Monthly Archives: July 2011

Stand True Summer Mission Trip Report Part One It is hard to believe we are already three weeks into the 2011 Stand True Summer Pro-life Mission Trip.  While yesterday was a day off in Chicago with the Gulden family to enjoy pizza, laundry, fireworks and fellowship, we are back on the road again getting ready for Lifest in Wisconsin. Our first stop was at the National Right to Life Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, which included a day of praying at the local abortion mill.  We were excited to get to meet the wonderful women who were working at the local pregnancy help center right in between two abortion mills. Our good friend Joshua Edmonds from Georgia joined us for the week at the NRLC convention along with Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life and Janet Morana of the Silent No More Campaign. We hung out with and took in some great pro-life talks from Bobby Schindler, Abby Johnson, Steve Ertelt and so many more. One of the highlights of the NRLC convention was meeting all the young winners of state oratory contests and seeing their passion for the pro-life movement.  We loved talking to them and hearing their ideas and seeing the future/present of this movement in action. Next we had to split the team in two as we hit Cornerstone and Creation Festival, which were going on simultaneously. We normally just give you a short report from each festival but I really wanted to share with you the journal that Lerryn, one of our missionaries kept of her experience at Creation Festival: Wednesday: So, we’re in Pennsylvania at the largest Christian music festival in America. Who knew Pennsylvania was so beautiful! It has been awesome weather the whole time we’ve been here and I love the scenery.  I also love the atmosphere; we’ve got tons of people taking literature and are very interested in learning more about abortion! At the beginning of each day, we pray together. Yesterday we were trampled when the doors opened; so we prayed after we’d been open for an hour… not my favorite. Anyway, whenever I pray for the booth, I always pray that God would send us some hard people, people we can really talk with and explore the tough questions people have about abortion. People are always very surprised that we ask for that, but I figure that’s what we’re here for, to stretch people and make them think (and hopefully plant that pro-life seed). Believe it or not, either most Christians here are pro-choice or they just don’t care. I think it’s mostly the second one, although I am painfully aware there are people here that support the killing of babies because they believe the lie of ‘choice’. Thursday: God provided!  We had some really awesome conversations yesterday, not necessarily debates or anything, just some really good talks. We answered questions about talking to people who don’t believe in God and why they should still have a solid pro-life argument, Read More »