Take Action

Each month we offer a list of action ideas so you can defend, honor, and celebrate Life in your churches and communities.

November is National Adoption Awareness Month. Its goal is important: to increase “awareness of the need for permanent families for children and youth in the U.S. foster care system.” But have you ever considered the experience of birth mothers (and fathers) who choose adoption over abortion?

The majority of adoptive families in the United States maintain ongoing contact and relationship building with birth families. This type of adoption is referred to as “open adoption.” They stay in touch via letters, email, phone calls, face-to-face visits and/or social media. The birth mom and dad receive updates about their children, often receiving photos of the kids as well.

But guess what? The majority of the birth parents are never asked about their children. If the pregnancy was not kept a secret, then friends and family most likely know the biological parents chose to gift their baby to another family. Yet, it is rarely discussed.

Consider the heroic mothers (and fathers) who chose adoption over abortion. That baby grew inside of her for nine months. She labored for hours. But she left the maternity ward empty handed. No blue or pink flowers or balloons tied on to her wheelchair. No smell of a new car seat safely strapped in. No list of meal-bringers on the front of the fridge. Nothing.

Birth parents do not “give up” their babies. The love that has grown for their child since conception does not end at delivery. It’s hard to estimate the value of the gift of their child to another family. And it is a gift that deserves to be recognized and honored.

If you know a birth parent whose baby has been adopted by another family, ask about the child—no matter how old the child is! Ask the birth parent how s/he is doing in this season of life. Be aware that grief can present itself in a variety of ways, ranging from joy to anger and grateful to resentful.

Georgette Forney, Anglicans for Life’s president, tells the story of asking B., whose teenage girlfriend got pregnant, about their baby. She was stunned when he pulled out a stack of photos from his wallet to show her. (Obviously, this was in pre-cell phone camera days!)

Georgette was more stunned when B. told her she was the first person to ever inquire about the child.

Will you be somebody’s first?

Action Ideas:

1. Acknowledge the birth. Affirm the courage and selflessness of the birth parents.
2. Ask for updates on the child.
3. Remember birth parents on Mother’s and Father’s Day—in church and personally.

Resources:

Pray for birth parents regularly
Offer the Reframing Adoption Grief Recovery Handbook
Encourage your church to partner with YoungLives or a local pregnancy center

Pray for life

Join our prayer team:

What Can I Do?

Step 1: Pray

Step 2: Interest

Abortion Abstinence Adoption Euthanasia Biotech Life Witness

Step 3: Activity

Education
Ministry
Advocacy

You can:

Make a selection above!

Check out www.AnglicansforLife.org for cutting-edge info, articles, publications and DVDs—visit us often. Link to our web site.
Invite someone from the Silent No More Awareness Campaign to share their abortion testimony at your church or home group.
Become informed about Planned Parenthood and share info with others. (www.STOPP.org)
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Educate yourself and others on pro-life issues such as abortifacient birth control, the dangers of “Living Wills”, using the Anglicans for Life Newsletter and other pro-life publications.
Share pro-life materials and resources with teens and college students.
Sponsor pro-life ads in your newspapers promoting pregnancy resource centers or outreach events.
Maintain a file of pro-life literature to pass on to friends and family.
Write letters to editors and news-producers in the media encouraging them to report abortion related stories accurately with both sides represented; provide them with useful facts.
Collect pro-life books, videos, tapes, magazines, and other materials for a lending library. Provide appropriate materials for your church youth groups and for Christian Education.
Use the Internet (YouTube, email, FaceBook, Twitter, etc) to spread the life message, link to life affirming websites and videos.
Wear the “Precious Feet” pin that shows the baby’s feet at 10 weeks after conception, order at Heritage House 800-858-3040.
Raise awareness about abortion’s affect on women and men and the healing that is available (see information on the Silent No More Awareness Campaign).
Educate yourself. Learn about life issues; abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, post-abortion healing, chastity, etc. using Anglicans for Life new PROJECT LIFE curriculum.
Volunteer to Lead AFL’s new PROJECT LIFE Sunday School Curriculum for your church for adults and teens.
Contact other churches in the area and offer pro-life speakers and materials or host workshops, especially during January (Sanctity of Life month), May (Mother’s Day), June (Father’s Day), October (Respect Life month), and November (Adoption Awareness month). Invite the public to any programs you sponsor. Identify like-minded church members and sympathetic clergy in your area.
Get pro-life DVDs and television programs showing on your local cable stations.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).
Participate in a March for Life; organize a bus load of parishioners to attend on January 22 either at the state or national level.
Give a pro-life presentation at your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Set up a pro-life booth at your Community Fair or Diocesan Convention/Convocation using Anglicans for Life pamphlets, brochures and booklets.
Participate in the Spring or Fall 40 Days for Life Campaign, featuring fasting and prayer vigils outside an abortion clinic.
Invite a pro-life speaker to speak in your area or to your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Host a booth at a community fair and pass out life-affirming literature.
Attend an pro-life conference or sponsor a student to attend.
Encourage friends and family to get involved in life-affirming outreach

