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Tuesday, July 7th was financial disclosure day for the candidates. Yesterday’s disclosures are a welcomed victory for the McBerry team. Having campaigned for a mere 3 months and spent fifteen thousand dollars, the message of hope, liberty, and victory is ringing loud and clear across our great state.

Ray burst onto the political scene in February of this year under the proud banner of states’ rights. This message has permeated all of Georgia being the foremost issue for Democrats and Republicans alike. Democratic Gubernatorial commercials decry states’ rights, while Republican Congressmen and candidates have picked up the mantra seeing the support of Georgians for Ray’s message.

Similarly, Ray’s bold declaration that life is the Lord’s and the protection of life is the duty of civil government, has impacted other campaigns, and forced watered down vague innuendo to become clear assertions that prenatal murder in Georgia is unacceptable and wrong.

Never before in Georgia politics has a message spread so rapidly with so little money and no previous name recognition. Our army consists of volunteers, men and women of faith, who comprise the largest volunteer network in this Gubernatorial campaign, and who recognize that now is the time.

To whom do we credit this accomplishment? The Arm of the Lord.

When our future seems bleak, federal tyranny looms large, and the Georgia Republican leadership remains hopeless and unwilling to push back on federal shackles and tyranny, we stand certain that this battle is the Lord’s and we will be victorious. We will gain back our life and liberty. We will stand against federal intrusion and tyranny, and stand bold in the face of an evil that has engulfed our nation.

We invite you to join our army of freedom fighters. The coming year will see the advance of truth, hope, and faith, and the further revelation that Georgia will lead the nation into new life and liberty, advance states’ rights, and send a clear message of rebuke to an out of control federal government.

Our states’ rights tour kicks off in Cherokee County on Aug. 1st, and from there we will go across the state, engaging, educating, and encouraging Georgians in town hall meetings everywhere. We look to empower Georgians with the truth that self-government, personal responsibility, and solid faith make up the true course for a new tomorrow.

Ray McBerry is a statesman of faith, firm resolve, and unbending determination that life and liberty are ours. We look forward to having him as Georgia’s Republican States’ Rights Governor.

~Jenny Hodges
Campaign Director,
Ray McBerry for Governor
cell: 404-435-8852

The Ephesus House, http://www.ephesushouse.org located in Gainesville, GA, committed to showing Mercy to women in crisis pregnancy by providing temporary housing assistance and pregnancy resources, NEEDS YOUR HELP! 

We are in need of many things at the home.  We are currently housing a mother who is 36 weeks pregnant and beginning on Monday we will accept a homeless mother with two young children into the home.  If you could help in any way with any of the following items or a monetary donation to help purchase food, we would be eternally grateful.  Items needed:

-baby crib
-toddler bed
-2 baby gates
-baby proofing items (locks & outlet plugs)
-food

We also have experienced difficulties with our air conditioning system in the upstairs.  The compressor went out and we do not have the financial resources to replace it at this time.  We are operating on window air units.  If you or anyone that you know may be able to help us financially, please contact us.  With the extreme temperatures that we are experiencing, the window units are working overtime.  Can you please help??

Please also check our wish list on our webpage: http://www.ephesushouse.org
You may be able to help us with something from that list as well.
You may make a financial contribution on our website link, “contribute to life”.
We are also in need of men who can do some handy work.  We need a hand railing installed on the stairs, the installation of 5 deadbolts, & painting and repairing the deck.  Someone is at the home at all times, if you have any free time available, please give us a call.

Also, we are in need of volunteers.  If you are interested in offering 4 hours of your time, please contact
Cara at 770-654-9418.

May God Bless you for your consideration of this request.

Blessings,
The Ephesus House Team

LaNell Babbage-Torres has already started answering a call to lead annual Mothers Day and Fathers Day Choose Life Vigils/Rallies at the Capitol and starting next year festivals beforehand.  In LaNell’s words, they will be “a platform for all Pro-Life (as well as other Christian Family) outreaches to come together . We are fighting the same fight on many fronts, as God has called us to do. We are the answer the world is looking for. This will be a time of celebration, intercession and education on the support that God has made available, for we are His Body. The world will come to the party and get the Word in Love, Forgiveness and Example. I will invite organizations who teach abstinence, traditional marriage, voting for pro-life & Judeo-Christian values etc.  Our great commission starts with Life!  This move of God in unity will spread to all 50 states. Keep me in your prayers as I will be praying for you also.”

