which is because we want to make sure that when we're talking to people about abortion, we are, everyone on our team is equipped to share the gospel with the people that we encounter. As you guys have been talking about, right, suicide is on the rise, people are hurting and broken, and you can imagine when we're talking about abortion, that creates a very fertile ground to then begin to introduce the gospel. I have six stories I want to share with you. to kind of give you a better idea of what our ministry's all about. I'll go through them quickly, but hopefully this will kind of color in the lines. The first is the story of Leandra. Leandra came to the Renton Abortion Facility. The Renton Abortion Facility is a late-term clinic. They go up to 24 to 26 weeks, that we know of. They also do transgender reassignment surgeries there. and then they send the bodies of the aborted babies to the University of Washington for research. Some of the abortionists on staff at Cedar River Clinics in Renton are also on staff at the University of Washington on the research team. And that's because abortion is typically, an abortion only takes about 15 minutes. And so the abortionist, particularly at these late-term clinics, is an independent contractor. He or she will come in on a certain day of the week, and they'll line up all of the abortion appointments back-to-back on that day. That's what we call kill day. They don't do it every day of the week, they do it on specific days. That way their abortionists, they're only paying them for a weekly salary, not a daily salary, right? So once a week, twice a week. So Cedar River Clinics in Renton, their kill days are Thursdays and Fridays. And this was a Thursday, actually no, it was a Friday that Leandra came. She came in and our sidewalk counselors stopped her car, told her to roll down her window, she did. They offered her the literature. For those of you who wanna see what we hand out, this is the pamphlet we give to anybody. So women going into the clinics, students on college campuses, high schools, it's got everything in here. We don't create it, but we love it. So hopefully, you'll find that informative. She came into the clinic and as she was offered other options, she yelled at our sidewalk counselor, no, I want an abortion. She drove into the parking lot, she got out. As soon as she got out, the sidewalk counselor that was stationed for the calling out duty, he was calling out to her. As soon as she got out of the car, mom, please don't kill your baby. This is not your only option. Your baby has a heartbeat, and we want to help you. And she began walking to the door. She got to the door of the clinic. She put her hand on the door, and he called out to her one last thing. He said, what brings you here, ma'am? What are your reasons for getting an abortion today? And with that, she turned around and she called out to him something that he couldn't really hear, because it's a long driveway. And so he said, come down and talk to me. I want to talk to you. And she came down. We found out she was 18 weeks pregnant. She has three boys. One of them is five months old. And her boyfriend has left her for a dude. and she feels all alone, she's in low-income housing, and she can't afford another baby, she can't handle another baby, and she said, I don't really want an abortion, but this is my only option. And I got to talk to her that day. For about 20 minutes, I got to spend with her as she stood there in tears, telling me, I don't have any other option. And we have all these resources that we partner with the second arm of the pro-life movement, the Care Nets of the world, and there's so many of them here in the Pacific Northwest people don't know about. But we partner with them to give these ladies and these guys that are coming to the clinics, the resources they need so that they don't have to feel like this is their only option. So we shared with them some of the baby saves that we've had in the past and the ladies we've been able to help and all of that. And she's hearing it and I can sense there's a glimmer of hope that begins to spark. And then I asked her, I asked her, do you believe in God? And at this, she said yes, which is very normal. Most of the people who go get abortions believe in God. And then I asked her my next question, which is, what do you think God thinks about this decision? She said, well, I don't think he agrees with it, which is also very normal for people who are getting abortions. And then I asked, do you think that if you do the right thing, which is to stand up for your child, that God will provide for you? And she said, no, I don't think he will. And I got to tell her, and that's why we're here today. God sent our team to tell you as a witness to you that he is going to provide for you. This is not your only option. We're here to help you. And I can tell she's still on that kind of edge. And I asked her, did you see the signs as you were driving up to the abortion clinic? We had some people out that had signs showing a picture of an aborted baby, what a baby looks like after they've been murdered. And she said, yes, I saw those pictures. And I said, do you know that's what your baby's gonna look like if you go inside that building? And she said, yeah, I know. And I said, and this is not something I normally ask because usually people will mock me for it, but I felt the Holy Spirit leading me there. And so I asked her, have you had an abortion before? She said, yes, I have. And I asked her, do you regret it? And she said, yes, I do. And I said, you don't have to do this. And if you go through with this, you're going to have the blood of another one of your children on your hands. And you don't want that. You're going to live with that for the rest of your life. We can help you with everything you need. but don't do this today. And she chose life and went with us to Care Net in Renton. They have a little mobile ultrasound unit. We took her to one of the pregnancy centers. And as we speak right now, she's got a baby registry. You can go on to, ask me later, and I'll give you her link. And you can buy her baby clothes. And we've gotten her plugged into a local church, a house of refuge. And so she's been going there with her three boys ever since. Praise the Lord. I'm gonna skip my other five stories. When I was, I was in