Always carry the number of the local Crisis Pregnancy Center with you or 800-712-HELP or OptionLine.org
Set up a bassinet or basket at church to collect children’s and maternity clothing for needy families or a pregnancy center.
Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Pray specifically and regularly for abortionists, and those involved in promoting the pro-abortion viewpoint.
Make up ‘Surprise Satchels’ for new moms, filled with baby items, diapers, booties, blankets & bottles.
Keep a few extra copies of You\'re Not Alone by Jennifer O\'Neill to share with friends who have had abortion.
Develop AFL’s Anglican Angel Ministry at your church.
Learn how to Sidewalk counsel women before they enter an abortion clinic.
Participate in prayer outside of an abortion facility.
Encourage your church to become active in the sheltering movement for new or pregnant mothers. Collect clothes and other needed articles for mothers and their babies. Begin “play groups” for mothers and babies. Set up a baby-sitting service. Start a list of families who will host a new or pregnant mother for a short time. Contact the national office for help.
Start an abortion recovery program at a Pregnancy Center or in your church & invite the leader to speak at your church.
Establish a memorial stone/statue to the pre-born in a local cemetery or on Church grounds.
Volunteer at a Pregnancy Resource Center.
Sponsor a baby shower for a local Pregnancy Resource Center.
Participate in the Spring or Fall 40 Days for Life Campaign, featuring fasting and prayer vigils outside an abortion clinic.
Ask a church group to host a fix-it jobs day for a local pregnancy center, single moms or elderly people.
Give roses or carnations on Mother’s Day, with a note attached thanking her for giving life.

PRAY—Join Anglicans for Life Prayer Team. Every quarter you will receive a calendar filled with topics to pray for such as women who are considering abortion, those who have had abortions, the elderly, handicapped, teens, families and the Anglican Church.
Speak-up for the Biblical value of life at all times, in all situations.
Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Call in to radio talk shows or TV Shows and share facts about life or ask questions to the pro-life guest to give them more air time.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Send letters to hospitals that perform abortions, expressing concern for both the woman and child’s pain.
Write to corporations, foundations, and organizations that support Planned Parenthood expressing your disappointment and the negative impact their action has on future consumers and economics.
Volunteer to work with local, state, and national pro-life organizations on events or projects of mutual interest.
Establish a memorial stone/statue to the pre-born in a local cemetery or on Church grounds.
Volunteer at a Pregnancy Resource Center.
Sponsor a baby shower for a local Pregnancy Resource Center.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).
Organize a “walk-a-thon” for a pregnancy resource center or pro-life ministry.
Participate in the Spring or Fall 40 Days for Life Campaign, featuring fasting and prayer vigils outside an abortion clinic.
Lead or participate in the “Life Chain” held the first Sunday in October, 530-671-5500.
Give roses or carnations on Mother’s Day, with a note attached thanking her for giving life.

