39.849 us about how wrong we were. It's some folks have and that's fine. 49 00:03:40.330 --> 00:03:45.759 I don't I don't mind being corrected, but that's been the big story. 50 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:50.840 Yeah, and we really had, initially the beginning of this year from some 51 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:55.310 pretty difficult struggles with even what to do. Yeah, because there was a 52 00:03:55.629 --> 00:04:00.909 there's a shutdown, there was a statewide deal where we were not supposed we 53 00:04:00.990 --> 00:04:04.310 were supposed to be basically in our home, screen at home. Yeah, 54 00:04:04.430 --> 00:04:09.349 the state at home order that was in place. Think it first started in 55 00:04:09.469 --> 00:04:13.060 the county. There's a county stay at home order and then the state enacted 56 00:04:13.099 --> 00:04:16.100 a stay at home order, and so we were really stuck with the questions 57 00:04:16.180 --> 00:04:19.819 like what do we do in the midstic? And of course our first question 58 00:04:20.019 --> 00:04:23.860 was just the abortion center going to be open? Yeah, it was. 59 00:04:24.019 --> 00:04:28.769 That was deemed any essential service and I think there was no doubt in our 60 00:04:28.810 --> 00:04:32.769 mind then we need to be out there. If the abortion centers open, 61 00:04:33.050 --> 00:04:36.930 we need to be out there, and our strong preference was to do that 62 00:04:38.129 --> 00:04:43.319 legally. Yeah, absolutely, and break the law, no problems with the 63 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:47.480 police. Yeah. So we really we poured over the stay at home what 64 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.560 was it called? The stay at home order order? Yeah, and and 65 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:56.949 made sure that what our rights were. And Yeah, and one of the 66 00:04:56.990 --> 00:05:00.589 things that we said initially, at least I said in my heart and before 67 00:05:00.589 --> 00:05:01.589 the Lord. It's like, Lord, I don't want to just break the 68 00:05:01.670 --> 00:05:04.750 law. I'm not just out here just to break the law. But if 69 00:05:04.870 --> 00:05:10.620 the abortion clinic is determined to be essential, yeah, then us being out 70 00:05:10.620 --> 00:05:14.339 there and offering those moms and other option and proclaiming the Gospel, that's essential 71 00:05:14.379 --> 00:05:16.699 as well. That's right, and so we kind of stuck with that as 72 00:05:16.819 --> 00:05:20.850 our as our guiding premise. Yeah, that if they are essential, we're 73 00:05:20.850 --> 00:05:24.930 essential, and so we're going to be out there. And there was you 74 00:05:25.050 --> 00:05:28.810 know, it's hard to almost think back then, but I remember that first 75 00:05:28.810 --> 00:05:31.250 day thinking when as I was driving out there no one, yeah, no 76 00:05:31.370 --> 00:05:34.920 one else on the road, and thinking I could end up in jail, 77 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:40.279 I'm not sure what's going to happen, and even just wrestling in my own 78 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:45.399 conscience if they say go home but they don't shut the doors, lock the 79 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:49.350 doors the abortion center. Do I go to jail, yeah, or do 80 00:05:49.509 --> 00:05:54.790 I go home to fight another day? What do I do? I remember 81 00:05:54.790 --> 00:05:58.389 there was a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear. We lost several 82 00:05:58.470 --> 00:06:01.149 councilors. I don't think so much from fear, though, some of them 83 00:06:01.589 --> 00:06:04.699 from fear, but some of them because all of a sudden their kids are 84 00:06:04.699 --> 00:06:09.180 out of school and they they had to be good thing to do it to 85 00:06:09.300 --> 00:06:14.139 school their kids and be home. So it was. It was rough. 86 00:06:14.180 --> 00:06:17.300 Yeah, it was rough and there were some arrests that took place. There 87 00:06:17.339 --> 00:06:23.810 were, I remember. So I remember when the first the county wide stay 88 00:06:23.810 --> 00:06:27.129 at home order was in place. That was the Thursday actually when it went 89 00:06:27.170 --> 00:06:30.170 into place and I came out there. I was listened if they're if they're 90 00:06:30.209 --> 00:06:32.639 going to be open at the abortion center, that I'm going to be out 91 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.399 there, and so I was there and I was pretty much expecting the police 92 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:40.600 to show up and start arresting us. They didn't. They didn't bother us 93 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.959 even that next Saturday. Saturday's a lot of times the police are out there 94 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.959 at the treble abortion center, all the abortion centers here in Charlotte there's a 95 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:51.350 police presence on Saturdays and on Saturdays they left us alone. Yeah, however, 96 00:06:53.149 --> 00:06:57.350 with our friends. This again was before we merge together with love life. 97 00:06:57.509 --> 00:07:00.540 So Justin and Andre and some of the other guys would love life act, 98 00:07:00.660 --> 00:07:04.100 some of these founding members. Yeah, some of the original love life 99 00:07:04.139 --> 00:07:09.980 folks were actually in Greensborough and they were experiencing some issues in Greensboro with the 100 00:07:10.339 --> 00:07:13.779 local authorities, which I thought charlot would be worsh in Greensboro, but at 101 00:07:13.779 --> 00:07:17.009 that time it was not right and they started arrest people in Greensboro. least. 102 00:07:17.009 --> 00:07:20.850 That was on like a Monday after our stayathome order came in place locally, 103 00:07:21.129 --> 00:07:24.970 I think when the state one came in to play. On that next 104 00:07:25.009 --> 00:07:28.490 Monday or something. I don't know the timeline exactly, they started resting people 105 00:07:28.529 --> 00:07:32.519 in Greensboro and then that following Saturday, which we did a podcast about the 106 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:36.720 arrest there and kind of working through civil disobedience and what that looks like. 107 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:41.199 And Yeah, I can we as Christians. How do we handle that as 108 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:45.949 Christians? And then that next Saturday they actually started arresting people here. It 109 00:07:46.149 --> 00:07:47.910 right there, Charlotte, as matter of fact, are our founder, David 110 00:07:47.949 --> 00:07:51.790 Benham, yes, founder of cities for life, was actually arrested out here. 111 00:07:51.790 --> 00:07:55.149 Yeah, yeah, and at the time that they were resting I believe 112 00:07:55.149 --> 00:07:59.699 there were eight people in fought arrested right here on the trobe and I was 113 00:07:59.819 --> 00:08:01.060 on the RV at the time. I was here. Yeah, but I 114 00:08:01.220 --> 00:08:05.939 was on the RV where my mom not only chose life but committed her life 115 00:08:05.980 --> 00:08:09.699 to Jesus. And and you know, I came out and half, you 116 00:08:09.819 --> 00:08:13.569 know, half the people out there had been arrested and I remember just be 117 00:08:15.129 --> 00:08:18.250 walking into the circle of the policeman and saying, do you know what just 118 00:08:18.490 --> 00:08:22.170 happened? Here? You are arresting people who are fighting for life and there's 119 00:08:22.170 --> 00:08:31.000 a mom who has chosen life and and even committed her life to God. 120 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.639 And what what are you doing? Yeah, and that was April, right 121 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.080 two thousand and twenty. It was right after it. I mean it was 122 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:43.549 in the midst of the crazy and the scare and it's like the yeah, 123 00:08:43.590 --> 00:08:46.629 all of the unknowns. And listen, they're still some unknowns for sure, 124 00:08:46.830 --> 00:08:48.950 with the coronavirus and he want the vaccine coming out and all of that. 125 00:08:50.429 --> 00:08:52.950 But yeah, the police were arresting people here in Charlotte. I remember that 126 00:08:52.990 --> 00:08:58.820 day when the arrest were taken place. I was actually there and we had 127 00:08:58.100 --> 00:09:01.419 gotten wind, I believe. Of matter of fact, one of the police 128 00:09:01.419 --> 00:09:05.539 officers, the major came over and basically threatened me with the rest. I 129 00:09:05.620 --> 00:09:07.899 said right, you know, if if you're out here, if you have. 130 00:09:07.100 --> 00:09:09.970 He said at that time, more than ten people out here, you're 131 00:09:09.970 --> 00:09:13.450 going to jail, which we didn't. Well, we didn't as cities for 132 00:09:13.529 --> 00:09:18.210 life, but some individuals came along loved life. At that point had called 133 00:09:18.289 --> 00:09:20.929 off the prayer walk. So there was no prayer walk happening. But they 134 00:09:20.970 --> 00:09:22.370 said if you come out on your own, there's nothing we can do about 135 00:09:22.409 --> 00:09:26.440 that. Yeah, what's funny is talk about more than ten people. They 136 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:31.519 ultimately did arrest some folks because there were more than ten people out there. 