This year’s 40 Days for Life campaign begins on Wednesday morning, but the Kick Off Rally to start the campaign off in prayer is this Tuesday night! The Rally will start at the Women’s Help Center (click HERE for a map) at 6:45 pm. Prior to the the Rally, there will be a Holy Hour at five o’clock and Holy Mass at six o’clock. Both of those services will be at Prince of Peace Roman-Catholic Church. (Click HERE for a map) Prince of Peace has also offered up there parking for the Rally that evening. Fr. Scott Looker has been asked to pray during the Rally that God’s blessing be upon the work of all the volunteers this year. Please join us this Tuesday night to hear more about 40 Days for Life and to get involved with this incredible powerful movement in Jacksonville and abroad.
As Fr. Shiell discussed in his sermon on Sunday, The March For Life will be January 27th, 2017, in Washington, D.C., and we should all begin preparing to head to our nation’s capital now in order to be ready when the big day arrives. But we do not have to wait until January to start choosing Life right here in Jacksonville today! There are plenty of opportunities in the upcoming weeks to show your support for local Pro-Life ministries. Below is information on some of these upcoming events.
Jericho March on September 24th—Saturday morning beginning at nine o’clock, Christians from throughout Jacksonville will begin walking around the property surrounding Jacksonville’s Planned Parenthood. They will march around the property a full seven time and pray for the facility to close and for abortion to come to an end in Jacksonville and throughout America. For more information contact Rob Barnaby at (904) 504-1412.
40 Days For Life Kick Off Rally Events on Tuesday, September 27th—An evening of special events begin the annual 40 Days for Life campaign. Prince of Peace Roman-Catholic Church will observe and celebrate a Holy Hour and Mass from five o’clock until 6:30. Following the Mass, there will be a Kick Off Rally at the Women’s Help Center (a Pro-Life center located in between two abortion clinics) from 6:45 to 7:30. The Kick Off Rally will include an overview of the 40 Days For Life campaign, an invitation to join in, an opportunity to tour the Women’s Help Center, as well as light refreshments. Church of the Messiah’s Fr. Scott Looker has been invited to lead one of the opening prayers at this year’s rally.
40 Days for Life Annual Campaign, September 28th—November 6th—Since 2004, Pro-Life activists in over 25 different countries have taken a peaceful and prayerful stand against a culture of death.
40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign with a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion. The mission of the campaign is to bring together the body of Christ in a spirit of unity during a focused 40 day campaign of prayer, fasting, and peaceful activism, with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus bringing an end to abortion.
This year, the 40 Days for Life campaign will be gathering in the public right-of-way outside A Woman’s Choice of Jacksonville from 7 am to 7 pm. To get involved or stay up to date on upcoming events in the 40 Days For Life campaign, visits Jacksonville’s 40 Days For Life web-site.
This Saturday morning, at 10 o’clock, Fr. Terry Gensemer, International Director of CEC For Life, will lead the local pro-life community in a Liturgy for the PreBorn. The Liturgy will be held in the public right-of-way in front of A Woman’s Choice of Jacksonville (Click HERE for a Map). The service is being held in conjunction with Jacksonville’s Fall 40 Days for Life campaign. The Liturgy for the PreBorn is a service similar to a prayers at the time of death for the many preborn children who will face death in abortion clinics in Jacksonville and all over America each day. A Woman’s Choice of Jacksonville is one clinic in Jacksonville where abortions are performed six days a week so people will be praying at the same time women and children could be going into the clinic to have abortions. The following morning, Fr. Gensemer will preach at Church of the Messiah’s 10 o’clock service.
Fr. Terry Gensemer, the International Director for CEC For Life, will visit Church of the Messiah October 3-4. During his time at Church of the Messiah, Fr. Gensemer will lead a Liturgy for the Pre-Born outside of one of Jacksonville’s most notorious abortion clinics as part of the annual 40 Days for Life Fall Campaign. Sunday morning, Fr. Gensemer will preach and celebrate the Holy Eucharist at Church of the Messiah’s regular services beginning at 10 o’clock.
