Prayer keeps us rooted in the fact that it is our desire to carry out God's will. 40 Days for Life has contributed to a groundswell of pro-life support worldwide. Shawn is a regular media spokesperson, and his work has been featured on hundreds of outlets, including Fox News, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Drudge Report, The Guardian, USA Today, and Christian media including The Christian Post, National Catholic Register, Sirius XM Catholic Radio, EWTN Radio, and Focus on the Family. Kitsap County, Washington. But four members of the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life realized they needed to ask God how He would have them end abortion in their community. From its beginning, Shawn has been instrumental in growing 40 Days for Life nationally and then internationally. For four individuals in Bryan/College Station, Texas, the answer was to start locally and to start with prayer. Christ told us some demons can only be driven out by prayer and fasting. Media outreach is conducted through carefully targeted news stories, talk shows, and editorials. It also serves as a call to repentance for those who work at the abortion center and those who patronize the facility. Before long, campaigns had been hosted in all 50 states. In 1998, Planned Parenthood opened an abortion center in Bryan/College Station. He has executive produced award-winning pro-life documentaries.
Finally, they gave their new project a name: 40 Days for Life. We believe that when God's people fast with a broken, repentant, and contrite spirit, our heavenly Father will hear from heaven and heal our lives, our churches, our communities, our nation, and our world. Pro-Lifers in places like Houston, Manhattan, Indianapolis, Toronto, London, Sydney, Mexico City, Cape Town, Bogota, Moscow, and Hong Kong stand together in prayerful solidarity. Hundreds of cities in dozens of countries across all six populated continents have now hosted 40 Days for Life campaigns. The campaign made local, state, and national news. The building where thousands of lives were taken has been redeemed and now serves as the international headquarters for 40 Days for Life. 40 days is a timeframe God consistently uses throughout salvation history to transform His people. The crisis of abortion is enormous. Since 2007, 40 Days for Life participants report tens of thousands of lives saved from abortion during a campaign. People visibly show their support for 40 Days for Life by wearing wristbands, placing signs in their yards, or displaying bumper stickers on their vehicles. Those who are called to stand witness during this 24-hour-a-day presence send a powerful message to the community about the tragic reality of abortion. So in 2004, they gathered around an old wooden table for an hour of prayer. That's the type of impact that led an ACLU spokesperson to describe 40 Days for Life as the "greatest threat to choice.
If your community has a college campus, many students can be impacted through an intense 40-day campus outreach. And the local abortion rate dropped by 28 percent. Where do you start when it comes to addressing such a global catastrophe? Less than a year later, 40 Days for Life came to Sherman, Texas, leading Ramona Trevino to leave her job managing a Planned Parenthood. Shawn co-authored the #1 top-rated Christian book: 40 Days for Life: Discover What God Has Done … Imagine What He Can Do and What to Say When: The Complete New Guide to Discussing Abortion. People of faith are also invited to fast throughout 40 Days for Life. The campaign results exceeded all expectations. It is a peaceful and educational presence. They also vowed that even if no one else would join them, together they would cover the entire 40-day, 960-hour, around-the-clock vigil. The visible, public centerpiece of 40 Days for Life is a focused, 40-day, non-stop, round-the-clock prayer vigil outside a single Planned Parenthood center or other abortion facility in your community. But one shared language of prayer. If you do not have an abortion facility or Planned Parenthood office in your town, you can still conduct 40 Days for Life; however, you will need to select a different location which has some strategic significance - perhaps near city hall, a courthouse, or a highly visible intersection. After graduating from college, Shawn was asked to serve as the executive director of the Coalition for Life, a local pro-life organization in Texas, made up of more than 60 churches. How might God transform Bryan/College Station in 40 days?
A door-to-door petition and education drive reaches out to every household in your town or city. He also wrote The Beginning of the End of Abortion and To the Heart of the Matter. Around-The-Clock Vigil. Shawn began as a volunteer in the pro-life movement while still in college. Fasting is a sacrifice that helps us reach beyond our own limitations with God's help. This can consist of flyer raids, public witness, petition drives, table displays, and much more. In the year to come, communities across the United States launched their own campaigns: Houston, Texas. Amidst the sixth 40 Days for Life campaign in Bryan/College Station, Abby Johnson - Planned Parenthood's employee of the year - changed her mind about abortion, and she turned to the 40 Days for Life team for encouragement as she left her job. A grassroots, door-to-door effort reached more than 25, 000 households. With God's grace, this movement will continue until every abortion center goes out of business for good. Each day during 40 Days for Life, individuals, churches, families, and groups will be asked to join together in prayer for a specific request so the entire Body of Christ can unite around a common focus. Shawn is one of the most sought-after pro-life speakers, addressing audiences coast-to-coast and internationally. 40 Days for Life is an internationally coordinated 40-day campaign that aims to end abortion locally through prayer and fasting, community outreach, and a peaceful all-day vigil in front of abortion businesses.
Church involvement begins by meeting with local pastors, other church leaders, and members of different congregations. And then the world came knocking. During 40 Days for Life, the message is taken proactively to every corner of your community. The two go hand in hand. Helping to end the injustice of abortion. In 2007, the original 40 Days for Life leaders launched the first ever nationally coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign, spanning 89 cities in 33 states. The Bryan/College Station Planned Parenthood joined the list in 2013.
During that hour of prayer, they found themselves drawn to the timeframe of 40 days-a timeframe God consistently uses throughout salvation history to transform His people. Green Bay, Wisconsin. This feature is under construction.
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