You can check out the video of the rally LaNell led at the Capitol on Mothers Day by clicking here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_EEJrNSXHc
 
LaNell wrote: “I had a friend shoot the video and the bagpiper is Nathan Mann. Please send out the link to everyone as I want as many people as possible to see it. The cost per video, if anyone would like to purchase a copy, is $10.00, so any donation over that would be appreciated to offset the original production costs. I would like to help Nathan with as much work as possible, he is a great kid. He supports the cause. Any help anyone can give in getting the word out on the video is greatly needed. I want to do this every year on both Mother’s & Father’s Day. That is the most important thing to me!!”  E-mail me at margaritaszechenyi@gmail.com if you would like more info on the video.

Nathan Mann did an amazing job at the Fathers Day Vigil at the Capitol on 6/21 - you can read about that vigil in a separate article.

Two other ladies have begun sidewalk counseling and praying at the mills ~

Jaqueline M. led a group out at the mill on West Wieuca shortly after receiving her training!  She has been going there each Saturday and is looking for someone to join her.  Please e-mail me at margaritaszechenyi@gmail.com if you can join her on a Saturday, and for more info.

Jaqueline (Jackie) also purchased two LARGE very powerful photographic signs and assembled backings for them, toting them behind her in a wheeled wire mesh cart.  It’s like she’s been doing this for years!! She is one cool lady!!!

A third lady has been praying out at Governors Ridge and recently counseled a couple for the first time!  She is most gracious and filled with the Spirit, and happy to have been led to Sarah (aka “Sarita”) to fulfill a strong calling to become active in pro-life.

Please keep these ladies in your prayers!

On Sunday evening (6/21), LaNell Babbage-Torres led a group in witness and prayer at the GA State Capitol downtown.  The combination of Nathan playing the bagpipe from the Capitol steps with a large photographic poster of a baby at 8 weeks after conception, and the words, “Happy Fathers Day! Choose Life!” was quite powerful and many young men drove by taking note of it all. 

It was wonderful to have LaNell and Jacqueline Meneese, two relatively new sidewalk counselors/prayer warriors out there, because they give powerful witness to the Black community, who are losing the greatest number of children proportionately to abortion. 

A man and his daughter drove by, parked nearby and joined us - turns out they were with a pro-life group, IHOP (International House of Prayer) in Kansas City, were in town for the weekend, and happened to drive past the Capitol Bldg. 

At one point, we prayed with a homeless man, Richard, who was preparing his bed for the night across the street in the doorway of the church.  Richard did most of the praying, and totally blew me away with his depth of faith and gratitude to God for all His blessings - I was moved to tears by the witness & beauty of this man.  Please keep him and another young homeless man, Shey, in your prayers.
Although the group was small, we all felt the power of the Holy Spirit in a BIG way as we prayed together for the legislators and people of Georgia, especially the dads.  The Lord impressed it upon my heart from the experience that what may seem to be small in the eyes of the world, when blessed by God, has great power in the spiritual realm (Mark 4:30-32 came to mind), and that even if just one or two people pray at the mills or govt buildings for His Kingdom to come, it is of great power & effect.
I’d like to share a little more of what the Lord has put upon LaNell’s heart in leading these first annual Mothers Day and Fathers Day Choose Life Vigils/Rallies at the Capitol and hopefully next year festivals beforehand.  In LaNell’s words, they will be “a platform for all Pro-Life (as well as other Christian Family) outreaches to come together. We are fighting the same fight on many fronts, as God has called us to do. We are the answer the world is looking for. This will be a time of celebration, intercession and education on the support that God has made available, for we are His Body. The world will come to the party and get the Word in Love, Forgiveness and Example. I will invite organizations who teach abstinence, traditional marriage, voting for pro-life & Judeo-Christian values etc.  Our great commission starts with Life!  This move of God in unity will spread to all 50 states. Keep me in your prayers as I will be praying for you also.”
Thanks to all for your prayers, whether at the mills, from church or from home!