137 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:35.960 They would have passed right by the park. Who there were pictures of that 138 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.950 same day in the park of people all in the park, gay, gathered 139 00:09:39.990 --> 00:09:43.870 together, far more than team and Home Depot was swamped. I think that 140 00:09:43.990 --> 00:09:46.909 day, on that Saturday, we got photographs of the line. Now, 141 00:09:46.230 --> 00:09:50.870 yeah, absolutely, go in the cars in the parking lot, but who 142 00:09:50.909 --> 00:09:54.940 they chose to arrest? Where the peaceful prayers were a branch and I remember 143 00:09:56.460 --> 00:10:00.940 that day when arrest started taking place, I was for sure that I was 144 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:03.460 going to jail. Yeah, I know we've always tried to have a good 145 00:10:03.500 --> 00:10:07.049 relationship with the polease, but there's one police officer, one of the majors. 146 00:10:07.090 --> 00:10:11.330 I'm not going to name his name, who's just for some reason just 147 00:10:11.490 --> 00:10:13.169 doesn't like us. I don't know what his issue is, but I was 148 00:10:13.250 --> 00:10:16.250 sure, because he was been chopping out the bitch to arrest me or write 149 00:10:16.250 --> 00:10:20.009 me a citation, which he's written me citations. That's for another podcast. 150 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.279 But I was for sure I was going to jail and so I kind of 151 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:28.480 gave my going down in a blaze of glory speech on the microphone. I 152 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.799 said at the microphone and started just proclaiming the Gospel and offering help to the 153 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:35.950 mom's going in and I thought I was going down the last arry you're gonna 154 00:10:37.750 --> 00:10:41.990 go down one day. Yeah, I'm there on the microphone and I'm, 155 00:10:41.110 --> 00:10:43.710 you know, I'm doing my thing there and I'm thinking, okay, the 156 00:10:43.789 --> 00:10:46.549 police officers going to come up behind me any minute, so I'll come on, 157 00:10:46.750 --> 00:10:50.259 but I'm a back and my gonna resist arrest or anything like that. 158 00:10:50.899 --> 00:10:54.860 And nobody came, and so I kept on going. Nobody came. I 159 00:10:54.980 --> 00:10:58.860 got a little louder. You know, hey, I'm the last who wrong. 160 00:10:58.860 --> 00:11:01.820 I'm will go for it, and still nobody came up. So I'll 161 00:11:01.820 --> 00:11:05.490 put the microphone down and walk back to my spot on the sidewalks, like, 162 00:11:05.730 --> 00:11:07.049 okay, I guess I'm not going to jail. Come to find out, 163 00:11:07.529 --> 00:11:09.929 actually, because I asked the major, why didn't you arrest me? 164 00:11:11.049 --> 00:11:13.409 Is Not like I wanted to get arrested. They don't misunderstand me, but 165 00:11:13.649 --> 00:11:16.409 I'm like, I mean I was explained. Yeah, I was expecting. 166 00:11:16.450 --> 00:11:18.279 I'm like one of the first people there. What's going on? And said, 167 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:22.279 well, you one of the first ten that were there. So therefore 168 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:28.080 we getting arrescue. Okay, long story short, people were arrested, but 169 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.600 the Lord use that in some, some very powerful way. So so, 170 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.590 Justin the founder of love life kind of gives this real I mean it's a 171 00:11:37.629 --> 00:11:43.509 biblical concept. Here where and acts one eight the passages and acts one eight. 172 00:11:43.710 --> 00:11:46.870 Well, I don't you will be my witnesses. Okay, in Jerusalem, 173 00:11:46.909 --> 00:11:50.340 Judaea, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth. So that was 174 00:11:50.419 --> 00:11:54.500 acts undred and eighty. Yeah, but actually that didn't happen until acts eight 175 00:11:54.700 --> 00:11:58.820 one. Acts Eight one is when persecution broke out and the church was actually 176 00:11:58.820 --> 00:12:03.529 driven from Jerusalem. So they sort of stayed in Jerusalem until persecution came. 177 00:12:03.129 --> 00:12:09.490 And then acts eight one, the Gospel begins to spread into Samaria, and 178 00:12:09.970 --> 00:12:13.929 ultimately to Jdaya, to Samaria and ultimately to the uttermost parts of the earth. 179 00:12:15.009 --> 00:12:18.080 I get where you're going with this. This is good and so God 180 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:24.639 uses are used, the coronavirus stuff and the state at home orders and the 181 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:30.110 arrest and all that stuff, to really broadcast the message of Love Life and 182 00:12:30.590 --> 00:12:35.750 the mission of love life and to really stir up churches and pastors to say, 183 00:12:35.750 --> 00:12:39.029 Hey, these are people that are willing to lay their lives down right 184 00:12:39.190 --> 00:12:41.789 for the cause of Christ, for the cause of the unborn. And so 185 00:12:41.990 --> 00:12:45.740 pastors, I mean there are pastors, one pastor, as a matter of 186 00:12:45.740 --> 00:12:50.220 fact, in Greensboro who has a church near the abortion clinic in Greensboro, 187 00:12:50.340 --> 00:12:54.620 who had never one point in his ministry, had never spoken about abortion, 188 00:12:54.740 --> 00:12:56.139 but was always kind of the elephant in the room for him because there's an 189 00:12:56.139 --> 00:13:00.610 abortion clinic right near their church. Yeah, well, that pastor got stirred 190 00:13:00.610 --> 00:13:03.570 up to the point years before, a couple of years before, when love 191 00:13:03.690 --> 00:13:05.809 life came to his door and ask him, Hey, can we use your 192 00:13:05.809 --> 00:13:09.649 church to launch our prayer walks? He got stirred and began to preach about 193 00:13:09.769 --> 00:13:13.840 life and people in his church got free from past abortions and they go into 194 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:16.000 the prayer walks. But that pastors to the point where he was actually one 195 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:20.679 of the pastors that was arrested in Greensboro for praying out in front of the 196 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.159 abortion clinic. I keep in mind the abortion clinic is right next door to 197 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.000 his church. Yeah, and so he had every right to be there. 198 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.509 He was not violating any law. And don't let me get to all the 199 00:13:30.549 --> 00:13:33.110 legal stuff because it's actually all still going through the court systems, all the 200 00:13:33.149 --> 00:13:37.429 legal stuff that's going to come from that. Anyway, the point is God 201 00:13:37.629 --> 00:13:43.340 used that to stir up pastors, to stir up churches. Yeah, to 202 00:13:43.899 --> 00:13:46.259 really bring the message of love life that, hey, churches need to be 203 00:13:46.340 --> 00:13:50.299 at these abortion centers praying and interceding. Yeah, to the nation and and 204 00:13:50.659 --> 00:13:54.940 and to the nations. Yes, so here's a terrible thing that I mean 205 00:13:54.980 --> 00:13:58.129 it really was terrible and it is terrible. Coronavirus is terrible, but it 206 00:13:58.690 --> 00:14:07.129 it was definitely led to some really wonderful things happening. Yeah, and specifically 207 00:14:07.490 --> 00:14:13.720 then, as the sidewalk councilors and cities for life were also very much in 208 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.639 the news, for I remember reporters coming out all the time and talking to 209 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.559 us in those early days and asking what we're doing there and how do we 210 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.789 feel, and why are we exempt, which we were. We were considered 211 00:14:26.830 --> 00:14:31.470 an exempt. Yeah, well, they exactly. They finally realize that we 212 00:14:31.549 --> 00:14:35.110 were rightly. Yeah, we had to kind of fight for we had read 213 00:14:35.190 --> 00:14:39.059 the orders carefully and figured out and we were. We were careful about social 214 00:14:39.139 --> 00:14:43.460 distancing and even marked lines on the sidewalk. But anyway, the kind of 215 00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:46.659 the next big milestone in two thousand and twenty was, ultimately, I think, 216 00:14:46.820 --> 00:14:50.379 love life really started that. Maybe you can speak about this started looking 217 00:14:50.419 --> 00:14:58.490 at Hey, sidewalk counseling is an absolutely integral part in the church rising up 218 00:14:58.690 --> 00:15:05.169 to fight this demon of abortion, and we are our ministry is to raise 219 00:15:05.210 --> 00:15:13.039 church awareness and and presents and maybe we need to think about merging and combining. 