Bud and Tara are working to organize a constant peaceful and prayerful presence at local abortion clinics and several other proven strategies, in an effort to end abortion in New Mexico. We are also reaching out to the Christian community to educate, activate, and encourage them to stand for life. Our ministry is Christ centered and grace filled. There are many ways to get involved, our prayer is that you will join us in our life saving ministry.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

KNKT 40 Days For Life, ABQ



On October 31st, one of Calvary’s designated days to pray at Planned Parenthood about 30 people came to stand for life. Calvary of ABQ also has their own Christian radio station 107.1 KNKT, and Peter Benson who hosts ABQ Connect aired his show on location at Planned Parenthood on October 31st and interviewed Pastor Eric Lamb, Bud Shaver, Phil Leahy along with some other local pro-life organizations including: Project Defending Life, Care Net, Birthright, New Mexico Right to Life, and Aspen Project-an adoption agency.

This is a glimpse of the hour long broadcast. In this 9 min video excerpt Peter Benson interviews Pastor Lamb, Bud Shaver and Phil Leahy during the Fall 40 Days for Life campaign at Planned Parenthood.

Peter Benson who hosts ABQ Connect aired his show on location at Planned Parenthood on October 31st. This is a glimpse of the hour long broadcast, here in this 9 min video excerpt. Peter Benson interviews Eric P. Lamb, Bud Shaver and Phil Leahy during the Fall 40 Days for Life campaign at Planned Parenthood. A special thanks to Jesse for his latest video!

Listen to the entire (1 hour) show here:
http://www.knkt.com/abqconnect_player.asp?id=1383 (Click on 10/31/2012 ABQ Connect)

Monday, November 12, 2012

PRESS RELEASE: New Mexico Abortionist Faces Discipline for Botched 35 Week Abortion

By, Operation Rescue 

November 12, 2012

Albuquerque, NM – Acting on complaints filed by Operation Rescue and Project Defending Life, the New Mexico Medical Board (NMMB) has filed a Notice of Contemplated Action alleging gross negligence against late-term abortionist Shelley Sella during a 35-week abortion that landed the woman in the hospital with a ruptured uterus.

                                      

“Shelley Sella has a long and sordid history. We have been looking forward to the day when she would be held accountable for her abortion abuses. That day has finally arrived,” said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue.

The abortion took place on May 12, 2011. Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life obtained a copy of the 911 call placed that day, which revealed incriminating details of the medical emergency. Mrs. Shaver worked with Operation Rescue to file a series of complaints that resulted in the Board’s action.

A hearing will be held on November 29-30 to determine what, if any, disciplinary action the Board will take, which could include suspension or revocation of Sella’s New Mexico medical license.

NMMB documents state that Sella wrongly conducted the dangerous 35-week abortion in a clinic setting instead of a hospital and disregarded the patient’s history of a previous Caesarean Section delivery. A Caesarean Section weakens the uterus, increasing the risks of rupture during subsequent labors. Sella is also accused of over-using uterine stimulants, which contributed to the life-threatening rupture.

Sella is a former associate of the late George Tiller, having worked for him at his infamous late-term abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. After that clinic closed in 2009, Sella went to work for Curtis Boyd at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an affiliate of the troubled National Abortion Federation, conducting the same grisly late-term abortion procedure she learned in Wichita.

Sella cancelled her Kansas medical license the same week the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts notified Operation Rescue that a disciplinary petition had been filed against one of Sella’s Kansas co-workers, Ann Kristin Neuhaus, who had provided improper late-term abortion referrals to Tiller’s abortion clinic.

Testimony taken during Neuhaus’ disciplinary hearings indicated that late-term abortions done in Kansas by Sella were in fact illegal. The KSBHA revoked Neuhaus’ medical license, but because Sella had previously surrendered her license, she was outside their jurisdiction and avoided accountability for her actions.

Sella also works as an abortionist for Planned Parenthood in California.

More Information


 



Bud and Tara Shaver- "We are former intern's with Operation Rescue. We moved to Albuquerque, NM to work alongside Project Defending Life to implement proven strategies to peacefully and legally end abortion in New Mexico." 

Check out the endorsement by Operation Rescue published by www.lifenews.com:

Pro-Life Advocates in New Mexico Keep Fighting Abortion Industry


Prayerfully consider making a donation so that we can continue to make every effort to see all the Albuquerque abortion clinic's closed! 
You can donate securely here: (Click link) Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness  (Cornerstone is a pro-life alternative to paypal)

Or, your donation can be mailed to:

Bud and Tara Shaver
P.O. Box 50351
Albuquerque, NM 87181

All donations made out to Project Defending Life, earmarked for "Bud or Tara Shaver" are tax deductible.
 

Thursday, November 1, 2012

November Newsletter: The Calvary Has Arrived!

The Calvary Has Arrived!


This month, the 40 Days For Life campaign was out in full force! We are so pleased that during this campaign Calvary of Albuquerque stepped up in a big way. On October 31st, one of Calvary’s designated days to pray at Planned Parenthood about 30 people
came to stand for life. Calvary of ABQ also has their own Christian radio station 107.1 KNKT, and Peter Benson who hosts ABQ Connect aired his show on location at Planned Parenthood on October 31st and interviewed Bud along with some other local pro-life organizations including: Care Net, Birthright, New Mexico Right to Life, and Aspen Project-an adoption agency.


(Peter Benson interviewing Pastor Eric Lamb)

Also, this month the first of a series of videos was finished titled: “The Calvary Has Arrived” you can watch this encouraging 11 min. promo video here at our blog. Calvary of Albuquerque is the largest Christian Church by attendance in the entire state of New Mexico! It is encouraging to see them step up in a big way! A vital part of our ministry consists of helping to educate and activate the Christian community to stand for life. This month we are seeing the fruit of this effort. God is moving the biggest hearts, Churches, and mountains in New Mexico!


The Survivors Campus Life Tour was in town this month. We love having them join us at the clinics and doing outreach at the local colleges and high schools. Education is key in abortion prevention.


(Picture by Survivors CLT)

“The Campus Life Team is COMMITTED. After stopping in an Albuquerque shopping center to order pizza for dinner, the team noticed a Planned Parenthood a few doors down. They placed their order, grabbed some sidewalk chalk, and spent all the time it took to make the pizza writing pro-life messages across the walk in front of PP's door. Unwavering abolitionists! “


Sidewalk Testimonies

This month out at late-term abortion mill SWO as I approached a woman in her car who was leaving the parking lot I noticed tears in her eyes but she was smiling, and said "Thank you, I didn't do it! I just could not do it!" I gave her local resources just in case she needed anything. Praise God! Another sidewalk counselor was able to pray and minister to a woman who had come to schedule an abortion. We are confident and prayerful that she will not have the abortion! We also spoke with a young father for quite a while who was open and honest. He brought his girlfriend for an abortion and she did go through with it. However, after our conversation he stated that our talk had changed his perspective and changed him. He openly stated that he was ashamed of himself. He was sorry that we met at an abortion clinic. He wanted us to know that he would never do this again, he was going to try to marry his girlfriend and he wished he would see us again "Not like this...Maybe at the mall."