Margarita Szechenyi
margaritaszechenyi@gmail.com

Original Article:
On May 26th, Pro-Life Unity will resume our monthly meetings for all current and potential sidewalk counselors and prayer warriors.
The meeting will include training in sidewalk counseling basics, an update on the Adopt the Mills Inititiative and Pro-Life Unity’s daughter organization, Alovita, and an opportunity to fellowship and pray with other sidewallk counselors/prayer warriors.
We’ll also have sample literature for you to take home.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Date: Tuesday, May 26th
Time: 7-9pm
Location:  Marietta (specific location to be announced)
RSVP: at your earliest convenience to margaritaszechenyi@gmail.com
Schedule:
7:00-7:30 - Sidewalk Counseling - “Getting Started”
7:30-8:00 - Sidewalk Counseling - Role playing and questions
8:00-8:30 - Update on Adopt the Mills & Alovita
8:30-9:00 - Prayer
Please pass this on to anyone whom you think may be interested!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at margaritaszechenyi@gmail.com or 678/200-9712.

Thanks and hope to see you there!

Thanks so much!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at margaritaszechenyi@gmail.com or 678/200-9712.

Thanks and hope to see you there!

Last week was a powerful reminder that God is at work & that we must keep going!  The Lord is raising up many new sidewalk counselors and prayer warriors at the mills here in GA, and last week saw three babies saved and two candle-light Mothers Day Vigils.  Below are 3 accounts shared by a sidewalk counselor and the 2 Mothers Day vigil coordinators (slightly edited for length). 

Jackie is a new sidewalk counselor who led a group in sidewalk counseling out at West Wieuca Saturday, May 2nd.  Jackie, by the way, likes to refer to herself as “the Black lady” because the Lord stirred her heart at a panel discussion at GA Tech where she heard Jenny Hodges and Catherine Davis sound the call for more black sidewalk counselors & activists.  Jackie’s on fire for the babies & moms - please keep her in your prayers.  Her account of Sat, May 2nd is also included below.  By the way, two other black ladies have heard the Lord’s call uponn their heart and have been going out to Gov Ridge for a while now - we desperately need them as 90-95% of the moms going in are black.

Some additional exciting news is that Lisa E. of Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, a newly trained sidewalk counselor, has been taking out ladies from her Bible Study once or twice a week to West Wieuca to train them in sidewalk counseling and prayer support.  Please keep Lisa and her growing group in your prayers.
At the regular “2nd shift” Friday vigil with Nancy at West Wieuca, the group is now up to about 6.
Many new prayer warriors and potential sidewalk counselors continue to come out to Governors Ridge thanks to Sarah’s & Griselle’s recruitment efforts.
Praise God for how He is bringing all these new people into the effort!

Saturday, May 2nd at West Wieuca, by Jackie:
“A young lady came over to us and said she was not going to abort. Some from our group took her to breakfast, while I stayed. There was another young lady who didn’t abort because she didn’t have the money. I told her that there were centers that would help her in carrying her baby to term & she wrote down the information ~ she said she would keep her child if she had some help. I pray that she did call the center.”

Friday, May 8th at West Wieuca, by Ron Flagg:

Dear Friends in Christ,
Jesus saved a baby this morning at W. Weiuca at about 6:45am.  Six of us were there on the sidewalk in prayer and our hearts overflowed with joy when a couple stopped at the exit and rolled down their window to tell us they had changed their minds.  There were many tears flowing and we sensed the mom was anxious to leave the premises, so we were only able to get her name, Terry, and no other (i.e. contact) information.  Please pray (1) in praise and thanksgiving, and (2) for issues that Terry is or will be dealing with.  I want to also thank Jackie and RuthAnn for joining us on the sidewalk with their powerful prayers. 
We had 3 Protestants and 3 Catholics on the sidewalk united in prayer and I believe Jesus was most pleased to see Christians together in prayer against the culture of death. 
Next week we will go back to our normal schedule, which means arriving at 6:30 to 6:45am.  We invite/encourage those who were unable to be there today to join us in the future in our ministry saving Jesus’ babies.
For Life (always!)
Ron

Saturday, May 9th at Governors Ridge, Marietta, by Sarah (aka “Sarita”):

