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“Life Quotes” from Lutherans For Life Congregational Bulletin Blurbs for January–December 2005 • • • Share the For Life message all year long with Life Quotes! Life Quotes are quotations on life issues for use in weekly congregational bulletins (feel free to use in monthly newsletters as well). The quotes are dated but could generally be used anytime. We ask that Life Quotes be printed as written, in their entirety. Life Quotes are available—free of charge—as a Microsoft Word document. E-mail your request to info@lutheransforlife.org or find them online at www.lutheransforlife.org. January 2 “All of creation is about life. Every word God spoke in the beginning calling things into existence was for the purpose of sustaining and perpetuating life.” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE January 9 Regarding women who have had abortions, “While I might not understand the hurt you feel inside, I do understand the forgiveness Jesus offers. He offers His blood to cover and cure all sins—all hurts—all pains—all guilt—all burdens. Jesus invites you to have your burden lifted up to the cross, where He comes to give Life . . . Don’t allow the devil to work in your life by holding on to the sin and the guilt and the pain. Satan may want to see you suffer. Jesus does not!” Rev. Paul E. Kaldahl, Jr., First English Lutheran Church, Spencer, Iowa A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE January 16 “In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court looked at the slave, Dred Scott, and came up with the wrong decision, declaring the slave as ‘property’ and not a ‘citizen’ under the U.S. Constitution. The slave’s life was still protected. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court got it wrong again and handed down decisions on abortion which declared ‘open season’ on unborn children throughout the full nine months of pregnancy. After 44 million abortions, most people have not noticed that the population descended from U.S. African slaves, comprising around 12% of the population, make up about 35% of the abortion population. This means that more Americans of African descent have died in the abortion chambers than have died in all the years of slavery and lynchings.” Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, M.D., President, Right to Life Crusade, Inc. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE January 23 “We who base our pro-life views on the Word of God can take that one step further. It is whose we are that gives us value. God is the author of life and the giver of life. We are His because He made us. We are His because He has “purchased and won us” through the once-upon-a-time blastocyst, Jesus Christ. The baby “walking” in the womb is someone created by God and redeemed by Jesus. But so is the blastocyst who doesn’t have legs yet and the child who can’t walk and the grandma who can’t remember.” Rev. Dr. James Page 1 I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888364-LIFE January 30 “Abortion is a great evil . . . laying siege to and attacking God and His Church. But, as with all such attacks, abortion provides opportunity for great faithfulness . . . Abortion provides opportunities to share the truth about the God-given value of life. Abortion provides opportunity to proclaim a ‘peace’ that the world cannot have or understand. It is peace with God through Jesus Christ. This peace reigns even in the midst of difficulties. This peace motivates making good choices. This peace comforts when bad choices have been made.” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE February 6 “The fetuses are alive at the time of the final delivery . . . Very, very frequently, we notice that [the heart] is [beating].” LeRoy Carhart, an abortionist attempting to defend partial-birth abortion in a federal court by claiming that “nearly all” abortions after the first trimester are essentially partial-birth. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE February 13 “Real love starts with a friendship. If a man and a woman have nothing in common but a sexual desire, what will be left of the relationship when the desire is gone?” Real Love, Real Life brochure, available from Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE Note: The brochure, Real Love, Real Life, is available from Lutherans For Life. Item #615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H. February 20 “In one of Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 speeches there is a passage that pours cool scorn on those who claim to think that slavery is wrong, but ‘denounce all attempts to restrain it’: ‘You will not let us do a single thing as if it was wrong; there is no place where you will allow it to be even called wrong! . . . We must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality into politics, and we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion.’ The abortion debate has followed a similar pattern.” Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor, National Review A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE February 27 “At the end of The Passion of the Christ we get a glimpse of Jesus after He has risen from the dead. To some this scene spells ‘s-e-q-u-e-l’! But to us it spells ‘H-O-P-E’! To us it spells ‘L-I-F-E’! To us it is our ‘M-E-S-S-A-G-E’!” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE March 6 “Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.” Patricia Heaton, Actress, Everybody Loves Raymond A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE March 13 For women and men who are suffering from an abortion decision, “What we can do is minister the truth that Jesus loves and ‘heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds’ (Psalm 147:3).” Grace Kern, Director, Word of Hope, LFL’s post-abortion ministry, 888-217-8679 A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE March 20 – Palm Sunday “As God’s people today, we are citizens of Heaven, not of this world. But we are to be good citizens while here and let our influence be felt. Things do not always go according to plan. But through faith, we know God’s plan. We know what He has done in Jesus to bring an end to the burdens of sin and death. We know someday we will be back to where we belong as citizens of Heaven. Therefore, we live in hope!” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364LIFE March 25 – Good Friday / Annunciation “A more precise answer to the question of how God came into the world is ‘As a zygote!’ A zygote is the name given to what human beings look like at the one-cell stage . . . In order to redeem us, Jesus had to become just as we were except without sin (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus’ conception as a holy zygote attests to our humanity from the moment of conception.” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888364-LIFE Note: A brochure, The Annunciation and Abortion, is available from Lutherans For Life. Item #202T. $0.25 ea. plus S&H. Greg Koukl, Founder and President, Stand to Reason A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE April 10 “It’s one thing to want a healthy child. But it’s another thing to refuse to let an unhealthy child see the light of day. When we manipulate life in this way and diminish the humanity of the unborn, we become less human ourselves because we end up viewing life—all life, ours included—as a commodity that can be rejected by quality control.” Charles Colson, Chairman and Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE April 17 “Contrary to the world’s perspective, men and women (of any age) are not called to ‘sexual’ living, but holy living. We were created in God’s image, not that of animals, and although the perfect image is flawed by sin, we are not held captive by sexual thoughts and desires. We are not destined to meet animalistic needs.” Real Love, Real Life brochure A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE Note: The brochure, Real Love, Real Life, is available from Lutherans For Life. Item #615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H. April 24 “With . . . abortion we say, in essence, ‘Isn’t it a shame to bring children into the world who haven’t got a chance?’ The only problem with that argument is that we’re playing God when we think we know what that chance really will be.” Elizabeth Skoglund, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE May 1 “The resurrection is our assurance of Christ’s presence with us in this life and our presence with Him in eternal life. Jesus ‘ascended into Heaven’ and He will ‘come again’ to bring us new life! He ascended into Heaven to rule over all of His creation. Things may seem out of control, but be assured Jesus is in control. He uses all events working them together for the good of His people and getting things ready for His glorious return when He will make all things new!” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE May 8 – Mother’s Day (Observed as “Life Sunday” in parts of Canada) “I want to thank the godly women of the Christian church for the faithful and loving witness you give your children from day-to-day. Thank you for bringing your sons/daughters to the house of the Lord so that they might be adopted into God’s family through Holy Baptism. Thank you for placing the Word of God into their hands. Thank you for singing Christian hymns and songs to them as you rock them to sleep at night. Thank you for having the mind of Christ in yourself and humbling yourself in service to your children. Thank you for teaching them to pray by being a person of prayer yourself. Thank you for molding your children into ‘little Christs’ by modeling his love and forgiveness in your life. Yes, Solomon’s words (Proverbs 31:29) are true of you women . . . you mothers of faith . . ., ‘Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.’” Rev. Dr. Glenn E. Schaeffer, President, Lutherans For Life of Canada A Life Page 2 March 27 – Easter Sunday “The resurrection story of Easter Sunday is pivotal to all that we believe in, not just for eternity but for now as well. We know that we are strangers here and that heaven is our home. We also know that the reason we are here is to serve God and share His message of life everlasting. We do that with an obedient life, a ready tongue, and a Christfocused heart that faces all of life’s trials with confidence. Even in the harshest of times, the Christian faith prevails.” Rev. Robert Fleischmann, National Director, Christian Life Resources A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE April 3 “If the unborn child is not a human person, no defense for abortion is necessary . . . But if the unborn child is a human person, then no justification for abortion is adequate.” Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE May 15 “Purity/chastity focuses on our identity as redeemed sons and daughters of God. Purity/chastity is the best way to: avoid sexually transmitted diseases, prevent pregnancy, maintain moral values, build self-esteem.” Real Love, Real Life brochure A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE Note: The brochure, Real Love, Real Life, is available from Lutherans For Life. Item #615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H. is president of the Ladies Aid. We limit the power of God when we think He can work in and through the second grandma but not the first. We challenge the will of God when we take charge of when it is time for someone to die. Because of what He has done in Christ, we can be assured of His presence even in the darkest of times.” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888364-LIFE July 3 “Legalizing abortion actually alters the form of government we have . . . It abolishes the notion of a government that secures rights that are beyond its reach (because they are given by the Creator), and establishes one in which those rights are given and taken by government decree. That affects everything.” Father Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE July 10 “O most glorious God . . . Direct my thoughts, word and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by the Holy Spirit . . . Daily frame me more and more into the likeness of thy Son, Jesus Christ . . . Thou gavest thy Son to die for me, and has given me assurance of salvation . . .” George Washington A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888364-LIFE July 17 “Every child is a wonder child. ‘For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful’ (Psalm 139:13-14). It is a true wonder that any of us are here. But it is no wonder to God.” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE July 24 “As one woman who was conceived in rape put it, ‘It doesn’t matter how I began. What matters is who I will become.’ Every child, regardless of how he or she began, regardless of state of development or state of health can be used according to God’s purpose. It is no wonder to Him.” