June 2005

June 2005

OSA National Event – Denver, Colorado – July 16-23, 2005

Leslie Hanks, Vice President of Colorado Right to Life, is delighted that OSA is coming to the ground zero of the abortion holocaust – the State of Colorado! Here is her invitation to each one of you:

“Colorado began the abortion holocaust in 1967. State Representative Dick Lamm wrote and carried the first abortion law in the nation. It was passed and signed into law by Governor John Love on April 25, 1967, making Colorado the first state in our nation to “legalize” abortion.

“Dick Lamm went on to become Governor of Colorado. He earned the reputation of being “Duty to Die” Dick Lamm. In the late 1970s, he wrote an article for Playboy magazine in which he stated that the elderly should step aside and do their duty to die so that health care resources could be made available for the young.”

“Colorado started the abortion holocaust and planted many of the seeds of the euthanasia movement in America. Colorado Right to Life believes that we have a unique duty and responsibility to lead America back to protecting all life from fertilization through natural death.”

“We encourage and welcome every pro-life individual to join us in the battle of reclaiming America for the protection of God's gift of life. Therefore we are so thrilled that OSA is heading our way. You are giving us an opportunity to honor our Lord and live out our faith in the streets of Denver, Colorado!”

Activities include:

• Witnessing at different area abortion mills (Denver has many)
• Proclamation at state capital
• Early morning overpass ministry
• Teaching seminars
• Evening rallies

For transportation from the airport or any questions,
please call the Com-Center number: 972-200-4074.

HOMOSEXUAL LUST FEST CONFRONTED IN CHARLOTTE, NC

Saturday, May 7, 2005, will be a day to remember in the city of Charlotte, NC. On this day, the Church of Jesus Christ actually allowed her theology to become biography at the very gates of hell – the “Charlotte Pride” lust fest held in beautiful Marshall Park. It was here that the homosexual community paraded its sin like Sodom and expected everyone to applaud its new-found liberation as they displayed nothing but filth and utter moral debasement. The celebration of sex was the one thing that united all in attendance.

That's right – sex! The “celebration” consisted of booths freely distributing condoms and lubricant (not to be used in or on a car), to transvestite dancers gyrating and grinding looking for adults and kids to lap dance with, to apostate churches actually condoning this behavior. Sex, no matter how perverse – men with men, women with women, men with beasts, men with children, men with themselves – was all the rage in downtown Charlotte with the blessing of our city fathers.

Gay Naturists International (GNI) booth openly displays and sells obscenity in a public park. Counter-protest gathers as OSA proclaims the truth that would set them free.

After three meetings with the Charlotte city council this year and two meetings with the Charlotte police department, gentle Christian warriors made up their minds to take their message to the streets of the city of Charlotte . We were told by the mayor and the members of the council that their hands were tied. We reminded them that the hands of the Church of Jesus Christ were not. No one in our government would dare take up this “politically correct” sacrosanct lie and expose it for the destructive murdering spirit that it is.

The Word of God would become flesh in the streets – the theology of the church house would become biography at the gates of hell – Marshall Park! The battle was on! It would be a battle for life and genuine liberty. The mission? To bring the Gospel of Christ to the very gates of hell where precious human beings were being led to the slaughter by a diabolical lie – HOMOSEXUALITY!

We had made it very clear to both the city council and the police department that there were flagrant violations of the Charlotte city code in Marshall Park last year as "Charlotte Pride" paraded its perverted sin before the eyes of children and parents. There were booths with large pictures of naked men in a fully aroused state in all sorts of "unusual" poses. There were performers on stage joking about having sex with kids and looking for "dykes on trikes." There were transvestite dancers, thrashing, gyrating, and grinding while young kids watched and placed dollar bills in places they shouldn't. This "festival" was shocking in its arrogant disregard for anyone's rights but its own, and totally depraved perversion.

This past Saturday, May 7, 2005, well over 100 gentle Christian warriors converged on Marshall Park with their faces low to the ground, and the sharp double-edged Sword of the Spirit (the Word of God) in their hearts and in their mouths. We met in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church of downtown Charlotte and began with praise and worship, prayer, the proclamation of God's Word, the sounding of the shofar, and the march into battle.

We had Bibles to give away, the powerful tract by Stephen Bennett entitled “I was Gay,” a DVD by Matthew Manning entitled “The Ultimate Journey,” and hearts filled with compassion for those lost in the bondage of homosexual lust. We also wore red T-shirts that had been given to us with the word “LIBERATED” on the front and the words “Transformed by the blood of Jesus” on the back. When we left the parking lot to go to the park, it was like a sea of red (the shed blood of Christ) flowing toward the gates of hell. Jesus was going to do His work, and we all knew it.

God had raised up the “Fire School of Ministry” to join with us this year and they were an absolute blessing. That's why there were so many of us to bring the Gospel to the gates of hell. The school itself is a break-off of the Brownsville Revival and is headed by Dr. Michael Brown, a Messianic Jew. The school moved to Concord, North Carolina, a little over two years ago and has been a blessing and a light to our community ever since. These young college students are absolutely sold out for Christ. They have been with us when we take the Gospel of Christ to the local high schools, and they have manned one of the local abortion mills here in Charlotte. These kids believe in the “Gentle Revolution.” They want to see our world turned right-side-up for Jesus.

I watched them as they plunged into the sea of those lost in sin at Marshall Park and was amazed to watch them engage in street witnessing almost immediately. They were not filled with fear, but with a love for those lost in sin – perfect love does indeed cast out all fear. For five hours they fought the battle for men's souls. They plowed the hard ground of those turned over to a reprobate mind. They were truthful witnesses to those conflicted about their own sexual orientation. They were an outright rebuke to those who called themselves “Christian,” yet support homosexual sodomy.