This month a young man walked through the parking lot headed toward late-term abortion mill SWO. He was offered a gift packet that has been put together to hand out. He remarked "I can't say no to a gift." When asked why he was headed into SWO, he replied that his mother worked there and he was getting a ride home. He remarked when prodded that he did not like that his mom worked at an abortion clinic. He was encouraged to talk to his mom about his concerns...because according to one sidewalk counselor, "A mom always listens to her children." Pray that this is the seed that is planted that brings his mother out of the abortion industry!


This month after urgently ministering to a couple from California we realized they had come for a late-term abortion and that it was too late for the child, when we are at a loss for words and struggling to understand how best to serve the couples who refuse our resources...Prayer remains our most precious resource. Our God is bigger than the greatest mountains we face!


Wow, what a great witness to the community....this month, instead of meeting in their home or a coffee shop two women’s groups had their ladies weekly/monthly meeting on the sidewalks in front of abortion clinics SWO and UNMCRH. They are sharing fellowship here, praying here, worshiping here, lighting up the darkness, and sharing the love of Christ!



INSIDE THE HEART OF A PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST

This originally appeared on Tyler Ellis' blog btylerellis.com

"Tyler Ellis is a College Minister at the University of Delaware and author of Question Everything. His blog is dedicated to exploring the challenge of knowing God and helping others do the same."

Bud and I have been roommates, groomsmen, and friends for more than a decade now. We went to Bible College together years ago and later got to do ministry together in Arizona. It was in Arizona that Bud and his wife first got their feet wet volunteering in a pro-life ministry. Since then, they have become full-time missionaries. They currently live in Albuquerque, NM and work alongside Project Defending Life www.lateterm.com. Their mission is to end abortion in New Mexico and to minister to women and families in crisis.

TYLER: What is it that you do?

BUD:
Click here to read the full interview with Bud.

This also appeared on www.lifenews.com Interview: Inside the Heart of a Pro-Life Activist

With the end of the year approaching, now is a great time to make a year end tax-deductible donation so we can continue our life saving ministry in New Mexico!

You can donate securely here: (Click link) Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness (Cornerstone is a pro-life alternative to paypal)

Or, your donation can be mailed to:

Bud and Tara Shaver
P.O. Box 50351
Albuquerque, NM 87181

All donations made out to Project Defending Life, earmarked for "Bud or Tara Shaver" are tax deductible.

Please Pray:

~For an end to abortion in New Mexico.
~For the conversion of every abortion doctor and clinic worker.
~For softened hearts of the women we speak to each day at abortion clinics.
~For the moms who have already chosen life and for the means to continue to serve them.
~For a continued grace filled and Christ centered ministry focus.
~For more opportunities to share the truth about abortion and it’s effects with the Christian community.
~For the Christian community to rise up out of apathy and a spiritual awakening.
~For more workers for this ripe harvest.
~For our safety in this spiritual battle.





ABQ Connect Live (1 Hour) Broadcast For 40 Days For Life

(Peter Benson interviewing Pastor Eric Lamb)

On October 31st, one of Calvary’s designated days to pray at Planned Parenthood about 30 people came to stand for life. Calvary of ABQ also has their own Christian radio station 107.1 KNKT, and Peter Benson who hosts ABQ Connect aired his show on location at Planned Parenthood on October 31st and interviewed Bud along with some other local pro-life organizations including: Care Net, Birthright, New Mexico Right to Life, and Aspen Project-an adoption agency.

Listen to the entire (1 hour) show here:
http://www.knkt.com/abqconnect_player.asp?id=1383 (Click on 10/31/2012 ABQ Connect)

Monday, October 29, 2012

The Calvary Has Arrived!



Calvary Chapel ABQ in New Mexico is stepping up in a big way. Pastor Eric Lamb shares his vision and motivation behind the Pro-Life Movement "9 Months." This movement is bigger than Calvary Chapel ABQ and must be achieved by the Christian community standing together and utilizing our collective resources to oppose the injustice of abortion and minister to the women and couples in need.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

INSIDE THE HEART OF A PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST


(Image by: ~hellosunshine19)

This originally appeared on Tyler Ellis' blog btylerellis.com

"Tyler Ellis is a College Minister at the University of Delaware and author of Question Everything. His blog is dedicated to exploring the challenge of knowing God and helping others do the same."

Bud and I have been roommates, groomsmen, and friends for more than a decade now. We went to Bible College together years ago and later got to do ministry together in Arizona. It was in Arizona that Bud and his wife first got their feet wet volunteering in a pro-life ministry. Since then, they have become full-time missionaries. They currently live in Albuquerque, NM and work alongside Project Defending Life www.lateterm.com. Their mission is to end abortion in New Mexico and to minister to women and families in crisis.

TYLER: What is it that you do?

BUD:
Click here to read the full interview with Bud.


This also appeared on www.lifenews.com Interview: Inside the Heart of a Pro-Life Activist

Friday, September 28, 2012

God Empowers And Uses The Broken

(Picture provided by Orae Dominguez)

As we step out in faith onto a sidewalk outside an abortion clinic I am continually amazed and inspired. I am learning more about God’s ability to move through his body and his power that is exercised through prayer. This week on Wednesday, the first day of 40 Days For Life, there was a larger than usual presence of people united with a common love and urgency to minister to the women, babies, and families going into the late-term abortion clinic Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO). My friend and faithful pro-life advocate Lorenzo reminds me every day that each day is new and that each person we encounter at the abortion clinic has their own unique set of trials.

A vehicle pulled up and an entire family of several people got out and walked into SWO. As they walked in a few people were able to offer kind words of hope and help, words of compassion, and words of urgency about the dangers posed at this specific clinic, how it is currently under investigation by the New Mexico Medical Board. The family had their heads down, and they did not stop to speak to anyone. A young man escorted a young woman dressed in sweats, he had head phones on and he obviously did not want to talk to anyone. After several minutes, he came back outside and he seemed visually upset. He suddenly ran across the street weeping and he fell prostrate on the ground in front of a house that has a painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe on it. He stayed there for several minutes weeping and praying.

As we reach out each day, people respond in various ways to conviction. Some respond in anger, some with excuses. We desire them all to respond with brokenness. This young man responded in the appropriate way, he was truly broken. He spoke broken English, but he told us that it was his girlfriend there for an abortion, his child. He went back inside and neither he nor the family came back outside before we all left for the day.

There was one sidewalk counselor who was speaking to him in Spanish and very fervently praying for him, she mentioned how emotionally drained she was and she cried with another sidewalk counselor for several minutes before we all left.

I will always have the image of this young man in my mind when I think about what it means to be truly broken. However, this is not the end of this story! The next day, Thursday, instead of reaching out at late-term SWO, a group of us reach out at another local abortion clinic, UNMCRH. When I went back out to SWO on Friday, I was told that the young man came back out to SWO on Thursday to personally thank all of us and to share his joy that he was able to talk his girlfriend, and the entire family out of the abortion! He shared that he was a very proud papa!

He mentioned that he was Catholic but that he had not been taking his faith very seriously for quite a while. He was just going along with his girlfriend and family and did not really care that his girlfriend was going to have the abortion…That was until he encountered all of us and he was convicted and empowered to do all he could to save the life of his child.

