What are you willing to do to end abortion?
Let not the staggering numbers of children killed discourage you. You can make a difference. The Helpers of God's Precious Infants (Ottawa-Gatineau) are working towards building a culture of life one soul at a time by praying and sidewalk counselling at the killing places. In Ottawa, at the abortuary at 65 Bank St., the killings take place on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and the occasional Saturday, between 8 am and 4 pm. At least 2350 children are killed there each year. If you have any spare time or are able to reprioritize your commitments, we implore you to be concerned enough about these poor victims - children and their mothers - to make yourself available to them. We have both a civic and Christian responsibility to come to their aid. By participating in sidewalk counselling you can be an instrument of God's love, mercy and peace.
Be not afraid.
"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, "But we knew nothing about this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done? Proverbs 24:11-12
Are you called to be a sidewalk counsellor?
Goals :
- Convert mother and accomplices.
- Save the child from abortion.
- Lay foundation for the child's future through family oriented guidance and support.
Attitudes and spiritual preparation for the sidewalk counsellor and vigiler at the site include:
- A conviction that each one of us has sometime or another aborted God's Will.
- Have the conviction and the humility that nothing comes from us but with God all is possible.
- Be committed to personal prayer, retreats and spiritual direction.
- Recognize your own limitations and do not underestimate the instrumental power of others.
- Understand that we are called to convert, not to condemn.
- Able to maintain strict confidentiality.
- Able to remain graceful and courteous if harassed by passers-by, abortion workers or abortion seekers.
- Be flexible : be prepared to vary your approach depending on each circumstance (all the while maintaining the core spiritual approach).
- Men as well as women can be effective sidewalk counsellors (sometimes, for personal reasons, a woman will trust a man more than another woman).
- Willing to receive training. (We will provide training.)
Special considerations for sidewalk counsellors
Upcoming training sessions
Thursday November 18th 2010 - 9 am to noon - contact us for location
Please click on the button below if you are interested in becoming a sidewalk counsellor or would like more information about the training sessions. Make sure to include the following in your email :
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