The praise and worship teams and the preacher boys set up the sound system on the public sidewalk outside the park and began some of the most beautiful praise and worship I have ever heard. The preaching was powerful and effective. The men of God stood upon the Word of God and let the chips fall where they may. One young lady (Rebecca) who was playing in the band on the center stage of Marshall Park came to the Fire students and thanked them for the marvelous and loving way they were conducting themselves in singing praise and worship.

Many of you know Ante and Kathy Pavkovic from our last event in Columbus, Ohio. They have been so instrumental in bringing OSA together with Fire. Ante and Scott Heldreth headed up the street preaching and praise and worship. When the praise music is anointed by the Spirit of God, the preaching and witnessing becomes so much easier.

What prevented the police from throwing us out of the park as they had done the previous two years was a precious lady by the name of Sheryl Chandler. She is the one who set up all the meetings with the City Council and the Police Department. One of the great things accomplished in these meetings was the fact that real police officers were at the park, not lesbians and homosexuals who wear police uniforms. This was a great aid because it enabled all of us to remain in the park so that the love of Christ might be made known.

Toward the end of the festival, however, the transvestite dancers began to flaunt their perversion in front of children. James and Bryan headed to the center stage area and began preaching the Gospel. This, of course, set off a firestorm of epithets, foul language, spit, ad nauseam, and it appeared as if these young men were going to be tarred and feathered. The police pushed through the mob and said they were going to arrest James for inciting a riot. James pointed out that he had kept his peace until he saw the transvestite dancers toying with the kids. He asked the officer if it was not illegal to solicit sex from a minor. The officer said no more.

There are many more absolutely incredible stories and pictures of what happened when the Church of Jesus Christ showed up at the gates of hell. We will post them on the web site as soon as we can.

Thank you all for your prayers, and thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

OPERATION STRESS STUDENTS?
Excerpt taken from editorial written by Jessica Flaxman of The Charlotte Observer

Once a week, I tutor a student who attends Myers Park High School …. In the middle of a recent session of intense test prep, David asked me if I had heard of Operation Save America. I said I had read about their visits to North Mecklenburg High School this past March. He told me that he had heard that Operation Save America was planning to come to his school. If and when the group came, he said, he and his friends were going to stage a silent protest by wearing arm bands.…"They hate everyone who isn't white. They're like the new KKK," he said. His concern was palpable, and kept us from our studies.

It is distressing that Operation Save America – or any group – plans to target children coming to and from school. But leave it to our kids to teach us a thing or two about limits we should be setting for ourselves. At North Meck , students tolerated Operation Save America and took their pamphlets, for the first three days anyway. On the fourth, they greeted members of the group with super soakers, water balloons, and eggs. Members of Operation Save America clearly need to spend more time with teenagers – they don't realize that the one thing teenagers really won't tolerate is adults who repeat themselves unnecessarily.

I'm glad to say that my student does not plan to resort to throwing things at members of Operation Save America if they come to his school. Quietly, yet with purpose, he and his friends are ready to stand up to extremism and hatred. In this and only this way, perhaps Operation Save America is doing some service to our children.

Flip's response in part:

It was with a very sad heart that I read Jessica Flaxman's article in the Opinion Section of The Charlotte Observer concerning Operation Save America. Her animus toward the God of the Bible and to our Judeo-Christian heritage is blatant and unrestrained. One would assume that facts and truth are important criteria for those reporting the news, and for those writing opinion pieces in The Charlotte Observer, but alas, it is not so. No. Innuendo, careless misstatement of fact, and deliberate obfuscation of the truth are the fare of the day.

Jessica's opinion piece is a prime example of the spiteful writing endemic in The Charlotte Observer. Her only knowledge of the Christian proclamation taking place on the public sidewalks outside Charlotte high schools is what she was told by a high school student whose school, Myers Park High School, has never been visited by Operation Save America. David gave her what he had heard (hearsay) and of course, what he had read in, you guessed it, The Charlotte Observer. Allegedly David told her, “They (Operation Save America) hate everyone who isn't white. They are like the new KKK.”

With this high school student's statement as her fulcrum, she launched into a full-scale attack against Christianity and those who dare live it out in the streets. She fulminated against those who would brave to say “Abortion is Murder – Homosexuality is a Sin – Islam is a Lie.” Why was she so upset? Because Jessica is god in her world, and in her perception, none of those three are true.

Her pseudo concern for David, the students at Myers Park High School, and the stress they endure preparing for the SAT was only a cover for her real agenda – her hatred of Almighty God and His Word. She used David's honest misunderstanding to crucify those she hates with words. She talked about adults confronting the students, never mentioning that there were as many students with us as adults. She talked about “adults repeating themselves unnecessarily,” never taking the time to find out that we pass out a different tract to the students every day. She talked about a few irate students at North Mecklenburg (who believe that homosexuality and Christianity go hand in hand), never mentioning the parents and students who thanked us for being at that high school. She never mentioned that at Operation Save America's visit to West Charlotte High School, which is predominantly black, we were met with open arms by many of the parents and students. Several of the students came out and prayed with us and asked if they could take our Gospel tracts into the school and pass them out.

Jessica Flaxman calls what we do extremism and hatred. This certainly would be true if one believes she is god and then is confronted by the fact that she is not. Jessica, you don't have on any clothes. Your words have revealed what is in your heart. It is not hatred, nor is it extreme to tell you this – it is what the Bible calls love. (You can find the entire editorial along with Flip's response on our website at operationsaveamerica.org.)

Keep storming the gates – Flip