Amazing Things God Did in 2020

0:00 I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours and me. Lord. I welcome to the Gospel Center pro life podcast. This episode we're going to share with you some highlights from two thousand and twenty, things that God did on the sidewalk at the abortion centers and things that he's doing in our nation, even in spite of the chaos and confusion. Stay with us. I felt show passish, touch your heart. Use All right, welcome to the Gospel Center prolife podcasts. Appreciate you guys tuning in and appreciate you guys share this podcast, because we know that you do, because if you don't, you're bad person. And so please do share this podcast. Please review, give us a good review, thumbs up review, actually, five star review would be great. And in the Lord may give you extra points or something. I don't know. I'm sure jewels in your crown. You never extra jewels. Now take it carown. Yeah, exactly. So we wanted to bless you, guys that listen and the tune into the podcast, with some highlights from two thousand and twenty. It's been an amazing year with a lot of rough spots, yeah, but there's been some great news on our front. Yeah, there's been some good news. It's been some struggles.

1:29 There happened two thousand and twenty, I think. I don't think we have to tell you guys that it's been quite the year. Yep, with all of the craziness. And one of the worst things of all is that Alex Trebek died. I said that was very sad. That was sad. Yeah, and then there's some kind of disease has been going around or something. I forget. I've heard something about setting. Yeah, so it's been rough. It's been a rough year and it's but it's two thousand and twenty. So there's twenty and twenty vision, twenty and twenty. I think that's something we really have seen this only pastors probably two thousand and nineteen, probably December two thousand and nineteen, or maybe they're their New Year's message for two thousand and twenty treat stone, two thousand and twenty vision and how this is going to be. UF fision ninety nine point nine person probably, and if they didn't, they missed a good opportunity to touch on that. But I think for some they were maybe if they had a vision of how wonderful things are going to be. Maybe they were surprised. Maybe their surprised. However, we're not sharing gloom and doom at at all. We're sharing how lights God did some stuff, some amazing stuff, I'm pretty amazing things, yeah, that we're going to give glory to God for. And so we thought we'd do a podcast highlights of two thousand and twenty. What has god been doing through previously cities for life? We're going to talk about that a little bit.

2:53 Yeah, now, Love Life, right, and so what's the Lord Been Doing? Well, he's been doing some pretty amazing things. I like to say amazing. I guess different amazing. Okay, I think. I think amazing is a step above amazing. Okay, do you think? Well, then it's definitely amazing things that, yes, talk of. Amen. Yeah. So one of the first things, because this has been the the big story in the news, of course, is coronavirus. Right. We did a podcast last week, couple weeks ago, right, yeah, about the vaccine. Somebody, guys can. That just got posted last weekend. Yeah, right, and you guys can can partake in that and argue with us about how wrong we were. It's some folks have and that's fine.

3:40 I don't I don't mind being corrected, but that's been the big story. Yeah, and we really had, initially the beginning of this year from some pretty difficult struggles with even what to do. Yeah, because there was a there's a shutdown, there was a statewide deal where we were not supposed we were supposed to be basically in our home, screen at home. Yeah, the state at home order that was in place. Think it first started in the county. There's a county stay at home order and then the state enacted a stay at home order, and so we were really stuck with the questions like what do we do in the midstic? And of course our first question was just the abortion center going to be open? Yeah, it was.

4:24 That was deemed any essential service and I think there was no doubt in our mind then we need to be out there. If the abortion centers open, we need to be out there, and our strong preference was to do that legally. Yeah, absolutely, and break the law, no problems with the police. Yeah. So we really we poured over the stay at home what was it called? The stay at home order order? Yeah, and and made sure that what our rights were. And Yeah, and one of the things that we said initially, at least I said in my heart and before the Lord. It's like, Lord, I don't want to just break the law. I'm not just out here just to break the law. But if the abortion clinic is determined to be essential, yeah, then us being out there and offering those moms and other option and proclaiming the Gospel, that's essential as well. That's right, and so we kind of stuck with that as our as our guiding premise. Yeah, that if they are essential, we're essential, and so we're going to be out there. And there was you know, it's hard to almost think back then, but I remember that first day thinking when as I was driving out there no one, yeah, no one else on the road, and thinking I could end up in jail, I'm not sure what's going to happen, and even just wrestling in my own conscience if they say go home but they don't shut the doors, lock the doors the abortion center. Do I go to jail, yeah, or do I go home to fight another day? What do I do? I remember

5:54 there was a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear. We lost several councilors. I don't think so much from fear, though, some of them from fear, but some of them because all of a sudden their kids are out of school and they they had to be good thing to do it to school their kids and be home. So it was. It was rough. Yeah, it was rough and there were some arrests that took place. There were, I remember. So I remember when the first the county wide stay at home order was in place. That was the Thursday actually when it went into place and I came out there. I was listened if they're if they're going to be open at the abortion center, that I'm going to be out there, and so I was there and I was pretty much expecting the police to show up and start arresting us. They didn't. They didn't bother us even that next Saturday. Saturday's a lot of times the police are out there at the treble abortion center, all the abortion centers here in Charlotte there's a police presence on Saturdays and on Saturdays they left us alone. Yeah, however, with our friends. This again was before we merge together with love life.