When we step out in faith at the local abortion clinics in our community God uses even our mustard seed sized faith to move mountains! We even witness miracles! We are able to see that it is the Holy Spirit that convicts hearts as we make ourselves available to the lost and truly desperate! As the Holy Spirit convicts peoples hearts, they are not simply left in their brokenness. God is able to empower each one of us for the burden of responsibility that he awakens our hearts to. This young man stood up from his knees and then stepped out and God was able to use him to save a life…the life of his child!

This is how God can and wants to use each one of us!

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Welcome to, Eden


Tara, Tirzah, and I welcomed Eden Shaver into our family Friday, September 7, 2012 at 1:23am. He was 7lbs exactly and 20 5/8 inches long. He was born at home (our plan). Mom and baby are healthy and strong and doing well. We had wonderful help from a midwife and another doula/midwife in training. Thank you for your prayers, they were powerful and effective!

We have truly been blessed by this precious gift, sent from above! Our hope is that Eden will live his life to be a blessing in this world by advancing God's kingdom and serving others. That is what Eden's name represents. Eden was where God created humanity to dwell with Him in perfect relationship. This marred and broken world is not what God intends for humanity. Eden represents our prayer for this world, and our hope that our new son (and daughter) will one day experience that perfect reality. Until that day, our prayer is that he will be used by God as a mighty light for Him to push back and overcome the darkness. Join us as we say: "Welcome, to Eden."

Another aspect of Eden's birth to share is that our doula was able to have a glimpse of Eden two years ago thanks to the ministry of Project Defending Life (PDL) www.defendinglife.org. During a time in her life when she needed help, she was served by the Mom's Ministry at PDL. God placed PDL in her life and when we stepped into ministry at PDL (two years ago), God placed her into our life. She was able to return the blessing of service God had provided her by being a blessing to our family. God used her to serve our family and share our joy of welcoming Eden into the world. God is already answering our prayer...Welcome to, Eden!


We were created for Eden...

"We were never meant for this, somewhere it all went wrong...
We are not the cause of this, these things were broke before."-- Ever Stays Red (lyrics from their song Run) Click here to listen to it.


Welcome to, Eden:


Tirzah Meet's Eden for the First Time!






Welcome to, Eden...

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Sept. Newsletter: Ignorant & Idiotic...Modern Day Fools For Christ

This month we learned that as we step out in faith, God can use us to Light Up the Darkness and deal with people's brokenness, those who are carrying heavy burdens. We can represent Jesus to them as he says "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28) As we lead them to Jesus...He will do the rest!

Thanks for your continued prayers and support! Prayers can move mountains, so please continue to keep us in your prayers...and let us know how we can pray for you!


The Calvary has arrived...Literally Calvary Chapel, ABQ!

Simply Being Present Is All It Takes To Save A Life...

This month the largest Christian Church in New Mexico, Calvary ABQ offered a second round of Pro-Life apologetics training “A Case For Life: Stand To Answer.” This has produced much fruit already as we have had many new people join us as we stand for life out at local abortion clinics in Albuquerque! Praise God for answered prayers!


Also, because Calvary ABQ is becoming active and equipping the body of Christ for works of service, Tara led a training course for those interested in volunteering at Project Defending Life. The training consisted of pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, and sidewalk counseling. Around twenty women went through the training! Project Defending Life has two locations in Albuquerque, New Mexico one located 20 feet from Planned Parenthood and the other located across the street from the UNM abortion mill UNMCRH!

Please visit: www.lateterm.com and share this information with others!

This month while out at Late-Term mill SWO sidewalk counselor Bobby, was able to talk to a young girl (still in high school) after she went in and came back out. He asked her if she was there for an abortion and she said "Yes" and burst into tears. We were able to share with her all the help PDL offers. Bobby shared with her mom about his church and a new food ministry they have just started, she left with a flier about the ministry. The young girl left with her baby! This is how Christ's love is lived out! This was the third late-term Tuesday in a row with a confirmed baby saved. Bobby and I joked that the new people coming out (thanks to the Calvary ABQ class "Stand To Answer") would think all these babies being saved was normal...Welcome to the new normal!



Our God is Mighty to Save...as we step out in faith to be used by Him! We are ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time...and to God be the Glory!


God is obviously blessing the faithfulness of his Body as they step out in faith...some for the first time: There were 10 turnarounds/babies saved this month...that we know about! To God Be The Glory!

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)

Ignorant & Idiotic...Modern Day Fools For Christ
(Click title to read the entire article)

When we step out in faith and publicly Stand For Life, the world may deem us foolish, but we are making a difference..."Making Friends With Our Enemies"...and ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time!

Showing Christ’s Love Saves The Unborn And Comforts Those In Need


By Monte Harms of Stand For Life– Read the rest of this article and others at www.standforlife.net


Having Christ's love flow through those on the sidewalk have saved lives and comforted those after they had their abortions. Bud Shaver shares recent encounters from the sidewalk of Southwestern Women's Options in Albuquerque, NM:

Everyone has a picture, concept...stereotype of what a public presence at a abortion clinic is. Let me share with you what I witnessed and experienced today out at late-term mill SWO. A woman came out of the abortion clinic after she had her abortion. Also, a college student from UNM was waiting while his girlfriend was inside having an abortion (his child). Jennifer and others were able to wave them over to talk with them...they didn't just talk to these people, they were able to hug, weep, minister to, pray and love them! This is more than a snap-shot of pro-life ministry...This is what grace, mercy, love...Christ looks like. We have an opportunity to live out Christ's love and share Him with those who desperately need to find Him! We love because He first loved us...We have been lost and broken until we found the healer! I witnessed what Christianity is...I witnessed Christ being lifted up and drawing the lost to Him! I was also able to talk to the abortion clinic manager. Orae gave her our latest handout (from HLA) so she would know what help and information the women received from us. (A UPS driver told us that they have a sign posted inside the clinic stating "Pray to end sidewalk harassment!") I was able to tell her we cared and were praying for her too. She told us they were "Having a hard time keeping up”...with us! We have had several turnarounds and saves this month...that we know about! We have the opportunity to be His hands, feet, body...and heart to these men and women!

Many who go in to have an abortion know what they are destroying, but they often feel that abortion is the only alternative for them. Unfortunately, the outside pressure from others to abort is tremendous. But when an alternative is displayed that shows Christ's love for them and help for their situation, their eyes are sometimes opened. Project Defending Life (PDL) in Albuquerque, NM and other organizations throughout the country give sidewalk counselors the necessary tools to assist the needy. PDL offers all types of assistance to those that feel backed into a corner with no way out. Often when the woman and man involved sees an ultrasound of their baby at PDL or another pregnancy center, they feel there isn't any reason for them to destroy that life. Also, if they know there is someone there to assist them financially and with moral or spiritual support, they can see the light at the end of a very dark tunnel. Thousands of sidewalk counselors and pregnancy centers across America are that beacon of light for the unborn and those who want to abort.