college at Washington State University for my undergrad. I was studying criminal justice. While I was there, that's when God got a hold of my heart to do something about the unborn. I was already a Christian, I was walking with God. But I really, I cared about abortion, but it wasn't, It didn't change the way I lived my life. And I think, I would nature that most of you might be there, here in your heart, where I was, where abortion was another sin. In a sense, we look at sin, And we don't really understand how bad it is, but typically we look at sin and we kind of distinguish them between some are bad sins, some are good, not good sins, but not as bad sins, right? So imagine you had a pastor, your pastor came up and said, you know, I need to confess to you, my congregation, I've been struggling with pride, right? You probably go, yeah, that's understandable. But imagine your pastor got up and said, I've been struggling with lust. Would you have a different reaction? We kind of do that with different sins. And one thing that I like to point out to people is, and this hopefully you already know, is God doesn't look at sin the way we look at sin, right? Sin is cosmic treason. And there's no small sin because there is no small God to sin against. Now that being said, there are certain sins that God says the community is responsible for prohibiting, legislating against. You can't enforce a law, you shall not covet, correct? I mean, how could the police go to your house? Have you coveted today? Right? That wouldn't make any sense. But the sword of the government, right? Romans 13, the government doesn't bear the sword in vain. It is supposed to enforce the sixth commandment, you shall not murder. God's very clear about that. And particularly the sin of child sacrifice. When I was in college, this truth began to settle in my heart that I might be responsible for doing something about the abortion issue in a way that I'm not responsible for doing something about the issue of well, a lot of the other sins that are out there, right? We're supposed to be against all sin and preach against all sin, but is there something I'm supposed to actually act on that separates the abortion issue from something else? And I believe the answer to that is yes. And the reason I do is, is, God impressed on me this situation that happened in Weimar, Germany in 1945 when I was in college. It actually, when God was doing this in my heart, it was on the anniversary of the concentration camp Buchenwald's liberation. And it just, God had it timed that way. I think it was the 75th or something like that anniversary. But the concentration camp of Buchenwald, it was the largest concentration camp in Germany, the second largest during the World War, and it was set on a hilltop. It held over 250,000 prisoners over its time, and it slaughtered over 50,000 people. While the concentration camp was being built and as they were ushering prisoners into it, there was a little town that was located in the valley underneath the hill where the concentration camp stood. And the little town was called Weimar. And Weimar was your normal peaceful German town. They had Christian bakers, and shoemakers, and pastors, and priests, and doctors, and nurses, and all those things in this little town. And they could see the concentration camp from where they were, but they weren't close enough that they didn't have to hear the screams. So you could see the smoke billowing up from it. They had a little forest next to the camp that was nicknamed the Singing Forest, because that's where they'd torture their prisoners. But the city was far enough away they didn't actually have to hear anything. And so to be able to put it out of their minds, they just had to look away. And that's what happened, for year after year, as their fellow human beings were in misery, right in their own backyard, the Christians of Weimar would just look the other way. And I began to ask myself the question, as I began to read and study about this issue, what would I have done if I was a citizen of Weimar? I don't know what I would have done. What would I have liked to have done? What would I hope I would have done? I begin to ask myself. Well, at the very least, my great uncle once told me similar to this, at the very least, even if I just took a sign and scrawled on it, you shall not murder, walked up to the gates of the concentration camp and held it above my head until they shot me. I would have done something, right? I would have still done something versus just looking the other way. I would have at least participated in the suffering of my fellow human beings. And although I probably wouldn't have had the courage to do that, it began to convict me that, well, is there a situation in our country that's similar to this one? And I realized that there is. The Holocaust murdered about 10 million people. We've murdered in our country in the last 50 years over 60 million unborn children, little boys and little girls, over 60 million, 10 times the amount that have died in the Holocaust. We live in an American Holocaust. And as I began to realize that next door to me there is a clinic that butchers little boys and little girls, about 20 a day, Thursdays and Fridays, in Renton. That's where my parents live. As I began to realize that, God, I believe it was the Holy Spirit, impressed on my heart this question. The answer to what you would have done then is best answered by asking the question, what will you do now? And the extent of what you're doing now, Andrew, for these unborn children, is the same extent of what you would have been doing then. And I wasn't doing a lot. And that was really convicting. And then I saw a picture of an aborted baby just floating around on the internet somewhere. And God just had lined it up coincidentally to be right along the time where I was studying this situation in Germany. And as I saw that picture, God used it to break my heart in pieces. And I began to realize, we're living in the American Holocaust. And I'm not doing anything about it. In 1945, General Patton freed the concentration camp of Buchenwald. What he did was extraordinary. It's gone down in the annals of history. And I want you to consider what he did. When he freed the concentration camp of Buchenwald, he came to the city of Weimar first and he ordered the peaceful citizens