6:57 So Justin and Andre and some of the other guys would love life act, some of these founding members. Yeah, some of the original love life folks were actually in Greensborough and they were experiencing some issues in Greensboro with the local authorities, which I thought charlot would be worsh in Greensboro, but at that time it was not right and they started arrest people in Greensboro. least. That was on like a Monday after our stayathome order came in place locally, I think when the state one came in to play. On that next Monday or something. I don't know the timeline exactly, they started resting people in Greensboro and then that following Saturday, which we did a podcast about the arrest there and kind of working through civil disobedience and what that looks like. And Yeah, I can we as Christians. How do we handle that as Christians? And then that next Saturday they actually started arresting people here. It right there, Charlotte, as matter of fact, are our founder, David Benham, yes, founder of cities for life, was actually arrested out here.

7:51 Yeah, yeah, and at the time that they were resting I believe there were eight people in fought arrested right here on the trobe and I was on the RV at the time. I was here. Yeah, but I was on the RV where my mom not only chose life but committed her life to Jesus. And and you know, I came out and half, you know, half the people out there had been arrested and I remember just be walking into the circle of the policeman and saying, do you know what just happened? Here? You are arresting people who are fighting for life and there's a mom who has chosen life and and even committed her life to God. And what what are you doing? Yeah, and that was April, right two thousand and twenty. It was right after it. I mean it was in the midst of the crazy and the scare and it's like the yeah, all of the unknowns. And listen, they're still some unknowns for sure, with the coronavirus and he want the vaccine coming out and all of that.

8:50 But yeah, the police were arresting people here in Charlotte. I remember that day when the arrest were taken place. I was actually there and we had gotten wind, I believe. Of matter of fact, one of the police officers, the major came over and basically threatened me with the rest. I said right, you know, if if you're out here, if you have. He said at that time, more than ten people out here, you're going to jail, which we didn't. Well, we didn't as cities for life, but some individuals came along loved life. At that point had called off the prayer walk. So there was no prayer walk happening. But they said if you come out on your own, there's nothing we can do about that. Yeah, what's funny is talk about more than ten people. They ultimately did arrest some folks because there were more than ten people out there.

9:31 They would have passed right by the park. Who there were pictures of that same day in the park of people all in the park, gay, gathered together, far more than team and Home Depot was swamped. I think that day, on that Saturday, we got photographs of the line. Now, yeah, absolutely, go in the cars in the parking lot, but who they chose to arrest? Where the peaceful prayers were a branch and I remember that day when arrest started taking place, I was for sure that I was going to jail. Yeah, I know we've always tried to have a good relationship with the polease, but there's one police officer, one of the majors. I'm not going to name his name, who's just for some reason just doesn't like us. I don't know what his issue is, but I was sure, because he was been chopping out the bitch to arrest me or write me a citation, which he's written me citations. That's for another podcast.

10:20 But I was for sure I was going to jail and so I kind of gave my going down in a blaze of glory speech on the microphone. I said at the microphone and started just proclaiming the Gospel and offering help to the mom's going in and I thought I was going down the last arry you're gonna go down one day. Yeah, I'm there on the microphone and I'm, you know, I'm doing my thing there and I'm thinking, okay, the police officers going to come up behind me any minute, so I'll come on, but I'm a back and my gonna resist arrest or anything like that. And nobody came, and so I kept on going. Nobody came. I got a little louder. You know, hey, I'm the last who wrong. I'm will go for it, and still nobody came up. So I'll put the microphone down and walk back to my spot on the sidewalks, like, okay, I guess I'm not going to jail. Come to find out, actually, because I asked the major, why didn't you arrest me?

11:11 Is Not like I wanted to get arrested. They don't misunderstand me, but I'm like, I mean I was explained. Yeah, I was expecting. I'm like one of the first people there. What's going on? And said, well, you one of the first ten that were there. So therefore we getting arrescue. Okay, long story short, people were arrested, but the Lord use that in some, some very powerful way. So so, Justin the founder of love life kind of gives this real I mean it's a biblical concept. Here where and acts one eight the passages and acts one eight. Well, I don't you will be my witnesses. Okay, in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth. So that was acts undred and eighty. Yeah, but actually that didn't happen until acts eight one. Acts Eight one is when persecution broke out and the church was actually driven from Jerusalem. So they sort of stayed in Jerusalem until persecution came.