Please Pray :
~For an end to abortion in New Mexico.
~For the conversion of every abortion doctor and clinic worker.
~For softened hearts of the women we speak to each day at abortion clinics.
~For the moms who have already chosen life and for the means to continue to serve them.
~For a continued grace filled and Christ centered ministry focus.
~For more opportunities to share the truth about abortion and it’s effects with the Christian community.
~For the Christian community to rise up out of apathy and a spiritual awakening.
~For more workers for this ripe harvest.
~For our safety in this spiritual battle.


We are full-time Pro-Life Missionaries and raise our own support from individuals who have a heart for our life saving work!

All donations made out to Project Defending Life, earmarked for “Bud or Tara Shaver” are tax deductible and can be mailed to:

Bud and Tara Shaver
P.O. Box 50351
Albuquerque, NM 87181

You can also make a tax deductible donation on-line by Clicking Here: Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness

(Cornerstone is a Pro-Life alternative to PayPal)

Your generous support makes our work possible!

Please visit our blog: prayerandaprolifewitness.blogspot.com for news interviews, news articles, and for our latest updates throughout the month.

Here are some of the highlights of our ministry from this past month...(Click on the highlighted links to read the articles)

Pro-Life Missionaries are Pushing Back the Abortion Cartel in New Mexico (Operation Rescue sent this out to help us continue our life saving work in NM!)

MAKING FRIENDS WITH OUR ENEMIES!



In Light of the Empty Sidewalks, History Will be the Final Arbiter!(This is an article that Bud wrote for Stand For Life)

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

In Light of the Empty Sidewalks, History Will be the Final Arbiter!


By Bud Shaver - Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness
(This post originally appeared on www.standforlife.net)

Injustice taints and forever mars the ability to play the moral card. History records and reveals to the world what was done on behalf of those forever scarred.

When you think of a father convicted of a heinous sexual crime that he did to his child, we don’t really care if he provided food, shelter, a good education, or even brought that child to church. One act of injustice forever mars his ability to claim that he was a good father.

When you think of Christians who lived in the deep South in America during the time of slavery who owned slaves, we don’t really care if they fed the poor, did other acts of service, or attended church regularly and tithed. One act of injustice forever taints their legacy.

When you think of church leaders who lived in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, we don’t really care how many gospel presentations they proclaimed, how many baptisms they did; we care about what they did or did not do on behalf of the Jews being led to the slaughter. One leader’s heroic actions and words of opposition to the injustice during that generation live on and history remembers Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

In the light of injustice we get clarity. All that matters is our participation with our generation’s injustice and whether we are striving to end that injustice. History is the ultimate arbiter.

The greatest injustice of our generation is abortion! 54 million (+) children have been legally slaughtered in the name of “choice." 65% of those obtaining abortions claim to be Christian/Catholic[i]! Whatever is being said or done from our churches and church leaders is not producing much of a difference for the children being led to the slaughter!

In light of the empty sidewalks, deafening silence from the pulpits, and pews filled with post-abortive women and men (1/3rd of American women over 45 have had at least one abortion[ii]), history is already documenting the American church of the 21st century! In the light of injustice the legacy we leave behind will be forever tainted and determined by what we do and have done to end this barbaric killing!

Posterity will not ask you about your giving, how many times you read through the Bible in a year, how many missionaries you sent around the globe, or how many soup kitchens you started. You will be asked what you did to end the open genocide being perpetrated across the street from our churches and in the midst of our communities!

How to Start a Pro-Life Ministry at Your Church

Start a prayer group at your church. Seek to build a core group of people who are pro-life to pray about the direction of a ministry to the pre-born and their mothers within your church.


Educate. Host a pro-life presentation/training with local organizations and/or pastors who are already involved in local pro-life ministry to find out what is taking place with regard to abortion in your community.
a. These presentations could be tailored to a midweek Bible study, men’s or women’s Bible studies, or a Sunday or midweek whole church service.
b. If there are no local organizations start one! If your pastors are not involved pray for them and meet with them to encourage their involvement and support!


Become Active. Decide how active you want your church to be and what types of events/activities you want to participate in. There are many opportunities to get involved such as:
a. Praying at an abortion clinic once a week or once a month or more.
b. Volunteering at or open a local pregnancy resource center.
c. Hosting a series of pro-life "apologetics/sidewalk ministry” training classes.
d. Post-abortion healing training.
e. Donate to local pregnancy centers. Host a clothing/diaper/formula drive.
f. Outreach at local universities or other outside venues.
g. Come up with your own ideas to reach out, educate, and serve the pregnant women in your community.


Find out about other local/national Pro-life organizations.

a. Sign up for e-mails and newsletters to stay informed about their events.
b. 40 Days for Life

The main reason to start a pro-life group in your church is to make a difference in your community. There are many ways to get involved. Together we can end abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time! The end to abortion begins with the churches in America!

www.prayerandaprolifewitness.blogspot.com


Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?
Proverbs 24:11-12


[i] http://www.guttmacher.org/presentations/abort_slides.pdf
[ii] Henshaw SK, Unintended pregnancy in the United States, Family Planning Perspectives, 1998, 30(1):24–29 & 46.
Jones RK and Kavanaugh ML, Changes in abortion rates between 2000 and 2008 and lifetime incidence of abortion, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2011, 117(6):pp-pp.

Monday, August 27, 2012

We Are At War...Not Against Individuals, But Against Pretensions!

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood...We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God!" Eph. 6:12; 2 Cor. 10:5


(No audio, If you doubt we are in a battle for hearts and minds...Check this out!)


"We see [Jesus] who abhors both passivity and violence and teaches us a new way forward that is neither submission nor assault, neither fight nor flight. He shows us a way to oppose evil without mirroring it, where oppressors can be resisted without being emulated and neutralized without being destroyed." ~Shane Claiborne


(You can watch portions of our actual conversation and see how we eventually found common ground...and became friends!)

This video footage was taken on August 8, 2012 out at Late-Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women's Options (www.lateterm.com) This was this woman's (and children's) first time peacefully witnessing and offering help out at SWO! What an introduction to the hostility intolerance, and hatred from the "Pro-Choice" community!

This guy admitted to being post-abortive. He was carrying around all this baggage, abortion does not just effect women and children...it also effects men! We eventually found common ground and we actually became...friends! (This is just some excerpts the actual conversation was over an hour long!)

Also, there were two babies and two women saved from the horror called abortion this day! One of the women was able to receive help from Project Defending Life! (www.defendinglife.org)

We are making friend's with God-Haters, and ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time!

Showing Christ's Love Saves The Unborn And Comforts Those In Need

By Monte Harms- standforlife.net

This originally appeared on Stand For Life


I am standing in front of an abortion facility to be a defender of the unborn. A woman goes in to have an abortion and totally ignores those standing on the sidewalk. Sometimes her boyfriend, father, mother, or friend who brought her will be verbally combative with the defenders. It's spiritual warfare at its core.

Part of my human nature urges me (unsuccessfully, I might add) to say or even yell:

"You do know you're killing your own baby."
"Are you out of your mind?"
"Who in the world would kill their own baby?"

... or tell the boyfriend or whoever brought her:

"Do you know you are an accessory to this killing?"
"You are having your own baby (or grandbaby) killed!"
"You call yourself a friend by helping her kill her own baby!"

