May Ministry Update
Hello everyone! I want to thank you so much for your support and prayers. I’ve had a very productive past few weeks working with CBR and Created Equal. Over the past few weeks, thousands and thousands of students have seen what abortion does to a child and we’ve opened many eyes and changed minds. I’ve been to:
ETSU in Tennessee, Clemson in South Carolina, Downtown Greenville in South Carolina, IUPUI in Indiana, Indiana University, “Hope” abortion clinic in Illinois, Roosevelt High School in Missouri, St Louis University in Missouri, and the University of Missouri (Mizzou). If you’re interested in hearing a few stories of the interactions I had on campus, keep reading…
Devin from Mizzou: The day before we went to the Mizzou campus, I’d had very few conversations, and none of them felt like I got through to anyone. So that evening, I asked the Lord to “send me someone with a genuine heart, who’s looking for the truth, who I can help.” I had no idea how big of an answer God was about to give me!
On campus, I met the gentleman on the left in the picture. His name is Devin, and we had an incredible, 3.5-hourlong conversation! He’s very respectful, genuine, and is a seeker that is obviously being drawn by God to Himself. When I started chatting with Devin, he was pro-choice, but open to talking. He had at least 50 different questions relating to abortion, sexuality, God, suffering, and justice. The Holy Spirit really helped me and gave me most of the answers to help Devin, but also sent along a few different students like the fellow in the red shirt who jumped in too. Please keep Devin in your prayers, that the Lord will bring him all the way!
Angry Guy in Greenville: In downtown Greenville, I had a very angry guy come up cursing at me, and yelling that my sign wasn’t helping women, it was just victimizing them. My male coworker jumped in, and was met with the same curses. Then, one of our local friends named Lynne walked up and said “Sir, I had an abortion when I was 19. I’d never seen these pictures and didn’t know what I was doing. I was lied to. Women need to see this.” The guy cursed at her and stormed off, not willing to hear from an actual post-abortive woman.
Caitlyn from ETSU: Caitlyn said she was pro-choice in cases of rape. I was able to gently show her how killing a child conceived in rape was no different from a Muslim family killing their sister who was raped to remove the stain on the family’s honor. She thanked me and said the simple analogy had completely changed her mind.
Milo from Clemson: I met Milo while I was doing security for our group at Clemson. Milo was pro-choice and came out with her friends to protest against our display. She wasn’t angry or nasty though. It seemed like she genuinely believed she was fighting for women’s rights. Because I was on the outskirts of the circle where the display was and was facing in, instead of outward, she didn’t seem to realize that I was with the group. So, I was able to take advantage of this to ask her some questions:
Me: “What do you think of all this?”
Milo: “It’s crazy!”
Me: “So are you out here to defend a woman’s right to choose?”
Milo: “Yeah, women deserve bodily autonomy!”
Me: “I get that. I hate being told what to do by somebody else! But don’t we sometimes lose our right to bodily autonomy if we make certain choices? Like, I have a right to drink, but if I drink, I don’t have a right to drive because I could hurt someone else. Do you agree?”
Milo: “It’s not the same, because it’s just a fetus, not a person.”
Me: “Do you think they have a point that we’ve made mistakes about who qualifies as a person in the past? We didn’t consider black people, Jewish people, or even women as legal people at certain points. Don’t you think we might be doing it again?”
Milo: “I don’t really know much about history.”
Me: “Oh, so you’re more of a science person. You follow where the science leads?”
Milo: (Shakes her head yes and smiles). “Yeah, exactly!”
Me: “So what about all the embryology textbooks that all agree that a new, distinct, whole human life begins at fertilization?”
Milo: “Oh that’s not science, that’s pseudo science.”
-At that point I had to go, and realized that Milo wouldn’t be willing to change her stance on abortion in front of her friends. But she was very unlike most prochoice protestors we encounter, and she seemed like she had good intentions, just bad information and misinformed friends. Please keep her in your prayers!