to march through the concentration camp and see with their eyes and hear with their ears and smell with their noses what they had allowed right in their own backyard to happen. And you can actually see the black and white video of them marching up and the citizens are laughing and they're smiling. Then once they get there and they see the emaciated bodies of the prisoners, there's no words. No words can describe the horror that they felt. They didn't realize how bad it really was. And that's true for us. We understand abortion's wrong. Our culture understands abortion is wrong. Every woman who goes inside the clinic knows abortion is wrong, but we don't understand how wrong it really is. And that's important. Before you decide what you're going to do about it, you need to have that set in your mind and set in your heart. What is abortion? Simply, abortion is the murder of an unborn baby. In the technical term, abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being in utero. It is a scientific fact that from the moment of fertilization, the newly created embryo is a unique living and whole human being. Abortion kills that human being. This is in the commandment, number six, you shall not murder, the intentional taking of an innocent human life. There are two main methods of getting an abortion. The first is via the pill. The pill abortion makes up for over half abortions in the United States. In the year 2000, the pill abortion made up for 1% of all abortions. Now in 2023, it makes up for over half. It is spread like a wildfire in our country and the reversal of Roe versus Wade has actually increased its widespread use. The pill is actually a little bit of a misnomer, it's actually two pills, mifepristone and misoprostol. The first pill is taken at the abortion clinic, and the first pill, mifepristone, is designed to cut off the nutrients from the baby, so the baby will starve to death in the mother's womb. The second pill is taken a few days later, after the baby has been starved, and it basically induces labor, and the mom, usually on the toilet, gives birth to her little baby, and then the abortion clinic will tell her, make sure you don't look down, because particularly at 10 weeks, she'll be able to see the baby's arms, the baby's legs, so she'll flush him or her down the toilet. The pill abortion can only be taken up to 10 weeks in pregnancy, so it will never take over 100% of abortions, because those who don't get it in time will go to one of the abortion clinics for a surgical abortion. It can be ordered online. I don't know what the status with the courts is. They were available through pharmacies, then they were not, then they were, then they were not. I don't know what the current status is on that, but pretty soon they will likely be able to be taken over the counter at any of the pharmacies in any of the blue states. But they can be ordered online, or you can get them at an abortion clinic. And this has spread like a wildfire in our country, and I use that term because of the destruction I want it to convey. The second kind of abortion is a surgical abortion. A dismemberment abortion, a D&E, is done fairly commonly in second trimester abortions, and this is when they will dismember the baby limb by limb, arm by arm, leg by leg. The second type of abortion done via surgery is, and I don't know if you know this, but the most common surgery in America is abortion. It's a surgical abortion where they vacuum the baby in a little suction catheter, vacuum the baby to death. And then there's another one where they'll scrape the baby out with a curette. This is happening to the smallest and most innocent and most vulnerable people. Jesus cares for little children. He says, you cause one of the little children to sin, it would be better for you to have a millstone tied around your neck and thrown into the sea. He sees every single abortion, and he's angry, but he's also gracious. It's a mistake, and I hear this a lot from ladies at the clinic. It's a mistake to think that because Jesus can forgive sin, that abortion is no big deal. I hear this a lot. Jesus will forgive me. Yes, I know it's wrong, but God will forgive me. We know in Matthew 7 that those who use God's grace as a license to sin are gonna have a surprise waiting for them on judgment day. Jesus will not be mocked. But by the same token, It's an equally grave mistake to think that abortion is such a big sin that Jesus can't forgive it. It's a mistake to think that abortion is such a big sin that Jesus can't forgive it. Though our sins be as scarlet, Jesus will make them white as snow. And the fact of the matter is, right, abortion is child sacrifice, the sacrifice of a child. Not to an idol, necessarily, it was more of a metaphorical idol. The Apostle John says covetousness is idolatry. In the same way, right, we see in America, most of the ladies will sacrifice their children for their education, or for their career, or for convenience. Same thing with the boyfriends, the dads. That's child sacrifice. Well, God sacrificed his child, Jesus, to take away the sins of the world. God sacrificed his son so that the sin of child sacrifice, if you've committed to here, can be forgiven. And one of the coolest things for me is to get to sit underneath the men and women who have committed had abortions, who murdered their children, but who have received the grace and forgiveness of Jesus Christ, and knowing myself, apart from the grace of God, there go I. And them coming out with us to the clinic and sidewalk counseling those ladies. It is amazing to see them. And it's amazing to see how God uses that testimony of sin and pain and all of the, you know, the awful horror that goes along with that and turns it into a beautiful redemptive story. And so if that story is yours, I want you to know that if you'll come to Jesus, he will forgive you. Your sin is not greater than the grace of God. And if it was, I would not be standing here, neither would any of you. The last thing I wanna share is another story. And it's a story that's close to my heart. It was something I was asking God when I was a college student and I felt like he was calling me into street ministry. I was asking him, is it worth it all? We're gonna go out to these clinics, people are gonna laugh at us, people are gonna mock us, people might possibly try to