Sharing My Story

In January 1987 I started attending the Sierra
Madre Congregational Church in Sierra Madre,
California. This church was the first denominational
church I had attended (though the church at that
time was not officially afflilated with any
Congregational denomination.) There I attended
a Singles Group and became acquainted with a
number of the members. I meet several men
about my own age who were interested in
politics and especially pro-life issues.

Several years before the church had a pro-life
committee but for unknown reasons (perhaps
lack of leadership) it was discontinued. During
the late 1980s and early 1990s the conservative
evangelical Christian participation within the
pro-life movement began to grow as many
church goers became more concerned about
the abortion issue.

Operation Rescue founded
by Randall Terry in 1986 was a “radical”
movement that challenged Christians to
get out of their comfort zone and take to
the streets to protest abortion on demand.
This was no longer a Roman Catholic issue.
In the late 1960s it was radical leftists who
were marching against the War in Vietnam.
In the late 1980s conservative Christians
were taking to the streets to protest abortion
on demand. How times had changed!