220 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.360 And that was a huge event for us. Yeah, absolutely, and 221 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.200 listen, we have always love life walked hand in hand with this. Exactly. 222 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.309 They'd always walked hand in hand with us. There was never any competition 223 00:15:24.350 --> 00:15:28.750 or anything like that, because what we did was sidewall counseling. We trained 224 00:15:28.789 --> 00:15:33.509 up people to be an effective Christian witness at their abortion center. Of course, 225 00:15:33.590 --> 00:15:35.019 mainly focus here in Charlotte. Are there? We do have chapters in 226 00:15:35.100 --> 00:15:39.740 other cities. Bermain focus was here and I had actually at the beginning of 227 00:15:39.820 --> 00:15:41.820 this year, and I talked to you a little bit about it, before 228 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:45.620 there's even any talk of love life and US merging with them, I had 229 00:15:45.700 --> 00:15:48.019 in my heart to bring people here to our office where right now, at 230 00:15:48.059 --> 00:15:52.610 our office it's not far from the tribe abortion center where those arrest took place 231 00:15:52.690 --> 00:15:56.210 here in Charlotte, and we're a hundred and fifty, two hundred babies dot 232 00:15:56.370 --> 00:15:58.970 every week here in Charlotte. It was my heart to bring people in who 233 00:16:00.009 --> 00:16:03.330 look it, what's what God's doing through cities for life, who want to 234 00:16:03.370 --> 00:16:06.840 get trained and then send them back out to their city, not necessarily being 235 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.200 a cities for life chapter anything like that, but just take what God has 236 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:12.320 taught us and sewing into other people, because I really felt like, you 237 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.879 know, the Lord has taught us some precious truths about ministry and he's really 238 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:19.710 helped us with a, I think, a really good balance of truth and 239 00:16:19.950 --> 00:16:23.590 grace, and so I really wanted to sew that into other people. And 240 00:16:23.710 --> 00:16:26.549 can we dream them attacted all the time? Oh yeah, I mean from 241 00:16:26.549 --> 00:16:30.350 all over the nation. Absolutely wo would call and say what are you guys 242 00:16:30.470 --> 00:16:37.340 doing, because we'd report on on social media really some great fruit of our 243 00:16:37.419 --> 00:16:41.100 ministry here, and so it was hey, we you know, God gave 244 00:16:41.139 --> 00:16:44.779 us these experiences in this knowledge. We need to share it. Yeah, 245 00:16:44.980 --> 00:16:47.139 yeah, and so it was on my heart at the beginning of this year, 246 00:16:47.139 --> 00:16:49.289 before even the corona stuff, we talked about putting together like a many 247 00:16:49.330 --> 00:16:53.129 conference and and doing some things where we can have people fly in and we 248 00:16:53.250 --> 00:16:56.809 train them and send them out, we take them to the abortion center here, 249 00:16:56.850 --> 00:17:00.009 right. So that was in my heart and I begin to share that 250 00:17:00.009 --> 00:17:03.080 a little bit with Justin and what was in just as hard as, of 251 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.400 course, seeing the nation really turn its heart toward the unborn, see the 252 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.400 churches rise of and it just became evident that these two ministries are really a 253 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.430 handinhand sort of thing. Yeah, like the Sidewalk Ministry, it comes out 254 00:17:15.430 --> 00:17:21.029 of the local church are you can't volunteer with cities for life without being part 255 00:17:21.029 --> 00:17:22.230 of a local church. So we want ministry to come out of a local 256 00:17:22.269 --> 00:17:26.710 church. When a mom chooses life, we plug her into a local church 257 00:17:26.789 --> 00:17:30.420 with a mentor. So that's that's as naturally love life hit. was some 258 00:17:30.660 --> 00:17:33.339 loves doing that part of the process. We're getting a lot of our volunteers 259 00:17:33.539 --> 00:17:37.779 from love life and they would come to the prayer walks and then they would 260 00:17:37.779 --> 00:17:40.380 want to take it a step further and they would come and do subwall counseling 261 00:17:40.420 --> 00:17:44.019 and get trained to do that. So anyway, is just and I talked 262 00:17:44.099 --> 00:17:48.809 and even especially when this coronavirus stuff hit and there was a kind of like 263 00:17:48.049 --> 00:17:51.849 this question of are we essential or we not? And then of course we 264 00:17:51.890 --> 00:17:53.650 answer that questions. They yeah, we're essential, we're going to be out 265 00:17:53.690 --> 00:17:57.640 there. The arrest took place, all this kind of combined together kind of 266 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:03.319 at the same time. There's arrest took place and it really spurred Justin and 267 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.920 the leadership of love life to think, Hey, God's doing something in the 268 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:11.920 midst of this and to the point where, because they weren't doing prayer walks 269 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:17.029 and at that time love life had chapters in here in Charlotte, started here 270 00:18:17.069 --> 00:18:19.029 in Charlotte, just like cities for life did. Then in two thousand and 271 00:18:19.109 --> 00:18:23.630 eighteen they moved to the Tryad in the triangle here in North Carolina. So 272 00:18:23.710 --> 00:18:30.299 that's like Greensboro is the triad and then Raleigh is the triangle area, and 273 00:18:30.539 --> 00:18:33.380 then they in two thousand and nineteen launched in New York. So that was 274 00:18:33.420 --> 00:18:37.980 kind of like what Justin shares he thought was the uttermost parts of the earth. 275 00:18:37.619 --> 00:18:41.650 Little he realized that God wanted to take it beyond this. So anyway, 276 00:18:41.730 --> 00:18:45.410 the prayer walks and everything we're kind of put on Paul's because the coronavirus. 277 00:18:45.930 --> 00:18:48.569 So love life, I think God inspired the idea to actually, let's 278 00:18:48.609 --> 00:18:53.210 do kind of a virtual prayer walk where we go to the different individuals, 279 00:18:53.250 --> 00:18:57.079 because in some states there couldn't be more than five or ten people out there. 280 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:02.599 So let's go to a place where, you know, let's let's zoom 281 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:06.119 in and have somebody WHO's out there in New York's my who's out there in 282 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.910 Philadelphia, or somebody who's out there at the abortion center in New Jersey or 283 00:19:10.950 --> 00:19:12.829 wherever it might be, and let's see what God is doing there. And 284 00:19:12.869 --> 00:19:17.589 letten courage the church to be praying. So that became ultimately what called what 285 00:19:17.750 --> 00:19:22.430 we call now love life live. We're doing a live prayer walk where you 286 00:19:22.549 --> 00:19:25.619 see people who are around the country. At this point, I think we 287 00:19:25.700 --> 00:19:27.460 have two thousand and twenty five, maybe more than that, people who are 288 00:19:27.460 --> 00:19:33.220 at abortion centers. This happens on Saturdays at nine o'clock eastern, and we 289 00:19:33.380 --> 00:19:34.779 go to their city. What's God doing there in your city? And we 290 00:19:34.859 --> 00:19:37.500 have different prayer points, just like we do at the prayer walks, right, 291 00:19:37.890 --> 00:19:41.890 and that, of course spurred more people to want to get involved in 292 00:19:41.930 --> 00:19:45.569 their city, like how can I bring love life here? And so now 293 00:19:45.809 --> 00:19:51.170 out of that Sprong Love Life America, right, and around the same time 294 00:19:51.369 --> 00:19:55.200 that this is being talked