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Preparing the Way for Rochester – July 24-31, 2013

Here is Mike Warren’s report of what is happening in our preparations for the National event In Rochester, New York. ~ Flip

 

Rescue Rochester Preparing the Way for Our National Event July 24-31, 2013

By Mike Warren

Rescue Rochester was blessed to have two of our favorite people with us for our annual pro-life banquet, Friday, March 1, 2013, Flip and Faye Benham.  We actually asked Flip and Faye to be with us before we realized that the Lord desired Rochester to be this year’s stop on the Operation Save America gospel train journey.  That’s right!  Rescue Rochester has invited Operation Save America to town July 24-31. And it promises to be a time when God amazes our city, as His power and grace is released at the abortion mills and the streets of Rochester, NY. We have already seen a peak of interest and the rumblings of anticipation as we have begun to make preparations.

Twelve area pastors and ministry leaders attended an information brunch hosted by Rescue Rochester and met with Flip, Jerry and I.  We shared a meal and the vision of OSA/ROC was presented as well as a glimpse of what can happen in a city where the church takes up its rightful position and begins to rebuild the walls of righteousness, justice and mercy in its locale.  Flip shared that we as the church are more than we have become.  He then presented an amazing thing that God has done in Charlotte, NC.  Go to www.Cities4Life.org  to view two amazing video clips regarding how churches ministering on site at abortion mills and through other ministries are being used to save and restore lives.

Later that evening, 90 people from various churches attended our annual banquet.  We heard an amazing song recorded back in the mid 80’s “Fight the Fight” featuring classic contemporary Christian musicians, like Annie Herring, 2 Chapter of Acts, Andre Crouch, Dallas Holmes, and Melody Green sing and call the church to stand for the babies and our nation.   It will be our theme song for the event in Rochester.  It is powerful.

Flip, used his favorite story of The Lion King, to remind us, 21st Century American Christians, that we are more than we have become.  Just as the men of Ephraim (Psalm 78:9-11) neglected to use the bows they were armed with; so the American church has neglected to fight and contend for the gospel and righteousness at the exposed places in our society.  As Christians, we are called to fight and contend from the position of victory, for Jesus has already accomplished it.  That’s right.  We are called to do what has already been done.  We are called to, “do the done!”  That is the message we celebrate every Easter Season!  And this victory of Calvary and the Resurrection is revealed when Christians willingly show up at abortion mills and other exposed places of sin in our cities.  We win one life at a time.

God has given us the scripture to set our hopes on for this national event and we pray that you will join us in Rochester, NY this July 24-31st.  Let’s see what our God will do!  Is 60;1-3 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.”

It’s our turn now!

Yours for the Least of These,

Mike Warren & Jerry Crawford

Rescue Rochester

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A Prophetic Word from Brother Butch Berget

This short word from brother Butch will bring us back to the fundamentals.

Enjoy! ~ Flip

 

Dear fellow Champions for Truth,

It is my personal opinion, and conviction, that the controversy swirling around the “gay” issue may prove to be yet another distraction to a vastly more urgent crisis…..that being the continuing genocide of our unborn babies. (Over 50 million).

While I do rejoice that necessary conflict & controversy is creating a renewed platform for open, public, discourse, I fear this is yet another tactic by the deceiver to draw our attention from a much higher, Divine priority: Abortion.

Perhaps we are about to see a reawakening of the Sleeping Giant, the Church of Jesus? And, the “gay” issue could be the catalyst that draws the Soldiers of God back into the Righteous fray. Not a fight of choice, but of necessity.

Of course, I say we must stand against sin and raise God’s standard on all fronts of battle. But, in all that we are doing, let us simply remember not to leave weightier matters undone.  These battles are coming to every true Church of Jesus. The enemy will see to it. But, moreso, I think God Himself, for our sakes, will see to it as well!  God forbid that we expend more precious energy and resources on matters about those determined to revel in their choice of their alternate lifestyle, and yet ignore the silent cries of helpless babies who desperately want to live!

