About Life Chain
Life Chain is an annual, one-day pro-life event which began in 1987 and now includes individual events in 1550 cities and towns across the United States and Canada. In Dayton, our Life Chain is held on E. Stroop Road in Kettering, near the notorious Women's Med Center, the abortion clinic operated by late-term abortionist Martin Haskell.
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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:
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The first Sunday in October is the annual date for our Life Chain, which occurs in Dayton and more than 1300 other communities.
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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.
Dayton's Life Chain focuses on late-term abortionist Martin Haskell who helped create the grisly "partial-birth abortion" procedure.
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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.
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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. |
The October 2015 Life Chain included 800 persons
representing 58 area churches, organizations, and
other groups.
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Life Chain Links
National Life Chain Religious Pro-Life Organizations U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Lutherans for Life Task Force of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality (TUMAS) Presbyterians Pro-Life Priests for Life |
Other Pro-Life Organizations
Ohio Right to Life National Right to Life Feminists for Life Pro-Life Resources Life Decisions International One More Soul Life Issues Institute Hope After Abortion Couple to Couple League |
