Dear Partners and Friends,
This month, we conclude our coverage of the Spring 2005 GAP tour. The final stop was Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. We also announce that John Stair has joined our staff. John comes to us from The King’s Academy in Seymour, Tennessee, and he will be coordinating our RCC program.
Fletcher, Jane and John
GAP Visits Western Carolina University
On April 20-21, we were hosted at Western Carolina University (WCU) by the College Republicans (CR). The young people we meet are always outstanding young men and women, but we were particularly impressed with this group. Early each morning, they showed up in large numbers to unload the truck. At the end of the day, they loaded the truck in record time. Our biggest problem? To stay out of their way!
Special thanks to Mick Hunt. Mick Hunt of Life Advocates in Asheville was primarily responsible for the advance work at WCU. He also coordinated the local support for all of our GAPs this year, recruiting local volunteers to help build the display, staff the display, and provide food and lodging for our traveling team. As if that wasn’t enough, he oversaw the onsite work of setting up and taking down the display every day—that’s 26 days of GAP in 2005! Without him, we simply could not have visited so many schools.
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The GAP display was completely surrounded by sidewalks (left). During class changes, the traffic was heavy (right). |
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A different kind of Republican. Although the Republican Party platform has included a pro-life plank for many years, many of the CR groups give us the cold shoulder. They are the “country club” Republicans. They seek to build a “big tent” by avoiding controversial positions. Not so at WCU. These students are passionately devoted to life and family issues. They are willing to stand up and be counted on the things that matter most. They are the “Walmart” Republicans.
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By placing GAP just outside the student center dining hall, we made abortion unavoidable to all of these students. |
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Irony. Zachary Davies, President of the WCU CR, first heard about GAP when he heard a rumor that CR was actually trying to prevent GAP from coming to WCU. Funny, he was supposedly the leader of this obstructionist effort, and he had never even heard of GAP. So, he looked into it and quickly decided that GAP was the very project they should do. When Mick Hunt caught up with Zachary to tell him about GAP, he was already sold!
The pictures work. Again. We know that crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) have used CBR’s Harder Truth video to save hundreds and hundreds of lives. These are just the ones we know about; the real number is likely much higher. Further, other graphic visuals have also been used to save countless babies by showing their mothers the truth. Helen Gordon, a GAP volunteer from Asheville, related this story:
She stared at the horrible picture. “I almost did that,” she whispered and then continued to tell of a time when she was alone and pregnant. In seeking an abortion, she had unwittingly ended up in a crisis pregnancy center. Someone in the center showed her a picture just like the grotesque one behind me. She knew then she could never do THAT to her baby. Her hand reached into her purse and withdrew a picture of an animated little girl posing in hat and long dress, a bubbly 6-year-old. The young woman is now married to the father of her daughter; graduating from Western Carolina in two weeks and looking forward to law school. This beautiful young mother pointed to the sad, ugly picture behind me saying she could not imagine where she would be now if she had done THAT. We both, once again, looked at the picture. It was all because of a graphic picture of the brutal reality of abortion and the loving hand that had shown it that this mother’s eyes now sparkled with hope and happiness.
Kill them or we’re doomed! Doomed, I say! We are often told that both the woman and her baby are doomed to lives of poverty if the baby is not killed. Note that the young woman in Helen’s story (above) is graduating from WCU and is headed to law school. May the Lord smite us all with that kind of “poverty,” and may we never recover!
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Fletcher addresses a philosophy class. |
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Not really. A protester carried a sign that claimed, “I am pro-choice. People should have the right to choose what they see and hear.” Obviously, that wasn’t true. In reality, he wanted to deny thousands of students the opportunity to see the pictures and hear what we had to say. In his world, “choice” means his selfish right to deny life or liberty to anyone, born or unborn, who gets in the way of him having a good time.
John Stair to Coordinate CBR-SE Reproductive “Choice” Campaign
We are pleased to welcome John Stair to the CBR-SE family. John will be coordinating our Reproductive “Choice” Campaign (RCC).
John comes to us from The King’s Academy of Seymour, Tennessee, where he was the Bible teacher and Chapel coordinator for many years. We first ran into John when he arranged for Gregg Cunningham to present the truth about abortion to the students at The King’s Academy in 1998. Since that first time, he has arranged many return trips. We know that lives have been saved as a result of his work.
A big part of John’s responsibility will be to take our RCC truck to cities all over the Eastern US. Just as we have taken GAP to many universities all over the Eastern seaboard, we will now be able to take the RCC to a number of cities, both large and small. If you would like to see RCC in your home town, please call John at 865-776-3261.
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Would you like to bring this truck to your city? Call John Stair (left) at 865-776-3261. RCC reaches a broad spectrum of American citizens, because car drivers represent every socioeconomic group. RCC is also a powerful tool for reaching college students. |
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To arrange your automatic monthly bank draft to support our work:
1. Download and print the Electronic Gift Transfer Authorization:
http://www.abortionno.org/...GiftTransferSE.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.
Please pray that God will raise up others to help you support this life-saving work!
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