12:03 And then acts eight one, the Gospel begins to spread into Samaria, and ultimately to Jdaya, to Samaria and ultimately to the uttermost parts of the earth. I get where you're going with this. This is good and so God uses are used, the coronavirus stuff and the state at home orders and the arrest and all that stuff, to really broadcast the message of Love Life and the mission of love life and to really stir up churches and pastors to say, Hey, these are people that are willing to lay their lives down right for the cause of Christ, for the cause of the unborn. And so pastors, I mean there are pastors, one pastor, as a matter of fact, in Greensboro who has a church near the abortion clinic in Greensboro, who had never one point in his ministry, had never spoken about abortion, but was always kind of the elephant in the room for him because there's an abortion clinic right near their church. Yeah, well, that pastor got stirred up to the point years before, a couple of years before, when love life came to his door and ask him, Hey, can we use your church to launch our prayer walks? He got stirred and began to preach about life and people in his church got free from past abortions and they go into the prayer walks. But that pastors to the point where he was actually one of the pastors that was arrested in Greensboro for praying out in front of the abortion clinic. I keep in mind the abortion clinic is right next door to his church. Yeah, and so he had every right to be there.

13:26 He was not violating any law. And don't let me get to all the legal stuff because it's actually all still going through the court systems, all the legal stuff that's going to come from that. Anyway, the point is God used that to stir up pastors, to stir up churches. Yeah, to really bring the message of love life that, hey, churches need to be at these abortion centers praying and interceding. Yeah, to the nation and and and to the nations. Yes, so here's a terrible thing that I mean it really was terrible and it is terrible. Coronavirus is terrible, but it it was definitely led to some really wonderful things happening. Yeah, and specifically then, as the sidewalk councilors and cities for life were also very much in the news, for I remember reporters coming out all the time and talking to us in those early days and asking what we're doing there and how do we feel, and why are we exempt, which we were. We were considered an exempt. Yeah, well, they exactly. They finally realize that we were rightly. Yeah, we had to kind of fight for we had read the orders carefully and figured out and we were. We were careful about social distancing and even marked lines on the sidewalk. But anyway, the kind of the next big milestone in two thousand and twenty was, ultimately, I think, love life really started that. Maybe you can speak about this started looking at Hey, sidewalk counseling is an absolutely integral part in the church rising up

14:58 to fight this demon of abortion, and we are our ministry is to raise church awareness and and presents and maybe we need to think about merging and combining. And that was a huge event for us. Yeah, absolutely, and listen, we have always love life walked hand in hand with this. Exactly. They'd always walked hand in hand with us. There was never any competition or anything like that, because what we did was sidewall counseling. We trained up people to be an effective Christian witness at their abortion center. Of course, mainly focus here in Charlotte. Are there? We do have chapters in other cities. Bermain focus was here and I had actually at the beginning of this year, and I talked to you a little bit about it, before there's even any talk of love life and US merging with them, I had in my heart to bring people here to our office where right now, at our office it's not far from the tribe abortion center where those arrest took place here in Charlotte, and we're a hundred and fifty, two hundred babies dot every week here in Charlotte. It was my heart to bring people in who look it, what's what God's doing through cities for life, who want to get trained and then send them back out to their city, not necessarily being a cities for life chapter anything like that, but just take what God has taught us and sewing into other people, because I really felt like, you know, the Lord has taught us some precious truths about ministry and he's really helped us with a, I think, a really good balance of truth and grace, and so I really wanted to sew that into other people. And can we dream them attacted all the time? Oh yeah, I mean from all over the nation. Absolutely wo would call and say what are you guys

16:30 doing, because we'd report on on social media really some great fruit of our ministry here, and so it was hey, we you know, God gave us these experiences in this knowledge. We need to share it. Yeah, yeah, and so it was on my heart at the beginning of this year, before even the corona stuff, we talked about putting together like a many conference and and doing some things where we can have people fly in and we train them and send them out, we take them to the abortion center here, right. So that was in my heart and I begin to share that a little bit with Justin and what was in just as hard as, of course, seeing the nation really turn its heart toward the unborn, see the churches rise of and it just became evident that these two ministries are really a handinhand sort of thing. Yeah, like the Sidewalk Ministry, it comes out of the local church are you can't volunteer with cities for life without being part of a local church. So we want ministry to come out of a local church. When a mom chooses life, we plug her into a local church with a mentor. So that's that's as naturally love life hit. was some loves doing that part of the process. We're getting a lot of our volunteers from love life and they would come to the prayer walks and then they would want to take it a step further and they would come and do subwall counseling and get trained to do that. So anyway, is just and I talked and even especially when this coronavirus stuff hit and there was a kind of like this question of are we essential or we not? And then of course we answer that questions. They yeah, we're essential, we're going to be out there. The arrest took place, all this kind of combined together kind of at the same time. There's arrest took place and it really spurred Justin and

18:03 the leadership of love life to think, Hey, God's doing something in the midst of this and to the point where, because they weren't doing prayer walks and at that time love life had chapters in here in Charlotte, started here in Charlotte, just like cities for life did. Then in two thousand and eighteen they moved to the Tryad in the triangle here in North Carolina. So that's like Greensboro is the triad and then Raleigh is the triangle area, and then they in two thousand and nineteen launched in New York. So that was kind of like what Justin shares he thought was the uttermost parts of the earth. Little he realized that God wanted to take it beyond this. So anyway, the prayer walks and everything we're kind of put on Paul's because the coronavirus.