While it may be a tired illustration, I still think it is valid as an appeal:

If you find yourself rushing into a burning home, filled with adults, teenagers, children, and a sleeping baby, you are going to tell the adults to “get the kids outside to safety” and ask: “WHERE IS THE BABY!?”  That’s right, you are going to try to save the baby,because you know the baby is helpless to save itself!

And this is precisely the “undone” matter we have withdrawn from for 40 years.

Like they said…..we should not be picking fights. But neither can we run from the fights the enemy is picking. Whatever lies ahead, I count it an honor to stand with you, as we stand together! I’ll share a foxhole with you any day!

Maybe not my COFFEE! LOL!

yours for the least and most vulnerable,

Richard “Butch” Berget

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Restoration of Rachael’s Park Memorial

Great News!  With the help of Almighty God and a little help from “His” friends Rachael’s Park Memorial has been restored and is ministering the freedom and forgiveness that only Jesus can give even during the renovation.

Praise the Lord! ~ Flip

 

Restoration of Rachael’s Park Memorial

Rachel's Park 1

We are almost done with the complete restoration of Rachel’s Park Memorial. A special thanks to Pastor Dale Sochia, who traveled all the way from New Orleans to do the lion’s share of the work. He had the tools and the know how to help beautify and restore the park. I want to thank Carolyn Knowles, Jeff and Daniel Matthews and Brother Thomas from our church, Grace Church, who helped with the labor. I also want to thank John Pisciotta, Pro-life Waco, Donna Garner, King Jesus Ministries, and Bob Eoff for their financial support to help purchase the materials. 

There was another precious couple who came out to help and the Lord did a miraculous work. I did not know they were post-abortive till they came to one of the features of the park, The Wall of Remembrance. As they looked upon the plaques, the woman began to weep. The husband reached out to comfort his wife as they both broke. I literally felt the Spirit of God fall upon them and backed off till His work was done. As a result, they are contemplating on receiving further ministry from the park.

This special event took place while working on the park. It was another sign from God on how special Rachel’s Park Memorial is and how the Lord uses it for His glory and the benefit of those devastated by the sin and crime of abortion.

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Pastor Dale Sochia and I

 

Most of the crosses are repaired and back in the ground. All the poles surrounding the park are secure. Prayerfully, no more cars will be able to run roughshod over this sacred ground again. To those interested, we raised $675.00 of the $2000.00 needed to purchase the materials to restore the park. We still need $1,325.00 to pay it off.

You can donate online or send your checks to:

Elijah Ministries

P.O. Box 3126

Waco, Texas 76707

Thank you!

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New York – The Giants Are Not Sleeping

Rochester, New York, is this year’s destination for our National Event, July 24-31, 2013.  The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, is proposing the most draconian, devil inspired abortion bill ever seen on this continent. It is called the “Reproductive Health Act.”  This latest report just in from Chet Gallagher and our good friend Chris Slattery in New York City.

 Read, then prepare yourselves for battle as we run to the roar in the mighty Name of Jesus in Rochester, New York, this summer.  ~ Flip

 

New York (ABORTION) Giants are not sleeping!

My friend, Chris Slattery, just sent out a sobering warning as to the increasingly gigantic challenges New York State prolifers continue to face I have included a short edit of his e-mail warning (below) because I want all of us to know the kind of territory we are running headlong into this summer for our OSA National event in Rochester, NY.

I am forwarding this to provoke us to love and good works, not to put fear in our hearts. Let us remember how very efficiently our One King, Jesus, will always use the least of us to even dispatch giants!

All we need to do is “Just Show Up!” so that “Christ will shine on you.”

Now is a good time to communicate with as many friends as you can to encourage them to run to this “land of the giants” with the rest of us in July.

Ephesians 5:11-16 – “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.