Check out www.AnglicansforLife.org for cutting-edge info, articles, publications and DVDs—visit us often. Link to our web site.
Become informed about Planned Parenthood and share info with others. (www.STOPP.org)
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Share pro-life materials and resources with teens and college students.
Sponsor pro-life ads in your newspapers promoting pregnancy resource centers or outreach events.
Maintain a file of pro-life literature to pass on to friends and family.
Write letters to editors and news-producers in the media encouraging them to report abortion related stories accurately with both sides represented; provide them with useful facts.
Collect pro-life books, videos, tapes, magazines, and other materials for a lending library. Provide appropriate materials for your church youth groups and for Christian Education.
Use the Internet (YouTube, email, FaceBook, Twitter, etc) to spread the life message, link to life affirming websites and videos.
Get trained to present a message of chastity and abstinence to youth at their Sunday School program.
Educate yourself. Learn about life issues; abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, post-abortion healing, chastity, etc. using Anglicans for Life new PROJECT LIFE curriculum.
Volunteer to Lead AFL’s new PROJECT LIFE Sunday School Curriculum for your church for adults and teens.
Contact other churches in the area and offer pro-life speakers and materials or host workshops, especially during January (Sanctity of Life month), May (Mother’s Day), June (Father’s Day), October (Respect Life month), and November (Adoption Awareness month). Invite the public to any programs you sponsor. Identify like-minded church members and sympathetic clergy in your area.
Get pro-life DVDs and television programs showing on your local cable stations.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).
Give a pro-life presentation at your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Set up a pro-life booth at your Community Fair or Diocesan Convention/Convocation using Anglicans for Life pamphlets, brochures and booklets.
Invite a pro-life speaker to speak in your area or to your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Host a booth at a community fair and pass out life-affirming literature.
Attend an pro-life conference or sponsor a student to attend.
Sponsor a chastity/abstinence program, such as “True Love Waits,” with your youth minister.
Encourage friends and family to get involved in life-affirming outreach

Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Develop AFL’s Anglican Angel Ministry at your church.
Encourage your church to become active in the sheltering movement for new or pregnant mothers. Collect clothes and other needed articles for mothers and their babies. Begin “play groups” for mothers and babies. Set up a baby-sitting service. Start a list of families who will host a new or pregnant mother for a short time. Contact the national office for help.
Volunteer at a Pregnancy Resource Center.
Sponsor a baby shower for a local Pregnancy Resource Center.

PRAY—Join Anglicans for Life Prayer Team. Every quarter you will receive a calendar filled with topics to pray for such as women who are considering abortion, those who have had abortions, the elderly, handicapped, teens, families and the Anglican Church.
Speak-up for the Biblical value of life at all times, in all situations.
Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Call in to radio talk shows or TV Shows and share facts about life or ask questions to the pro-life guest to give them more air time.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Write to corporations, foundations, and organizations that support Planned Parenthood expressing your disappointment and the negative impact their action has on future consumers and economics.
Volunteer to work with local, state, and national pro-life organizations on events or projects of mutual interest.
Volunteer at a Pregnancy Resource Center.
Sponsor a baby shower for a local Pregnancy Resource Center.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).
Sponsor a chastity/abstinence program, such as “True Love Waits,” with your youth minister.

Check out www.AnglicansforLife.org for cutting-edge info, articles, publications and DVDs—visit us often. Link to our web site.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Learn more about adoption services available in your area, to encourage and promote adoption.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Share pro-life materials and resources with teens and college students.
Sponsor pro-life ads in your newspapers promoting pregnancy resource centers or outreach events.
Maintain a file of pro-life literature to pass on to friends and family.
Write letters to editors and news-producers in the media encouraging them to report abortion related stories accurately with both sides represented; provide them with useful facts.
Collect pro-life books, videos, tapes, magazines, and other materials for a lending library. Provide appropriate materials for your church youth groups and for Christian Education.
Use the Internet (YouTube, email, FaceBook, Twitter, etc) to spread the life message, link to life affirming websites and videos.
Educate yourself. Learn about life issues; abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, post-abortion healing, chastity, etc. using Anglicans for Life new PROJECT LIFE curriculum.
Volunteer to Lead AFL’s new PROJECT LIFE Sunday School Curriculum for your church for adults and teens.
Contact other churches in the area and offer pro-life speakers and materials or host workshops, especially during January (Sanctity of Life month), May (Mother’s Day), June (Father’s Day), October (Respect Life month), and November (Adoption Awareness month). Invite the public to any programs you sponsor. Identify like-minded church members and sympathetic clergy in your area.
Get pro-life DVDs and television programs showing on your local cable stations.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).
Give a pro-life presentation at your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Set up a pro-life booth at your Community Fair or Diocesan Convention/Convocation using Anglicans for Life pamphlets, brochures and booklets.
Invite a pro-life speaker to speak in your area or to your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Host a booth at a community fair and pass out life-affirming literature.
Attend an pro-life conference or sponsor a student to attend.
Encourage friends and family to get involved in life-affirming outreach

Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Learn more about adoption services available in your area, to encourage and promote adoption.
Develop AFL’s Anglican Angel Ministry at your church.
Encourage your church to become active in the sheltering movement for new or pregnant mothers. Collect clothes and other needed articles for mothers and their babies. Begin “play groups” for mothers and babies. Set up a baby-sitting service. Start a list of families who will host a new or pregnant mother for a short time. Contact the national office for help.
Volunteer at a Pregnancy Resource Center.
Sponsor a baby shower for a local Pregnancy Resource Center.

PRAY—Join Anglicans for Life Prayer Team. Every quarter you will receive a calendar filled with topics to pray for such as women who are considering abortion, those who have had abortions, the elderly, handicapped, teens, families and the Anglican Church.
Speak-up for the Biblical value of life at all times, in all situations.
Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Call in to radio talk shows or TV Shows and share facts about life or ask questions to the pro-life guest to give them more air time.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Write to corporations, foundations, and organizations that support Planned Parenthood expressing your disappointment and the negative impact their action has on future consumers and economics.
Volunteer to work with local, state, and national pro-life organizations on events or projects of mutual interest.
Volunteer at a Pregnancy Resource Center.
Sponsor a baby shower for a local Pregnancy Resource Center.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).

Check out www.AnglicansforLife.org for cutting-edge info, articles, publications and DVDs—visit us often. Link to our web site.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Learn about efforts that marginalize the terminally ill and disabled and learn arguments to defend and protect them.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Educate yourself and others on pro-life issues such as abortifacient birth control, the dangers of “Living Wills”, using the Anglicans for Life Newsletter and other pro-life publications.
Visit a nursing home; start a program there that reaches out to the elderly, sick, or lonely in your neighborhood or parish.
Share pro-life materials and resources with teens and college students.
Sponsor pro-life ads in your newspapers promoting pregnancy resource centers or outreach events.
Maintain a file of pro-life literature to pass on to friends and family.
Write letters to editors and news-producers in the media encouraging them to report abortion related stories accurately with both sides represented; provide them with useful facts.
Collect pro-life books, videos, tapes, magazines, and other materials for a lending library. Provide appropriate materials for your church youth groups and for Christian Education.
Encourage people to choose Advanced Directives to address the issues of euthanasia, assisted suicide and futile care. AFL recommends \'Life-Protecting Power of Attorney for Personal Care\', which can be obtained at 877-439-3348.
Use the Internet (YouTube, email, FaceBook, Twitter, etc) to spread the life message, link to life affirming websites and videos.
Educate yourself. Learn about life issues; abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, post-abortion healing, chastity, etc. using Anglicans for Life new PROJECT LIFE curriculum.
Volunteer to Lead AFL’s new PROJECT LIFE Sunday School Curriculum for your church for adults and teens.
Contact other churches in the area and offer pro-life speakers and materials or host workshops, especially during January (Sanctity of Life month), May (Mother’s Day), June (Father’s Day), October (Respect Life month), and November (Adoption Awareness month). Invite the public to any programs you sponsor. Identify like-minded church members and sympathetic clergy in your area.
Get pro-life DVDs and television programs showing on your local cable stations.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).
Give a pro-life presentation at your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Set up a pro-life booth at your Community Fair or Diocesan Convention/Convocation using Anglicans for Life pamphlets, brochures and booklets.
Invite a pro-life speaker to speak in your area or to your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Host a booth at a community fair and pass out life-affirming literature.
Attend an pro-life conference or sponsor a student to attend.
Encourage friends and family to get involved in life-affirming outreach

Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Learn about efforts that marginalize the terminally ill and disabled and learn arguments to defend and protect them.
Encourage your church to become active in the sheltering movement for new or pregnant mothers. Collect clothes and other needed articles for mothers and their babies. Begin “play groups” for mothers and babies. Set up a baby-sitting service. Start a list of families who will host a new or pregnant mother for a short time. Contact the national office for help.