actually physically harm us. Is it worth it? Is Jesus worth all of these things? And I know technically, not even technically, I know the theological answer, of course, is yes, but how many of you have ever had a time where you know the truth, but you don't feel the truth? Ever experienced that? Well, I was experiencing this, and I went to a missions conference in Portland, Oregon. And it was a missions conference dedicated to reaching unreached people groups across the world. And while I was there, I was hearing from Christians from across the world that had undergone suffering, unbelievable suffering, for Jesus Christ and His righteousness, for Jesus Christ and His kingdom. And while I was there, and I was wrestling with, you know, am I gonna go out there? Am I gonna get my hands dirty? Is it worth it? I saw a sign that was put up there by Open Doors USA, and on it it said, how will you use your freedom? And I saw that, and it hit me. We live in a free country, as of yet. And the worst that'll happen to me if I go to the abortion clinic is the sprinklers will turn on intentionally, or people will flip me off, and maybe somebody might actually try to throw a punch or something like that, but in all likelihood, I'm not going to prison. In all likelihood, I'm not getting killed, particularly if I just go out there the first day. Maybe after year, after year, after year, some crazy person will try. But if I cross the ocean, go to another country, it isn't like that. And I have a privilege here that I want to utilize. I want to leverage for my king. And as I was listening to these stories of persecuted Christians, them telling me, yes, Jesus is worth it, yes, Jesus is worth it, and hearing their stories of suffering, I realized, wow, I'm kind of a wimpy American. thinking that going out on the sidewalk is so scary, and it is, but as I was listening to these stories of men and women who've been stabbed for their faith, who've been imprisoned for their faith, I realized they've counted Jesus to be worth it. I count Jesus to be worth it as well. I'm going out. And I want you, I know most of you have probably made that same decision, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here. Maybe there are some of you who haven't made that decision yet, but I can tell you Jesus is so worth it. And I encourage you, if you haven't, even if you're a Christian, if you have certain idols that you haven't surrendered to the Lord, it is so much better to entrust them to Him and try to hold on to them. There are three ways you can get involved with our ministry. A little bit about us, a little bit more in depth. We are located in the Pacific Northwest. Our headquarters are in Pullman, Washington. I'm a WSU alma mater and we started off as a student club and then we got bigger and bigger and bigger and then started going to other campuses and formed a 501c3. But that's where our headquarters still are, Pullman, Washington. But we have satellite teams now, one in Tacoma and one in Renton. And our satellite teams, about 10 to 15 volunteers a piece, they go to the abortion clinics that's local to them once a week during the kill day and the sidewalk council. And so there are three ways you can get involved. The first one I'll go over is is going. You can join us. You can volunteer with us. Two primary ways you can do that. You can join us on the sidewalk once a week, or you can join us on a mission trip. If you want to get a little bit more information on what that would look like, this particular newsletter, the May updates, is a newsletter detailing our most recent open mission trip that we did last May. We went to Western, UW, Central, Pike Place Market, an abortion clinic, a couple of high schools. It was amazing. We had 20 people on that mission trip from start to finish over that week. But we'll take anybody, young and old, rich and poor, doesn't matter. We'd love to have you. We do it usually twice a year. We'll need you to come in for the whole week. You'd be staying with us. We'd feed you, we'd house you. and you'd be a hand on deck. We'll teach you everything you need to know about the outreaches and how to do all that. We have a lot of safety protocols and things like that to make sure our volunteers stay safe. But that's one way you can get involved is joining us on mission trips. And the other one is by volunteering at one of our satellite teams. Or another option, particularly for those of you who are working full time still, Chris Neal. How many of you know Chris Neal? Oh, most of you, that's great. So Chris goes to this church. That's actually how I came here. Chris invited me to meet with Pastor Kerry and a couple of the other elders. But Chris Neal leads a team at the Seattle Planned Parenthood. And their kill day is Saturday mornings. And so if you're working Monday through Friday, nine to five or eight to four, right, Saturday morning might be the opportunity for you to go. Now if you're, If you're available during the week, the Renton team, they go on Thursdays and Fridays, and the Tacoma team, Thursdays and Fridays as well to their respective abortion clinics. But if you're interested in joining on a weekly basis, your first few times, we just have you come and learn, come and shadow the actual sidewalk counselors before we invite you to actually begin to speak and participate so you can learn the ropes. So don't be too scared. We're not throwing you into the deep end all at once. But we do want you to come, and we want you to volunteer to actually participate in God's rescue mission. C.T. Studd said, some wish to live within the sound of church or chapel bell. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell. And that is our experience. It's the gates of hell beyond those doors. I can tell you so many stories. I'll just tell you one quick one. Actually, just a few months ago, there was a couple that drove into the clinic, and we stopped them and counseled with them. The sidewalk counselor was making very elementary blunders. But God, in his grace and his mercy, used those blunders and everything else he said to change their minds. and they changed their minds. They had driven from Yakima to Renton for their abortion, because it's a late-term abortion clinic in Renton, and they spun around in their car and made a U-turn, and they came out, and they said, thank you so much for saving our baby. We're changing our minds. And the abortion clinic workers came out of the building and began cursing and screaming, stop harassing our clients, you beep, beep, beep. So anyways, it was a great day that day when those abortion clinic workers watched them, you know, mom, baby, and dad drive off safely. So that's one way you can get involved with us. You can actually join us on the front lines. The second way is you can pray. This needs to be up here, but I don't know how to talk about this one, because the vast majority of times I talk about this one, people don't take it very seriously. I cannot undervalue or understate or over-exaggerate the impact of prayer coverage in this kind of ministry. And I can't over-exaggerate or undervalue or understate the impact of the absence of prayer coverage in this ministry. And so that's actually the reason we are here, is a product of prayer. We have, as I'm speaking here, I have about 60 to 80 people that are praying for me this morning. And the reason the largest gospel-centered abortion ministry within the educational arm of the pro-life movement in the Pacific Northwest, is led by a 23-year-old is because of so many people praying for me and for all of our staff and for our board of directors and our missionaries and our volunteers and all of that. Our staff, all of our missionaries were required to have a prayer team, people that have committed to getting virtually daily text messages from us right before outreach and then afterwards detailing what our prayer needs are in the moment. so that they can keep it covered. And I can't not tell you how important it is for us to have our prayer warriors engaged in interceding for us. And so that's another way you can get involved with us. If you're interested in joining one of our prayer teams, you can talk to any one of us. We've got our own particular prayer teams and we'll take you on ours. But yeah, it's a commitment. I mean, I will be bugging you if you're on my prayer team. So you better be ready for that. And then the last main way you can get involved with us is you can partner with us by giving. We're all full-time. What that means is I've got two kids and a wife, and many of our missionaries are also married with kids, is we've gotta support our families. We can't work Monday through Friday a normal job, because we are outside the abortion clinic or on college campuses. In Matthew 10, 40 through 42, Jesus says that he who receives a prophet receives a prophet's reward. He who receives a righteous man receives a righteous man's reward. And if you give a cup of water to the least of my brethren, you will not lose your reward in heaven. What I believe that means is Jesus is establishing an equal eternal rewards principle there. That when you partner with a missionary, you receive the reward that missionary receives, right? In the same way the man who goes down in the well needs somebody to be holding the rope for him to go down. But either way, there should be scars on our hands, whether you're a sender, you're a goer. And so one way that you can get involved with us is you can join our financial support team, partnering with us that way. And on that note, Abby, why don't you come up? Abby, be very loud, because we just have the headsets. So be very loud so everybody can hear. But Abby's our newest missionary. She's joining us all the way from Moscow, Idaho. And I want you to hear what she has to say. So go ahead. So I'm now, as you said, I am. What? You can use this. Hello. Please be turned on. Hello. Hello. Hi. No. Be loud. We, being my family, felt like the church wasn't really a place for saints a lot on how to get involved in evangelism and how to evangelize to people on the street. So, when I found out about Andrew and his ministry, I was super-duper excited to get involved in it. Ever since I did it, I just felt like going to church. So basically what that fancy title is, is I would be handling their social media. Not only am I going to be joining them on their outreaches, on their initiatives, having those conversations with people and trying to see if we can do this. And not only that, but also training your volunteers and helping with those. I will also be taking pictures of them during outreaches so that I can talk to people about social media, about what we're doing. I want to share the group of our university with the public. I want people for our community of getting more involved. So that's what I'm going to be doing in our ministry, and I'm super excited to do it. If you guys feel like God is calling you to support us or just calling you to do something, please come and talk to me. I would love to schedule something with you guys. I'm going to be here for about a week, so just to meet with people. So I'd love to talk to you guys more about what God's doing for me and our community ministry. So please talk to me. Thank you, Abby. Our greatest financial need as a ministry is for our missionaries to be fully funded. That's the biggest one. It's not gas in the van. It's not money for the outreaches. The biggest one is for our individual missionaries to be fully funded, and that is our greatest limitation is the number of staff, full-time staff we have. Every time we get a new staff member, we get to do a new mission trip that they're able to plan and take care of. There's so much work that we're able to offload as we get more people and expand. Please do consider partnering with Abby, getting a meeting with her. She'll share a lot more in detail what she's planning to do. But now, we have a little bit of time left. I'm gonna take questions. Actually, before I take questions, since we have a little bit of time left, I'm gonna share with you our syllogism. One apologetic slide. If you forget, Actually, this is the most important thing. If you forget everything you heard here, you better remember the gospel. But in terms of apologetics, if you can't remember any apologetic tool or anything like that, if you can just remember something about abortion, this is what you need to remember. A syllogism is an argument. And it's an if-then statement basically with a conclusion, premise one, premise two, and then conclusion. This is our syllogism as Christian pro-lifers. Number one, God says it is always wrong to intentionally kill innocent human beings. Number two, abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being. And number three, therefore abortion is always wrong. For someone to say abortion is not always wrong, they have to prove that either number one or number two are not the case. And so sometimes I'll just say it is always wrong to intentionally kill innocent human beings because most people will agree it is always wrong to intentionally kill innocent human beings. And then when you say abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being, that's where people get, well, is it really human? you know, it's not really intentional because of all these circumstances, you know, think about blah, blah, blah, right? And so premise two is usually where I spend most of my time with people. But if you can't remember anything else, remember these three things. So to help you remember, we're gonna do a little game of repeat after me, all right? So I'm gonna say premise one, then I want you to repeat it back to me. God says it is always wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being. God says it is always wrong to intentionally Number two, abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being. Therefore, abortion is always wrong. All right, let's see if you can remember it. God says it is always wrong to intentionally kill innocent human beings. Abortion intentionally kills innocent human beings, therefore abortion is always wrong. Good job. All right, there you go. Somebody throw me an objection for why abortion is okay. Just shout it out. A mother's life is in danger. A mother's life is in danger. We're going to get to that one later. Throw a different one. I've got a whole slide for that one. Give me a different one. I don't have time for a baby. OK, you guys, let me change this up. You guys are giving me situations or scenarios. So I don't have time for a baby, right? That would be something that a woman would tell me outside the clinic. Imagine you're talking to a college student who just took a semester in philosophy 101, which It's a fetus. It's not a human being. Those kinds of things. They're not going to say, I don't have time for a baby. Because they say that, they've just admitted it's a baby. They don't want to do that, right? And so when you're talking to a woman outside the clinic, they will say things like that. Because they know it's a baby. They're not deceived, right? Now, every now and then, you'll get somebody who's deceived. But usually, they're not. Versus college students, they've gotten just enough philosophy class to completely shrivel their minds. If you talk to a philosophy major, they can usually make some sense, but just some guy with one semester in philosophy is screwed up. So yeah, so it's a fetus. It's not a human being, those kinds of things. All of those objections can be answered through this syllogism. So when somebody says, it's not a human being, You say, well, I'd agree with you. If it's not a human being, I'd agree with you. Abortion's fine. I don't actually have any problem with aborting a puppy if there's some sort of situation that's going to be problematic or something like that. I don't have a problem with that. If you've got a canine fetus or a feline fetus that needs to be aborted, I'm not going to go and pick at the veterinary clinic. But a human fetus is a human being. And God made us in his image, right? And also, just so you know, for those of you who know, the word fetus, does anybody know what that means in Latin? Little person, not quite, but very close. It means little one or young one. What the word fetus means is it's a stage of development. It talks about how old something is, but not what something is, right? You can have a dog fetus. You can have a feline fetus. You can have a human fetus, right? That is a stage of development. In the same way, you can have a dog, teenager. As weird as that might sound, you could have a canine or feline or whatever, teenager, adult. Those things aren't describing what someone is, but how old someone is. So you start off as a zygote, then you become an embryo, then you become a fetus, then you become an infant, then you become a toddler, then you become teenager and adult and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, right? Those things don't change your value. You can't kill a toddler because they're younger than you are. That's wrong. So when somebody says, well, it's just a fetus, imagine I told you, well, it's not a baby, it's a toddler, so you can kill it. That doesn't make any sense, right? And people don't know what that word means. Just make sure you do. All right, now that we've gone over syllogism, does anybody have any questions? You can ask about the syllogism, you can ask about apologetics, you can ask about just anything, really, with the time we have left. So go ahead, go ahead. What arguments, like, how do you defend the, defend this against people that, like, argue, like, well, they don't have a heartbeat yet. If you do it before they'll have it, or, you know, different things like that, they don't have these traits, Okay. All right, so here's an acronym for you. It's called SLED. SLED stands for Size, Level of Development, Environment, and Degree of Dependency. The SLED acronym is designed just to help you remember these are the four things that the embryo you once were differs from you now. The embryo you once were is still you, but you were what? Smaller, you were, what's the next one? Less developed, right? You didn't have a heartbeat before you were three weeks old. But you weren't supposed to have a heartbeat before you were three weeks old. God intended for you to have a heartbeat at three weeks. Your life started at conception or at fertilization, right? But he intended you to get a heartbeat at three weeks, brainwaves at six weeks, fingers and toes at seven weeks, and every major and vital organ to be formed by 10 weeks. to be sucking your thumb in the second trimester, to be born, hopefully, around 39 to 41 weeks, something like that, right? These are all mile markers, but God designed that, right? So, yes, the unborn is smaller, they're less developed. Environment, where is the unborn? inside the mother's womb, right? Their location's different, right? But when do we value or devalue people based on their location, their physical location? How does six inches through the