After graduating from college, I worked as a missionary serving college students and helping them live out their faith on campus, a place often hostile to the Gospel. Our ministry was a work of presence, living side by side with students and helping them to make their faith their own.
John,
After graduating from college, I worked as a missionary serving college students and helping them live out their faith on campus, a place often hostile to the Gospel. Our ministry was a work of presence, living side by side with students and helping them to make their faith their own.
Not long after arriving on campus, a student entrusted me with a heavy burden, “I have a friend who has had an abortion; she is afraid to come to Church, but she’d like to meet you.”
This crushed me. The Church should be a place of refuge for the vulnerable, but she was afraid to come. I was blessed to be able to form a friendship with this student and invite her back to campus ministry, but that made me wonder how many other students were carrying a similar burden.
The Christian community is not immune to the pain of abortion. Over my three years as a missionary, I began intentionally asking students about abortion and learned that many had friends who were post-abortive or they were post-abortive themselves.
It struck me that, while so many young women had experiences of unexpected pregnancies, I never once saw a pregnant student on campus. My heart broke for them.
The truth is that college women are vulnerable to abortion, even those practicing their faith, especially in today’s culture. The abortion industry knows that college women are good for business.
This experience strengthened my resolve to provide a safe place in the Church for these women and to be a voice for them and their preborn children. These women left a permanent impression on me, and it’s a big reason I’m now blessed to be on the Live Action team helping women and our culture at large.
I saw that women are bombarded with lies and held back by fear.
I saw how they need to be reached with truths…. about the brutality of abortion, the humanity of their preborn children, the regret post-abortive women feel, the resources available to them, the bountiful mercy of God, and the power of forgiveness. Live Action exists to provide these kinds of truths on a mass scale.
Do you have an experience that strengthened your pro-life position, John, or maybe even turned you from pro-abortion to pro-life? I’d love to hear — just reply to this email.
For Life,
Emily Langan
The Development Team
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