May 5, 2004
By Brenda Spurlock
Today the Walk Across America team crossed the Colorado and Kansas border. Destiny Thomas celebrated her 14th birthday. Happy birthday, Destiny!
Team members, and Judgment and Mercy, have been walking 15 to 16 miles per day. They will be joined Thursday and Friday by home-schoolers and Christian School students from Nebraska who plan to walk with them.
Flip said the small congregations they've come across during their journey leave them very hopeful. He said, "Men of God have no trouble agreeing with our message. They say, 'Yes, that's right, we are being judged.' There's a fire burning in their heart for the gospel of Christ." He said, "They have been so kind to us." Flip said they have been all but ignored by the large churches.
Tomorrow, Flip flies to Houston then on to Lake Charles, LA, to speak to the pro-life community. He'll rejoin the team Wednesday. He said, "In 1992 I spent 19 days in jail in Houston because I knelt and prayed on the sidewalk." He said, "Eileen O'Neil was the District Judge. She ruled that Christians did not have that right." He said, "Planned Parenthood won a judgment against us. All of Operation Rescue's assets were frozen. They took everything, down to every single pencil, and sold it at public auction." Flip said, "Today Ms. O'Neil is no longer District Judge. A rescuer, John Devine, challenged her in 1994 and won!" That's why, he explained, Houston has special significance for him.
Flip said the team will be in Wichita for Memorial Day weekend to take the gospel to Tiller's killing center and to celebrate the court victory against the city of Wichita. For information on this victory click on: http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/articles/articles/victory-in-courts-wichita.htm
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