about, this is when we're talking about merging together 295 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.799 with cities for life and love life, because, after all, we're going 296 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.519 to bring love life, there needs to to be a sidewalk presence there, 297 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:03.400 right, and so how are we going to do that? And so it 298 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.789 became evident like, okay, we need to merge these two ministries together, 299 00:20:07.829 --> 00:20:11.109 and so I was asked. We had the expertise for the sidewalk yesterday and 300 00:20:11.150 --> 00:20:15.069 they have the expertise for how to get the churches and yeah, absolutely, 301 00:20:15.109 --> 00:20:19.670 and those are a handinhand ministry. Are Not separate ministries there together, and 302 00:20:19.789 --> 00:20:22.819 so I was asked to come on board word with love life, to merge 303 00:20:22.940 --> 00:20:26.380 cities for life together in with love life and to become the director of soyb 304 00:20:26.460 --> 00:20:30.299 walk missionaries. And so while Ah, here I am director of SYB Walk 305 00:20:30.339 --> 00:20:36.049 Missionaries, which is basically the same role, except more national. So instead 306 00:20:36.089 --> 00:20:38.890 of raising up local sidewalk counselors, which you and I both do together and 307 00:20:40.009 --> 00:20:42.490 we still involved in that some measure, you're more involved in that now than 308 00:20:42.490 --> 00:20:47.450 I am, for as locally, but really raising up what we're calling sidewalk 309 00:20:47.490 --> 00:20:49.880 missionaries, which we did a podcast about some months ago. Yeah, yeah, 310 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:55.200 so that's kind of the the I guess, the Short Really of a 311 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:59.799 pretty miraculous story that God used the arrests and things like that to ultimately propel 312 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:03.160 love life and cities for life and to more of a national spot light and 313 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:06.990 bring us a national vision and a Nashal focus. And it's so cool as 314 00:21:07.029 --> 00:21:11.269 we're looking back over the year, because while it was going on, I 315 00:21:11.470 --> 00:21:15.069 sure wasn't aware of all of this like seeing God's hand. I knew, 316 00:21:15.109 --> 00:21:18.259 I know God's hand is in everything, but it hindsight is is such a 317 00:21:18.539 --> 00:21:23.700 great way to to recognize the hand of God working, how he works everything 318 00:21:23.779 --> 00:21:27.099 for good. And it was just miraculous. Yeah, and and one of 319 00:21:27.140 --> 00:21:32.579 the immediate benefits, of course, says, as we combine with love life 320 00:21:32.619 --> 00:21:41.890 and all this really increased press and and news presence reporting on what we were 321 00:21:41.930 --> 00:21:45.769 doing, was we start getting volunteers. Amazingly, even during those covid months. 322 00:21:45.930 --> 00:21:51.000 Yeah, we're getting request for Hey, we'd love to come volunteer with 323 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:56.160 you, and over the months that has really been increasing, which is another 324 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:02.390 highlight. Searching for volunteers. Anyone who's involved in any ministry knows that finding 325 00:22:02.470 --> 00:22:07.950 volunteers, faithful, dedicated volunteers, is hard. Yeah, and, and 326 00:22:08.069 --> 00:22:12.990 this is this kind of minute exactly. This is such a difficult ministry. 327 00:22:14.309 --> 00:22:19.220 But we have had a steady stream of volunteer yes, absolutely, yeah, 328 00:22:19.420 --> 00:22:23.859 the Lord's really blessed us. So with some some pretty wonderful people, some 329 00:22:23.900 --> 00:22:29.539 amazing, amazing, markable individuals like yeah, yeah, and some that have, 330 00:22:30.170 --> 00:22:33.609 I guess, in their minds, never thought that they would be ministering 331 00:22:33.650 --> 00:22:37.130 at an abortion center, but as they saw what God was doing here in 332 00:22:37.210 --> 00:22:38.730 Charlotte, even in spite of the arrest and all of that, they would 333 00:22:38.769 --> 00:22:41.170 like, man, I gotta, I got to step up my game and 334 00:22:41.490 --> 00:22:45.480 yeah, I've got to be involved in this thing and there were people that 335 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:49.240 were just so angry at the thought that an abortion center is open and no 336 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:53.000 one's going in there to say hey, you're not social distancing or why are 337 00:22:53.160 --> 00:23:00.829 you any essential service? But that beautiful little home business or small business on 338 00:23:00.950 --> 00:23:04.069 main street is being shuttered by COVID and there was a lot of anger. 339 00:23:04.269 --> 00:23:10.589 There was an anger over what was clearly right, the attempt to silence the 340 00:23:10.670 --> 00:23:17.299 Christian voice and allow an abortion center to remain open. And and so some 341 00:23:17.460 --> 00:23:22.819 volunteers came saying this is not right, they recognize the injustice and they wanted 342 00:23:22.859 --> 00:23:26.180 to become a part of it. Yeah, so the wonderful result when you've 343 00:23:26.180 --> 00:23:30.450 got a lot of volunteers, you've got two great ministries that have merged and 344 00:23:30.369 --> 00:23:37.849 are united under God in in that mission to save the unborn. Well, 345 00:23:37.890 --> 00:23:41.200 guess what? Unborn babies were saved. Yeah, and absolutely. Yeah, 346 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:45.759 we have a faithful volunteer who keeps track of yes, we did the numbers, 347 00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:51.640 Christy, meticulous record of babies that are saying. So I texted her 348 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:55.400 today. There were two babies saved today, one at the parenthood and one 349 00:23:55.480 --> 00:24:00.230 at at Latrobe Anna, which brought the total for this year, Chris, 350 00:24:00.349 --> 00:24:06.150 he tells us up to four hundred thirty six babies that are saved this year. 351 00:24:06.509 --> 00:24:08.710 What makes it even more amazing as this is in the midst of the 352 00:24:10.619 --> 00:24:15.420 just horror of what happened with corona. And if there were times when it 353 00:24:15.500 --> 00:24:18.819 was you, me and maybe maybe one other sidewalk counselor yeah, out there 354 00:24:18.859 --> 00:24:22.740 where it was pretty skeletal. Yeah, three beginning stages of the coronavirus. 355 00:24:22.779 --> 00:24:27.769 Yeah, and then there was this new wave of pro abortion people, Young, 356 00:24:29.009 --> 00:24:33.849 young people, and they very aggressive and and very, very determined not 357 00:24:34.009 --> 00:24:37.720 to let us, single woman, speak to us or think that we were 358 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:41.880 someone that should be spoken with. And in spite of all of that, 359 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:48.119 to have that many babies saved. Yeah, and and that's just here in 360 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.480 Charlotte. Yeah, that's it. Since Ryl, and I will say this 361 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:56.150 now. I wish I could quantify a number, but I will say just 362 00:24:56.269 --> 00:25:00.309 through observation, maybe anecdotally, but I think you'd agree with me, we've 363 00:25:00.349 --> 00:25:04.509 seen less people arriving at the abortions. Yes, and Charlotte, yeah, 364 00:25:04.509 --> 00:25:08.380 I think certainly. Yeah, I mean say their numbers are down and yet 365 00:25:08.380 --> 00:25:14.259 still, you know, we're about on par with what we have normally seen. 366 00:25:14.579 --> 00:25:17.380 You're by here with babies that are that are saved. It as so. 367 00:25:17.740 --> 00:25:19.619 So we think that the ratio is probably higher of baby saved and we 368 00:25:19.700 --> 00:25:23.970 know that abortion rates generally are down. Yeah, so, so to say. 369 00:25:25.009 --> 00:25:26.930 And I think they're down. I think there was recently a report, 370 00:25:27.089 --> 00:25:30.009 and I can't remember prol one of the pro life news things, that that 371 00:25:30.250 --> 00:25:36.519 said that that the attributed the the decreased abortions to some, many more women 372 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:41.920 and we're choosing life because there was such a strong pro life presence. And 373 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:48.039 and so we did also just find out today the number of babies saved nationwide, 374 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:55.109 because in terms of nationwide, where love life