18:45 So love life, I think God inspired the idea to actually, let's do kind of a virtual prayer walk where we go to the different individuals, because in some states there couldn't be more than five or ten people out there. So let's go to a place where, you know, let's let's zoom in and have somebody WHO's out there in New York's my who's out there in Philadelphia, or somebody who's out there at the abortion center in New Jersey or wherever it might be, and let's see what God is doing there. And letten courage the church to be praying. So that became ultimately what called what we call now love life live. We're doing a live prayer walk where you see people who are around the country. At this point, I think we have two thousand and twenty five, maybe more than that, people who are at abortion centers. This happens on Saturdays at nine o'clock eastern, and we go to their city. What's God doing there in your city? And we have different prayer points, just like we do at the prayer walks, right, and that, of course spurred more people to want to get involved in their city, like how can I bring love life here? And so now out of that Sprong Love Life America, right, and around the same time that this is being talked about, this is when we're talking about merging together with cities for life and love life, because, after all, we're going to bring love life, there needs to to be a sidewalk presence there, right, and so how are we going to do that? And so it became evident like, okay, we need to merge these two ministries together, and so I was asked. We had the expertise for the sidewalk yesterday and they have the expertise for how to get the churches and yeah, absolutely, and those are a handinhand ministry. Are Not separate ministries there together, and

20:19 so I was asked to come on board word with love life, to merge cities for life together in with love life and to become the director of soyb walk missionaries. And so while Ah, here I am director of SYB Walk Missionaries, which is basically the same role, except more national. So instead of raising up local sidewalk counselors, which you and I both do together and we still involved in that some measure, you're more involved in that now than I am, for as locally, but really raising up what we're calling sidewalk missionaries, which we did a podcast about some months ago. Yeah, yeah, so that's kind of the the I guess, the Short Really of a pretty miraculous story that God used the arrests and things like that to ultimately propel love life and cities for life and to more of a national spot light and bring us a national vision and a Nashal focus. And it's so cool as we're looking back over the year, because while it was going on, I sure wasn't aware of all of this like seeing God's hand. I knew, I know God's hand is in everything, but it hindsight is is such a great way to to recognize the hand of God working, how he works everything for good. And it was just miraculous. Yeah, and and one of the immediate benefits, of course, says, as we combine with love life and all this really increased press and and news presence reporting on what we were doing, was we start getting volunteers. Amazingly, even during those covid months.

21:45 Yeah, we're getting request for Hey, we'd love to come volunteer with you, and over the months that has really been increasing, which is another highlight. Searching for volunteers. Anyone who's involved in any ministry knows that finding volunteers, faithful, dedicated volunteers, is hard. Yeah, and, and this is this kind of minute exactly. This is such a difficult ministry. But we have had a steady stream of volunteer yes, absolutely, yeah, the Lord's really blessed us. So with some some pretty wonderful people, some amazing, amazing, markable individuals like yeah, yeah, and some that have, I guess, in their minds, never thought that they would be ministering at an abortion center, but as they saw what God was doing here in Charlotte, even in spite of the arrest and all of that, they would like, man, I gotta, I got to step up my game and yeah, I've got to be involved in this thing and there were people that were just so angry at the thought that an abortion center is open and no one's going in there to say hey, you're not social distancing or why are you any essential service? But that beautiful little home business or small business on main street is being shuttered by COVID and there was a lot of anger.

23:04 There was an anger over what was clearly right, the attempt to silence the Christian voice and allow an abortion center to remain open. And and so some volunteers came saying this is not right, they recognize the injustice and they wanted to become a part of it. Yeah, so the wonderful result when you've got a lot of volunteers, you've got two great ministries that have merged and are united under God in in that mission to save the unborn. Well, guess what? Unborn babies were saved. Yeah, and absolutely. Yeah, we have a faithful volunteer who keeps track of yes, we did the numbers, Christy, meticulous record of babies that are saying. So I texted her today. There were two babies saved today, one at the parenthood and one at at Latrobe Anna, which brought the total for this year, Chris, he tells us up to four hundred thirty six babies that are saved this year.

