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Teaching to Save Lives By Joanne Underwood, CPLC Convert-to-Life / Sidewalk Counseling Ministry Director
On Saturday, I presented the Monsignor Riley method of sidewalk counseling to about 45 people at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. The group was very receptive and had many questions. It was their first sidewalk counseling training. Following the training I was a guest speaker for their 40 Days for Life rally. Rally speakers included Beaumont Bishop Curtis J. Guilloy and Dr. David Darbonne, a Catholic OB/GYN from Sulphur Springs. Others gave poetry readings and sang pro-life songs. It was a rousing night for life with about 60 people attending, and a kickoff to a new era of prayer and counseling in Beaumont. After I returned home, I received the following note, that I still keep, from the 40 Days for Life-Beaumont Director:
I was so blessed to participate in God’s plan in Beaumont. And He was not done. On October 3, 2013, Whole Woman’s Health received a notice from the state, outlining a number of regulation failures endangering the facility’s patients. And in spring of this year, the facility closed its doors, blaming the new regulations in omnibus pro-life law HB 2. On April 12, CPLC Executive Director Karen Garnett and I were thrilled to attend the closing ceremony at this facility, ensuring no more precious lives would be lost to abortion in Beaumont. God be praised! |
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Karen Garnett, Executive Director CPLC ● P.O. Box 803541 ● Dallas, TX 75380 Devoted to Ending Abortion and Restoring Respect for Life |