This is why it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.  Be very careful, then, how you live–not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.”

Wake up church we’re called and equipped to be Giant Slayers!

 Read, pray, come…

 Bless you,

 Rev. Chet and JoAnn Gallagher

OSA Las Vegas

JUST SHOW UP MINISTRIES

 

NY to Pass Nation’s Worst Abortion Bill

It’s the worst abortion law EVER to be posed, even worse than Roe v. Wade!

…And New York Governor Cuomo promised to pass it!

Imagine a world where a teenager who is perfectly healthy and nine months pregnant ……can walk into an unregulated abortion facility without her parent’s prior knowledge or consent,… have her innocent unborn baby brutally killed by an unlicensed abortionist,…and she doesn’t pay a dime-her parents’ health insurance covers it.

Not only that, but the local Catholic hospital is now fined or shut down, and the medical practitioners who worked there are stripped of their licenses because they refused to perform such abortions!

…And not only that, but agencies like our life-saving EMC-Frontline Pregnancy Centers would be outlawed as “discriminatory” for favoring childbirth over abortion!

Could this ever happen? Oh yes, and sooner than you might think. This is the nightmarish world of “all abortion all the time” medicine that Governor Andrew Cuomo just announced he will push through in the coming weeks. He has put his full weight behind the “Reproductive Health Act”, which is by far THE most radical pro-abortion legislation ever to hit a state government, anywhere in the country.

I’m not exaggerating about what this law will do. I wish I were.  Right now the state of New York limits abortion on demand to babies younger than 24 weeks. But that protection-and so much more-will come screeching to a halt if this evil bill, much like the one introduced by pro-abort Governor Eliot Spitzer in 2007, gets passed.

Even in a state like New York with twice the abortion rate of the national average, this law is guaranteed to make abortions more common, and more dangerous for child AND mother, as it’s possible for them to be. The sickening Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell who goes on trial for murder next week, and Leroy Carhart, who just killed a 29 year old NY woman and her 33 week unborn child, in a botched abortion, would be free and clear under a law like this.

The Supreme Court interpreted Roe v. Wade to allow some restrictions on abortion. But we’re now looking at a no-holds-barred, all-out attack against the unborn because this law: 

1. Could mandate abortion coverage in all insurance plans.

2. Could compel Catholic charities and schools to counsel and refer for abortion.

3. Could compel Catholic hospitals, to allow abortions on their premises.

4. Lifts the current age restriction on the purchase of the so-called “morning-after pill” at neighborhood drug stores, allowing girls as young as 11 to get the drugs without a doctor’s prescription or a parent’s knowledge.

5. By repealing the requirement in current law that only a licensed physician may perform an abortion, it endangers women’s lives.

6. Removes from the penal code criminal liability for the physician should the woman die of abortion malpractice. Would endanger maternity and prenatal care programs, which could be ruled “discriminatory” for favoring childbirth over abortion (another attack on our outreaches at EMC-Frontline Pregnancy Centers, which provide prenatal care).

If this law passes, we can expect the worst of the butchers, the late-term abortionists, to start setting up shop all over our city (already the “Abortion Capital of America”) to destroy even viable, fully formed babies. And-if you can believe it-face no risks of criminal penalty, even if the mothers were to die!

I dread to see what things will look like here if this law passes. It makes my blood run cold. As bad as it is already-and it is very bad-our city quickly could get much worse.

Chris Slattery

 

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Families at the Abortion Mill

Many of you know Mark and Lisa Metzger and their wonderful family.  They have been such a blessing to mothers in crisis pregnancy situations and children “waiting to be born” in our city.  For the past three years they, and several other families, have been allowing the theology of heaven to become biography at the gates of hell here at Charlotte’s three local abortion mills, and hundreds of children have been saved. 

Not only that, they have found that the Gospel ministry at the gates of hell is the very best place to train up gentle warriors for King Jesus!