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE July 31 “Surviving an abortion should not be seen as a mistake but as an opportunity. It should bring home in the first place that we should not be carrying out abortions in a civilized society.” Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, England A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE August 7 “This line from Scriptures kept coming into my head: ‘For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’” Tasha Danvers Smith, a British athlete who gave up the chance to try for Olympic gold in 2004 after she discovered she was pregnant. She had briefly considered having an abortion. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE Page 3 May 22 “People need an understanding that the unborn child is a living, functioning but immature human being who is exactly what they once were. That fact might help them remember that no family can survive without new babies and that no society that throws its babies away can endure.” Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, M.D., President, Right to Life Crusade, Inc. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE May 29 – Memorial Day Weekend “When I think of freedom . . . I often think of Martin Luther. In his famous treatise, The Freedom of the Christian, Luther wrote, ‘A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none, a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to every one.’” Dennis Di Mauro, President, Northern Virginia LFL A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE June 5 “The reality of problematic marriages, however, does not abdicate the essence of what marriage is. Jesus makes this clear. ‘But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one” (Mark 10:6-8). What God intended marriage to be in the beginning, He still intends marriage to be.” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE June 12 “Only the active protection of unborn children by the rest of the human family can save humanity from extinction.” Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, M.D., President, Right to Life Crusade, Inc. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE June 19 – Father’s Day “By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creations and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still.” General Douglas MacArthur A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888364-LIFE June 26 “Every human life is a life purchased by the blood of Jesus. Qualities may diminish but the value God gives to life never does. The grandma in the nursing home who must wear a diaper and no longer remembers her family is just as valuable to God as the grandma who works in her garden and August 14 “Real love is NOT ‘soap opera love’—passionate and intense but selfish and temporary. It is NOT an “until somebody ‘better’ comes along” kind of ‘love.’ Real love is God’s kind of love—‘Agape’ love. The kind of love that is a forever love—protecting, trusting, and hopeful. It remains forever, even when life is difficult.” Real Love, Real Life brochure A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE Note: The brochure, Real Love, Real Life, is available from Lutherans For Life. Item #615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H. and healing!” Grace Kern, Director, Word of Hope, LFL’s post-abortion ministry, 888-217-8679 A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364LIFE October 2 (Life Chain Sunday) “We need to be supportive of pregnant women in our churches. We need to offer to make them a meal when the baby is born and share in their joy of this precious new arrival. We need to let them know that their children are a blessing to the entire church community.” Dennis Di Mauro, President, Northern Virigina LFL A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE October 9 (Thanksgiving Sunday) “We need to help with the unexpected pregnancies in our communities. We can do this by volunteering at our local pregnancy center, helping a woman with a ride to the doctor’s office, or simply being a supportive ear to an unwed mother who just wants to share her difficulties.” Dennis Di Mauro, President, Northern Virigina LFL A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE October 16 “We need to speak out in defense of the unborn. We need to publicly praise good laws like ‘Laci and Conner’s Law’ (Unborn Victims of Violence Act) that are passed to help protect women and their children. We need to stop avoiding conversations about pro-life topics, because these conversations can change the minds of others. And we need to tell others who are contemplating abortion that God has another and better plan for their unborn children.” Dennis Di Mauro, President, Northern Virigina LFL A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364LIFE October 23 “People of all ages need to be touched, but sexual touching is reserved by God for the commitment of marriage. God helps men and women keep their desires under control by reminding them that their bodies are ‘temples of the Holy Spirit who lives within you’ (1 Corinthians 6:19). What we do with our bodies should bring glory, not to self, but to God!” Real Love, Real Life brochure A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE Note: The brochure, Real Love, Real Life, is available from Lutherans For Life. Item #615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H. August 21 “People’s hearts have turned to ice in the name of choice.” Deb Lakamp, Secretary, LFL National Office, commenting on the call by some for abortion on demand. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE August 28 “Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we’re currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.” Charles Colson, Chairman and Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364LIFE September 4 – Labor Day Weekend “Having the right attitude, you see, about family-related issues is crucial, and there are encouraging signs that attitudes are improving. But attitude isn’t everything. Historical patterns show that without the foundation of a solid biblical worldview, attitudes can easily shift back and forth with the prevailing breezes.” Charles Colson, Chairman and Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE September 11 – Grandparents Day “I see . . . generational faithfulness . . . Everywhere I travel, I see people standing at the wall in front of their homes. With materials for their work in one hand and the Sword of the Spirit in the other, daddies are fathering and mommies are mothering; shepherds are shepherding and teachers are teaching. We are all building from the Cornerstone, Jesus Christ. The foundation is for generations to come.” Linda D. Bartlett, former President, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE September 18 “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” George Washington Carver, American educator and innovator in the agricultural sciences A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364LIFE September 25 “Being forgiven by God does not mean you will instantly have all the answers and all painful memories will be gone. It does mean we now have a way to resolve our problems—God’s way. If you draw on God’s power for your life, your anger and bitterness will eventually be replaced with love and peace. By proclaiming the truth we can bring hope Page 4 October 30/31 – Reformation “In all his [the Christian’s] works he ought to entertain this view and look only to this object—that he may serve and be useful to others in all that he does; having nothing before his eyes but the necessities and the advantage of his neighbor.” Martin Luther A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888364-LIFE November 6 “So what can you do to make a difference in the area of life? Pray! Pray for our nation that a respect for life at all stages and conditions may be restored. Pray for Christ’s Church that she might be united in her message of life. Be informed! The issues are complicated. No one can keep up with them all. But organizations like Lutherans For Life try to keep up with them for you. In their free quarterly journal, LifeDate, they keep you informed and do so from a Biblical perspective. Give them a call. Be an example and a mentor. Teach and model the God-given value of life to your children and grandchildren. Take some action! Shining the Word of Life into people’s lives is more than just saying words. We are called upon to be that light.” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364LIFE November 13 “Whitewashing abortion leads the righteous— those Christians struggling in despair with an abortion decision—to be ‘disheartened.’ They never hear the cleansing blood of Jesus applied to their sin.” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364LIFE November 20 (Christ-The King Sunday) “Jesus, who was in the beginning with God, came into our muck-and-mire life to bring us a new beginning. Everything He did was for this new beginning, to bring us new life. The Word of Life was ‘conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.’ Why? To bring us new life!” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364LIFE November 27 (Advent I) “Every child is a wonder child . . . We should spend more time being like Zechariah’s neighbors [Luke 1] wondering, ‘What then is this child going to be?’ We should spend less time wondering, ‘What then is this child going to cost?’ or ‘What then is this child to do since I’m so young?’ or ‘What then is this child to do if disabled?’ or ‘What then is this child doing getting in the way of my plans?’” Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life December 4 (Advent II) “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s voice (Luke 1:39-45), ‘the infant leapt in her womb’ and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out, ‘How does it happen that the mother of my Lord should come unto me?’ Except only for Mary His mother, the first person to recognize Jesus as Lord was His unborn cousin John, a fetus in the sixth month, not even viable by today’s medical standards. And the Lord Who was recognized by His Spirit-filled relatives was Himself an embryo, not yet large enough to be visible to the naked eye.” Michael Schwartz, Vice President for Government Relations for Concerned Women of America A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888364-LIFE December 11 (Advent III) “The meeting of Mary and Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-45) must have occurred within just a few days of the Annunciation, when Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. Yet this microscopically tiny embryo, this ‘undifferentiated blob of protoplasm’ about the same age as the embryos who are destroyed in stem-cell experiments, was the Incarnate God, the eternal Son, of one essence with the Father.” Michael Schwartz, Vice President for Government Relations for Concerned Women of America A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888364-LIFE December 18 (Advent IV) “A Gospel (Luke 1:39-45) that introduces us to Jesus as an embryo-God and that depicts John the fetus as rejoicing in the presence of his Lord leaves no room to doubt the humanity and the personhood of the unborn child. There are some Christians, it is true, who are confused about whether the unborn are as completely human as the rest of us. If an embryo just a few days after conception can be God, and a fetus prior to viability can rejoice in the presence of that God, then it is impossible to pretend that the Bible is in the slightest degree unclear about the matter.” Michael Schwartz, Vice President for Government Relations for Concerned Women of America A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE December 25 – Christmas Day “We confess it in our creed every week: ‘conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.’ The God of life gives the gift of life; indeed He gives life where there is no life. He creates it by His power. He sustains it by His Word. He conceives it by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is the God of life.” Rev. Andrew H. Bartelt, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE The mission of Lutherans For Life is to witness to the sanctity of human life through education based on the Word of God. The organization has numerous State Federations, local Chapters, and Life Ministry Coordinators in the United States. Lutherans For Life U.S. Toll-Free: 888-364-LIFE (5433) www.lutheransforlife.org 1120 South G Avenue Nevada, IA 50201-2774 info@lutheransforlife.org 515-382-2077 Fax 515-382-3020 These paragraphs are being made available to Canadian Congregations through Lutherans For Life – Canada – c/o Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 220 Steel Street, Barrie, On. L4M 2G9 705-728-3387 * Fax 705-728-7425 Email: Lutheransforlifecanada@yahoo.ca Website:www.lutheransforlife-canada.ca Page 5