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Today was tiring but wonderful. Blessed to have Jim Thornton and Jim Wright join Lucas, Karen, Pastor David, and Chuck and Mary to serve.
Jim Thornton is a College Professor and Evangelist. He is going to be serving at the abortion mill in Bristol, Tennessee now. Jim Wright came down here a few years ago and now serves at two abortion mills in the Atlanta area.

It was much slower today than lately. One young lady came in a car with Christian bumper stickers. She stayed inside through the preaching which was much was centered on her. After the preaching she got out of here extremely troubled as fast as she could.

A guy named JT arrived with his sister. He was so angry that I would stand in my square on the sidewalk. He wanted me anywhere else but there. He told me to move here or there and anywhere but in my square. It was so weird. He was threatening great bodily harm, etc. God began working on him though and he ended up having me shake hands and pray for him. He said that nothing could change his sister’s mind. I explained how God moves hearts much harder than his and hers in a split second of time.

JT went inside to be with his sister. He sat inside through the preaching. He came outside after and went to get water. When he returned he told us he could not believe it but his sister texted him and said she was changing her mind. He went inside and shortly came out. As he was walking with her he flashed the two fingered salute over his heart and said “Thank you.”

JT wanted my head on a platter. The Lord wanted JT’s eyes opened

We were all pretty darn pumped. There is nothing like seeing God move in such dramatic ways.

After all this, Lucas, Jim, and I went over to set up for the conference. Even though it’s not even on yet people were wanting to come to the mill. I met a precious volunteer named Amy. She is a FSU Student. She told me her Church has “adopted” the Tallahassee abortion mill and that she serves two days a week there. So many awesome things going on through the Church. Hundreds of people that go to this conference are in the fight.

I see people writing on Facebook things like “Do you love your theology as much as your neighbor?” These folks love their neighbors because of their theology.

Getting pretty excited about the next few days. Please pray for the ladies that left today. Pray they never return. Please also pray the Lord would bring the right folks by my table in the afternoons and evenings.

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Well they are back to using this “popup” again. It was super busy again with over 20 coming. The Lord shined a light on four ladies though.

Killing your baby for 50% off

We had a guy become a Man and lead his lady out of here. There was a precious young lady, India, that came out during the preaching and chose life. We had a time of prayer and she will be going to Choices.

Then there was a precious young Brazilian girl. Her name was Fabianna. She had gone inside but after about 15 minutes she came out. Yolie offered her the materials and then she came over and sat on the wall. She chose life and we had a time of prayer. During our talk she said she was far from God and wanted to come to Him. We went through the Gospel. She is going to be going to First Baptist because they have a Brazilian Church there. She is also going to be getting with Carmem at First Life because she is Brazilian and will be a wonderful friend.

There is just something wonderful about this young lady. She came here at 16 and has been making it. She is getting married in two months. Please pray for this precious young lady. She is pretty special. We all want to be friends with her. She is so thankful Jesus met her here.

And I am so thankful for Marcia, Karen, and Yolie.

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God was so good today. The place was still very busy but three chose life and there were two turnaways.

Steve and Kayla came but met Beth before going inside. She spoke with them and they changed their mind. Beth prayed with them but they returned a little later. They were having a hard time believing they could make it. We had a long talk but Kayla went inside. She came back out and said she is not doing this and will not return. Please pray for them and that they would not let pride get in the way of asking for help.

During the preaching, “Mario” and “Maria” came out. Mario looked at me and did that two fingered salute over his heart and said Thank You. She was not exactly happy with him but she left with him. Please pray the Lord would work on their hearts. He was so thankful when they pulled up.
“Sonya” also came out during the preaching. She came up and said she changed her mind and has two other children but said she didn’t believe the Church would help her. Pastor Dan took her and gave his word that his Church would. Please pray that God would give her faith to trust Him and that she and her family would become members of that Church.

Pastor Dan brings the Gospel to Sonya

Throughout the day, several came to help. Thank you Karen, Chuck, Mary, Pastor Dan, Beth, Yolie, Andrea, Edwin, and Heather Botero.