PRAY—Join Anglicans for Life Prayer Team. Every quarter you will receive a calendar filled with topics to pray for such as women who are considering abortion, those who have had abortions, the elderly, handicapped, teens, families and the Anglican Church.
Speak-up for the Biblical value of life at all times, in all situations.
Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Call in to radio talk shows or TV Shows and share facts about life or ask questions to the pro-life guest to give them more air time.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Learn about efforts that marginalize the terminally ill and disabled and learn arguments to defend and protect them.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Write to corporations, foundations, and organizations that support Planned Parenthood expressing your disappointment and the negative impact their action has on future consumers and economics.
Volunteer to work with local, state, and national pro-life organizations on events or projects of mutual interest.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).

Check out www.AnglicansforLife.org for cutting-edge info, articles, publications and DVDs—visit us often. Link to our web site.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Learn about efforts that marginalize the terminally ill and disabled and learn arguments to defend and protect them.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Share pro-life materials and resources with teens and college students.
Sponsor pro-life ads in your newspapers promoting pregnancy resource centers or outreach events.
Maintain a file of pro-life literature to pass on to friends and family.
Write letters to editors and news-producers in the media encouraging them to report abortion related stories accurately with both sides represented; provide them with useful facts.
Collect pro-life books, videos, tapes, magazines, and other materials for a lending library. Provide appropriate materials for your church youth groups and for Christian Education.
Educate yourself. Learn about life issues; abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, post-abortion healing, chastity, etc. using Anglicans for Life new PROJECT LIFE curriculum.
Volunteer to Lead AFL’s new PROJECT LIFE Sunday School Curriculum for your church for adults and teens.
Contact other churches in the area and offer pro-life speakers and materials or host workshops, especially during January (Sanctity of Life month), May (Mother’s Day), June (Father’s Day), October (Respect Life month), and November (Adoption Awareness month). Invite the public to any programs you sponsor. Identify like-minded church members and sympathetic clergy in your area.
Get pro-life DVDs and television programs showing on your local cable stations.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).
Give a pro-life presentation at your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Set up a pro-life booth at your Community Fair or Diocesan Convention/Convocation using Anglicans for Life pamphlets, brochures and booklets.
Invite a pro-life speaker to speak in your area or to your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Host a booth at a community fair and pass out life-affirming literature.
Attend an pro-life conference or sponsor a student to attend.
Encourage friends and family to get involved in life-affirming outreach

Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Learn about efforts that marginalize the terminally ill and disabled and learn arguments to defend and protect them.
Encourage your church to become active in the sheltering movement for new or pregnant mothers. Collect clothes and other needed articles for mothers and their babies. Begin “play groups” for mothers and babies. Set up a baby-sitting service. Start a list of families who will host a new or pregnant mother for a short time. Contact the national office for help.

PRAY—Join Anglicans for Life Prayer Team. Every quarter you will receive a calendar filled with topics to pray for such as women who are considering abortion, those who have had abortions, the elderly, handicapped, teens, families and the Anglican Church.
Speak-up for the Biblical value of life at all times, in all situations.
Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Call in to radio talk shows or TV Shows and share facts about life or ask questions to the pro-life guest to give them more air time.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Learn about efforts that marginalize the terminally ill and disabled and learn arguments to defend and protect them.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Write to corporations, foundations, and organizations that support Planned Parenthood expressing your disappointment and the negative impact their action has on future consumers and economics.
Volunteer to work with local, state, and national pro-life organizations on events or projects of mutual interest.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).

