Sharing My Story

The activism that the committee initially displayed
consisted of prayer, supporting local pro-life crisis
pregnancy clinics and picketing of abortion clinics.
Supporting of crisis pregnancy clinics came in the
form of some of the committee members donating
various items that clinics used in their work such
as baby clothes and other articles and also volunteering
time to help with sundry office and maintenance tasks
at the clinic. These clinics were havens where young
pregnant women could come to find out was was
happening in their bodies in connection with their
unborn child and were given the alternatives on how
to cope with their circumstances. The alternatives
were primarily to keep the child or to find a home
for the baby after birth. Abortion was not an option
that was presented.

Walks for Life were held to raised money for the
clinic(s) where members of the church as well as
the committee could participate in. Each people
invovled was encouraged to raise so much money
for each mile walked to be given to the clinic.
The Walks for Life also served to raise the
awareness of the issue in the minds of the larger
public as the participants often carried signs or
wore T-shirt displaying pro-life messages. Many
church members and attenders including Pastor
Anderson participated in these marches. There
were times the marches passed in front of abortion
clinics. I personally was encouraged by the large
involvement and helped to promote the marches.
These public demonstrations were often hot,
sweaty and personally satisfying— somewhat
like precinct walking but the stakes were greater.
However there were other levels of commitment
to pro-life involvement.