birth canal change you from not a human to a human, not a person to a person? It's very magical. And then degree of dependency, right? That's the last one. Well, the baby is leeching off the mom. Well, first of all, the baby continues to leech off the mom until they're like 26 years old, usually. Degree of dependency does not change our value. We're all dependent on each other to certain degrees. And the younger you are, the more dependent you are. But that is actually more reason to defend the unborn. We believe that it's worse to kill a child than an adult, even though killing an adult is still murder, still wrong. There's something extra heinous about killing a child who is more defenseless, who's more dependent, who's more vulnerable. So here are the four. These are the only four things that the unborn differs from us in. They're smaller. They're less developed, they're in a different place, and they're more dependent. But none of these factors justify killing them. And we all vary in these phases or stages with each other, right? Some of you and most of you are smaller than me, right? Unfortunately, both in height and in height. But, and some of you are way more developed than I. You're not fully developed until you're about 25, and I'm not 25 yet, right? And you guys live in different environments than I do, and some of you are more or less dependent, right? But that doesn't change our value. Our value's fixed, right? Our value's fixed because we are made in one. the image of God. That's right. Now, if evolution is true, and we're all bags of stardust that just, you know, goo to you, morphed out of the common ancestor with monkeys and all that, then is abortion okay? Yes. If there is no God, and we are all animals, then why is it wrong to behave like animals? It isn't. There's no right or wrong. It's you do you. Live your truth. You want to kill your baby? Kill your baby. You want to kill your son? Kill your son. You want to kill your mom? Kill your mom. Who's to stop you? Well, just go live in a country where it's okay. There's no right or wrong. We just make it up. You do what you want to do. That's the culture we live in. They haven't put two and two together. That's the logical conclusion of their worldview. But yeah, so that's how you answer those questions. It doesn't have a heartbeat yet. First of all, baby has a heartbeat at three weeks. The vast majority of ladies who get pregnant don't know they're pregnant until at least three weeks, usually four or five. So let's just say for a moment that it is OK to kill all the babies before three weeks. Would you be against 99% of all the abortions? And they usually say, well, I got to pick a different milestone then. It's very similar. You can point this out, but if you point this out, they'll get mad at you. It's very similar to the discrimination that whites did on blacks or that Aryans did on Jews. You don't have this arbitrary factor that I conveniently have. Have you noticed that all the people who are for abortion have been born? Very convenient for them, right? And you'll see the vast majority of people who thought it was okay to enslave black people were white, right? Same thing with the Jews, right? There weren't a lot of Jewish Nazis. It doesn't make a lot of sense, right? And so you can point this out, your arbitrary line in the sand that you said, you're worth protecting, you can be killed, right? It's arbitrary. And it leaves some humans out. Human beings created the equal in God's image. We're for human equality. All right, so that's the answer to that question. All right, we got some time for more questions. Go ahead. So my question is when we evangelize and we speak to other people about this, I've seen videos of people in rallies or in situations where there's a lot of people and they're like pro-abortion and it gets kind of hostile. They're trying to like How effective is it to go into a rally, have a poster, or talk, or what is the most effective way, I guess, to, I mean, I think there's a side of letting the public know that there's another side that is the truth, and then there's also the side of like, communicating truth to people so that they can think about things that actually change their mind instead of just like... Okay, you know one of the stories I skipped at the beginning slide? I'm gonna tell it to you now. Hopefully this will answer your question. We were at Santa Cruz, California with our interns this summer, and we were packing up. That day was just Evangelism Day, so about half of all of our outreaches are simple evangelism, using Ray Comfort Gospel Tracts, things like that. We wanna keep our missionaries very sharp, and we were packing up. ready to share the gospel at any given moment. Anyway, so we're doing evangelism that day, and we had one of those flip charts that Ray Comfort uses, if you've seen one of those. And I'm packing it up. These four young men walk up. They go, we want a saga riddle that's on the poster. And I'm like, all right, let's go. So we go through the riddle. At the end, it asks, what do you think happens after you die, or something like that. We get into a conversation. I find out they're all atheists. And one was particularly an arrogant atheist. The others were atheists, I think, by de facto, because they lived in Santa Cruz. Which is unfortunate, but anyway, so those are pretty reasonable those three, but the last guy he was he's very militant and I looked and I said What if I told you I could give you irresistible and irrefutable proof that God exists? Would you change your mind? He goes, let's hear it. I said, I'm gonna give you irrefutable proof for God's existence. And they take a step closer. I go, all right, let's hear it. I haven't heard any Christian make this bold of a claim before. And what I started to notice is I gave them that irrefutable proof people began to draw in and form a crowd all around these four guys, listening to our interaction with each other. Just random people walking by. And then after the irrefutable proof was given, the three kind of de facto atheists looked kind of down at the shoes, and the proud one kind of like sputtered. He was like, that doesn't work because, and his three friends said, yes it does, yes it does. And then they turned on their friend and actually began persuading him that he was wrong. I'm like, sweet. Well, my