^{Kentucky Fellowship of Christian Athletes Runs “GAP-Wild” Through the Bluegrass State}

The bad news.

News flash! This just in! CBR can’t do it all!!!!! As many of you know, CBR’s Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) is the most effective way to reach a college campus with the truth about abortion. But, at the current rate of 8 campuses per year, CBR is able to visit a given major campus once every 30 or 40 years. The student body turns over every 4 years. We can’t do it alone. To penetrate the national campus culture with GAP, we must recruit, equip, and train other pro-lifers to deploy the project in their own communities. Ideally, this would be 2 days per semester on every campus.

Unfortunately, old habits die hard. All too often, pro-lifers would rather stay in their comfort zones and continue to spend precious time and money on activities that are of dubious value. Very few pro-life groups do anything on campus. Even well-funded groups seem to have no time or money left over for projects (like GAP) that are much more effective than anything they are doing now. As a professional resource manager, it is extremely frustrating to see such waste.

GAP at Eastern Kentucky University.

The good news.

That was the bad news. There is good news: all of this is beginning to change. We are seeing more and more groups around the country who are doing the work necessary to save lives in their own communities. Praise the Lord! Today, we want to highlight one such pro-life group—the Kentucky Fellowship of Christian Athletes (KFCA).

Surprised? We were. Most campus ministries run the other way when they see us coming. They are afraid that teaching students about abortion will cause them to run away from the Gospel of Jesus. They forget that Jesus was called the “Rock of offense.” Jesus, Paul, and the other disciples enraged people everywhere they went. Did Jesus get it wrong?

In 2002, the KFCA helped us take GAP to the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville. While we were there, KFCA staff did a superb job of using the project as a vehicle for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Messiah. When people see their sin, they are much more aware of their need for Jesus, and thus they are much more open to the forgiveness and healing He offers.

KFCA was so encouraged by these successes, they purchased a set of GAP signs for themselves. They got 8 of the “mini-GAP” signs, which are 4 feet high and 8 feet long. On April 16-17, 2003, KFCA took the signs to the University of Louisville. This was exactly one year after we had been there.

This was a red-letter day for GAP, because it was the first day that GAP was displayed at 2 different campuses on the same day. Trivia Question: Where else was CBR presenting GAP on April 16-17? (Answer: Ohio University.)

One of the leaders of this effort was Joni Ruffra of Louisville. She is a volunteer with Free Indeed, a post-abortive ministry of the Southeastern Christian Church. Joni is post-abortive herself. We are going to let Joni report on the results:

I am post-abortive, and have received healing through Free Indeed, a post-abortive counseling ministry of the Southeast Christian Church. I was completely amazed at the number of people who stopped to view the GAP display in the pouring rain. I was also amazed at the number of people who where non-Christian and even opposed God completely! We had a wonderful opportunity to share the Gospel with many students, and there were several who gave us their names so we could pray for them. I personally shared the Gospel with several who accepted Christ as their Savior right there in the rain! …

There were also several women who stopped to talk. Having gone through an abortion myself and having kept silent for 18 years, I was able (with the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit), to see their pain and share my experience with them as well. This opened the doors of conversation between us, and allowed them to talk of their own experiences, or of "their friend's experience." Several volunteers who were post-abortive wore signs that read: "My abortion destroyed two lives." Several women spoke to me in confidence, and shared a bit of their own testimony (and pain) from abortion. I have stayed in personal contact with a few, and some have attended the Free Indeed post-abortive counseling group since then! ...

One man had never heard of Jesus and had never been to church that he could remember. I shared the Good News with him, and he accepted Christ as his Savior that day! ...

The awesome part about the entire event was that we were all "prayed-up" before, during, and after the event! Satan tried many ways to shut us down, but God's Word was our strength! So, no matter how "ill-equipped" you are (or think you are), the Holy Spirit will work through you. We were merely servants to God that day! How awesome! Several volunteer women who were also post-abortive talked about how healing it was for them to speak out and to share the truth in love, while helping others in the process!

Thank you, Joni! Not much we can add to that!

Besides going back to the University of Louisville, KFCA took Mini-GAP to Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in Richmond. This event was headed up by Kristin Vance, a post-abortive woman who was a student at EKU and now lives in Lexington. She also mentioned how she experienced healing by going back to EKU to share truth with students there, so that some of them won’t make the same mistake she did.

Thanks to Joni and Kristin for their courage! And thanks to you, our supporters, for making all of this possible. Your support of CBR enabled us to take this life-saving project to Kentucky and to the other states in the Southeast!

^{RCC Trucks March Through Atlanta}

RCC trucks make abortion unavoidable for pedestrians along Peachtree Street (left), and Broad Street (right - crossing behind the bandstand).

During the week of May 5, we deployed two of our Reproductive Choice Campaign (RCC) trucks to Atlanta, Georgia, for the first time. Atlanta is one of the best cities in America for RCC. The freeways are wide, as many as 8 lanes each way, and the rush hour lasts all day.

Getting off the freeway, downtown Atlanta is also a great venue for RCC. One of our favorite places was Broad Street. Every big city seems to have one of these; it’s an outdoor food court. Fast-food restaurants line either side of the street. Dining tables are provided on the sidewalks underneath the shade trees. We drove the trucks right down Broad Street, in full view of hundreds of people eating lunch. On Friday, we were initially disappointed to find that Broad Street was closed to traffic. The eating tables filled up not only the sidewalks, but the street as well. A bandstand was set up at one end. But this turned out to be an even greater blessing, because Walton Street, which crosses Broad Street behind the bandstand, was open for traffic! We took full advantage!

Please pray that God will raise up a fleet of trucks to save more babies in Atlanta.

Our work can continue only if you help!  To make an on-line donation to our work:
https://id28.securedata.net/abortionno/CBRSoutheast/creditcards.html
 
To arrange your automatic monthly bank draft to support our work:

1. Download and print the Electronic Gift Transfer Authorization:
http://www.abortionno.org/pdf/ElectronicGiftTransferSE.pdf
2. Fill out the form.  Make sure you designate the gift for "CBR Southeast"
3. Enclose a voided check or deposit slip bearing the account number of the account we should draft.
4. Mail the Transfer Authorization form and a voided check (or deposit slip) to CBR Southeast, P.O. Box 20115, Knoxville, TN 37940.

Please pray that God will raise up others to help you support this life-saving work!