In addition to leading CEC For Life and sitting on the Patriarch’s Council, Fr. Gensemer is a Board Member of the National Pro-Life Religious Council, a Pastoral Care Associate for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, and the Pastoral Director for the Society of Centurions, an organization which hosts healing retreats for those who have left the abortion industry. Fr. Gensemer’s tireless work for the Pro-Life cause has taken him to five different continents and countless churches across the world. On this trip, Fr. Gensemer will be joined by his wife Patti.
Be sure to mark your calendars because October 3-4 are going to be an exciting weekend. There is never a dull moment with Fr. Terry and Patti Gensemer around. Be sure to join us for each of these powerful events.
This Sunday, September 20th, 40 Days for Life will hold a Kickoff Rally to begin their annual fall campaign. The Kickoff Rally begins at 4:45 and will include a preview of this year’s Fall Campaign, testimonies from Dr. Pete and Patricia Kuhlman on the importance of prayer in the Campaign, and prayer in front of one of Jacksonville’s abortion clinics. This year, Fr. Scott Looker has been asked to open the rally in prayer. The Kickoff Rally will take place in the parking lot of the pro-life Women’s Help Center. Please park at Prince of Peace Roman-Catholic Church (Click HERE for a map).
For those unfamiliar with it, “40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign with a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion. The mission of the campaign is to bring together the body of Christ in a spirit of unity during a focused 40 day campaign of prayer, fasting, and peaceful activism, with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus bringing an end to abortion.”
Beginning Wednesday, September 26, Jacksonville will be one of 314 communities joining together for a faith-filled, groundbreaking, coordinated pro-life mobilization—40 Days for Life.
40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life effort that consists of:
40 days of prayer and fasting
40 days of peaceful vigil
40 days of community outreach
This year, 40 Days for Life has a special focus. This year, we are praying that a clinic, recently purchased by Planned Parenthood, never opens its doors! Planned Parenthood has purchased a former clinic and is planning on renovating the facility and resuming their practice of providing abortions, a practice which they had previously stopped after a 40 Days for Life campaign a few years ago. This facility-to-be is strategically located between two high schools, Englewood and Wolfson, all the better to reach their target market–teen-age girls.
What can we do? There is plenty to be done! We can pray. We can fast. We can intercede. We can join with prayer warriors in front of the new Planned Parenthood-to-be from 8am to 5pm, Monday through Friday, until November 4. On top of that, there will be several special events. This Saturday, September 29, will be a Jericho March. Saturday, October 6, will be a multi-cultural Rosary Procession. On two Saturdays, October 20 and 27, Prince of Peace (CEC) and Church of the Messiah will lead Liturgies for the Pre-Born. This is the first time that two Charismatic Episcopal Churches will be leading inter-denominational worship services in the Pro-Life Community in Jacksonville! Finally, on November 3, there will be a March for the Surviving Youth. More information will be coming on each event.
Mark these dates on your calendar. “With God all things are possible” and through our intercession, prayer, fasting, and making ourselves living signs and symbols, Our Lord can prevent another abortuary from ever opening in Jacksonville. Planned Parenthood is the single largest provider of abortions in America. By God’s grace, let’s make sure they do not harm any more babies in our home town!
For more information, visit 40 Days for Life. A map of the new location in included below.
SJL 
This year’s 40 Days for Life campaign begins on Wednesday morning, but the Kick Off Rally to start the campaign off in prayer is this Tuesday night! The Rally will start at the Women’s Help Center (click HERE for a map) at 6:45 pm. Prior to the the Rally, there will be a Holy Hour at five o’clock and Holy Mass at six o’clock. Both of those services will be at Prince of Peace Roman-Catholic Church. (Click HERE for a map) Prince of Peace has also offered up there parking for the Rally that evening. Fr. Scott Looker has been asked to pray during the Rally that God’s blessing be upon the work of all the volunteers this year. Please join us this Tuesday night to hear more about 40 Days for Life and to get involved with this incredible powerful movement in Jacksonville and abroad.
