"Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you do unto me...."

When we reflect on the "least of my brethren" sacrificed daily at the Planned Parenthood abortion mill, this passage from Matthew, Chapter 25, should halt us in our tracks.  For it refers not only to what we do TO our brethren but what we do NOT DO FOR our brethren.  With 40 Days for Life approaching, we should ask ourselves:

• What am I doing to end this holocaust?

• Am I doing my part or am I letting others carry the load?

• How can I help to make this a successful campaign?

• How will I answer these questions when I face God one day?

At the volunteer meeting last Tuesday night, we were blessed to have a good response to our call for filling positions.  But many more are needed!  Please consider signing up for any of the following volunteer opportunities:

• Vigil Captain - Responsible for making the phone calls to ensure that every vigil hour is filled with at least two prayer warriors. It would be great to have two captains per day of the week.  Men, we need your participation, especially with the many overnight hours in this campaign! 

• Church Liaison - Responsible for promoting 40 Days for Life at your church through bulletin announcements, pulpit announcements, fliers, information tables, and personal invitations.   Liaisons are encouraged to coordinate a weekly block of hours to be filled by their church.

• Emergency Vigil Hours Contacts - This list of prayer warriors would be willing to fill in if a person is unable to fulfill their assigned hour and a substitute cannot be found or if a vigil captain has tried repeatedly to fill an hour without success.  We need people available for daytime and nightime!  Those who were on this list last year....can you be on it again?

• Volunteer Callers - Responsible for personally inviting past participants to join 40 Days for Life again, encouraging and reminding them.  We even provide a phone call script for you!

• Outreach Team - Promotes 40 Days for Life outside the current participants and current churches involved.  This would include reaching out to pro-life or Christian organizations for participation.

If each of us could get one friend, neighbor, family member, coworker to join us on the sidewalk, this would be a significant step towards changing hearts for life.  Just ask; you may be surprised at the willingness to participate!

40 Days for Life begins Wednesday, September 26, and concludes Sunday, November 4, 2012.  We need your help....the preborn babies need your help.  Can you answer the call?  Let us be their voice so that one day we will hear Our Lord say:  "Well done, good and faithful servant.  Come enter into My Father's house."
Please contact us at info@vigilforlife.org.


Other Announcements:

• We still have 2 hours to fill this week on the vigil calendar:
  

        Thursday, August 2 - 1 person at 1:00 and 1 person at 2:00pm
Thanks especially to those who are always there to fill in the blanks even if it means several or more hours each week!  Can you help?

You can sign-up online at vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview.  Please email us at info@vigilforlife.org for more information.

• Rosary Rally this Thursday, Aug. 2nd 7:00pm, the top of State St. Capitol steps - Let's keep the numbers going up!  Can we hit 1000? 

God bless each of you!