yes, expanded and right 375 00:25:55.190 --> 00:25:59.349 now, that six hundred sixty one. Yeah, and counting. Six hundred 376 00:25:59.390 --> 00:26:00.869 and sixty one babies that have been saved. And we think about that, 377 00:26:00.990 --> 00:26:07.700 guys. This is six hundred and sixty one individuals who were scheduled to die 378 00:26:07.259 --> 00:26:15.420 but now are alive and and will live because somebody was standing there offering another 379 00:26:15.539 --> 00:26:19.289 alternative. Listen, guys, the lie that women come to an abortion center 380 00:26:19.329 --> 00:26:22.730 and the already got their minds made up. It's just that it is a 381 00:26:22.930 --> 00:26:26.650 lie excelling me what I was just going to say. Women are coming and 382 00:26:26.809 --> 00:26:30.289 they are praying for a sign, and a Christian being there on the sidewalk 383 00:26:30.329 --> 00:26:34.519 offering help and hope in the name of Jesus is often times that sign. 384 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.680 And with these six hundred sixty one, and that's just the ones that that 385 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:41.759 we've been able to count right so many are save that we don't even know 386 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:45.039 about. We won't find out about until we stand before the Lord. It's 387 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.710 not about numbers, it's not about giving glory to us, but it's is 388 00:26:48.710 --> 00:26:52.549 about giving glory to God. And you'll see in the Bible numbers are shared, 389 00:26:52.589 --> 00:26:56.509 numbers of people that come to the Lord or shared. Even the number 390 00:26:56.549 --> 00:27:00.470 of fish that were caught. One hundred fifty three fish were caught in one 391 00:27:00.509 --> 00:27:04.380 particular fishing expedition in the Gospel's leaves, in the gospel of John. We 392 00:27:04.460 --> 00:27:07.380 do a whole side, can we? We did a whole a tolls podcast 393 00:27:07.420 --> 00:27:11.259 about that very thing. But we did give glory to God the six hundred 394 00:27:11.339 --> 00:27:17.569 sixty one plus babies that were saved. Yeah, Nashally, and I kind 395 00:27:17.569 --> 00:27:22.529 of brings us to what God is doing nationally in light of talking about the 396 00:27:22.849 --> 00:27:29.089 acts eight one and persecution rose and the message began to spread. And so 397 00:27:29.369 --> 00:27:32.079 what we were talking about earlier, as far as love life and cities for 398 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:34.200 life merging together, what was in my heart is raising up people, as 399 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.799 in Justine's heart. So we began what we call Love Life America. It's 400 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:40.920 a matter of fact, if you guys want to check it out, love 401 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:45.710 life dot org slash America's where you can find that. There are link to 402 00:27:45.750 --> 00:27:48.630 talk about it talks about all of what we're talking about here. Even describes 403 00:27:48.710 --> 00:27:52.869 what a sidewalk missionary is. But what we had done is tried to ID 404 00:27:52.269 --> 00:27:56.190 and invite people to come here to Charlotte. He get trained up to be 405 00:27:56.269 --> 00:28:03.180 sobwalk missionaries to bring love life to their city. And you are a part 406 00:28:03.380 --> 00:28:06.099 of, and still are a part of that training. And what we're doing 407 00:28:06.220 --> 00:28:08.900 is we're bringing them here to Charlotte. We're doing what we're calling our Subwak 408 00:28:08.900 --> 00:28:14.369 missionary boot camp and they come and they get trained up in our tactics, 409 00:28:14.569 --> 00:28:19.009 in Biblical what we believe is Biblical Gospel Centered Sybwall counseling. Right, they 410 00:28:19.089 --> 00:28:22.410 get to observe all of the abortion center. Sadly, there are many to 411 00:28:22.490 --> 00:28:29.279 observe here and in Charlotte. So they get to observe many different abortion centers, 412 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:34.640 how we how we work effectively at each of these different kinds of abortion 413 00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:41.670 centers with different challenges. And and then then we so we train them up 414 00:28:41.750 --> 00:28:45.589 and then we send them back to their city, yeah, where they will 415 00:28:45.670 --> 00:28:48.829 hopefully be able to replicate. Yeah, and at their point city. I 416 00:28:48.950 --> 00:28:53.990 believe we've got about twenty five sidewalk missionaries that we've sent out. So we 417 00:28:55.150 --> 00:29:00.019 started training in July of two thousand and twenty and at this point I believe 418 00:29:00.059 --> 00:29:03.779 it's twenty five. Right, we've done for many camps, camps, and 419 00:29:04.299 --> 00:29:10.569 we've sent out twenty five missionaries into I mean we've got a guy like Fresno 420 00:29:10.730 --> 00:29:15.450 California, we've got folks in Alabama, folks are we get a young lady 421 00:29:15.450 --> 00:29:21.410 in Virginia, Young Lady in Pennsylvania, like you said. You're about about 422 00:29:21.410 --> 00:29:25.400 to talk about internationally. Yeah, we have a young lady that's in Israel. 423 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:27.640 So she's actually in the states now, but she's going back at that. 424 00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:33.720 Couple of months ago she was in Israel doing pro life ministry in Jerusalem. 425 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.160 I things are a lot different. They're to do ministry. There's not 426 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:40.910 abortion centers there. Whether there are abortion centers there, but they're actually kind 427 00:29:40.950 --> 00:29:44.349 of hidden and it's kind of a I think most of abortions take place in 428 00:29:44.509 --> 00:29:48.549 hospitals there in Israel. So it's a bit of a challenge. But she's 429 00:29:48.589 --> 00:29:52.789 there and she's being faithful. We've got a guy in Ethiopia, Abraham, 430 00:29:52.579 --> 00:29:59.140 and we've to me it's been very rewarding. Now, I donn't know about 431 00:29:59.140 --> 00:30:02.819 you, but to hear their testimonies, to hear about babies that we're saved. 432 00:30:02.859 --> 00:30:04.740 You know, it's kind of like the Apostle John Talks about that, 433 00:30:06.579 --> 00:30:08.890 to see his children walking in the D at. Yeah, I mean because 434 00:30:10.009 --> 00:30:14.569 and many of them are coming from some sidewalk experience, but not most of 435 00:30:14.609 --> 00:30:17.329 them, not a lot, some of them more than others. But where 436 00:30:17.490 --> 00:30:22.920 there. They came because they felt that they were struggling in in seeing baby 437 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:29.720 saved at their facility and they go home after this training and it's really exciting 438 00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:37.269 to see before it after report of increased saves, increase baby's saved. It's 439 00:30:37.390 --> 00:30:41.390 just so exciting. Yes, so I just got a video from Abram in 440 00:30:41.509 --> 00:30:48.069 Ethiopia. Ethiopia is hard ground a till. Let'm yes, yeah, what's 441 00:30:48.109 --> 00:30:52.099 happening in Ethiopia as far as on the prolife scene is that abortion is actually 442 00:30:52.140 --> 00:31:00.500 illegal in Ethiopia and abortions take place to yeah, abortions illegal, but from 443 00:31:00.539 --> 00:31:07.009 what I understand, you're it's allowed in cases of rape and incest and the 444 00:31:07.170 --> 00:31:10.849 doctors not allowed to ask whether or not a woman is a victim of raprincess. 445 00:31:11.009 --> 00:31:14.089 So they didn't go in and anyone can't ask. Anyone can get in 446 00:31:14.089 --> 00:31:17.009 a boy, so anyone can get an abortion. So Abram is there and 447 00:31:17.089 --> 00:31:21.519 he's reaching out and he has literature in his own language that he's handed out. 448 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:25.200 Yeah, and so, but he has no resources. So he had 449 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:27.000 contacted us, you know, a few weeks ago, saying hey, I 450 00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:32.079 don't have a mobile ultrasound unit. There aren't even pregnancy resource centers. I 451 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:36.430 don't think they're there. There isn't any way, to be really rate. 452 00:31:36.509 --> 00:31:40.230 The churches aren't really yet involved, so there's no one to go to to 453 00:31:40.430 --> 00:31:42.990 help if a woman should choose life, or even to offer, Hey, 454 00:31:44.069 --> 00:31:47.069 we have resources to help you. Yeah, and so it's kind of it's 455 00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:52.019 pretty it's rough. This is a hard ministry field or mission field that he 456 00:31:52.180 --> 00:31:55.779 has gone to. Yeah, and then we get this video. Yeah, 457 00:31:56.180 --> 00:31:57.779 awesome. By the way, nicest guy on earth. Oh yeah, such 458 00:31:57.819 --> 00:32:00.769 a God really Nice Guy. Yeah, so we want to play this video 459 00:32:00.849 --> 00:32:05.089 for you, guys, just so you can share in the blessing that we 460 00:32:05.170 --> 00:32:09.170 were able to share in. Good morning, guys, how are you doing? 