Click here if you are interested in
helping to prepare for the next Bakersfield campaign!
Watch our video "Little Ones" to get a small taste of what God accomplished during the Spring 2010 Bakersfield campaign.
40 Days for Life is a
focused pro-life effort that consists of:
40 days of prayer and fasting
40 days of peaceful vigil
40 days of community outreach
We are praying that, with God's help, this groundbreaking effort will mark the beginning of the end of abortion in our city and throughout America.
We have had the opportunity to see God save dozens of children from abortion during our five previous local 40 Days for Life campaigns! In addition several local abortion staff members have quit.
You can read more about what
God accomplished during these previous campaigns on our blog.
Hundreds of babies and mothers have also been saved from the horrors
of abortion across the nation during these campaigns.
To help us prepare for the next campaign, please consider making a
donation to LifeSavers
Ministries, the organization which is responsible for the financial needs
of the Bakersfield campaign. Hundreds of dollars' worth of signs, literature,
and other resources need to be purchased before the first day of the campaign
to maximize its effectiveness.
You, your business and/or your church
can also sponsor a day of the upcoming campaign for only $100!
Day sponsors are mentioned on our website, newsletters, and at the vigil.
Until the next 40 Days for Life campaign, Christians continue to
pray outside the local abortion center (especially on Mondays and Tuesdays,
the local abortion days) and
provide life-saving help to
abortion minded women on the sidewalks and at LifeSavers Ministries'
LifeHouse
pregnancy help center across the street. Call 323-2229 to find out how
you can help.
Any time of the day or night, you can stop by to pray outside this place
of death. Even if you are the only one there, God can use your prayers to
save lives!
Another national 40 Days for Life campaign begins in September,
leading up to the national election. If you would be willing to help
coordinate this campaign in Bakersfield, please call 323-2229. We hope
that God will provide us with the resources to conduct this campaign, as
we do not want to neglect the importance of emphasizing the cause of Life
during this time in our nation's history. However, our resources are
exhausted, and without significant help we will be unable to conduct another
40 Days for Life campaign this year.
The below information focuses on how people can help during an actual
40 Days for Life campaign. Please read it prayerfully and consider
whether or not God wants you to plan to be a part of this campaign. If you
can commit to any part in this campaign (whether it is for an hour, a day,
a week, or more) please let us know.
Become a shift leader!
Shift leaders commit to be on site 3 hours per week.
Shift leaders also help to recruit people,
insuring that their shift is covered in prayer. If you
are interested in being a shift leader, please contact us as soon as possible
at 661-323-2229.
Adopt a day of the week for the entire 40 days
There are hundreds of churches in the Bakersfield area,
filled with people who believe abortion is wrong and that we should be speaking up for those who cannot speak for themselves. There is only one killing center here.
Hundreds of churches filled with pro-lifers... one abortion center... what are we waiting for?! We have plenty of people to cover this killing center in prayer and fasting. This is our opportunity to step up to the plate, to organize and stand as one voice throughout the Bakersfield area, to stand as one voice for those who have no voice, the unborn.
Gather a group of your fellow pro-lifers, pick a day of the week, and cover that day each week for the entire 40 days. "Nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:37).
Imagine if every church in the Bakersfield area organized themselves to speak up for the unborn, and fasted and prayed for the end of abortion. Imagine if we all committed to standing on the front lines in front of the local FPA abortion business praying peacefully.
If we did this, I believe that there would soon be no more abortions in Bakersfield.
Confined to your home? Can't come out? Contact us and let us know you are praying with us anyway. This campaign is about prayer and fasting for an end to abortion so everyone can participate on the street, at home, at church, in your car, on the bus, everywhere.
Thank you and God bless you for praying for the least of these!
40 Days for Life: Simple but powerful
40 Days for Life is a simple way to ask God to end the tragedy of abortion. We are here to peacefully, prayerfully and lawfully stand up for the unborn who cannot stand up for themselves. We are hear to speak truth to the mothers who are going in to make a life changing decision. We want them to know the truth about the baby that is within their womb. We want them to know the truth about the consequences of their decision and we want to offer them better, loving choices.
We are here to offer hope to those who think there is no hope. We are here to tell the women going in for an abortion that there are other options. We are here to tell them that there are many people who want to help them with housing, food, maternity clothes, baby clothes, baby formula, etc. We can put them in touch with the LifeHouse pregnancy help center, where they can receive the help they need, and allow their baby to live.
If you are reading this, and you need help right now, please call us at 1-866-949-2229. We will do our best to help you find the way to escape from the devil's abortion trap, and the way to experience the abundant life Jesus has planned for you.
We just want to help you make the best decision you will ever make, and that is to give life to your baby.
Know that we are praying for both the mothers and the fathers of every unborn child. We are also praying for every worker at the abortion facility. We pray for the abortionist, the nurses, the security guards, the administrative workers, and everyone else who is involved in the abortion industry, that they would come to know the truth, and that the truth would set them free.
If you are hurting after abortion, we are here to help you too. Feel free to stop by or just call us on the phone and we will take the time to pray with you. The God who made you still has a special plan for your life, and no matter what is in your past, He wants you to experience healing and purpose through Jesus today.
Take a stand for life
While all aspects of 40 Days for Life are crucial in our effort to end abortion, the most visible component is the peaceful prayer vigil outside the local abortion facility.
You can help make a life-saving impact by joining our local vigil outside:
Family Planning Associates
2500 H St.
Bakersfield, CA 93301
(Located at the corner of 25th and H Streets, right across from the LifeHouse pro-life pregnancy help center.)
If enough people sign up for the vigil, we may also add a second vigil
location to further the impact of 40 Days for Life in Bakersfield!
Please contact us at (661) 323-2229 to learn more, to sign up for specific hours, or to let us know how you feel called to serve God in this effort.
Stay informed
Be sure to sign-up for updates and prayer requests by sending a message to 40days@glorifyJesus.com, and browse through the rest of this site to find out how YOU can help make a lifesaving impact as part of our local 40 Days for Life campaign.