24:06 What makes it even more amazing as this is in the midst of the just horror of what happened with corona. And if there were times when it was you, me and maybe maybe one other sidewalk counselor yeah, out there where it was pretty skeletal. Yeah, three beginning stages of the coronavirus. Yeah, and then there was this new wave of pro abortion people, Young, young people, and they very aggressive and and very, very determined not to let us, single woman, speak to us or think that we were someone that should be spoken with. And in spite of all of that, to have that many babies saved. Yeah, and and that's just here in Charlotte. Yeah, that's it. Since Ryl, and I will say this now. I wish I could quantify a number, but I will say just through observation, maybe anecdotally, but I think you'd agree with me, we've seen less people arriving at the abortions. Yes, and Charlotte, yeah, I think certainly. Yeah, I mean say their numbers are down and yet still, you know, we're about on par with what we have normally seen.

25:14 You're by here with babies that are that are saved. It as so. So we think that the ratio is probably higher of baby saved and we know that abortion rates generally are down. Yeah, so, so to say. And I think they're down. I think there was recently a report, and I can't remember prol one of the pro life news things, that that said that that the attributed the the decreased abortions to some, many more women and we're choosing life because there was such a strong pro life presence. And and so we did also just find out today the number of babies saved nationwide, because in terms of nationwide, where love life yes, expanded and right now, that six hundred sixty one. Yeah, and counting. Six hundred and sixty one babies that have been saved. And we think about that, guys. This is six hundred and sixty one individuals who were scheduled to die but now are alive and and will live because somebody was standing there offering another alternative. Listen, guys, the lie that women come to an abortion center and the already got their minds made up. It's just that it is a lie excelling me what I was just going to say. Women are coming and they are praying for a sign, and a Christian being there on the sidewalk offering help and hope in the name of Jesus is often times that sign.

26:34 And with these six hundred sixty one, and that's just the ones that that we've been able to count right so many are save that we don't even know about. We won't find out about until we stand before the Lord. It's not about numbers, it's not about giving glory to us, but it's is about giving glory to God. And you'll see in the Bible numbers are shared, numbers of people that come to the Lord or shared. Even the number of fish that were caught. One hundred fifty three fish were caught in one particular fishing expedition in the Gospel's leaves, in the gospel of John. We do a whole side, can we? We did a whole a tolls podcast about that very thing. But we did give glory to God the six hundred sixty one plus babies that were saved. Yeah, Nashally, and I kind of brings us to what God is doing nationally in light of talking about the acts eight one and persecution rose and the message began to spread. And so what we were talking about earlier, as far as love life and cities for life merging together, what was in my heart is raising up people, as in Justine's heart. So we began what we call Love Life America. It's a matter of fact, if you guys want to check it out, love life dot org slash America's where you can find that. There are link to talk about it talks about all of what we're talking about here. Even describes what a sidewalk missionary is. But what we had done is tried to ID and invite people to come here to Charlotte. He get trained up to be sobwalk missionaries to bring love life to their city. And you are a part of, and still are a part of that training. And what we're doing

28:06 is we're bringing them here to Charlotte. We're doing what we're calling our Subwak missionary boot camp and they come and they get trained up in our tactics, in Biblical what we believe is Biblical Gospel Centered Sybwall counseling. Right, they get to observe all of the abortion center. Sadly, there are many to observe here and in Charlotte. So they get to observe many different abortion centers, how we how we work effectively at each of these different kinds of abortion centers with different challenges. And and then then we so we train them up and then we send them back to their city, yeah, where they will hopefully be able to replicate. Yeah, and at their point city. I believe we've got about twenty five sidewalk missionaries that we've sent out. So we started training in July of two thousand and twenty and at this point I believe it's twenty five. Right, we've done for many camps, camps, and we've sent out twenty five missionaries into I mean we've got a guy like Fresno California, we've got folks in Alabama, folks are we get a young lady in Virginia, Young Lady in Pennsylvania, like you said. You're about about to talk about internationally. Yeah, we have a young lady that's in Israel.

29:25 So she's actually in the states now, but she's going back at that. Couple of months ago she was in Israel doing pro life ministry in Jerusalem. I things are a lot different. They're to do ministry. There's not abortion centers there. Whether there are abortion centers there, but they're actually kind of hidden and it's kind of a I think most of abortions take place in hospitals there in Israel. So it's a bit of a challenge. But she's there and she's being faithful. We've got a guy in Ethiopia, Abraham, and we've to me it's been very rewarding. Now, I donn't know about you, but to hear their testimonies, to hear about babies that we're saved. You know, it's kind of like the Apostle John Talks about that, to see his children walking in the D at. Yeah, I mean because and many of them are coming from some sidewalk experience, but not most of them, not a lot, some of them more than others. But where there. They came because they felt that they were struggling in in seeing baby saved at their facility and they go home after this training and it's really exciting to see before it after report of increased saves, increase baby's saved. It's just so exciting. Yes, so I just got a video from Abram in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is hard ground a till. Let'm yes, yeah, what's happening in Ethiopia as far as on the prolife scene is that abortion is actually illegal in Ethiopia and abortions take place to yeah, abortions illegal, but from