461 00:32:09.329 --> 00:32:15.490 This is abby Abram from eat yourpr this Habeb. I'm one about one 462 00:32:15.529 --> 00:32:19.839 of the pushing clinic, the busiest a pushing clinic here in this Habeb, 463 00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:25.160 and I just have a goodness to tire. There's a lady of her. 464 00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:31.829 She shows coffee and the guards is pushing clinics cards and I give them this 465 00:32:32.069 --> 00:32:37.869 literature. It's written in an American, my own language, and and one 466 00:32:37.950 --> 00:32:42.470 of the lady, I think last it was, it was Friday, and 467 00:32:43.109 --> 00:32:46.380 she she was coming for an abortion, and they give her this and they 468 00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:52.140 told her about to about me, to contact with me, and told her 469 00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:57.299 not to kill her baby. So and she turned around and you give me 470 00:32:57.339 --> 00:33:00.970 a call. So I'm going to go see her today. I'm certainly happy 471 00:33:01.089 --> 00:33:06.690 and excited. The first child is saved. It's awesome. God is good 472 00:33:07.130 --> 00:33:13.759 and please keep prying. The Lord blessing brying. So you hear in the 473 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:23.079 video Abram is sharing the testimony of actually God using the security guards to great 474 00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:27.349 stand out his literature. Now how that all played out. I'm not follow 475 00:33:27.349 --> 00:33:30.829 up with him on that because our security guards here certainly not going to be 476 00:33:30.869 --> 00:33:34.710 handed out our literature. They shred our literature. And he's following the same 477 00:33:34.750 --> 00:33:42.579 kind of theme of God using sometimes those who maybe mean evil against God's people, 478 00:33:43.019 --> 00:33:46.980 and yet they're being used to promote his plan and his purpose. Yeah, 479 00:33:46.980 --> 00:33:51.940 and I know for him it was it was pretty discouraging for a while. 480 00:33:52.099 --> 00:33:53.940 Yeah, he got trained up. I believe it was back in he 481 00:33:54.099 --> 00:33:57.970 was our first under was he was in our second south the way. Okay, 482 00:33:58.009 --> 00:34:02.049 he was in our September group. Okay, and he went back to 483 00:34:02.170 --> 00:34:06.809 Ethiopia. He actually was living here in the states and he was going to 484 00:34:06.890 --> 00:34:10.400 move like couple days after the boot camp back to Ethiopia. been here for 485 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:15.239 like ten years. Yeah, and he went. Finally he had a hard 486 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:17.840 time funding a place to stay, but any anyway, so he started going 487 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.199 out to the abortion centers and he's seen women go in and out and he 488 00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:24.429 has really at first didn't have anything to offer them. Then he made up 489 00:34:24.429 --> 00:34:30.230 that little brochure that he hands out and to steal. Was Pretty discouraged. 490 00:34:30.469 --> 00:34:34.389 And one of the things that you and I are doing with the missionaries is 491 00:34:34.429 --> 00:34:37.190 not just training them, but we're overseeing them and encouraging them. And so 492 00:34:37.349 --> 00:34:39.780 do we do a weekly call with them and just encourage the whole group? 493 00:34:40.179 --> 00:34:44.780 And you could tell he was pretty discourage. Yeah, at a few points, 494 00:34:44.900 --> 00:34:47.659 but it on that weekly calling. In his discouragement he's saying, I've 495 00:34:47.739 --> 00:34:52.019 nothing to offer the women and both of us had the idea, well, 496 00:34:52.179 --> 00:34:57.650 maybe there's a way to ship things to him. Yeah, for a baby 497 00:34:57.730 --> 00:35:00.369 shower, and we did a little digging. We've got a bit our baby 498 00:35:00.449 --> 00:35:06.090 shower lady, Sarah, who is off with having a well, she's had 499 00:35:06.130 --> 00:35:07.840 her baby. Now our babies getting a little bit older and she agreed that 500 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:13.719 she would oversee this because it is complicated. I found a link on Google 501 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.239 where that's or yeah, I found it on Google where it is possible to 502 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:21.199 ship things to Ethiopia through Amazon. Yeah, so we could do a virtual 503 00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.230 baby shower. We could find out the need ship the stuff and we have 504 00:35:24.550 --> 00:35:29.909 offered that to him and we're in the testing phase soon, yeah, on 505 00:35:30.030 --> 00:35:32.750 whether this plan will work. We certainly hope it will, because now he's 506 00:35:32.829 --> 00:35:38.139 got a woman to offer resources to. Yeah, yeah, and you can 507 00:35:38.179 --> 00:35:43.539 just see in that video the joy in Abra McGee, hear in his voice. 508 00:35:43.699 --> 00:35:46.900 Yeah, and it's joyful for us to it is very exciting. Another 509 00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:54.090 Situations Young Lady, our missionary in rolling over Virginia's Jenna, who was pretty 510 00:35:54.170 --> 00:35:59.969 discouraged for for some time not seeing any baby saved. It's difficult where she's 511 00:35:59.969 --> 00:36:04.639 at. She's had a plan parenthood that's really all from the road and Plant 512 00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.440 parenthood does do other things other than abortion, and so she was having a 513 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.840 hard time finding, okay, who's even here from an abortion and even finding 514 00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:15.000 which days that they do abortion appointments, because some days they don't do abortions, 515 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:19.110 like the one here in Charlotte only does abortions on Tuesday and Fridays. 516 00:36:19.150 --> 00:36:23.070 Sometimes that's hard to find out. Yeah, but anyway, we actually sent 517 00:36:23.309 --> 00:36:29.230 Amanda, who's a local here that we raised up as a sidewalk missionary, 518 00:36:29.309 --> 00:36:32.099 up to support Jenna and to help her out with some of those things. 519 00:36:32.139 --> 00:36:37.380 And think the first day that Amanda was there Jenna saw her first baby saving. 520 00:36:37.420 --> 00:36:40.900 Actually at that point it was two babies to babies say so and on 521 00:36:42.059 --> 00:36:45.980 her first day of seen any saved babies too, saved babies fans. Awesome. 522 00:36:45.139 --> 00:36:49.250 Yeah, and I was overjoyed. I Know Jenna was overjoyed, you 523 00:36:49.289 --> 00:36:52.530 could see, and I was overjoyed here to hear. Yeah, and so 524 00:36:52.730 --> 00:36:55.730 this is just kind of just sharing with you guys. God's using even this 525 00:36:55.849 --> 00:37:00.090 coronavirus stuff, even this difficult year two thousand and twenty, which has been 526 00:37:00.090 --> 00:37:01.880 hard for a lot of us, and and it's it ain't over yet, 527 00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:07.559 right. Yeah, but man, God's doing stuff. These are just too 528 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:10.400 yeah, of the missionaries. There's there's more stories that we could share if 529 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:14.559 you go on endlessly. Yeah. Yeah, so there's a third one that 530 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:17.789 I do want to share it and Calli with with one of our sharing one 531 00:37:17.829 --> 00:37:22.230 of our very loyal Sidebot councers, and I've been doing this for eight years 532 00:37:22.389 --> 00:37:25.510 now. You longer, but I the most I've ever seen in a single 533 00:37:25.630 --> 00:37:31.380 day of women who have chosen life is eight, and that was an unbelievably 534 00:37:31.420 --> 00:37:35.579 exciting day. That was the most I've seen in my eight years. And 535 00:37:35.699 --> 00:37:42.300 apparently about a week ago out in Raleigh there were nine babies saved and that 536 00:37:42.579 --> 00:37:45.969 is just unheard of. Yeah, it seemed like to me. And there's 537 00:37:45.050 --> 00:37:49.210 