Equipping Articles

June 4, 2026

Counseling Abortion Determined Friends and Family

Help! Someone in my church just told me she scheduled an abortion. What do I do or say? 🚨 First: What not to do Don’t panic or come in harsh or condemning. The Love Life model emphasizes that this is not about winning an argument—it’s about rescui…
May 23, 2026

Sidewalk Basics Top Ten

These are what I consider the top ten basics for Sidewalk Outreach (SWO). However, before we talk about the basics, there are some PRE-SWO basics that should be in place. The volunteer should be in the Word, in church regularly, prayed up, with the …
May 7, 2026

Using Forgiveness as Rationale to Abort Case Study

Introduction of Issue The excuse I hear most often rationalizing abortion is that God is a forgiving God and understands the situation. I hear it from friends, drivers, boyfriends, and family who are with the abortion-minded women. I hear it from t…
March 5, 2026

Lessons for SWO from Mom Testimonials

For the 2025 Celebrate Life Prayer Walk in Charlotte, six women who had chosen life spoke to the crowd of nearly a thousand people about their journey choosing life. The testimonies have been shortened for this article but were all powerful stories …
Feb. 5, 2026

Guidelines In Counseling Family Members to Counsel Against Abortion

The Issue I am frequently called by despairing family members or friends trying to counsel their loved one not to abort. We provide extensive training to our sidewalk outreach (SWO) team members in how to effectively counsel. It is not easy to trun…
Jan. 1, 2026

Confronting Differing Religious Views in Sidewalk Outreach

Introduction We meet people from many religious backgrounds at the abortion centers. Our ministry is Gospel centered and we believe that every religion apart from Biblical Christianity is false. We believe we are called to change the culture throug…
Dec. 5, 2025

Does God kill children- Rationalizing Abortion

“They come from a far country, From the end of heaven— The Lord and His weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land. Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. “I will punish the world for its evil…
Nov. 6, 2025

Creating a Culture of Life in SWO

I often receive questions from volunteers about what to say, or whether even to engage, with passersby on the sidewalk or people driving by the Abortion center who are not going there. Should we put any time or effort into engaging with them, and if…
Sept. 17, 2025

How Should Sidewalk Outreach Teams Respond to the Charlie Kirk Murder

The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk shook the Christian world. Good versus evil was on full display as our nation endured yet another act of senseless violence against an innocent human being. As we watched the young widow sobbing, and saw pict…
Aug. 8, 2025

A Calloused Heart

Increasingly, we have met women on the sidewalks of abortion centers who acknowledge that what they carry in their womb is indeed a baby. However, their rejoinder to that truth is chilling. “I know it’s a baby and I don’t care.” The depth of this…
Aug. 7, 2025

How to move from Compassion to Conviction

It is critical in Abortion Sidewalk outreach to have a compassionate and merciful view of the people we are ministering to. Our desire is that they would come talk with us so we would have the opportunity to share the gospel and create a new mindset…
July 23, 2025

The Moral Dilema of Helping Undocumented Moms

The Dilemma An increasing issue we face on the sidewalks of abortion centers is how to deal with the influx of undocumented immigrants who come to abort their babies. As a ministry, how do we offer help to people who are breaking the law? We are an…
July 3, 2025

Do Not Insult the Spirit of Grace

“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries... Of how much worse pun…
June 7, 2025

Why Love Life Does What We Do

It is important to have a biblical and strategic framework for everything we do as a ministry. With the recent reports of President Trump pardoning people involved in “abortion rescue” activity, we felt it was important to discuss why Love Life Mini…