31:00 what I understand, you're it's allowed in cases of rape and incest and the doctors not allowed to ask whether or not a woman is a victim of raprincess. So they didn't go in and anyone can't ask. Anyone can get in a boy, so anyone can get an abortion. So Abram is there and he's reaching out and he has literature in his own language that he's handed out. Yeah, and so, but he has no resources. So he had contacted us, you know, a few weeks ago, saying hey, I don't have a mobile ultrasound unit. There aren't even pregnancy resource centers. I don't think they're there. There isn't any way, to be really rate. The churches aren't really yet involved, so there's no one to go to to help if a woman should choose life, or even to offer, Hey, we have resources to help you. Yeah, and so it's kind of it's pretty it's rough. This is a hard ministry field or mission field that he has gone to. Yeah, and then we get this video. Yeah, awesome. By the way, nicest guy on earth. Oh yeah, such a God really Nice Guy. Yeah, so we want to play this video for you, guys, just so you can share in the blessing that we were able to share in. Good morning, guys, how are you doing?

32:09 This is abby Abram from eat yourpr this Habeb. I'm one about one of the pushing clinic, the busiest a pushing clinic here in this Habeb, and I just have a goodness to tire. There's a lady of her. She shows coffee and the guards is pushing clinics cards and I give them this literature. It's written in an American, my own language, and and one of the lady, I think last it was, it was Friday, and she she was coming for an abortion, and they give her this and they told her about to about me, to contact with me, and told her not to kill her baby. So and she turned around and you give me a call. So I'm going to go see her today. I'm certainly happy and excited. The first child is saved. It's awesome. God is good and please keep prying. The Lord blessing brying. So you hear in the video Abram is sharing the testimony of actually God using the security guards to great stand out his literature. Now how that all played out. I'm not follow up with him on that because our security guards here certainly not going to be handed out our literature. They shred our literature. And he's following the same kind of theme of God using sometimes those who maybe mean evil against God's people,

33:43 and yet they're being used to promote his plan and his purpose. Yeah, and I know for him it was it was pretty discouraging for a while. Yeah, he got trained up. I believe it was back in he was our first under was he was in our second south the way. Okay, he was in our September group. Okay, and he went back to Ethiopia. He actually was living here in the states and he was going to move like couple days after the boot camp back to Ethiopia. been here for like ten years. Yeah, and he went. Finally he had a hard time funding a place to stay, but any anyway, so he started going out to the abortion centers and he's seen women go in and out and he has really at first didn't have anything to offer them. Then he made up that little brochure that he hands out and to steal. Was Pretty discouraged.

34:30 And one of the things that you and I are doing with the missionaries is not just training them, but we're overseeing them and encouraging them. And so do we do a weekly call with them and just encourage the whole group? And you could tell he was pretty discourage. Yeah, at a few points, but it on that weekly calling. In his discouragement he's saying, I've nothing to offer the women and both of us had the idea, well, maybe there's a way to ship things to him. Yeah, for a baby shower, and we did a little digging. We've got a bit our baby shower lady, Sarah, who is off with having a well, she's had her baby. Now our babies getting a little bit older and she agreed that she would oversee this because it is complicated. I found a link on Google where that's or yeah, I found it on Google where it is possible to ship things to Ethiopia through Amazon. Yeah, so we could do a virtual baby shower. We could find out the need ship the stuff and we have offered that to him and we're in the testing phase soon, yeah, on whether this plan will work. We certainly hope it will, because now he's got a woman to offer resources to. Yeah, yeah, and you can just see in that video the joy in Abra McGee, hear in his voice.

35:43 Yeah, and it's joyful for us to it is very exciting. Another Situations Young Lady, our missionary in rolling over Virginia's Jenna, who was pretty discouraged for for some time not seeing any baby saved. It's difficult where she's at. She's had a plan parenthood that's really all from the road and Plant parenthood does do other things other than abortion, and so she was having a hard time finding, okay, who's even here from an abortion and even finding which days that they do abortion appointments, because some days they don't do abortions, like the one here in Charlotte only does abortions on Tuesday and Fridays. Sometimes that's hard to find out. Yeah, but anyway, we actually sent Amanda, who's a local here that we raised up as a sidewalk missionary, up to support Jenna and to help her out with some of those things.

