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| Podcast: Speaking to the Pro-Life Future |
|  | Hear Minnesota Family Council's Grace Evans speak at the Dobbs Decision Day rally in St. Paul. Inspired by her testimony? Make sure to subscribe to the Family Beacon podcast so that YOU get the top stories on life, family, and religious freedom delivered every Friday. Get the podcast: |
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| 14 Days to Adjust our Spiritual Compass |
|  | I invite you to join with us, with fellow Christians across Minnesota, and with thousands of Christians across America, as together we dedicate 14 days in July to reset our spiritual compass and cry out to God in fasting and prayer! “Exalt! A Call to Prayer and Fasting” is a nationwide initiative of the Family Policy Alliance, our allied State Family Policy Councils (like Minnesota Family Council) across the nation, and the If 7:14 prayer ministry, uniting networks of Christians in states across America from July 1-14 in humble prayer to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. You can see it on the news, feel it in your heart: the church in America is engaged in a spiritual conflict (Ephesians 6:12). But though we live in a world at war, we do not wage war as the world does: The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5) Are you ready to join the battle? Don’t worry if you don’t know what to pray. Never fasted before? No problem. Just click the button below for a an easy-to-use, “Ready, Set, Go” guide to joining the Exalt! call to prayer. The guide includes an easy, practical guide to fasting, daily devotions, and more. Get your guide today, and join me in July, as we Exalt the Name of Jesus! |
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| Our Statement on the 2021 Minnesota Abortion Report |
|  | MINNEAPOLIS - In response to the release of Minnesota's 2021 Abortion Report, Minnesota Family Council CEO John Helmberger released the following statement on July 1, 2022: The 2021 state report on abortions performed in Minnesota, which includes upward corrections to the 2020 report, shows that abortions in Minnesota continue to rise against the ten-year average. Let’s be clear: abortion is an atrocity that always takes the life of a child in the womb, and often results in lasting physical and emotional harm to a woman. Even as the Supreme Court issues a historic ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson clarifying that there is no right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution, abortionists in Minnesota are doubling down and increasing capacity for both surgical and medication abortions, intent on making our state an abortion mecca. One particular point of concern is medication abortions, which now make up more than 60% of the measured total, although the true total may be far higher. This is concerning because medication abortions carry unique risks for women and have become much easier to obtain due to pandemic-era rules on virtual prescriptions. There is reason to believe that this number will rise even further. Planned Parenthood, Minnesota’s largest abortion provider, is forecasting an increase of up to 25%. It's clear that Minnesotans don’t want to see abortions in our state increase, and polling shows steady opposition to taxpayer funding of abortion. We believe that as abortion providers become more desperate in their attempts to lure women from Minnesota and out-of-state, more and more people in our state will rise up in opposition, enabling us to create a state that respects human life at every stage of development. |
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| Sign Your Teen Up for Our Leadership Camp (July 24-29) |
|  | | Registration for LEAD closes in one week! Through our LEAD program, we're equipping the next generation of Christian leaders. Gen Z needs men and women who will boldly stand for the truth and shine the light of the gospel in their communities! We equip young people to do that by providing them with hands-on leadership training that gives them the tools to build a strong Biblical worldview while learning the legislative process. We hope to see your teen from July 24-29th at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul! Who: Highschool students ages 13–19
What: A hands-on leadership and worldview camp
which equips the next generation of Christian leaders to engage the culture.
When: July 24-29, 2022To learn more about LEAD, head to leadminnesota.org and don’t forget to check us out on Facebook and Instagram! |
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| | Get the Parent Resource Guide Responding to the transgender trend with truth and compassion starts with the Parent Resource Guide. Get your copy HERE today and invite a friend to do the same! Click to order your copy today: |
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| John Helmberger, CEO Minnesota Family Council and Institute |
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