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About Life Chain Annually, on the first Sunday in October, National Life Chain invites Christians in each city and town across North America to stand on designated local sidewalks and individually pray for one hour, while holding one of the following approved pro-life sign messages:
The easy-to-hold 18” x 22” signs provided for Life Chain participants are back printed with Prayer Topics, Songs of Meditation, the Life Chain Code of Conduct, and a compelling statement on the Purpose of Life Chain. In addition to the prayer topics listed, local pastors are encouraged to add other prayer topics. During this hour, idle chatter, frivolity, and both verbal and physical responses to motorists are strongly discouraged. Life Chain is a time for serious self-analysis, repentance, and intercession. Accordingly, Life Chain is not a demonstration intended chiefly for the general public. Instead, its first goal is to minister to its own participants—to those who hold the pro-life messages and declare abortion a grave evil that defames the name and righteousness of God (Leviticus 18:21). Indeed, we who call Christ our Savior have failed to intervene as we should have during the past three decades, while over 40 million boys and girls in America alone have been killed through surgical abortion and additional millions have died from chemical contraceptives and the once prevalent IUD. After this hour, everyone is invited to stand together in groups to pray as a church for an additional ½ hour. For all who are mindful that Life Chain is a “church oriented and pastor focused” ministry, the key to a successful Chain is to persuade local pastors to educate their congregations about abortion and to lead their church families to the sidewalk where their Life Chain is to be held. Every year, over 1,000 Life Chains are held in the U.S. and Canada!! Contact Rob Tuttle, Miami Valley Life Chain Coordinator, at daytonlifechain@live.com or call 937-304-5084 for more information .
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A Short History of Life Chain “Please Let Me Live” is a small pro-life ministry based about 50 miles north of Sacramento CA. This group started Life Chain in 1987 in small sister towns, Yuba City and Marysville. Life Chain was called “a serious first step to pro-life activism.” It's a serious step in that it requires us to stand publicly for one hour, while holding a pro-life sign and praying through the prayer topics before us. That brief experience has led thousands of Christians across North America to join local pro-life groups and work as volunteers in year-round programs. The initial Life Chain, with over 2,000 participants, elevated pro-life out of the “handful of fundamentalists” to a level of high respectability. It enabled the unification of local churches and informing of our local media, law enforcement, public officials, and area citizenry about the unconscionable killing of preborn boys and girls in our communities and beyond. By 1990, after additional Life Chains, timely picketing, prayer vigils, full-page ads, billboard campaigns, and comprehensive distribution of pro-life literature, surgical abortions ceased in the bi-county Yuba-Sutter area, north of Sacramento CA. In 1989, Bakersfield CA took the Life Chain into Southern CA with 7,500 participants and Riverside CA followed with 6,000 in attendance. In 1990, Orange County CA increased participation to 17,000, while Fresno CA had 10,000, San Diego 20,000 (and a month later 28,000), and Sacramento 16,500. The Miami Valley saw its first Life Chain that year. National Life Chain Sunday '91 saw 373 Chains built in the U.S., with 771,000 participants. On National Life Chain Sunday '92, more than 800 U.S. cities and towns held Chains, with participation of 975,000, while Canada had 80,000 participants at 97 Chains. National Life Chain Sunday '93 saw over 900 Chains built in America and Canada but a lack of emphasis on prayer was noted. Last year saw about 1,300 Life Chains built in North America, with the emphasis on prayer continuing to increase substantially.
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2011 Life Chain Church Contact Materials
If your church is not involved in Life Chain, or you are not sure, please contact us at daytonlifechain@live.com
Life Chain Links National Listing of Life Chains
Sign Up to be your Church's Point of Contact for the Miami Valley Life Chain 2011
Religious Pro-Life Organizations U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Task Force of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality (TUMAS)
Other Pro-Life Collegians Activated
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