... or after an abortion my human nature tells me that I shouldn't have anything nice to say to her or those who brought her. I should ignore them because they just had a fellow human killed.

A few have used the human nature methods, but what has been effective at the late-term abortion facility in Albuquerque and across the country is not using your human nature, but Christ's nature.

Having Christ's love flow through those on the sidewalk have saved lives and comforted those after they had their abortions. Bud Shaver shares recent encounters from the sidewalk of Southwestern Women's Options in Albuquerque, NM:

Everyone has a picture, concept...stereotype of what a public presence at a abortion clinic is. Let me share with you what I witnessed and experienced today out at late-term mill SWO. A woman came out of the abortion clinic after she had her abortion. Also, a college student from UNM was waiting while his girlfriend was inside having an abortion (his child). Jennifer and others were able to wave them over to talk with them...they didn't just talk to these people, they were able to hug, weep, minister to, pray and love them! This is more than a snap-shot of pro-life ministry...This is what grace, mercy, love...Christ looks like. We have an opportunity to live out Christ's love and share Him with those who desperately need to find Him! We love because He first loved us...We have been lost and broken until we found the healer! I witnessed what Christianity is...I witnessed Christ being lifted up and drawing the lost to Him! I was also able to talk to the abortion clinic manager. Orae gave her our latest handout (from HLA) so she would know what help and information the women received from us. (A UPS driver told us that they have a sign posted inside the clinic stating "Pray to end sidewalk harassment!") I was able to tell her we cared and were praying for her too. She told us they were "Having a hard time keeping up with us!" We have had several turnarounds and saves this month...that we know about! We have the opportunity to be His hands, feet, body...and heart to these men and women!

Bud shares other interactions:


Pretty intense spiritual battle today out at Late-Term mill SWO (learn more at www.lateterm.com)! A woman got out of a taxi with all her luggage and as she headed into SWO. I told her that we cared about her and were willing to help her with whatever she needed. She stopped and asked if I had $3,000...I told her Yes, if that's what it would take to save her baby, I would come up with the 3 grand! Bobby Coffman Jr and Collette Pacheco-Coffman spoke with her for 5 minutes as she had the door to SWO open. She eventually went inside. After 10-15 minutes she came back out to talk with us and see if we really were willing to help her. She told us that she was from Washington, and her husband left her and she was all alone...We told her that she was not alone...We were here for her! She did not believe us, so I told her to put us to the test! After a lot of tears, talking with the executive director of Project Defending Life (PDL) who arranged a couple of days in a hotel so she could just think more about everything, trying to get her husband on the phone...she went back inside SWO. A half hour later she came back out with all her luggage and left SWO with Jennifer Jacobson Bresett and headed up to PDL...the battle still rages! She would not give us her name, but please keep her and this situation in your prayers!

Another young girl pulled up in her car and had her young son with her. She was headed into SWO but came over to talk to us as we offered her help. She too left following another sidewalk counselor (today was her first time praying and offering help out at an abortion mill) heading up to PDL for an ultrasound and resources! The battle is raging, but in the midst of the storm, there is hope for the hopeless. We are lighting up the darkness...We are ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time...and to God be the Glory!



Many who go in to have an abortion know what they are destroying, but they often feel that abortion is the only alternative for them. Unfortunately, the outside pressure from others to abort is tremendous. But when an alternative is displayed that shows Christ's love for them and help for their situation, their eyes are sometimes opened. Project Defending Life in Albuquerque and other organizations throughout the country give sidewalk counselors the necessary tools to assist the needy. PDL offers all types of assistance to those that feel backed into a corner with no way out. Often when the woman and man involved sees an ultrasound of their baby at PDL or another pregnancy center, they feel there isn't any reason for them to destroy that life. Also, if they know there is someone there to assist them financially and with moral or spiritual support, they can see the light at the end of a very dark tunnel. Thousands of sidewalk counselors and pregnancy centers across America are that beacon of light for the unborn and those who want to abort.

Christ's love wins out while human nature often destroys the chance to save or comfort the most vulnerable unborn and born humans.

Read more of Bud Shaver's encounters from the sidewalk at Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness.



Thursday, August 23, 2012

Ignorant & Idiotic...Modern Day Fool's For Christ


Today (August 23, 2012) out at UNM abortion mill UNMCRH, a guy came over to state how ignorant, idiotic, down right evil it was for us to be out in front of an abortion clinic. I asked him "Why?" He went on to say how hypocritical Christians are and he had his list of course! I told him "How about I concede everything you just stated about Christians, and allow me to ask you...How is it, that you are anti-war, anti-death penalty, anti-violence, pro-social justice, but you support the most brutal form of violence...abortion? Abortion has killed more people in our country than all the wars, violence, people executed by the death penalty, and all the other social injustices of our past...combined!" His response was, "The unborn aren't sentient, and therefore not persons."

I asked him, "Just suppose the unborn were equally human persons as you or I, then would you concede your own hypocrisy?" He said he could see my point...but then he went on another rant about Christians and their different interpretations of the Bible, "You just believe what you want to believe!" I replied "How about I concede that frustration with you...But why do you look at the empirical scientific data which unanimously and clearly states that the unborn are alive, biologically distinct from their mothers, and human, but through some philosophical leap (about sentience) come up with your own interpretation of the data and arbitrarily conclude that the unborn aren't persons..."You just believe what you want to believe!" He said he saw my point.

He then went on to say how useless it was to be out at the abortion clinics and that we were wasting our time and embarrassing ourselves. I said, "Really...? Just this week we were able to reach out to a young (High School) girl and because of our presence, she did not kill her child! Last week we were able to help a woman from Washington, who was 7 months pregnant and I know she did not kill her child either...because my wife Tara Shaver spoke to her today and is keeping in contact with her in case she needs more help! In fact, just this month alone...I know that our presence out at local abortion clinics saved 10 children from a violent and brutal death!" He said "Wow...! Of all of my talk and all that I have protested, I can't say that it has resulted in saving...one person!"

We talked about a few other things, but I then went on to tell him that we have documented and publicized how dangerous abortion clinics are including the one we were standing out in front of, in fact it is currently under investigation by the New Mexico medical board, based on our research and subsequent complaints! He said, "You should make some signs up about that and have those signs out here." I said, "How about you make some signs up and join us out here! He laughed and we shook hands and hugged!

What seemed idiotic, meaningless, foolish to him earlier was now...Commendable!

When we step out in faith and publicly Stand For Life, the world may deem us foolish, but we are making a difference..."Making Friends With Our Enemies"...and ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time!

To God be the Glory!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

MAKING FRIENDS WITH OUR ENEMIES!

In the widely-viewed film 180, there is a young man named Steve with a Mohawk, tattoos, and piercings. He is also very fouled-mouth, anti-God and anti-Jewish. The first reaction to him might be is that he is a kook or "those atheists are so weird and rude." By the end of the interaction with 180's creator Ray Comfort, it is obvious Steve's heart has been softened and he states that he will think about reading his Bible.