work's been done for me. And they began arguing with him that he had no counter. He had no counter argument to what I was saying. And all those people there were listening and hearing that. And we had a couple other interactions that were pretty notable. One of the things I haven't gotten to do, I've been waiting, I had in my back pocket for just this very moment, been waiting for this moment, when somebody, because I take them through the law, right, to see if they're a good person, right, Ray Comfort, whole thing. And I had one guy who said he never dishonored his father and mother, one of the atheists, not the proud one, actually. But when he said that, I was like, oh. This is the right time. I've got a crowd that's listening. This guy's a young man. This is going to work good. So I looked at him and said, you've never disobeyed or dishonored your father or mother? He goes, nope. I said, why don't we call your mom? And all his friends were like, uh-huh. So that helped get the crowd engaged and more people. But all throughout that whole thing, what happened was, the atheist left and his three friends, particularly the one who had called his mom, were really thinking about our conversation. You could tell on their face they were feeling very challenged, hopefully convicted. And hopefully that seed will sprout in their heart. We're praying for them afterwards. But that whole crowd was listening too. And I have no idea what God was doing in the crowd. There is a time for everything, Ecclesiastes 3, right? There's a time to go to the gay pride parade with a banner that says, Jesus is Lord, repent of your sins, believe the gospel. There's a time to turn the lights off, but that wasn't the time. Does that make sense? There's a time for everything, and you can be effective in everything if you do it at the right time. What kind of things are a little bit more effective in a crowd situation where there's a rally happening? In a crowd situation, you don't ask questions as often. In a one-on-one conversation, you ask questions, questions, questions. I have a separate workshop. I actually teach you how to do this, but that's a good two hours to get to the point where you can really do this. But anyways, if you've ever heard of Greg Kukul, his book Tactics, it's a great book to read for learning how to witness in one-on-one conversations. So Greg Kukul, Tactics. When you're in a crowd format, you really need to know what you're doing. One, for safety, because that's how you get hurt if you don't know what you're doing. And two, because if you mess up, it's not just one person that sees that you messed up. It's 100 people that you've messed up. So until you really know what you're doing, I would not encourage you to be an open-air preacher in a crowd. Now, if you just go to a crowd and you've got a sign that says something like, ask me about Jesus or something like that, and you just stand there, then you're going to have one-to-one conversations more like it, which is totally great. It's a great way to get your feet wet. If you're going to be talking about abortion, you'll notice that we use victim imagery, pictures of aborted babies in our outreaches. It's not even, I don't know of a single social reform movement ever, from the abolition of the slave trade by William Wilberforce, to Black Lives Matter now, to all of the social reform movements that have happened in between, that have ever not used victim imagery, right? You see pictures of the Holocaust all the time in your textbooks, right? Pictures of the victims of the Holocaust, right? You'll see pictures of slaves, you'll see pictures of, even PETA, right? People Eating Tasty Animals. Now, what's the real name? Um... Yes, people for the ethical treatment of animals, PETA. They'll use victim images of cows and pigs in these factories to get at people's hearts and their heartstrings. So I don't know of a single social reformer who didn't use victim imagery. The reason why is because it works. Same thing with the Vietnam War. Those of you who are older remember seeing those pictures in the newspapers and things like that. And so I carry around with me in my little emergency Bible, I've got some gospel checks that I got with me for my comfort. But one of the things I also carry around is a picture of an aborted baby that I have. And I will show that to people when I'm talking to them. And usually I'll have a sign with me, but I've changed somebody's mind over lunch just simply by slamming that picture down in front of them. He was defending abortion. He thought it was all cool, and we were just talking about it. It was all theoretical. It was all abstract. You show a picture, and they go, ooh, ooh, ooh. Can't look at that. You can't look at it, but you're just defending it. Why can't you look at it? Free advertising for Planned Parenthood. Right? So, if you're talking about abortion, make sure you have a picture ready. A picture's worth a thousand words. I've never seen anything more effective than the pictures. I've had people come up to me that have not talked to a single team member, not heard a single word we've said, and said, you changed my mind, just by looking at the pictures. Kind of like General Patton made the citizens of Weimar tour through the concentration camp of Buchenwald and see with their own eyes. We're out of time. But if you have more questions, I would love for you to ask them to me. Just come up. We're out of time. But ask me individually or ask Christiana or Abby. What? Okay. Yep. If you want to get involved with us, please talk to one of the three of us. We've got sign up sheets where you can just check the box. If you're interested in giving, check the box that says partnering with THM. If you're interested in volunteering with us on a satellite team, check that box or mission trips, et cetera, et cetera. And talk to our missionaries. We'd love to talk to you more and answer your questions. All right. Lord, thank you for this time. Thank you for everyone here. And I pray, Lord, that the message they heard today would be edifying to them. And I pray, Lord, that you would abolish abortion in the United States and across the world in this slaughter. And I pray that you would raise up the church to do its job, to do her job, and being her hands and feet at the darkest corners of the earth. In Jesus' name, amen.