only twenty one abortions, I think. Yeah, so it's like close to 538 00:37:49.449 --> 00:37:53.849 half. That's Charler's bottom line life. And it seems to me now you 539 00:37:53.929 --> 00:37:57.849 may have observed it a little differently, and Sharon might correct us if you're 540 00:37:57.849 --> 00:38:00.239 listening to this podcast, Yar, and we're not trying to throw you under 541 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.760 under the bus and toot our own horn, but it seemed to me that 542 00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:07.880 after she had come her and Greg had come here to do the boot camp 543 00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:09.719 here in Charlotte, that the Lord they were already doing a great work. 544 00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:13.710 So I'm not, as they were kind of discount that, but it seemed 545 00:38:13.750 --> 00:38:15.590 like it went to the next left exponential. Yeah, all of a sudden 546 00:38:15.630 --> 00:38:20.030 there's, there's I think it's rare for them not to see baby safe now. 547 00:38:20.070 --> 00:38:22.510 Yeah, every day. So that God is on the move. God, 548 00:38:22.670 --> 00:38:28.179 he absolutely clearly on the move, so that in two thousand and twenty 549 00:38:28.699 --> 00:38:35.019 now we think we have estimated that there are nineteen abortion centers that, prior 550 00:38:35.059 --> 00:38:38.739 to two thousand and twenty did not have a Christian witness and they're now covered. 551 00:38:38.820 --> 00:38:43.530 Yeah, because of God raising up these God walk missions through one of 552 00:38:43.570 --> 00:38:46.530 the things that was our goal once we merge together with love life back in 553 00:38:46.650 --> 00:38:52.090 May of two thousand and twenty and just really kind of I really hit the 554 00:38:52.130 --> 00:38:54.329 ground running with trying to raise up Sibwalk missioners, put together boot camp and 555 00:38:54.650 --> 00:38:58.280 figure out what all this looks like. And we're still working the bugs out 556 00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:01.000 all of Ye but one of our goals was we want to see a Christian 557 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:06.199 witness at every abortion center in North Carolina by the end of the year. 558 00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:10.349 They're fifteen abortion centers in North Carolina and there was one here in Charlotte, 559 00:39:10.349 --> 00:39:15.030 believe it or not, the prolife Mecca has some people view it as there 560 00:39:15.070 --> 00:39:19.429 were still one abortion center here that did not have a consistent Christian witness. 561 00:39:19.550 --> 00:39:24.340 Right and God raised up Elijah, who's now a faithful sidewalk missionary. He 562 00:39:24.460 --> 00:39:29.260 came out of a pretty good job to actually step out in faith and be 563 00:39:29.340 --> 00:39:32.139 a sidewalk missionary. So if you guys want to support my friend Elijah as 564 00:39:32.139 --> 00:39:37.059 a missionary on the sidewalk, the brothers doing amazing work raising up sidewalk counselors. 565 00:39:37.099 --> 00:39:40.050 He's out there every day. God is raising up teams around him. 566 00:39:40.489 --> 00:39:45.489 He's even to the point where, unfortunately, Plan parenthood opened up another day 567 00:39:45.489 --> 00:39:47.690 where they were doing abortions. They are only doing them on Fridays and then 568 00:39:47.809 --> 00:39:51.449 about a month ago, I believe, they started doing them on Tuesdays. 569 00:39:51.889 --> 00:39:55.119 But he's raised up enough people, Elijah has, that he's been freed up 570 00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:59.119 to be able to go to plant parenthood and since some of his volunteers there. 571 00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:04.239 Yeah, so, I mean I'm happy to announce that at this point 572 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:08.230 every abortion center, so Durham and Chapel Hill were two kind of breaches in 573 00:40:08.269 --> 00:40:14.269 the wall. There's an consistent Christian witness at those abortion centers now. So 574 00:40:14.389 --> 00:40:19.510 I can say with with high level of confidence that there is a Christian witness 575 00:40:19.989 --> 00:40:23.380 at every abortion center in North Carolina and here in two thousand and twenty God 576 00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:27.420 has done it. Now. This not all of life. People. Hey, 577 00:40:27.539 --> 00:40:30.860 listen, we don't think we're I think I think we are the best. 578 00:40:30.940 --> 00:40:32.260 What do you think? Well, I know a little about I mean 579 00:40:32.260 --> 00:40:36.889 a little biased, but listen, as long as the gospels going forth, 580 00:40:37.289 --> 00:40:39.090 people are doing they may not like, maybe they don't do it like we 581 00:40:39.210 --> 00:40:43.210 do it or whatever. Who Cares, as long as they're doing like God 582 00:40:43.289 --> 00:40:45.449 has called them to and they're honoring the Lord and honor in his word. 583 00:40:45.969 --> 00:40:49.610 I'm happy with it. So God is raising up people, whether it be 584 00:40:49.650 --> 00:40:52.400 loved life people are otherwise, to be a Christian witness. He's abortion centers 585 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:58.480 and God's done it this year to have a Christian witness at every abortions center 586 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.360 in North Carolina. And now the goal is with Love Life America, because 587 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:07.110 we've figured that there's about seven hundred abortion clinics in the United States of American 588 00:41:07.110 --> 00:41:08.829 and I'm actually looking right now at a map that we have on the wall 589 00:41:09.349 --> 00:41:14.349 where we've gone through and identified on this mappy United States of America where all 590 00:41:14.389 --> 00:41:16.630 of the abortion centers are. We put a little black pain. Actually, 591 00:41:16.630 --> 00:41:20.900 allied you do this. Put a little black pain where every abortion center was 592 00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:25.019 and then that that signifies an abortion center that we've not been able to identify 593 00:41:25.139 --> 00:41:30.340 Christian witness. And there's about seven hundred of abortion centers total. And then 594 00:41:30.340 --> 00:41:31.929 we went through and try to figure out where there is a Christian witness and 595 00:41:32.010 --> 00:41:36.250 we put a white pin instead of a black pin so there's a consistent Christian 596 00:41:36.289 --> 00:41:38.170 witness there. And where there's a love life presence, we put a yellow 597 00:41:38.210 --> 00:41:42.809 pen instead of a white pain and I'm believing that God's going to fill this 598 00:41:42.889 --> 00:41:45.449 up and that that fill these black pins up with yellow or white pins. 599 00:41:45.769 --> 00:41:50.199 And that really was the goal that we think. There's there's about seven hundred 600 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:54.239 abortion centers. We figure that about seventy percent of those don't have a consistent 601 00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:59.079 Christian witness. So the goal is, and it's a big goal, that 602 00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:01.590 by November of two thousand and twenty one, we want to see a Christian 603 00:42:01.590 --> 00:42:07.070 witness at every one of these abortion centers in the United States of America by 604 00:42:07.150 --> 00:42:08.429 again, by November two thousand and twenty one. Some be praying for that, 605 00:42:08.469 --> 00:42:12.389 guys, because it's a it's a tall order, but I believe the 606 00:42:12.469 --> 00:42:15.590 Lord's in it. And why November two thousand and twenty one? I think 607 00:42:15.590 --> 00:42:20.500 there was a reason for that. There is so and one thousand nine hundred 608 00:42:20.500 --> 00:42:24.179 and twenty one. HMM, when that's when Margaret Sang, you're kind of 609 00:42:24.300 --> 00:42:28.460 launched, and Justin tells it a little better than I do. He's done 610 00:42:28.500 --> 00:42:31.690 the history on this, but it didn't. November of one thousand nineteen twenty 611 00:42:31.730 --> 00:42:37.329 one, the Margaret Singer launched the National Birth Control League, which ultimately became 612 00:42:37.329 --> 00:42:44.090 parenthood and that was the major push with the eugenics movement, the Birth Control 613 00:42:44.210 --> 00:42:49.440 Movement, the pro abortion movement. And so we want to glorify God and 614 00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:52.679 just hey, this is what the Lord has done. Every abortion center that 615 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:57.599 Margaret Singers ultimately, and her ideology is the root of, actually has a 616 00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:00.510 Christian in front of it. Now. Yeah, again, it's all order. 