Answered Prayer and Important Announcements

Saved baby update: God continues to answer prayers!

You may recall prayers being requested for a 14-year-old abortion-minded mother last winter/spring.  We’ve been told that her baby was safely delivered about a week ago and is now in the home of her adoptive parents in the Milwaukee area. What joy this little baby is to her parents, and to her young birth mother, who had the courage to carry her baby to term and then give the baby up. Your prayers were answered - thank you for interceding!

Notice about Man Harassing Prayer Warriors

We recently learned that a man has been stopping by the vigil to harass prayer warriors. While our vigil participants have been safe since the campaign launched here in Madison in 2007, this provides a good opportunity to remind all of you that if you feel threatened, please take whatever steps you need to take (including going to your car and/or leaving the vigil site) and calling 911. Even if you feel you can "take" verbal abuse, please contact the police to help ensure that law enforcement prevents this (or any other troublemaker) from ruining the 40 Days for Life experience of other participants. Nobody has the right to harass you while you stand vigil. 

Open Hours to Fill

The 40 Days Vigil has been very successful so far, both in saved babies, and in keeping a continual string of Prayer Warriors on the sidewalk 24/7. Let's keep going! If you haven't been out to pray yet this week, can you help with any of the open hours below?

Men, thank you for taking the night hours but please continue to step up! We have night hours in the next few days where women are signed up alone!

·         Thursday - 1 needed at 2 am 

·         Friday - 1 needed at 1 am, 2 needed at 9 am

·         Saturday - 1 needed at 2 am, 3 am, noon, 6 pm,7 pm, 8 pm and 9 pm; 2 needed at 5 pm (9 open hours - Only 77% filled!)  

·         Sunday - 1 needed at 1 am, 2 am, 3 am and 8 am

Mid-Point Vigil Announcement

40 Days for Life Mid-Point Vigil with Msgr. James Bartylla – Thursday, October 17 at 5:30 p.m.

All are invited to a special prayer vigil with Monsignor James Bartylla, Vicar General of the Diocese of Madison, to mark the mid-point of Madison’s life-saving 40 Days for Life campaign on Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. 

The location is the sidewalk in front of the east side Planned Parenthood abortion center (3706 Orin Road Madison, WI 53704). Monsignor Bartylla will offer a Scripture reading, a reflection and prayers to encourage us for the second part of the campaign. 40 Days for Life is an internationally-coordinated campaign of prayer, fasting and peaceful witness to end abortion. For more information, visit vigilforlife.org or email info@vigilforlife.org.

A closing thought… May God bless all those who continue to make sacrifices to help this Vigil be successful and help mothers choose life for their unborn babies. If Isaiah were here we could say yes, we have known, and yes, we have heard; we believe and keep praying - to the inexhaustible, everlasting Creator of all life! Isaiah 40:28-29 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. ²⁹ He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. ³¹ ...those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.