Pro-life activist Bud Shaver demonstrates often how to respond to someone who states they are pro-abortion, anti-God, or just does not want Bud to be in front of the abortion facility. He has made friends with his enemies by not shunning them but engaging in productive positive conversation.
Read Monte's entire article here: The Exception and Worst-Case Scenario Approaches To Issues

As we step out in faith, God can use us to Light Up the Darkness, and deal with people's brokenness, those who are carrying heavy burdens. We can represent Jesus to them as he says "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28) As we lead them to Jesus..He will do the rest!

MAKING FRIENDS WITH OUR ENEMIES!


I was reaching out to abortion-minded women at the late-term abortion mill, Southwestern Women’s Options (www.lateterm.com), I was confronted by a young man who was very angry! I was as close as you get to being violently assaulted. He cursed me and asked me what I had to say about it. I told him God Bless You and if you want to talk rationally about the situation we could. He left just as quickly as he came, cursing and flipping me off as he left!

This does not happen as often as one may think, but it does occasionally happen. The difference today was that this guy returned about an hour later…this time very apologetic! He was genuinely sorry for how he treated me.

When we ended our conversation, he did not fall on his knees and profess Christ as his Lord and he was still “Pro-Choice” when he left but he did shake my hand…What seemed impossible just one hour earlier with him being my enemy, was possible for the God that we serve…We ended our (rational) conversation as friends!

Read the full article, by clicking here.

MAKING FRIENDS WITH OUR HARSHEST CRITICS...FELLOW CHRISTIANS!


Sometimes our harshest critics are fellow Christians! We are not here to make friends (even though we sometimes do!), but to save lives! Our ministry is Christ centered and Grace Filled! Please be gracious to us! We do save lives and change minds...everyday! We are always effective...Each and every-time we step out in Faith! Yes, we have seen the "Mountains Move!"

MAKING FRIENDS WITH GOD-HATERS!


This video footage was taken on August 8, 2012 out at Late-Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women's Options www.lateterm.com This was this woman's (and children's) first time peacefully witnessing and offering help out at SWO! What an introduction to the hostility intolerance, and hatred from the "Pro-Choice" community! This guy admitted to being post-abortive. He was carrying around all this baggage, abortion does not just effect women and children...it also effects men! We eventually found common ground and we actually became...friends! (This is just some excerpts the actual conversation was over an hour long!) Also, there were two babies and two women saved from the horror called abortion this day! One of the women was able to receive help from Project Defending Life! www.defendinglife.org We are making friend's with God-Haters, and ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Pro-Life Missionaries are Pushing Back the Abortion Cartel in New Mexico


By, Cheryl Sullenger- Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue

Bud and Tara Shaver need our support to continue their life-saving work in the Late Term Abortion Capital of the Southwest

Albuquerque, NM -- Bud and Tara Shaver are full time pro-life missionaries in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their ministry encompasses its name, "Prayer and a Pro-life Witness." As former Operation Rescue interns they have learned proven strategies to close down abortion clinics. Since arriving in Albuquerque in July 2010 they have begun to implement those strategies by stripping away the layers of the abortion industry and by educating the public with the truth about abortion. When the Shaver's arrived in New Mexico there were seven abortion clinics, as of January 1, 2012 there are only five! The retirement of abortionists Lucia Cies in Santa Fe and Bruce Ferguson in Albuquerque at the end of 2011 is proof that when pressure and exposure is applied through peaceful legal means abortionists aren't willing to continue killing babies!

Why Albuquerque, New Mexico?

The Shaver's have researched and uncovered, that the injustice of abortion is deeply entrenched in New Mexico. New Mexico is one of 15 states in the country that force tax payers to foot the bill for abortion! The state also has virtually no laws protecting the pre-born and those who are in positions of authority have proven to be apathetic and unwilling to act. Abortion clinics are running amok in New Mexico, with virtually no oversight from the Health Department or other state agencies to ensure unsuspecting women's safety!

Albuquerque is also home to the notorious Late Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women's Options (SWO) run by abortionist Curtis Boyd. Curtis Boyd was an illegal abortionist who harmed women before Roe vs. Wade and continues to put women at risk in his Albuquerque clinic. SWO performs abortions through all nine months of pregnancy unashamedly. Albuquerque is also home to the University of New Mexico which operates a free standing abortion clinic (UNM Center for Reproductive Health) which performs abortions through 22 weeks of pregnancy. The University of New Mexico is attempting to train the next generation of abortionists through a residency training program and has medical students performing abortions. Using the research training they received as interns, the Shavers have begun to uncover and expose a deep seated abortion culture and agenda at the University of New Mexico.

Accomplishments this far


In June 2011 Tara obtained fourteen 911 calls stemming fromboth SWO and The University of New Mexico's abortion clinics through a public records request. While most pro-abortion individuals believe that legal abortion is safe, the Shaver's have debunked that myth by uncovering the 911 calls. These calls revealed serious abortion complications including uncontrollable bleeding after a punctured uterus, seizures and a ruptured uterus. Once these calls were obtained, Medical Board complaints were then filed by Tara and Operation Rescue. Filing Medical Board complaints in other states has proven to be extremely successful in closing down clinics by the stripping of doctors licenses. Once light is shed on how women are being needlessly injured behind abortion clinic doors the Medical Board is then compelled to act.

Bud and Tara have also been diligently working to mobilize the Christian community through education to become actively pro-life. They are also striving to organize and maintain a constant prayerful presence at the abortion clinics in Albuquerque. As a result of their efforts countless lives of women and babies have been saved and Churches are getting involved.

They have endured persecution and assault as they boldly confront evil every day in order to light up the darkness! The Shaver's have also helped Project Defending Life open and run their second pregnancy resource center directly across the street from UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion mill.

The Shaver's collaborate with established Pro-Life organizations in New Mexico, and are directly working alongside Project Defending Life. With the leadership of Father Stephen Imbarrato the Shaver's have met with several state senators, representatives, other public officials, and the Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez numerous times delivering the information they have uncovered into the hands of those who can act. They are working to develop a relevant strategy to address the pertinent Life Issues that face New Mexico. Bud and Tara recognized the abortion crisis and urgent need for outreach in New Mexico and have made New Mexico their mission field.

Operation Rescue recently launched the Pro-Life Nation project, and the Shaver's are an example of what the Pro-Life Nation is, and what it takes to achieve it! The Shaver's are working to end abortion in New Mexico by implementing proven strategies they learned during their time with Operation Rescue and they are ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time!

The Shaver's are full-time Pro-Life Missionaries and raise our own support from individuals who have a heart for their life saving work! Please prayerfully consider supporting this family so they can continue their effort to end abortion in New Mexico!

All donations made out to Project Defending Life, earmarked for "Bud or Tara Shaver" are tax deductible. Your donation can be mailed to:

Bud and Tara Shaver
P.O. Box 50351
Albuquerque, NM 87181

Also, tax-deductible donations can be made on-line here: Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness


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About Operation Rescue®
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation and has become a strong voice for the pro-life movement in America. Operation Rescue is now headquartered in a former abortion clinic that it bought and closed in 2006. From there, Operation Rescue launches its innovative new strategies across the nation, exposing and closing abortion clinics through peaceful, legal means. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to stop abortion and ultimately restore legal personhood to the pre-born in obedience to biblical mandates.