Dear brothers and sisters,
Today was really beautiful at Governor’s Ridge!  Prayer warriors began arriving shortly after 5am, and by the time everyone was in place, there were 128 of us praying and holding lit candles, up and down the sidewalk.  At one point the count reached 135!
Only 7 women had abortions today, which is very low, compared to 12 or 13 the last few Saturdays, and especially compared to the 20-30 that were common every Saturday, before the economy took a nosedive.
An added blessing was the presence of two priests: Father Jaime Molina, from St. Thomas the Apostle and Father Manuel Rivas, from Holy Family.  English-speaking participants in the vigil hailed from various parishes, and there were also representatives from Students for Life at Georgia Tech.  A huge delegation of Hispanic parishioners came from St. Thomas the Apostle, and three Brazilian parishioners arrived from Holy Family.  The two priests led us in rosaries and in the Litany of Loreto.  As women who appeared to be patients would arrive at the entrance to the complex, we would offer them a long-stemmed, cream-colored rose and literature that we hoped would encourage them not to have an abortion.
When the prayers ended, the Hispanics burst into song, praising God with many joyful choruses in Spanish.
The doctor finished early and left by 9:30am, after which his employees also drove away.  As our prayer warriors were preparing to go home, many expressed gratitude for having had the opportunity to participate in this prayer experience.
Thank you to everyone who was unable to attend physically but who, through your prayers, was with us in spirit.  Your prayers were very much felt and appreciated, and surely helped to keep expectant mothers away from this place of death, on the eve of the day all mothers should be celebrating Life:  Mother’s Day.
In Christ for Life….........Sarita

HB 388, the “Option of Adoption Act”, is a legislative effort that attempts to move cryogenically suspended humans out of storage and into uteruses with such dehumanizing terms as “legal embryo custodian”, “relinquish rights and responsibilities to an embryo”, and “recipient intended parent.”

The messy legal jargon clearly attempting to objectify cryogenically suspended humans so as not to inadvertently apply the idea of full humanity and protection under the Constitution,  raises more questions than it answers. The embryo custodian isn’t referred to as a parent until such time as the embryo transfer may result in a live birth. This would muddy the waters for death certificates issued for post 20 week gestation prenatal babies in the state of Georgia. If you aren’t a parent, and your baby dies after 20 weeks gestation, how can a custodian be issued a death certificate for failed embryonic property?

If one has rights and responsibilities regarding these embryos, what legal responsibility does the in-vetro clinic have for embryos? What if some embryos are killed, aka “discarded” in the process of fertility treatments? What if cryogenically suspended humans are misplaced or thawed to their detriment? On the basis of “embryonic rights and responsibilities” in what way can parents prosecute for the improper care of their embryonic children?

Furthermore, this legislation as currently written would open the floodgates for a new industry in pedaling human property. It would encourage fertility doctors to “create” greater quantities of embryos since money would be made in their care and adoption process. This legislation would give birth to a whole new world of human trafficking.

In January 2008 according to testimony by doctors engaged in human embryo production, during the HR 536 Personhood committee hearings, there were 40,000 cryogenically suspended humans in the state of Georgia. The money to be made in openly trafficking those humans to the adoption market, and increasing inventory supplies through increased embryo production outside the womb, would only add to the dehumanization of children in the modern era of “bioethics.” Market competition would encourage the streamlining of techniques for creating certain traits, sexes, eye color, hair color, and other attributes, as “in-vetro” and adoption clinics vied for business from a growing population afflicted with infertility. In our current economic crisis, college campuses would be flooded with appeals for girls to surrender to egg harvesting for payments of $5,000 or more.

Furthermore, studies are showing that cryogenically suspended humans once brought out of animated suspension and allowed to mature have elevated health risks, and tend to contract certain childhood diseases at a much higher rate than naturally conceived children. An increase in the production of cryogenically suspended humans for the purpose of the embryo adoption industry, would further debilitate a health care system already gone very bad.

Unless this legislation includes an amendment banning any further production of embryos in the state of Georgia outside the womb, it is a grossly misdirected effort, that will advance technology in cloned and made to order babies, further erode the sanctity of human life, and further advance a profitable industry of bio-engineering on helpless human subjects.

A vote in favor of HB 388 the “Option of Adoption Act” as currently written is to vote into existence an industry that will streamline the made to order baby, create mass quantities of cryogenically suspended human embryos as valuable inventory, further erode the sanctity of human life, and increase the likelihood for cloning and production of embryos for stem cell research and other biotechnology purposes and experimentation.