Dear Partners and Friends,
This month we continue our coverage of the Spring 2003 GAP tour, focusing on our stop at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Bowling Green, Ohio. Once again, God used your gifts to save lives and to change hearts and minds. You are making a real difference in the lives of others, and we thank you for your faithfulness. As we look back at our last GAP trip, we also look forward to our upcoming Fall GAP tour. Please pray for this important project, and for all of us at CBR.
Students at Bowling Green State U Get the “B!G PICTURE”
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Big crowds greet us everywhere GAP is displayed. BGSU was no exception.
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Hundreds of high school students visited BGSU while we were on campus. |
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Fletcher explains how the unborn child is a human being and abortion is a horrible act of violence. |
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When this student vandalized the display, the campus police removed her from the project area. Such behavior can arise from post-abortion stress. Please pray for healing. |
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On April 14-15, 2003, CBR displayed GAP at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Bowling Green, Ohio.
The “B!G PICTURE.” If you go to the BGSU website, the first exhortation you see is "GET THE B!G PICTURE". On campus, that same message is attached to many of the lamp posts, some of which stood in and around our GAP display site. For two days, our larger-than-life GAP signs stood right next to banners urging students to get the "big picture." How appropriate.
Another life saved! The second day of our visit was relatively quiet. One member of our team wondered if we were doing any good. He prayed that a pregnant student would visit our site and change her mind about abortion. Less than a week later, we got this e-mail from one of the local organizers:
I wanted to share with you a response to the display that was shared with me by a pro-life professor at BGSU. She told me that she has a young lady in one of her classes who is 22 years old, married, and has 2 children. … Recently, this young lady found out that she was pregnant… She was strongly considering an abortion… On Tuesday (the quiet day!), after class, she stayed to talk with the professor. The professor suggested that she go out and look at the GAP display, but the young lady expressed that she didn’t have any desire to do so. After talking for a while, the teacher told her that she herself needed to walk across campus, and was going to look at the display on her way… The woman agreed to [accompany her]. When they got to the display, the woman stopped talking and stood very quietly looking at the first picture. … She slowly moved along, looking at one picture after another. She walked all the way around the display without saying a word. Then she went back to her professor and said, “I can’t do it! There is no way after looking at this that I could ever have an abortion!”
The voice of “tolerance.” The Bible tells us that men love the darkness and hate the light, because their deeds are evil (John 3:19-20). We observe this to be true everywhere we go. People don’t like it when we expose the evil of abortion. One student told us this:
It’s not alive until birth. If you killed the mother, maybe then it would be genocide. I believe in euthanasia too. And I’d like to see you killed. Yea, I’d like to see you killed. — male student
Ah, yes, the voice of tolerance and diversity in American life.
What is “drastic?” As usual, GAP touched off a flurry of letters to the campus paper, some on each side of the debate. Typically, these letters tend to recycle the same thought patterns over and over, but this one was different:
Imagine this: As you walk down the street one bright summer morning, you take notice of the children playing. They seem to be having a good time with smiles on their faces. … Suddenly, a dark cloud appears and darkens the sky. Everything seems to change, as a new face enters the scene. The man has an odd walk, and you know something is not right. He sees you, and slowly makes his way over to you and whispers: “I am going to murder those kids.” As you stand there, aghast at the man’s remark, your mind races as you try to think of something to do. You could run and try to stop him, but suddenly you are surrounded on all sides by a glass wall called the law. So, without wasting any more time, you begin to yell. You try to do everything in your power to try to get the man to stop, knowing that if you could simply change his mind somehow, there might be hope for the children. The purpose of the Genocide Awareness Project [is] just this. I spoke with the people who were behind the barricade. They care about the kids that have been killed and the ones that will be killed. They were willing to go to the extreme to try to save a life and to allow themselves to be objects of ridicule. A few questions: To what length would you go to save a life? Would you stop and bother yourself in the first place? Would you try to save lives by being drastic? What is drastic when life or death is involved? My hat goes off to those who care so much about the precious babies that are murdered each day. God have mercy on us.
More comments. Here are a few more of the comments we received:
I have been here since 1969 and I have never seen a display this powerful. Congratulations! — Professor
This is really sad. And I used to be pro-choice, but I’ve changed my mind because of this display. — African-American female student
The CBR Website: Saving Lives 24 / 7 / 365
The internet allows us to show people the truth about abortion all the time — 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 365 days/year. People see our signs and come to our website. People see our trucks and come to our website. People search for the word “abortion” and find our website. This tool works hand-in-glove with our other projects to multiply the impact of all of them. I hope you will visit www.abortionNo.org very soon.
We constantly hear from people who have come to our website and changed their minds based on what they see. Consider this message that came from a 28-year-old woman in Los Angeles:
I have never seen images of abortions, it made me really sad to see these innocent God-sent humans be killed like that. I'm 2 months pregnant and had a scheduled appointment to have [an abortion] done this Saturday, but there is no way I'm doing it now. … Thank you so much for saving a precious life. Now I greatly oppose legal abortion. Thank you so much!!!!
Here's one more, this time from a 28-year-old woman from Kansas City:
I have two beautiful sons. My husband wanted me to get abortions both times. I had a hysterectomy. … I am so glad this website exists. Web sites like this helped me be strong and refuse an abortion both times.
And finally, a 16-year-old girl from Simi Valley, California:
[Your website] changed my whole outlook on abortion.
Thank you, faithful supporters, for helping us reach those who are in crisis and need the truth.
To make an on-line donation to our work:
https://id28.securedata.net/abortionno/CBRSoutheast/creditcards.html
To arrange your automatic monthly bank draft to support our work:
1. Download and print the Electronic Gift Transfer Authorization:
http://www.abortionno.org/pdf/ElectronicGiftTransferSE.pdf
2. Fill out the form. Make sure you designate the gift for "CBR Southeast"
3. Enclose a voided check or deposit slip bearing the account number of the account we should draft.
4. Mail the Transfer Authorization form and a voided check (or deposit slip) to CBR Southeast, P.O. Box 20115, Knoxville, TN 37940.
We can continue this work only with your help!
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