ASAP  Trip to Washington DC for the Annual March for Life January 23 to January 26 cost for bus around $95.Don't let cost stop you. Help available. Contact Karen at Right to Life immediately kwalacavage@rtl.org or 734-930-7474

Ongoing  Sign up to pray at Planned Parenthood when they’re performing abortions Thursday, Friday, and Saturday daytime, contact Marge at 734-434-1475,   mlskr@aol.com

Sunday, January 16 Youth Rally (Lifeboat) at  St.Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church corner of State & Kingsley  in Ann Arbor Parking ½ block to the west.  Pizza at 6:30 P.M. Great worship .  Thought provoking presentation by Butch Murphy Time for questions.  Chance to hang out with friends.  Call Marilyn at 734-973-2422 mgeyer@provide.net

Sunday, January 16 PORCH CANDLES are available again this year.  Our porch candles are a silent witness to commemorate all the lives lost to abortion.  Candles and Pro-Life bags will be available at local churches and at the Pro-Life prayer service.  Churches please order your candles ASAP by calling Marilyn Geyer at 734-973-2422.  Place candles on porch January 21st.

Tuesday, January 18 Prayer Service at 7:30 p.m. St. Luke Lutheran, St. Thomas Catholic, St. Francis, the Bible Church and the Pastors Allied for Community Transformation (PACT) will again be hosting their excellent ecumenical prayer service.  This year it will be held at St. Thomas Catholic Church  Ann Arbor. Corner of  State & Kingsley.

Thursday, January 20 Pray at Planned Parenthood on Professional Dr. at 8 a.m. with PastorsYuille of the Bible Church , Mike Frison from Knox and Ted Jungkuntz, St Luke. 

Friday, January 21 Can't go to Washington?  Come to the Lansing Pro-Life Rally on the east steps of the Capitol.  4:00-4:45 P.M.    For info go to www.joinforlife.org and click the events calendar or call Lansing RTL 1-517-487-3376. 

Friday, January 28 Pro -Life Movie  Maafa 21:Black Genocide in the 21st Century   At St Francis Parish Activity Center 2250 E Stadium  7pm  Doors open 6:45pm

Monday,January 31 Rally/Candlelight Prayer Vigil sponsored by the U of M Students for Life on the Uof M Diag.7:30 pm Support these brave Pro-Life students camlevis@gmail.com. 

Friday, January 22 Of special interest to Catholics.  ROSARY at Planned Parenthood ,Professional Dr., Ann Arbor. 12 am-12am Call Ann Cherney at 734-769-2271.

When we are asked to take a candle with the words “Choose Life” on it and burn it on our porches, it is not a voter’s ballot, nor is it a political statement.  By lighting a candle we are not taking a woman’s “right to choose” away from her.  After all God gives us all freedom of choice in hopes that we will willingly choose Him and His will for us. The candle is a prayer raised to Heaven that affirms our faith in God the author and creator of all life.  No one can create life other than God. AND God doesn’t say of any of his creatures “That one was a mistake”. When we light a candle, it is a prayer of intercession so that those who do have to make a difficult choice will choose what pleases God. We pray for the loving choice that will not result in death for anyone including the fetus. We pray for the loving choice, a choice that Jesus himself would tell us to make if we go to him and ask.   When we light the candle, we are asking God’s love to radiate through us and to heal those wounded by death in is many forms. We pray for a society that offers many loving options to people facing such dilemmas.

 So don’t be afraid to pray for life.  In Ann Arbor, an abortionist just shut down his clinic because of many Catholics who were worried for his soul.  In one meeting with him, a week after one of many prayer vigils held outside of his clinic, he voiced concern about his own soul, and he thanked them for praying for him. Shortly after that, the clinic was abandoned with everything left in it. He had heard God’s voice and responded.  He chose life after many years of choosing death. Praise be to God!