617 00:43:00.670 --> 00:43:02.309 A hundred years later it's later. God has done this work. So 618 00:43:02.389 --> 00:43:07.590 it's a tall order again, but God's doing it slowly but surely. Got 619 00:43:07.670 --> 00:43:10.030 People from all over the country, all over the world that are interested in 620 00:43:10.150 --> 00:43:14.099 becoming sidewalk missionaries, and so, by God's grace, were trying to raise 621 00:43:14.139 --> 00:43:16.980 them up. And and I I when you first said that, I thought 622 00:43:17.099 --> 00:43:21.539 no way, but you know, yeah, I think God will make away. 623 00:43:21.820 --> 00:43:24.980 Yeah, but then the the last thing is that our gospel centered pro 624 00:43:25.099 --> 00:43:30.010 life podcast has continued every week without I don't think we've missed a week. 625 00:43:30.090 --> 00:43:34.969 HAVEF WE WE HAVE NOT MISSED A week without every Thursday morning. Yeah, 626 00:43:34.969 --> 00:43:37.610 I've AMS when I put them out there. Yeah, and we've been able 627 00:43:37.650 --> 00:43:44.000 to over all kinds of subjects. Even remember the podcast we did with Ebony, 628 00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.559 who actually was going to New York to have a third trapmaster abortion and 629 00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:52.760 God, use the coronavirus stuff and the scare from that even change her mind. 630 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:57.230 Yeah, save her baby. Yeah, she actually testified. I gave 631 00:43:57.309 --> 00:44:01.389 her testimony at the week forty prayer walk that we did as past, just 632 00:44:01.510 --> 00:44:06.190 a couple of couple of weeks ago. Right, there was another mom in 633 00:44:06.789 --> 00:44:10.659 as we're very close to the end of of two thousand and twenty, which 634 00:44:10.739 --> 00:44:16.260 is, I think, maybe the what we wish would happen with every single 635 00:44:16.380 --> 00:44:21.940 mom who chooses life. She was out there today. Yeah, she's someone 636 00:44:22.579 --> 00:44:28.449 who came a few months ago to aboard her child and met with love life 637 00:44:28.690 --> 00:44:36.409 people and our counselors and came on the help monroe pregnancy mobile ultrasound unit out 638 00:44:36.449 --> 00:44:43.239 there and she chose life. Kind of tenuous choice. Rescheduled an abortion a 639 00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:45.960 couple days later and it was a hard fought battle for this woman. She 640 00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:50.760 was she was not walking with God. She didn't believe in God, but 641 00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:55.550 anyways, she she ended up coming to the Lord, choosing life, solid 642 00:44:55.590 --> 00:45:00.829 choice for life. Love Life and partnering ministries helped her so much in so 643 00:45:00.949 --> 00:45:07.300 many areas. She had a beautiful child. Yeah, little baby who I'm 644 00:45:07.300 --> 00:45:13.780 not sure how wildy is now a couple months and and she called today and 645 00:45:13.980 --> 00:45:19.420 said could she come out? She wanted to decide will out this sidewalk and 646 00:45:20.539 --> 00:45:23.650 to speak to the women, if possible, and to speak to the people. 647 00:45:23.809 --> 00:45:28.570 She really had a heart to speak to those people that were ushering the 648 00:45:28.610 --> 00:45:32.489 women past us and not letting them speak with us and trying to dispel the 649 00:45:32.650 --> 00:45:38.719 lies that that these socalled pro choice people were telling about us. And she 650 00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:45.719 was just it was so magnificent. It was so wonderful to see someone who 651 00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:49.159 came to the very place where she had almost well, it was actually a 652 00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:51.710 different abortion center, was the one around the corner, but had come to 653 00:45:51.789 --> 00:45:57.829 the an abortion center intending to kill her baby and now brings the baby back 654 00:45:57.989 --> 00:46:04.380 with the intention to redeem the lives of other women in similar desperate situations. 655 00:46:04.420 --> 00:46:08.340 It's pretty amazing. So, guys, we hope we hadn't been bragging too 656 00:46:08.420 --> 00:46:13.500 much have I think we've been bragging a little aloud. One day, one 657 00:46:13.539 --> 00:46:15.980 day year, we can. We can brag one day a year. Will 658 00:46:15.019 --> 00:46:20.130 really bragging on what the Lord has done. Exactly. Listen, above all 659 00:46:20.289 --> 00:46:23.170 people, blow all people. Maybe that's the more Humbley to say it whatever, 660 00:46:23.809 --> 00:46:29.610 no Mo limitations, my frailties, yeah, my inadequacies, and that, 661 00:46:29.929 --> 00:46:34.280 apart from the Lord's work, would be nothing. I wouldn't be able 662 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:37.960 to be effective on the sidewalk helping anyone. And so anything that that we've 663 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:42.519 shared with you guys, we're bragging on Jesus, if you can say it 664 00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:45.880 like that, what the Lord has done. But he uses people and we're 665 00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:51.269 seeing God use people all over the nation, all over the world to be 666 00:46:51.389 --> 00:46:54.429 a Gospel centered witness and we hope that this podcast is encouragement to you guys. 667 00:46:54.590 --> 00:46:58.269 This episode we hope and encouragement. Again, we're not just bragging, 668 00:46:58.829 --> 00:47:00.940 we're sharing what God has done and glorying and what the Lord has done. 669 00:47:01.539 --> 00:47:05.500 And if you guys have any interest, you who are listening, maybe you're 670 00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:08.420 already involved in sidewalk ministry but you want to get trained further, we would 671 00:47:08.460 --> 00:47:13.059 certainly be willing to get you plugged in with our sidewalk missionary boot camp if 672 00:47:13.099 --> 00:47:16.250 you kind of check the boxes and fit the criteria for that. If you 673 00:47:16.329 --> 00:47:21.010 want to reach out. Maybe you just got some questions or whatever about cybwalk 674 00:47:21.050 --> 00:47:23.010 ministry. Maybe God stir in your heart and you've never been out on a 675 00:47:23.090 --> 00:47:27.809 sidewalk. We did a podcast months ago about your first time on sidewalk and 676 00:47:27.849 --> 00:47:30.480 what that might look like to help encourage people to be out there. So 677 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:36.039 check that out. Check out our sidewalks for lifecom website sidewalks the number four 678 00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:39.920 lifecom where there's some equipping stuff there, and we just hope that you guys 679 00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:43.320 are encouraged. We have the you guys, even in spite of all the 680 00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:46.550 foolishness of this year, and you know, not just corona but the riots 681 00:47:46.590 --> 00:47:52.389 and racial unrest and political stuff, we have the you guys are clinging to 682 00:47:52.429 --> 00:47:54.469 the Lord. Who would encourage you guys to do that so that we move 683 00:47:54.550 --> 00:47:59.219 into two thousand and twenty one, give them praise and glory to the name 684 00:47:59.219 --> 00:48:00.619 of Jesus. At the beginning of this year, at the beginning of every 685 00:48:00.659 --> 00:48:06.820 year, me and my family commit our year to the Lord to serve him, 686 00:48:07.380 --> 00:48:09.659 and I hope that you guys will commit your your year two thousand and 687 00:48:09.659 --> 00:48:13.889 twenty one to the Lord. Commit that the rest of two thousand and twenty 688 00:48:13.889 --> 00:48:15.809 two the Lord. It's not too late. Yeah, to do that and 689 00:48:15.969 --> 00:48:20.090 get involved in some capacity, to your abortion center, be out there pray, 690 00:48:21.050 --> 00:48:25.090 reach out and and share this podcast. Yeah, above all things, 691 00:48:25.849 --> 00:48:30.239 it's good about that, but do share the podcast, and with that I 692 00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:34.360 think we'll wrap this thing up. You can reach out to me Daniel at 693 00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:37.760 Love Life Dot Org, read out to her at Vicky at Love Life Dot 694 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:42.469 Org. We love to hear from you and until next time, God bless. 695 00:48:45.829 --> 00:48:54.550 Give me our love for love, give me our love for gratitude. 696 00:48:58.659 --> 00:49:07.420 I know it will cost me my life. Nothing's too precious, and some 697 00:49:07.980 --> 00:49:07.380 that you