36:32 And think the first day that Amanda was there Jenna saw her first baby saving. Actually at that point it was two babies to babies say so and on her first day of seen any saved babies too, saved babies fans. Awesome. Yeah, and I was overjoyed. I Know Jenna was overjoyed, you could see, and I was overjoyed here to hear. Yeah, and so this is just kind of just sharing with you guys. God's using even this coronavirus stuff, even this difficult year two thousand and twenty, which has been hard for a lot of us, and and it's it ain't over yet, right. Yeah, but man, God's doing stuff. These are just too yeah, of the missionaries. There's there's more stories that we could share if you go on endlessly. Yeah. Yeah, so there's a third one that I do want to share it and Calli with with one of our sharing one of our very loyal Sidebot councers, and I've been doing this for eight years now. You longer, but I the most I've ever seen in a single day of women who have chosen life is eight, and that was an unbelievably exciting day. That was the most I've seen in my eight years. And apparently about a week ago out in Raleigh there were nine babies saved and that is just unheard of. Yeah, it seemed like to me. And there's only twenty one abortions, I think. Yeah, so it's like close to half. That's Charler's bottom line life. And it seems to me now you may have observed it a little differently, and Sharon might correct us if you're listening to this podcast, Yar, and we're not trying to throw you under under the bus and toot our own horn, but it seemed to me that

38:02 after she had come her and Greg had come here to do the boot camp here in Charlotte, that the Lord they were already doing a great work. So I'm not, as they were kind of discount that, but it seemed like it went to the next left exponential. Yeah, all of a sudden there's, there's I think it's rare for them not to see baby safe now. Yeah, every day. So that God is on the move. God, he absolutely clearly on the move, so that in two thousand and twenty now we think we have estimated that there are nineteen abortion centers that, prior to two thousand and twenty did not have a Christian witness and they're now covered. Yeah, because of God raising up these God walk missions through one of the things that was our goal once we merge together with love life back in May of two thousand and twenty and just really kind of I really hit the ground running with trying to raise up Sibwalk missioners, put together boot camp and figure out what all this looks like. And we're still working the bugs out all of Ye but one of our goals was we want to see a Christian witness at every abortion center in North Carolina by the end of the year.

39:06 They're fifteen abortion centers in North Carolina and there was one here in Charlotte, believe it or not, the prolife Mecca has some people view it as there were still one abortion center here that did not have a consistent Christian witness. Right and God raised up Elijah, who's now a faithful sidewalk missionary. He came out of a pretty good job to actually step out in faith and be a sidewalk missionary. So if you guys want to support my friend Elijah as a missionary on the sidewalk, the brothers doing amazing work raising up sidewalk counselors. He's out there every day. God is raising up teams around him. He's even to the point where, unfortunately, Plan parenthood opened up another day where they were doing abortions. They are only doing them on Fridays and then about a month ago, I believe, they started doing them on Tuesdays.

39:51 But he's raised up enough people, Elijah has, that he's been freed up to be able to go to plant parenthood and since some of his volunteers there. Yeah, so, I mean I'm happy to announce that at this point every abortion center, so Durham and Chapel Hill were two kind of breaches in the wall. There's an consistent Christian witness at those abortion centers now. So I can say with with high level of confidence that there is a Christian witness at every abortion center in North Carolina and here in two thousand and twenty God has done it. Now. This not all of life. People. Hey, listen, we don't think we're I think I think we are the best. What do you think? Well, I know a little about I mean a little biased, but listen, as long as the gospels going forth, people are doing they may not like, maybe they don't do it like we do it or whatever. Who Cares, as long as they're doing like God has called them to and they're honoring the Lord and honor in his word.

40:45 I'm happy with it. So God is raising up people, whether it be loved life people are otherwise, to be a Christian witness. He's abortion centers and God's done it this year to have a Christian witness at every abortions center in North Carolina. And now the goal is with Love Life America, because we've figured that there's about seven hundred abortion clinics in the United States of American and I'm actually looking right now at a map that we have on the wall where we've gone through and identified on this mappy United States of America where all of the abortion centers are. We put a little black pain. Actually, allied you do this. Put a little black pain where every abortion center was and then that that signifies an abortion center that we've not been able to identify Christian witness. And there's about seven hundred of abortion centers total. And then we went through and try to figure out where there is a Christian witness and we put a white pin instead of a black pin so there's a consistent Christian witness there. And where there's a love life presence, we put a yellow pen instead of a white pain and I'm believing that God's going to fill this up and that that fill these black pins up with yellow or white pins.

41:45 And that really was the goal that we think. There's there's about seven hundred abortion centers. We figure that about seventy percent of those don't have a consistent Christian witness. So the goal is, and it's a big goal, that by November of two thousand and twenty one, we want to see a Christian witness at every one of these abortion centers in the United States of America by again, by November two thousand and twenty one. Some be praying for that, guys, because it's a it's a tall order, but I believe the Lord's in it. And why November two thousand and twenty one? I think there was a reason for that. There is so and one thousand nine hundred and twenty one. HMM, when that's when Margaret Sang, you're kind of launched, and Justin tells it a little better than I do. He's done the history on this, but it didn't. November of one thousand nineteen twenty one, the Margaret Singer launched the National Birth Control League, which ultimately became parenthood and that was the major push with the eugenics movement, the Birth Control Movement, the pro abortion movement. And so we want to glorify God and just hey, this is what the Lord has done. Every abortion center that Margaret Singers ultimately, and her ideology is the root of, actually has a Christian in front of it. Now. Yeah, again, it's all order.