Click here and enjoy Mark and Lisa’s message.  ~ Flip

 

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Tim Tebow – Stand Tall!

Here is an article by David Benham concerning Tim Tebow and our need to pray for him and others like him.  God is looking for men to unsheathe the Sword of the Spirit and wield it with devastating effect upon the lies and strongholds of this day.  The gates of hell cannot prevail against God’s prevailing church.

Enjoy – then storm the gates! ~ Flip

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Coach Dave on Personhood

This is a great five minute video with an incredible historical perspective from the actual Supreme Court hearings of Roe v. Wade in January of 1973.

 Enjoy!  ~ Flip

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Tim Tebow Fumbles the Cross of Christ

To whom much is given, much is required.  That is what the Bible tells us.  Below you will read an excellent article by Dr. Albert Moehler, President of Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, concerning Tim Tebow.   

Dr. Mohler has written well here.  He is “spot on!”  Tim chose to remain in the cave rather than face the giant.  He had a number of his friends rationalizing and justifying everything for him.  He is, after all, a “Gospel Preacher” not a social issues guy.  The sodomite agenda is such a bully.  It has won this battle in all our major corporations, schools, and cities.  Now it even has the audacity to go after the Boy Scouts of America. 

The NFL has long ago given way to this lie from the pit of hell.  Sportscasters and sportswriters have to pay homage to the lie of homosexual sodomy or they will no longer have jobs.  There is absolutely no tolerance for any other point of view.  There is especially no tolerance for guys like Tim Tebow who proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord.  They hate him with all the fury of hell and now they are literally forcing him to bow down and kiss the face of Baal.  It would be wise for Tim today to rise up and touch the face of Almighty God.  He was born for a time such as this!        

Simply put, homosexual sodomy destroys those who practice it and nations that approve of it.  If we love our neighbor, we will speak this truth.  If we hate him we will sit back and do nothing.  “Do not hate your brother in your heart.  Rebuke him frankly so you will not share in his guilt.”  Leviticus 19:17.

Truth is Hate to Those Who Hate the Truth!

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.  And to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that one point.”-                       Martin Luther

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Charlotte Abortion Mill- Filth and Squalor!

Here is a three minute documentary done by Channel 9 WSOC NEWS this past Friday afternoon February, 22, 2013,uncovering the absolute filth of “A Preferred Women’s Health Clinic,” an abortion mill in the Charlotte area. It is eye-opening and stomach-turning to say the very least.

How God’s heart must ache at the murder of His precious preborn children. ~ Flip

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March 2013 Newsletter – OSA National Event Announcement

“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of.  Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends determined to be free.  And heaven and earth will aid the resolution.  On you depend the fortunes of America.  You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.”   –Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, 1775

“If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that, ‘It is not by might, but by My Spirit.’” – Jonathan Goforth (February 10, 1859 – October 8, 1936, (Missionary to China)

Here’s the newsletter!  ~ Flip

 

Invitation to OSA National Event, July 24th -31st, Rochester,NY 

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:  Jerry Crawford and I are delighted to extend an invitation to you and yours to join us in contending for the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and for Life in Rochester, NY this July 24-31st. For forty years the American Church has wandered in the wilderness, seeing a rise of Godlessness and 55 million children destroyed as a result of the United States forsaking our Biblical heritage and foundations.  Yet the promise of Isaiah 60: 1-3 rings true.  “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.”

Could it be that OSA Rochester, NY will mark our passing through the Jordan and into the promised land of renewed hope, renewed righteousness and restoration?  Come and be a part of what God will do!  Rochester has been the site of historic revival during the C. G. Finney’s ministry in the mid 1800’s.  Rochester was a vital station on the Underground Railroad and the home of former slave, freedman, abolitionist leader, and Christian, Fredrick Douglass.  It’s time for the church to arise and contend again! It’s our turn now!

Mike Warren and Jerry Crawford, Rescue Rochester

 

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