Thank you all for praying. You all are a vital part of the ministry down here.

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I have to tell you Karen, Yolie, Donna, and I are truly heartbroken today.

You know it’s going to be a tough day when workers come in crying. One saying how utterly disgusting and wicked it was yesterday. I can still hear and see the folks from yesterday growling, screaming, mocking God. It was total insanity. There has been a “different” kind of Evil here this week. Definitely one of the worst weeks of all these years.

Well, today was no better. It was horrific to watch more than 15 of the 30 plus from yesterday return to complete their late-term labor and delivery abortions. All new abortions were canceled because the 84-year-old “Beast” had his hands full.

They walked in today with their pillows and blankets not quite as smart mouthed as they were yesterday. Their babies were most likely dead from the shot he gave them to stop their hearts yesterday. The laminera sticks that had been placed in their cervix was causing some discomfort. He gave them more drugs to speed up the labor and then they began to March. They marched in circles all day and as the day went on their walking became very labored. Waiting to deliver their baby’s into a toilet. All this while the people that run this place are off to a resort in the Dominican Republic getting married.

For the first time I was speechless. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Not that I have never seen it before but this was different somehow. Almost all I could do was pray and most of that wasn’t even with words. Just begging God to stop this.

We must stop this!!

I know all my friends like to hear the wonderful things Jesus does down here. I know everything is according to His will. Maybe he just wanted us to experience the pain of this. It is so unbelievably wicked. To hear ladies scream “I just want to get “It” out of me.”

How has this gone on so long?

It is long overdue to do something about this. It’s not time to point fingers of blame but it is time to act.

I would ask my friends in every state to go to ENDABORTIONNOW.COM
Their website is almost complete. The website has taken a little longer than expected because it is a highly technical one.

Their goal is to work through the Church. They don’t see the Church as an enemy. They are contacting pastors all around the country and will be offering everything from training pastors and elders to lead their Churches in this battle in every aspect, to sidewalk counseling, to working through your states lawmakers. Pastor Jeff Durbin is working so hard at this.

I am sorry about how depressing the last couple of posts have been. When you post everyday you just post what it is and this is what it is.
I’m sure the Lord is going to do some other wonderful things and who knows maybe I will just delete this. Just had to get it out. Thank you. Please continue to pray.

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Pastor Harry Reeder preached at St. Andrew’s a month or so ago. He invited us all to visit Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham so that Heaven wouldn’t be quite a shock to us… 🙂

I can’t wait to visit there one day but today we sure had a taste of Hell down here. It was absolutely awful. My friend Matthew comes down here early mornings to pray on his way to work. Today he looked up the website and a pop up ad was advertising 50% off abortions up to 24 weeks. Well the people came in droves. We had another 30+ people here with so many late termers. There was absolutely no room inside. When they opened the doors you could see people sitting all over the floors and so many waited out in cars.

The people were extremely angry that we were there and they weren’t holding back from letting us know. During the preaching you could hear groans and yelling coming from inside. Every once and a while they would come out saying the vilest things we have ever heard. Chuck and Mary were here today. They have been doing this type of ministry for over 30 years. They said today was the worst day they have ever experienced. Usually you can cleanse a day like this out but good grief the usual methods aren’t working.

The guy that runs this place was probably doing this to mock Ash Wednesday – he had been asking about it.

The worse thing to us was an 18-year-old girl. Terry came with her mom and her mom’s friend. She was cursing at me while waiting for the doors to open. Her mom turned on me couple of times hollering and screaming.

Terry’s mom left with her friend. In the afternoon, Terry came out and sat on the bricks. I think she was looking for a real Mom and told Karen something was wrong and she was passing out. She put her head against the bricks and called her mom. She began telling her mom about what Randall had done to her. The drugs, the laminera sticks in her cervix, the shot to stop the babies heart. The blood. Unbelievably she did not know that is what they were going to do.

Karen trying to help Terry

Karen couldn’t take it. Terry asked for help over to the wall to sit with Karen. Karen lifted her off the bricks and got her over to us.
You know I have been doing this a long time but this is just way too heartbreaking. Please pray for her tonight. I am really worried about this young lady.

