Great news from the national campaign

Each morning we receive an update from the national 40 Days for Life campaign. Some days it includes success stories. Other days it outlines challenges. This morning's email was so encouraging that we wanted to share it with you. These stories truly demonstrate the great deeds God is doing. Let us not forget how privileged we are to be instruments of His peace.

The enthusiasm about 40 Days for Life is contagious,and it's had a profound effect during the first half of this fall's historic campaign.

The number of "turnarounds" --women who arrived for abortions but left the clinic without going through with it -- has jumped dramatically in the last week, reaching record levels....

"We know we have saved a 17-year-old who was at first determined to abort her 5-month-old baby," Barbara in Fayetteville, Arkansas said. This young woman could not get an abortion at this point in her pregnancy in Fayetteville, so she was going to make the three-hour drive to Little Rock, home of Arkansas' only other abortion center. "She turned around one block before she reached the abortion facility! We are now are planning her baby shower."

It isn't just mothers and babies receiving positive attention during 40 Days for Life -- it's also the people who work at the abortion centers.

At the 40 Days for Life vigil in Toledo, Ohio, Ann reports that four clinic employees put up yard signs on the building's lawn and taped posters in the facility's windows -- as a result of the prayer vigil going on outside. "This was disconcerting at first,"she said, "but then you come to realize that their consciences are at work. This is a good thing!"

"It seems as if the workers are looking a little grimmer as they enter the building in the morning,"said Jean, speaking of the staff at the Planned Parenthood in Burlington, Vermont. "The ones that do smile are few and far between, and they almost seem to have fake smiles on their faces."

They also can't find anyone to do abortions! Planned Parenthood has gone so far as to run want ads in the local paper, looking for someone to assist with abortions, starting immediately.

"Imagine that!" said Jean. "It seems as though they have lost two employees -- one might be the abortionist herself. Today is the normal day for abortions, but it looked as if there were none preformed."

Patsy in Orange County, California also notes the difference 40 Days for Life can make for people in the abortion industry. "One of the Planned Parenthood employees came out, encouraged our prayer warriors and asked them to display a sign the women can see with a number where they can get help," she said. That's incredible!

If you find such a person, please continue to offer encouragement and Christ's love. It pays off!

"I learned this morning that one of the abortion center nurses quit," said Jenny in Louisville, Kentucky. "Mary, one of our counselors, kept telling this worker that she would help her find another job. Last Saturday was the nurse's last day in the abortion center. Praise God!"