43:00 A hundred years later it's later. God has done this work. So it's a tall order again, but God's doing it slowly but surely. Got People from all over the country, all over the world that are interested in becoming sidewalk missionaries, and so, by God's grace, were trying to raise them up. And and I I when you first said that, I thought no way, but you know, yeah, I think God will make away. Yeah, but then the the last thing is that our gospel centered pro life podcast has continued every week without I don't think we've missed a week. HAVEF WE WE HAVE NOT MISSED A week without every Thursday morning. Yeah, I've AMS when I put them out there. Yeah, and we've been able to over all kinds of subjects. Even remember the podcast we did with Ebony, who actually was going to New York to have a third trapmaster abortion and God, use the coronavirus stuff and the scare from that even change her mind.

43:52 Yeah, save her baby. Yeah, she actually testified. I gave her testimony at the week forty prayer walk that we did as past, just a couple of couple of weeks ago. Right, there was another mom in as we're very close to the end of of two thousand and twenty, which is, I think, maybe the what we wish would happen with every single mom who chooses life. She was out there today. Yeah, she's someone who came a few months ago to aboard her child and met with love life people and our counselors and came on the help monroe pregnancy mobile ultrasound unit out there and she chose life. Kind of tenuous choice. Rescheduled an abortion a couple days later and it was a hard fought battle for this woman. She was she was not walking with God. She didn't believe in God, but anyways, she she ended up coming to the Lord, choosing life, solid choice for life. Love Life and partnering ministries helped her so much in so many areas. She had a beautiful child. Yeah, little baby who I'm not sure how wildy is now a couple months and and she called today and said could she come out? She wanted to decide will out this sidewalk and to speak to the women, if possible, and to speak to the people.

45:23 She really had a heart to speak to those people that were ushering the women past us and not letting them speak with us and trying to dispel the lies that that these socalled pro choice people were telling about us. And she was just it was so magnificent. It was so wonderful to see someone who came to the very place where she had almost well, it was actually a different abortion center, was the one around the corner, but had come to the an abortion center intending to kill her baby and now brings the baby back with the intention to redeem the lives of other women in similar desperate situations.

46:04 It's pretty amazing. So, guys, we hope we hadn't been bragging too much have I think we've been bragging a little aloud. One day, one day year, we can. We can brag one day a year. Will really bragging on what the Lord has done. Exactly. Listen, above all people, blow all people. Maybe that's the more Humbley to say it whatever, no Mo limitations, my frailties, yeah, my inadequacies, and that, apart from the Lord's work, would be nothing. I wouldn't be able to be effective on the sidewalk helping anyone. And so anything that that we've shared with you guys, we're bragging on Jesus, if you can say it like that, what the Lord has done. But he uses people and we're seeing God use people all over the nation, all over the world to be a Gospel centered witness and we hope that this podcast is encouragement to you guys.

46:54 This episode we hope and encouragement. Again, we're not just bragging, we're sharing what God has done and glorying and what the Lord has done. And if you guys have any interest, you who are listening, maybe you're already involved in sidewalk ministry but you want to get trained further, we would certainly be willing to get you plugged in with our sidewalk missionary boot camp if you kind of check the boxes and fit the criteria for that. If you want to reach out. Maybe you just got some questions or whatever about cybwalk ministry. Maybe God stir in your heart and you've never been out on a sidewalk. We did a podcast months ago about your first time on sidewalk and what that might look like to help encourage people to be out there. So check that out. Check out our sidewalks for lifecom website sidewalks the number four lifecom where there's some equipping stuff there, and we just hope that you guys are encouraged. We have the you guys, even in spite of all the foolishness of this year, and you know, not just corona but the riots and racial unrest and political stuff, we have the you guys are clinging to the Lord. Who would encourage you guys to do that so that we move into two thousand and twenty one, give them praise and glory to the name of Jesus. At the beginning of this year, at the beginning of every year, me and my family commit our year to the Lord to serve him, and I hope that you guys will commit your your year two thousand and twenty one to the Lord. Commit that the rest of two thousand and twenty two the Lord. It's not too late. Yeah, to do that and get involved in some capacity, to your abortion center, be out there pray, reach out and and share this podcast. Yeah, above all things,

48:25 it's good about that, but do share the podcast, and with that I think we'll wrap this thing up. You can reach out to me Daniel at Love Life Dot Org, read out to her at Vicky at Love Life Dot Org. We love to hear from you and until next time, God bless. Give me our love for love, give me our love for gratitude. I know it will cost me my life. Nothing's too precious, and some that you