I know this is a long post but there is really no way to get you to see this. So Thankful for Yolie, Audrey, Steven, and the others that served here.

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It was like the old days down here again today. So Awful. There were between 30 and 35 ladies here. We had a few turnaways but I am not imagining for one minute that they are choosing life.

It was like we had entered “Potterville.” The people were so hard and angry. There were no seats inside and they were filling papers out outside and in their cars.

People out on the street were out of control as well. The attendant for the valet across the street began hurling curses from across the street. He was cheered on by the valets. It was so crazy.

Two sisters came down wearing the same dresses. One sister was showing solidarity in her sisters decision to kill her niece.

Many Dads had their other children outside in the back waiting. I can’t tell you how horrible it is to see little girls playing soccer out back while waiting for mom to kill their brother or sister.

Little girl playing soccer out back waiting for mom to kill her brother or sister

We had every kind of wickedness you could imagine today. I was also reminded of the hit piece the New York Post did on Pastor Jeff. In that film the Planned Parenthood folks had truth flee from them. One of them said Pro Lifers offer chocolate to ladies coming in to keep them from having an abortion or possibly killing them because they will have sedation.

I don’t know what kind of sedation their ladies get but these ladies stuff anything that will fit in their mouth. Ladies eating pizzas, Subway foot longs, burgers fries anything. They don’t stop anyone from sedation here.

Speaking of sedation. They were so busy here today that I know they got people out of here way earlier than normal. Ladies were shuffling not walking. They had workers walking backwards while the lady that had the abortion was holding on to her for dear life. The really bad ones were carried out the back into their cars. This place is so bad.

So thankful for those that cruised in and out to help. Philip, Karen, Marcia, and Yolie, served under some hard conditions.

The Lord is so Good though. At the end of the day I received a phone call. I put it on speaker so that Karen and Yolie could hear. It was a precious lady that chose life last week and went to Choices. She was overcome with gratitude to God and just wanted to say Thank You. She told us all the good things Jesus is doing for her. We are going to have a Thank You Jesus Party next week.

I believe the Lord was reminding us He is in charge. Even when we see such carnage we need to trust Him. He is always moving.

Alright I am getting so many messages wanting to know how Desmond is doing. Well Kaycee said he has had one heck of a battle with all those heart surgeries and so many things that should have taken him down.

Well through all of your prayers and God’s desire to have him here he is doing great. You can see the progression in his pictures.

It was awesome to ask his precious grandmother how he is doing. Especially when she said he is doing great but he has a cold. That sure is a lot different than when you were all praying him away from death’s door.

The family wants to thank you all and please remember Desmond in prayer.

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I have hesitated to post tonight because I can’t believe myself what happened today. I mean really I don’t understand it.

So blessed to serve with Matthew, Bill, and Beth in the morning and Yolie and Luke in the afternoon. Before 11:00 this morning six had turned away and six had chosen life. It was very busy so there were still about ten left and by the time the abortionist got here in the late afternoon they were hard as rocks.

I can’t go into all of the stories but a few were of note. A guy came with his lady and admitted he was missing parts of his manhood. The Lord moved though and he left holding her shoulders close to him. He had a smile when I said “I guess you were a man after all.”

We worked with a young lady named Maria. She spoke with Marlyd from Choices over the phone but then went inside anyway. She couldn’t take it in there and came out with the papers she was filling out. Beth spoke with her at length when she admitted she could speak English. Beth prayed with her and she left. She took the papers and threw them in the trash.
There was a married couple that came. They came out in the middle of the preaching and boy were they thankful. When Karen and Bill went to pray for them she broke down with tears of joy.

After the coldness of yesterday it was truly an amazing day. Thank God and please pray for all these folks. Please pray they stay far away.

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Well the kids from CCBR cane down for another day. Some stayed at UCF with their abortion displays and some came down here for the day. Most of these kids have never done this kind of ministry before. I was amazed to realize that 95% of them are from Dutch Reformed Churches across Canada. They did a fantastic job at both venues.

