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Introduction

Video: Sanctity of Life

So this past week probably marks one of the most significant “Sanctity of Human Life” weeks in it’s 45 year history.

Love him or hate him, President Trump was the first President ever to address the March for Life in Washington.

And he chose to say some profoundly Life affirming things.

Then we have a New York governor passing the most Pro-Abortion bill ever, allowing abortions right up to the due date.

And on the other side, Iowa passed one of most Pro-Life laws ever, the “Heartbeat Law” which asserts if there is a heartbeat there is a life.

So no abortions after 6 weeks.

Most of us, to one degree or another, have come face to face with the ideas behind the “Sanctity of Life” this week.

Here at Friendship Church we firmly believe in the “Sanctity of Human Life” and we corporately champion this cause through the APPLE Pregnancy Care Center in Eau Claire.

Along with being a long time financial supporter of the center, this past year their director, Melinda Gardner, was here to speak, several of our families join in their “Walk For Life” this past Sept and a group of us drove up for a Serve Team night to clean the shelves of rewards for their earn to learn program.

We have a great working relationship with this ministry that is championing the sanctity of human life.

Along with being a long time financial supporter of APPLE, this past year, we had the director, Melinda Gardner here explaining extensively what it is that they do at the Center, several of our families were able to make it to their “Walk For Life” this past Sept, and a group of us drove up for a Serve Team night to clean their shelves for their earn to learn program.

Actually, they even mentioned that in their end of the year newsletter.

We have a great working relationship with this ministry that is championing the sanctity of human life.

This past year their director, Melinda Gardner, was here to speak,

We had several of our families join in their “Walk For Life” this past Sept,

and a group of us drove up for a Serve Team night to clean their shelves for their earn to learn program.

Actually, they even mentioned that in their end of the year newsletter.

We have a great working relationship with this ministry that is championing the sanctity of human life.

APPLE stands for “Aiding Problem Pregnancies with Love and Encouragement” and it exists specifically in response to the 1973 Roe vs Wade Ruling in our country that legalized abortion.

So for 46 years this great country of ours has been horribly stained by the legalization of the killing of unborn babies.

As a nation, we have accepted the idea that a mother can choose to end the life of the person that God has created inside of her.

This law has allowed more than a half million people to be murdered here in Wisconsin alone.

We are not ok with that.

That is why we continue to partner with APPLE as a Church and encourage each other to participate in any community, political or legal action ministries that work to fight this horrible epidemic.

As a Church we will be partnering with APPLE in a new way over the next several weeks.

If you are interested in helping to reverse the devastation of abortion in our community then let me encourage you to participate in this “Baby Bottle Boomerang” campain.

Pregnancy Care Centers like APPLE care about this tragedy and they connect with it from the perspective of offering help and counseling to unexpected mothers and fathers.

They come alongside these men and women to tell them that the life that is in them is a gift that God has ordained to be.

Then they walk with them into and through the pregnancy all the way in the beauty and challenge of being a parent.

The offer many free resources like

Pregnancy Tests

Options Counseling

Referrals to Organizations

Practical Assistance

Post-abortion Counseling “We’ve known about you and supported you – but now we need you”

“We’ve known about you and supported you – but now we need you”

but now we need you”

Just like a boomerang is something that you throw out and see come back, APPLE has provided us with a basket full of battle bottles in hopes that we will take them home, put them in a prominent place in our house to remind us to pray for the Center and then place any loose change, bills or donations checks we would like in the bottles.

We will collect the bottles then in three weeks and get them off to APPLE.

There is also information on other opportunities to support the center in your program so be sure to check that out as well.

Partners & Parents Welcome

Earn While You Learn: Long-term mentoring, education and rewards

Long-term mentoring, education and

So we want to be helping this ministry in any way that we can.

One of the new ways that we will be supporting this ministry is to have a “Baby Bottle Boomerang” campain.

Just like a boomerang is something that you throw out and see come back, APPLE has provided us with a basket full of battle bottles in hopes that we will take them home, put them in a prominant place in our house, remember to pray for the Center and place any loose change, bills or checks in the bottles in trust that God will use our donation to further champion the Sanctity of Life in our Country.

Then in three weeks, on Feb 17th, we will collect them all and return them.

I will do my best to make sure that his basket gets put back in the lobby for you to grab one or two of however many your family would like to be responsible for, and then return them in 3 weeks.

rewards

Abortion is an evil that takes a life, but it’s destruction does not end there.

It destroys the lives of the mothers who made that horrible choice too.

It affects them emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.

This is probably where APPLE’S message is most opposed.

The last thing that a pro-choice person would want an expectant mother to know is that their are life altering consequences on both side of this choice.

Melinda Gardner sent me this quote:

Others ways that Apple is looking for support is to

While the killing of these many unborn babies is front and center to this horrible reality, there is another affect of this that is often overlooked.

The rights of the child have certainly been robbed from him or her, but too often we forget how the effectragedy in so many ways, but one of the ways that is way too often overlooked is the emotional, and phsycological affects

Join the “Walk for Life” (Sept 2019)

Volunteer at APPLE offices (more information in the bulletin on this)

Serve on the Board

Be A Prayer Warrior For Us - If you remember from Melinda’s presentation, this is not just a throw er in at the end kind of request.

They are often under direct attack from groups who oppose their message and mission.

Those who would desire the evil of abortion to continue to plague our country.

They are in great need of our prayers.

And what do they see as a win?

What is their goal?

I think the quote here from one of their clients says it well:

“If it had not been for the post-abortion counseling available through APPLE Pregnancy Care Center, I’d still be the same emotionally and spiritually broken person who initially walked through those doors – or maybe worse.

Thanks.

I don’t know what “worse” could have been like, but I do know what “forgiven and free” feels like.”

– APPLE Client

Abortion is an evil that takes a life, but it’s destruction does not end there.

It destroys the lives of the mothers who made that horrible choice too.

It affects them emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.

This is probably where their message is most opposed.

The last thing that a pro-choice person would want an expectant mother to known that their are life altering consequences on both side of this choice.

So this is one area that APPLE really focuses.

Listen to the challenge that these people face every day:

– APPLE Client

Abortion is an evil that takes a life, but it’s destruction does not end there.

It destroys the lives of the mothers who made that horrible choice too.

It affects them emotionally, phsycologically and spiritually.

This is probably the message that is most opposed, and it is the place where a Christian Care Center focuses.

Listen to the challenge that these people face every day:

The central challenge which pregnancy center staff and volunteers face every time they walk into the client room is this “How can we uphold the humanity of the unborn, affirm the woman in crisis, and eventually find a life-affirming solution for both?”

“How can we uphold the humanity of the unborn, affirm the woman in crisis, and eventually find a life-affirming solution for both?” ‘

Did you hear that?

They are after a “life affirming solution”!

Why are they looking for that?

Because they believe in the “Sanctity of Human Life”.

Tension

Every Christian must affirm the “Sanctity of Life”.

Notice I did not say that every Christian is “Pro-Life” because that is more of a political label and people can be “Pro-Life” for a lot of different reasons, but the “Sanctity of Human Life” is something that every Christian must affirm.

Every true Christian believes in the “Sanctity of Life”.

Notice I did not say that every Christian is “Pro-Life” because that is more of a political label and people can be “Pro-Life” for a lot of different reasons.

But the Sanctity of Life is something that every true Christian must affirms.

A week where people gather together in different settings and conversations to support and promote the idea that there is a “sanctity” to life, but what does “sanctity” even mean.