Events and Opportunities

Dear Friends for Life,

A highly successful campaign called 40 Days for Life started in America in 2004.  Last year, Brisbane ran this very successful campaign. This year, Sydney and Melbourne are also participating. By reading the 2009 campaign overview at you will get a very good overview of how successful this cause really is.

The campaign will be a focused effort, held at the same time in all the hundreds of participating cities in America and other countries and now also Melbourne, starting on 17th of February,  (Ash Wednesday) 2010 until 28th of March, 2010 (Palm Sunday).
 
The aim of 40 Days for Life is to change the culture of death to a culture of life in the minds of as many people as we can reach through this peaceful vigil campaign.
 
We prayerfully invite you and all your fellow supporters of the Right to Life for the Unborn to join in this witness outside the Fertility Control Clinic, 118 Wellington Pde, East Melbourne, by registering your attendance on the Vigil Schedule slots can be made individually, as a family or group for any number of hours and/or days.

We pray that you and your beautiful family, friends/organisation can and will participate. Please help spread the news regarding the 40 Days for Life campaign in any way possible because the more supporters we have, the bigger the impact! 
 
Thanking you, in anticipation of your necessary support.
Best Regards, 
 
Fons Janssen                        Trudi Aiashi
Campaign Director                 Communications Coordinator

Phone 03 5194 2340
fonsforlife@skymesh.com.au
MelbourneWebsite: http://www.40daysforlife.com/melbourne/
Venue: Fertility Control Clinic. 118 Wellington Pde East Melbourne.
Dates: 17/02/10 – 28/03/10.

One of the most heartbreaking situations that a woman can find herself in, is to discover the foetal development of an aborted baby after the fact. The emotional and psychological impact can be extremely damaging and is often long term. Women deserve the opportunity to be fully informed about this development prior to making a decision about the future of their pregnancy.

‘IN-SIGHT’ is intended to enable women to access this information at the time of decision making by providing free and readily available ultra sound scanning: offering an immediate and convenient option of seeing the developmental stage of the foetus before making an irreversible choice.

Our goal, at Genesis, is to purchase a $50 000 machine which is portable and 4D compatible. So far, amazingly, we have raised $29 000!

Being portable, we will be able to make the machine available to other pro-life agencies as well, so that it is put to maximum use. With your help, we can do this, and be able to offer the first free ultra sound imaging available in South Australia.

Genesis Pregnancy Support is a pregnancy support agency providing options counselling for people facing an unplanned pregnancy. We provide telephone and face to face counselling free of charge and offer material assistance where possible. We also offer post abortion counselling. We are completly relient upon donations as we do not receive any funding. All our workers are volunteers.

To make a donation, contact Genesis at genesispregnancysupport@msn.com.

Adapted from the Genesis Pregnancy Support Newsletter
Used with permission