About Pro-Life Nation

Pro-Life Nation is an initiative of Operation Rescue that offers a goal-oriented strategy to end abortion. For more visit ProLifeNation.org and read our new booklet that details our strategy.
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Web site: www.operationrescue.org
E-mail: info.operationrescue@gmail.com

This also appered on LifeNews.com

Pro-Life Advocates in New Mexico Keep Fighting Abortion Industry

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LifeNews.com is an independent news agency devoted to reporting news that affects the pro-life community. With a team of experienced journalists and bloggers, LifeNews.com reaches more than 500,000 pro-life advocates each week via its web site, email news reports, social networking outreach and weekday radio program.

LifeNews.com also acts as a service provider to furnish news content to media that share the pro-life perspective. The topics covered by LifeNews.com include abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia, bioethics issues such as human cloning and stem cell research, campaigns and elections, and legal and legislative issues.

Formerly the Pro-Life Infonet, LifeNews.com has been harnessing the power of the Internet since 1992 to bring pro-life news to the pro-life community. We’ve developed a reputation for fairness, accuracy and timeliness in our nearly two decades of service.
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MAKING FRIENDS WITH GOD-HATERS!



This video footage was taken on August 8, 2012 out at Late-Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women's Options www.lateterm.com This was this woman's (and children's) first time peacefully witnessing and offering help out at SWO! What an introduction to the hostility intolerance, and hatred from the "Pro-Choice" community! This guy admitted to being post-abortive. He was carrying around all this baggage, abortion does not just effect women and children...it also effects men! We eventually found common ground and we actually became...friends! (This is just some excerpts the actual conversation was over an hour long!) Also, there were two babies and two women saved from the horror called abortion this day! One of the women was able to receive help from Project Defending Life! www.defendinglife.org We are making friend's with God-Haters, and ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time!

Monday, July 30, 2012

August Newsletter: We Are Ending Abortion, One Woman, One Child, One Day At A Time!

Simply Being Present Is All It Takes To Save A Life...

This month God used our prayerful pro-life witness at the abortion mill’s and
as a result, there were several turnaround’s and we were able to speak with/help numerous people. It always amazes me how we can light up the darkness by being present at the abortion clinic for women in their darkest hour and share with them life-affirming alternatives! How else will they know?! While we wait and pray for the Supreme Court and for our own state legislators to end to abortion...we are ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time by serving and by simply being there! Thank you for your continued prayers and support...together we are lighting up the darkness!


If you want to know how you can Stand
For Life, here is a great place to start...on
your knees!


This month, we had a great turnout
from the largest local church,
Calvary Chapel ABQ


This woman was walking by, saw our presence
and stopped to share her abortion
testimony and how she turned to Christ
and was forgiven....now Christ is using her
to witness and minister to others! This is
the power of the God we serve!


We do interact with both local law enforcement
and the FBI. We are appreciative
of their public service, and it allows
us opportunities to build bridges with
them. They understand that our public
presence is legal and always peaceful!

“Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of this
dark world!” ~Ephesians 6:12


The Mainstream Media Publicizes The Truth About Abortion



This month a local news station KOAT Channel 7 interviewed Bud out at Late-Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women’s Options. (You can visit our blog by clicking here, to read KOAT’s coverage.) While we always have our critique of the media, we are encouraged that our talking points are getting aired about Albuquerque being the Late-Term Abortion Capital of the country, and the media is focusing on the truth about abortion. This is vital, because as our dear friend and Director of Project Defending Life Fr. Stephen Imbarrato stated, "I truly believe that publicity helps us, not them"...when people do talk about the reality of abortion and are educated...we always win, because lives are saved and minds are changed! The next day after KOAT aired the story, New Mexico’s most listened to talk radio station ,KKOB interviewed Bud and opened up the phone lines for peoples comments and reaction’s to the brutality of abortion, and the public use of graphic images to reveal the truth about abortion. My good friend Mon-te Harms of Stand For Life listened to the show that day and he wrote up a wonderful summary:

By, Monte Harms- Stand For Life

In the last week a truck with photos of the truth has been getting a fair amount of publicity in Albuquerque. Local ABC affiliate KOAT-TV aired a story about the "truth truck" that has abortion photos on its side. Pro-life activist Bud Shaver drives the truck around town and parks it across the street from the late-term abortion facility, Southwestern Women's Options, while he is peacefully counseling women and men at SWO...

Read the rest of the article by clicking here: The Mainstream Media Publicizes The Truth About Abortion


Please Pray :
~For an end to abortion in New Mexico.
~For the conversion of every abortion doctor and clinic worker.
~For softened hearts of the women we speak to each day at abortion clinics.
~For the moms who have already chosen life and for the means to continue to serve them.
~For a continued grace filled and Christ centered ministry focus.
~For more opportunities to share the truth about abortion and it’s effects with
the Christian community.
~For the Christian community to rise up out of apathy and a spiritual awakening.
~For more workers for this ripe harvest.
~For our safety in this spiritual battle.

Please visit our blog throughout the month, for the most recent updates:
Prayerandaprolifewitness.blogspot.com

We are full-time Pro-Life Missionaries and raise our own support from individuals
who have a heart for our life saving work!

All donations made out to Project Defending Life, earmarked for “Bud or
Tara Shaver” are tax deductible and can be mailed to:

Bud and Tara Shaver
P.O. Box 50351
Albuquerque, NM 87181

Your generous support makes our work possible!

“The harvest is plentiful, but the
workers are few. Ask the Lord of the
harvest, therefore, to send out
workers into his harvest field. “
Luke 10:2

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Mainstream Media Publicizes The Truth About Abortion




By, Monte Harms- Stand For Life
(This originally appeared on www.standforlife.net)

In the last week a truck with photos of the truth has been getting a fair amount of publicity in Albuquerque. Local ABC affiliate KOAT-TV aired a story about the “truth truck” that has abortion photos on its side. Pro-life activist Bud Shaver drives the truck around town and parks it across the street from the late-term abortion facility, Southwestern Women’s Options, while he is peacefully counseling women and men at SWO.

The story prompted radio talk show host Scott Stiegler to devote two hours of his show the following day to listener’s reactions to the truck and the use of graphic photos. KKOB with its 50,000 watts is the most listened to station in New Mexico, so there was a huge audience and plenty of comments from the public. Scott Stiegler moderated the two hours by stating it was not going to be about the abortion debate, but he wanted the audience’s opinions about the appropriateness of having abortion images on the side of the truck. Stiegler’s approach was one of the fairest I have seen by the mainstream news media on an abortion-related subject. He started off by saying how we use graphic images for stop-smoking campaigns, driver training videos, and other examples, so why is this any different? Bud Shaver spoke for the first 10-15 minutes about why he uses the truck and the reactions he has received.

Although KKOB’s audience leans conservative or libertarian, it was still surprising how few people disagreed with this method of showing graphic images. Approximately 75% agreed with what he was doing and stated how the world needs to see what abortion is. The other 25% believed it was too “in your face” and not a good way to communicate the pro-life issue.