Check out www.AnglicansforLife.org for cutting-edge info, articles, publications and DVDs—visit us often. Link to our web site.
Ask your pastor/priest to preach on the sacredness of life. See sample sermons at AFL website.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Share pro-life materials and resources with teens and college students.
Sponsor pro-life ads in your newspapers promoting pregnancy resource centers or outreach events.
Maintain a file of pro-life literature to pass on to friends and family.
Write letters to editors and news-producers in the media encouraging them to report abortion related stories accurately with both sides represented; provide them with useful facts.
Collect pro-life books, videos, tapes, magazines, and other materials for a lending library. Provide appropriate materials for your church youth groups and for Christian Education.
Use the Internet (YouTube, email, FaceBook, Twitter, etc) to spread the life message, link to life affirming websites and videos.
Start an Anglicans for Life Chapter at your church, Diocese or Convocation.
Help an existing, or start a new, Students for Life group at your local or alumni college. (www.StudentsforLife.org)
Educate yourself. Learn about life issues; abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, post-abortion healing, chastity, etc. using Anglicans for Life new PROJECT LIFE curriculum.
Volunteer to Lead AFL’s new PROJECT LIFE Sunday School Curriculum for your church for adults and teens.
Contact other churches in the area and offer pro-life speakers and materials or host workshops, especially during January (Sanctity of Life month), May (Mother’s Day), June (Father’s Day), October (Respect Life month), and November (Adoption Awareness month). Invite the public to any programs you sponsor. Identify like-minded church members and sympathetic clergy in your area.
Get pro-life DVDs and television programs showing on your local cable stations.
Hold a fundraising event to benefit a pro-life organization.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).
Participate in a March for Life; organize a bus load of parishioners to attend on January 22 either at the state or national level.
Give a pro-life presentation at your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Set up a pro-life booth at your Community Fair or Diocesan Convention/Convocation using Anglicans for Life pamphlets, brochures and booklets.
Invite a pro-life speaker to speak in your area or to your church’s adult Sunday school class.
Host a booth at a community fair and pass out life-affirming literature.
Attend an pro-life conference or sponsor a student to attend.
Encourage friends and family to get involved in life-affirming outreach

Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Offer practical support for single parents or parents of a handicapped child, such as babysitting or relief care.
Start an Anglicans for Life Chapter at your church, Diocese or Convocation.
Develop a Mentoring Moms Ministry with new/experienced moms.
Set up pro-life prayer group.
Encourage your church to become active in the sheltering movement for new or pregnant mothers. Collect clothes and other needed articles for mothers and their babies. Begin “play groups” for mothers and babies. Set up a baby-sitting service. Start a list of families who will host a new or pregnant mother for a short time. Contact the national office for help.
Find out how to start a perinatal hospice in your community to support and encourage parents who have received a hard diagnosis regarding their unborn child. (www.TheHavenNetwork.org or call 815-877-4931)

PRAY—Join Anglicans for Life Prayer Team. Every quarter you will receive a calendar filled with topics to pray for such as women who are considering abortion, those who have had abortions, the elderly, handicapped, teens, families and the Anglican Church.
Order life-affirming checks.
Speak-up for the Biblical value of life at all times, in all situations.
Ask your pastor/priest to preach on the sacredness of life. See sample sermons at AFL website.
Put life-affirming bumper stickers on your car or order choose-life license plates if available in your state (choose-life.org).
Send Christmas cards that share a life-affirming message and benefit life ministry.
Communicate with your doctors about abortion and euthanasia, sharing your value for life and asking them where they stand.
Send your pastor or Bishop life resources, ask them to declare the diocese or church to be LIFE-AFFIRMING and have on-going ministry and outreach that respects and protects life.
Donate life-affirming books to local libraries.
Distribute life-affirming literature in public places and at your church. Post info about Life events at the Grocery Store Bulletin Board.
Invite friends & priests to hear speakers discussing life issues.
Call in to radio talk shows or TV Shows and share facts about life or ask questions to the pro-life guest to give them more air time.
Request that pro-life prayers be included in church services, offer to write them and get them from AFL.
Invite your church leaders to join you at local or regional programs, events or activities.
Provide positive life books and videos in your church library or day care/Sunday school area.
Donate regularly to Anglicans for Life!
Become an AFL Life Liaison and receive our monthly NewsBriefs in bulk for your church’s literature rack.
Write to corporations, foundations, and organizations that support Planned Parenthood expressing your disappointment and the negative impact their action has on future consumers and economics.
Volunteer to work with local, state, and national pro-life organizations on events or projects of mutual interest.
Start an Anglicans for Life Chapter at your church, Diocese or Convocation.
Sponsor a life-affirming billboard in your area (consider a Silent No More Awareness billboard which says, “I regret my abortion,” or another which says, “We regret our abortions”. Both include a hotline and web site for help).
Hold a rummage sale to raise funds for a Pregnancy Resource Center or life ministry such as AFL.

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