The ones that stayed at UCF were met with much opposition from Planned Parenthood supporters that were swinging around sex toys, handing out condoms, and trying to get students not to speak with these dear young people. It didn’t work though. They were able to have many conversations.

The ones that came down here were met by much evil as well. By those that were coming for abortions and the workers here. It’s just strange to see the couple that runs this place talking about their wedding plans, etc. And the abortionist Randall Whitney speaking to the students about how he is a helper to women. It was really tough on them. They are solid in their faith and called the workers to repentance. It was pretty tough especially from the vile words coming from the clients.

Calling out to the workers

Karen, Donna, and I were so blessed to have them here. I was so unbelievably happy to have someone else come down to serve. Suzanna has been a FB friend for years but today she took a day out of her vacation and brought her family down. I don’t know what is going on with all the Canadians the last couple of weeks but they are as well. They are also Dutch Reformed. This family is so awesome. Her husband and kids are just the best.

Suzanna and her wonderful family

This evening Jonathon and Devorah invited me to their decompression dinner as they evaluated their trip and prepare to go home. It was wonderful. They were challenged to keep the course. As it ended and I was about to leave I heard a piano coming from the sanctuary of the church we were in. I went inside and it was dark. Collen was playing Beautiful music. Some others came in and there was just something that seemed to take away all stress. Got us all ready to get busy again.

Training

As told by John Barros:

I am blessed beyond measure. I cannot believe it really. I never know who all is going to come down here. Well today, Yolie, Karen, Pastor David, and I had a whole gang join us down here. Steven brought his brother and then Jonathon, and Devorah from the Canadian Center For Biological Research brought people down here in shifts.

They were having an awareness campaign at UCF and wanted these Canadian students to see what it was like to minister in front of an abortion mill. They are unable to do that in Canada. Every year they come and serve down here and boy do I look forward to their arrival. Already counting the days until next year.

Awareness Campaign at the biggest school in the USA. Done by Canadian Students

Well they were blessed to see the Lord move. One man led his lady out of here first thing this morning. There was a young lady named Arelia that arrived. Got to speak with her and her boyfriend. During the preaching she came out for prayer. She was totally convicted and chose life. Please pray for her. She is 21 weeks and needs some help.

Then there was “Faith.” She got dropped off by an Uber taxi. She spoke with Karen, Yolie, and I at length. All the kids were praying while the talking was going on. We prayed with her, God opened her eyes, and she chose life. The kids began to clap for her and we all surrounded her and prayed for her. Precious Yolie was running all over the place today and she gave “Faith” a ride to Choices where she received loving counsel and her ultrasound. She didn’t just choose life but also committed her life to Christ.

Prayers for Faith

A couple of Choices volunteers also came by today in the rain to see what it’s like to minister down here. Melissa and Katherine were able to share with these students about the care these ladies receive when they get over there. They loved it.

Melissa and Katherine sharing with the students

It was very hard on these kids. In Canada they have buffer zones around clinics and they are not allowed to minister like this. They were happy to minister but many were overwhelmed with the callousness of those arriving and the fact that there is so little time to act. Life in the balance brought broken hearts to them.

Broken hearts

I broke down on the way home today as I knew I would. I build so many walls to guard my heart that I forget how painful this truly is. These kids come every year thinking they will learn from me. I am sure I learn more from them. So thankful for these precious people. I so don’t deserve them.

This group is incredible. They do things like no other groups I know. Their goal is making people aware of the horror of abortion. I see so many people whining and this group attacking that group. Sitting behind keyboards wreaking havoc amongst believers. They should quit all that and do what these folks do.

They have a goal of 4,000,000 one-on-one conversations this year. They do awareness campaigns at the schools in Canada and all over the place. They go house to house through the neighborhoods informing people. Jonathon told me they have had a million conversations so far this year. They do not go with the intent of causing trouble and amazingly are well received even here at UCF. I believe Jonathon told me that a student at UCF found out she was pregnant but remembered their campaign from last year and God used that meeting to keep her baby. I believe 90% of a message is seen by how it is presented.

Please pray for these kids. They are so special and please pray for the three that chose life and the turn away. Thank you.