Hopefully, these reports and the use of the truth truck will wake up the public to the horror of abortion and the issue will be in the news more often. If nothing else, the public that was exposed to these reports now realize that late-term babies are being aborted in their hometown. It’s been obvious that the pro-life view of abortion has been off limits by the mainstream press, but every time a story such as this is aired, the wall comes down a little. In the future the press may be a little more willing to cover the truth about abortion.

Check out Bud and Tara Shaver’s site, Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness, and also go to lateterm.com for more information.

Thanks to KOAT-TV and Scott Stiegler of KKOB radio.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Billboard Calls Albuquerque the Late-Term Abortion Capital




Graphic anti-abortion billboard drives around town.

Report originally appeared at koat.com (Complete report including video footage!)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Report by By Anna Velasquez koat.com

An anti-abortion activist has taken his message to the streets and highways of Albuquerque with a rolling billboard that displays graphic pictures.

Bud Shaver drives around a truck with huge, larger-than-life pictures of dead fetuses from what he said are late-term abortions.

"This just shows what abortion is," Shaver said. "It shows the reality of what abortion is. It also restores meaning to the word abortion."

The billboard also declares Albuquerque as the nation's late-term abortion capital.

"As far as late-term abortion is concerned, Albuquerque is the capital for the United States just because it's drawing people from all over the country," he said.

Shaver keeps his truck near the Southwestern Women's Options abortion clinic at Lomas Boulevard and Interstate 25. He is part of the daily protest there, and knows these pictures drive some people over the edge.

Last summer, a woman attacked Shaver for holding graphic pictures. She was arrested.

While there were no attacks Wednesday, some admit, they had to leave the area because they found it so offensive.

"I looked up and I saw that truck," said Kathy Foy, who was looking for a nice place to sit in her car and have lunch. "It needs to stay between a woman and her doctor. It shouldn't be on a van on the street in a public place like this."

In New Mexico, late-term abortion is legal if the pregnancy endangers the woman's life.

(End of Report)

Actually Late-Term abortion's can be done for any reason up to the day of birth in New Mexico and is funded 100% by YOU and ME the taxpayer thanks to Medicaid! Read the following report by Tara Shaver, Project Defending Life: New Mexico forced taxpayers to fund 1,786 abortions in 2011.

Women obtaining Late-Term abortions are not doing so to save their own life, because the late-term procedure is such that, they still have to go through the pain and process of delivery! The only difference is that they give birth to a dead child...The baby was killed two-three days earlier! Read the entire late-term procedure here: Late-Term.com

The truth is, women can obtain abortion's for any reason up to the day of birth here in New Mexico! Generally, abortion's are done in the later stages of pregnancy for fetal abnormalities...such as Down Sydrome!
In fact 90% of babies diagnosed with Down Syndrome, do not survive the womb...They are aborted.

Here are two undercover video's revealing the shocking truth about tax funded Late-Term abortion's at Southwestern Women's Options!


Call Reveals Medicaid Paying $16,000 to Abort 30-Week Down Syndrome Baby



Undercover Calls Reveal Medicaid Pays For $9,000 Late-term Abortions With Our Tax Dollars


Tuesday, July 3, 2012

In The Midst Of Chaos...A Moment To Hope!


Today (July 3rd, 2012) after spending several hours at Late-Term abortion mill (SWO) in Albuquerque, NM (lateterm.com) reaching out to abortion minded couples and just being ignored or angrily "flipped off!" I drove the Truth Truck back to where it is stored and then headed to Project Defending Life (PDL). After being there for a while taking care of business and speaking with volunteers I headed out the door. As I was leaving I just glanced over and saw a couple being helped by our Gabriel Project volunteer and I sort of recognized the couple but in the moment, couldn't remember where I had seen them before...That is until I walked outside and saw a very unique bright yellow truck! All of a sudden I realized where I recognized the couple from. Over a year ago, I had spoken with the boyfriend and given him information about PDL when he had dropped off his girlfriend for an abortion. He had told me that it was too late and that his girlfriend had already gone back for the abortion.

Due to confidentiality policies at PDL I will never know for sure, but just the possibility stopped me in my tracks for a moment to hope that even though we were not able to spare his girlfriend and previous child from the tragedy of abortion... That our presence and faithful commitment to be present at the abortion mill over a year ago, saved this child and spared them from the tragic mistake of another abortion!

The number one question I am asked is "Are you really effective in your ministry?" I always emphatically respond..."Yes we are always effective when we step out in faith and publicly stand against injustice even if we never know if we ever saved even one baby, just being present is enough!"...And you never know, possibly more babies are being saved then we will ever know! One thing is for sure, God knows what we are doing to rescue those being led away to death, the lives being saved, and He will repay everyone according to what they have done!

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Making Friends With Our Harshest Critics...Fellow Christians!



Sometimes our harshest critics are fellow Christians! We are not here to make friends, but to save lives! Our ministry is Christ centered and Grace Filled! Please be gracious to us! We do save lives and change minds...everyday! We are always effective...Each and every-time we step out in Faith! Yes, we have seen the "Mountains Move!"

Also, check out this post: Making Friends With Our Enemies!


Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Simply Being Present Is All It Takes To Save A Life...


Today (June 27th, 2012) I was able to talk to a woman who had pulled up in another car, but was sitting in a car that was parked at late-term abortion mill Southwestern Women's Options (SWO). She told me that her daughter was inside, but that she had changed her mind and was not going to have the abortion. I shared with her about the resources we provide at Project Defending Life (PDL) and encouraged them to go to PDL. She asked me to wait and share this information with her daughter and she went inside (SWO) to get her.

They both came out and the daughter was holding a clipboard and talking to a guy who was the driver of the car parked in the parking lot. The mother came over and whispered that the driver was her daughter's boyfriend and that he was upset that she had changed her mind and was trying to pressure her to go through with the abortion. I waved the young woman over and she immediately stated that she had come there for an abortion, but that we had changed her mind. She pointed at our signs and mentioned that they had penetrated her heart as she was going inside and once inside she felt conviction and a burden on her heart. She stated that she was Catholic and that once she felt this conviction she knew that she could not have the abortion! She thanked us for being there for her and told us that our presence there today had changed her mind. She told her mom that she could not go back inside so her mom went in and returned the clipboard. Her mom returned a few minutes later and told us that the staff at SWO were very upset that she had changed her mind about having the abortion...so much for a woman's right to choose and I guess they should change their name to Southwestern Women's Option (instead of Option's)!

I called PDL and asked a volunteer with the Gabriel Project to share with the young woman all the help PDL could offer her. While she was on the phone I spoke with her mother and she was very thankful for us being there for her daughter and she told me that she had gotten pregnant with her at 15 and considered abortion and was so glad that she didn't...now she was even more happy that her daughter did not go through with her abortion!

The boyfriend drove away and the young woman finished talking with the Gabriel Project volunteer and she reassured me that she would be in contact with PDL. Her mom was on her way to cancer treatments when her daughter had called her from inside SWO. They left together both very appreciative for us simply being there. Our presence alone, had made all the difference!

God can use us as we step out in faith and out of obedience to "Rescue those being led away to death." (Proverb 24:11) Simply being present for women in crisis can make the difference between life and death! Having the opportunity to share how much God loves them, and all the ways we can serve them is..."Icing on the cake"!