The coordinators luncheon has been postponed to a later date!
We hope you will join us for our Counselor Training on February 11th!
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“Elizabeth McClung is the Executive Director of the Austin Coalition for Life. When she moved to Austin in November of 2008, Elizabeth started working for State Senator Steve Ogden. Elizabeth was the campaign director during the five 40 Days for Life campaigns here in Austin. Bringing the knowledge she gained in pro-life work in Bryan-College Station, Elizabeth is organizing a dedicated and faithful base of pro-life activists into an effective instrument of change. “Elizabeth left her job with Sen. Ogden in the fall of 2009, making a prayerful decision to gather the pro-life energy in Central Texas and form the Austin Coalition for Life. The mission of the Austin Coalition for Life is to end abortion in Austin, TX….peacefully and prayerfully. With a simple mission, the focus is on maintaining a prayerful presence at the local abortion facilities. Volunteers come to peacefully pray and some even become trained as Sidewalk Counselors to compassionately offer alternatives to women before they enter the abortion facility. After the Austin Coalition for Life was in the works, Elizabeth got some life-changing news from Bryan/College Station. Long years of praying in front of the Planned Parenthood in Bryan led to something truly miraculous. Abby Johnson, the former director of the Bryan Planned Parenthood, was one of the people Elizabeth spoke to through the fence. She often told Abby of prayers for her, and constantly reached out through the iron fence which separated the pro-lifers from the abortion facility. In October of 2009, Abby was made to help in the abortion procedure of a 13 week old fetus. After watching the procedure on the ultrasound machine, Abby finally decided to quit. She contacted Elizabeth immediately to tell her thank you for the prayers and helping to encourage her in Christ. It was the prayer card Elizabeth once gave Abby that helped give Abby the strength to leave her job. Since leading the ground-level pro-life work in Austin, Texas, Elizabeth has begun an organization that truly is ending abortion in a city that so desperately needs a culture of life. The Austin Coalition for Life has seen 108 women turn around and chose life for children they were going to abort (which makes 110 babies saved since two women were pregnant with twins), over 70 churches unite for the cause of life, and raised awareness about the injustice of abortion through substantial media coverage. In addition to her local work in Austin, Elizabeth has traveled across the country training pro-lifers to be confident and compassionate Sidewalk Counselors using the effective model the Austin Coalition for Life uses: North Dakota, Arkansas, Missouri, Washington, and Ohio. Elizabeth is the face and the voice of the pro-life movement in Austin, Texas. A guest on local radio shows, a frequent speaker at churches, university campuses and conferences, Elizabeth continues to shape the pro-life message as one of peaceful and compassionate outreach. Through her leadership the Austin Coalition for Life has gotten off to a strong start. Because of the dedication of young vibrant leaders like Elizabeth, the pro-life movement is touching hearts, changing minds, and saving lives.” To join Elizabeth and the LifeFront Team click on the link below Click here to view our flyer!
Or click here to sign up online. Thank you… I arrived at the abortion mill all set to offer up a morning in the cold to save a life. When I got there, a car had already parked in the Planned Parenthood lot. There were four teenagers inside. They were young, and it hurt to see them there. With their windows up and it being so cold out I knew I wouldn’t have a chance to talk to them until they got out to walk inside. So I set up the speaker, took my place on the sidewalk and waited. Just as I heard their doors open and they started to head inside, a couple of cars slowed to turn into the lot. So I turned to offer them our literature if they would stop. They didn’t. And by the time I turned back around, the teenagers were already inside. Not long after they went in, they came back out. But there were only three of them this time. They didn’t stop to talk to me when I tried to flag them down. They just dropped their friend off inside and they left. Moments like that make the sidewalk feel really, really cold. And I was standing there on my square of the sidewalk, shivering and very tempted to just go home after such a rough start when I heard some noise behind me. I turned around to see a group of women walking toward me on the sidewalk. We said hello, and they turned toward the abortion mill and started to pray. It’s hard to describe what I felt just then without sounding pretty darn corny. But when you’re alone on the front lines, in the dark and cold, feeling defeated, and someone else comes to stand with you…well, it just doesn’t feel quite so cold. None of the cars stopped to talk to me this morning. I didn’t see anyone turn around. I was ignored when I picked up the microphone and tried to talk to people over the speaker. But I wasn’t alone on that sidewalk. And that knowledge was enough to keep me going this morning. So to those women who stood with me in the cold – thank you! And to our other prayer warriors…if you have ever wondered if it really matters if you go out to the sidewalk to pray or just stay at home where its warm….it does. You’re not just a witness to the mother’s whose babies you help to save. You’re a witness to us as well. Thank you. Erin PS: I promise to keep extra hand warmers with me on the sidewalk this winter for anyone who comes out to pray. See you on the sidewalk! |
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