The Countercultural Times

The last couple of months have been exciting for the team here at Created Equal. First ;  Founders , a surgical abortion facility in OH shut down! Now  Founders  are suing their new rivals,  Your Choice ” - a medical abortion facility, that is being operated by  Founders  old staff. Since medical abortions can only happen up to 9.6 weeks,  Your Choice  can no longer offer about 19% of abortions that  Founders  used to, so a few more babies are being spared a cruel death!   The lawsuit that is happening between these two businesses proves what really matters to their industry: money-blood money.  For every baby that is killed, that’s one too many, but we thank God for this small victory in the battle. Secondly ; The only Planned Parenthood in Fort Wayne, Indiana was shut down! Created Equal has been working to expose this center for enabling abortions, and after a stark drop in their customer base, they closed and accused...

A couple weeks ago I went canoeing with a group of believers from a friend’s church. (above picture) My canoe tipped, floated downstream, and got caught in tree brush. My canoe partner Anna and I drifted downstream towards the stuck and capsizing canoe. Anna found a log to stand on and an overhead branch to hold, before pulling me out from under the canoe where the current was keeping me, saving my life. Every time I think of this incident, I see the Lord’s providential protection of me that day. For example: anyone other than Anna could have been with me who was not capable of pulling me out against the current; if we would have tipped any closer to the tree brush, Anna may not have had time to grab hold of the branch to keep herself from going under along with me.  Praise the Lord for His kindness and protection! I had not often thought of every breath as a gift from God (Acts 17:25) until I a...

“I can’t say I’ve never thought about quitting this work. I think about going home to be with my family. But there’s always this voice in the back of my head, and it’s no still small voice. This thing is a  raging lunatic – and it says:  ‘You coward. COWARD . You want to go live in peace, while babies are being ripped apart limb from limb? ’” - Sam Riley The Justice Ride was ending. Tears came to my eyes as I listened to my friend Sam give the most convicting call to action I’d ever heard from a pro-life speaker. (quote above) I thought about the 40 students in the room. In a year from now how many of them will still be burdened for the plight of babies scheduled to be brutally ripped apart inside their mother’s womb?  As the good Samaritan showed mercy to the beating victim in Luke 10, I pray that our students and all believers in Christ will seek to follow the command “Go and do likewise” (Luke 10:37) by showing mercy to and speaking up for our preborn...

Above:Various outreaches from the Spring   Road Trip For Life When you put this [abortion] in perspective and show me pictures, I question whether or not it’s ok… but still think a woman has a choice."  *12 minutes later* “I agree. That’s gruesome. You changed my mind on abortion!” – Autumn I want to share a couple stories with you from our last week on the Spring  Road Trip For Life. 1)      I talked with Autumn at Western Kentucky University, (see above quote) who originally thought abortion was ok, but began to question her view just by seeing a picture of what abortion does to a baby. By the end of the conversation, after asking a few questions on her position, she realized that any position in support of abortion is indefensible, so she changed her mind, and asked how to take action about this injustice! 2)      A young man, “V.” approached me on campus and after talking about t...

ABOVE, left to right:  1) a young man who is struggling with depression at a high school in Chicago asks our team Captain, Sam Riley, to pray for him;  2) I point to a picture of a 15 week old aborted baby and ask:  “Do you think this is a person?”  3) Silas, our Special Projects Coordinator, hands a brochure to a student and answers his questions on abortion. _________________________________________________________________ The last month I have been on our Spring Road Trip For Life, travelling to colleges, high schools, and abortion facilities throughout the Midwest. One of my favorite conversations was about two hours long with a man named Asar at Western Michigan University. We chatted about abortion for a while before it became clear to me that he held an atheistic worldview. He mentioned that he did not believe his life had value, so I took the opportunity to share my faith with him. “I’m a Christian, and I know that your life DOES have value, not...

Our Justice Ride team at the University of Florida.   “The arguments you made cut straight to my heart... ...I’ve been affected by this.” –Aaron, UF Student Last week Created Equal’s Justice Ride arrived back from a week of training and outreaches at major universities throughout Florida. I really enjoy doing some of the administrative planning work for the Justice Ride , and am always blessed to see the fruit of our work during outreach. As a staff member on the trip, my role during outreach shifts from one of primarily creating conversations, to overseeing our Riders in their outreach, and helping them in their conversations with passersby. At one point during the middle of the day on Wednesday at the University of Florida, (UF) I took a step back from everything and called to my colleague Seth:  “Hey Seth, just look around for a minute. Is this not awesome?!” What was I calling his attention to? As we scanned the outreach site, all of our Jus...