Any creative ideas for pro-life club at university?

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Hey Everyone,
I am one of the leaders for the pro life club in my university, but we are all struggling in making our club out there. By that, I mean, we are not making our presence evident. The club hosted debates before (around two years ago), which gained lots of attention but now I am wondering if you all have any ideas for raising more awareness or perhaps even creative ideas to raise money for our club and crisis pregnancy centres?

Our club isn’t communicating, which is probably the main issue, but I am trying to come up with creative ideas to get more people talking about abortion.

Please, I humbly ask if you can also pray for the survival of our club.
Lady of Guadalupe, please intercede for us.
 
I don’t know where your Uni is situated, however the screening of a Scottish Hospital teaching video on a Trimester abortion was very effective at my Uni many years ago. I don’t know where you can get it but was extremely graphic with many people outraged with some fainting in horror. If my understanding of America’s somewhat prudish public mores is correct, this is sure to bring a cry of protest from the liberal left if your Uni is in the USA.

Even if the film is banned on Uni property, it will cause debate about censorship and divide the debate on individual freedom etc.

Anything that will create outrage and dissent is valuable to raise your profile.

But it does take courage and a few individuals who don’t care about their public personae.

Good Luck
 
First, buy a button machine and a bunch of paper.

Each member spiritually adopts a baby and names him “Baby Joey.”

(Prayers are said for the baby who may be in danger of abortion. Archbishop Sheen had a great prayer for this.)

Each meeting, after prayer, report on the physical development of your “baby,” i.e. “at X weeks, I have a heart beat.”

For the buttons, use images such as little feet, hand prints, faces, body parts (not gory) to reflect the stage the baby is in. Ultrasounds are best.

On the buttons, put the name of the baby at the top.

Put the image of the baby (or its feet) at the approximate age in the middle.

At the bottom, put the approximate date of conception, such as "December 14, 2013 - " but leave the date of death open.

Wear the buttons. Explain that you are praying for a baby named Joseph who is x weeks old and in danger of dying. Do not mention abortion. Ask for prayers for the baby. Say that because you believe that life begins at conception, you are honoring his or her life in utero. Be vague about “mom.”

Every so often, add another button showing the development of Baby Joey. If anyone asks, say you’re still praying and would appreciate their prayers. Just say the doctors don’t really know why the baby is in danger, but it doesn’t look good.

Some people have to choose if their spiritually adopted baby will die our not. When they decide, they wear “Baby Joey, December 14 - May 5, 2014” pins with the appropriate number of weeks.

When people ask, “What happened to Baby Joey?” You reply, “His mother had an abortion.”

“Because he was ill/sick/deformed?”

“No. She didn’t want him/could afford him/would have to drop out of school, etc.”

And then you say, “Thank you for your prayers through the past few weeks. You know I believe that life begins at conception. Why would you have thought of Baby Joey as a baby in the womb versus fetal tissue based on what you thought the mother wanted? The baby wasn’t even born yet, had a name, and for all intents and purposes, we both wanted this baby to live.”

You’re not at University to crusade your cause, but to plant a seed and get others to exercise their critical thinking skills, too. Don’t drive people to your conclusion, but lead them to it, so when you engage someone, be humble and not priggish.

Hope you’ll consider my idea. 🙂
 
Here are some events that we did back in my day in my college pro-life group.
  1. Invite the Genocide Awareness Project to hold a display on your camps. This was the most significant and impactful events our group hosted throughout my entire college experience.
  2. Host a Silent No More Awareness Gathering. A group of local women who have had abortions will publicly share their stories or regret and remorse.
  3. Take your group to the March for Life in Washington D.C. I know it is coming up in a couple of weeks so it may be too late for this year but start planning NOW for next year. A trip like this always attracts a lot of people from different churches and groups who want to be a part of something big. If you are on the West Coast there is a March in San Francisco every year as well.
  4. Attend the Students For Life Conference in Washington D.C. While you are attending the March for Life in DC, usually this conference is around the same time of the March.
  5. Ask local churches or groups to donate baby booties or baby shoes and hang them up on a clothes line somewhere on campus with a sign showing that each pair of shoes represents the number of babies killed each day in your state or the country, etc.
    Make sure you have people sign up to guard the display though because something like this is also susceptible to vandals.
    You could do the same display with small white crosses but if you don’t know of a church or group that already has the crosses handy, this would be harder to make or come by than the baby shoes/ booties.
  6. Something that was really simple and easy was that after a meeting, we would break up into groups and take sidewalk chalk and go around campus writing down abortion facts and statistics around campus. This is a fairly cheap and fun activity that also is easy to get people talking and a buzz around campus. The only down side of course is if it rains soon. Generally the chalk rubs away anyway in a few days but it is enough time to get people talking and help your group bond.
These are just a few of the memorable things we did but do check out the Students for Life website. There is a ton of information and resources on there for college groups such as activity ideas, posters you can hang around campus, etc.

Good luck! You are doing God’s work which is why Satan wants to divide your group and have everyone “not communicating.” If you have fun ideas that make an impact, it will attract people and you’ll see a difference.

PS- In my experience, debates didn’t really ever work out as a positive thing for our group. It often just lead to an opportunity for the other side to gain publicity and it seemed like everyone who attended didn’t walk away with their minds changed but rather people just listened to which ever side they wanted to hear.

PM me if you have an questions about the links or suggestions!
 
rafarose said:
Hey Everyone,
I am one of the leaders for the pro life club in my university, but we are all struggling in making our club out there. By that, I mean, we are not making our presence evident. The club hosted debates before (around two years ago), which gained lots of attention but now I am wondering if you all have any ideas for raising more awareness or perhaps even creative ideas to raise money for our club and crisis pregnancy centres?

Our club isn’t communicating, which is probably the main issue, but I am trying to come up with creative ideas to get more people talking about abortion.

Please, I humbly ask if you can also pray for the survival of our club.
Lady of Guadalupe, please intercede for us.
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How about hosting a baby shower for the expectant unwed mothers. You also can get empty baby bottles and distribute them at church asking people to fill them with their loose change. The donations can go to the pregnancy centers or unwed mothers home. You can ask for donations of baby items to be distributed. Try hooking up with an organization such as CrossRoads or Good Council homes. Do you have a Pro Life
organization in your area? Praying to Our Lady of Guadalupe for you. God bless your
good work.
 
I am adamantly Pro Life. But I don’t think it is necessary to only take a more graphic/extreme approach. Don’t forget to focus on life for the sake of death.

However, my suggestion is do NOT assume that your target audience is going to respond favorably to only one message. Be prepared with more than one approach.

God bless you
 
fastenatingguy said:
I am adamantly Pro Life. But I don’t think it is necessary to only take a more graphic/extreme approach. Don’t forget to focus on life for the sake of death.

However, my suggestion is do NOT assume that your target audience is going to respond favorably to only one message. Be prepared with more than one approach.

God bless you
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Agreed. I tell anyone who interested in doing any type of club or membership organization it has to be about action of some kind. You actually must do something. Volunteer with or raise money for the Rachel Project. Volunteer with a pregnancy and birthing center that accommodates low income or teen moms. “Adopt” Families, in many of my service organizations I would try to find a family that was not eligible for or did not have access to other more popular programs as a way to spread the wealth. I’ve done food bags for a young mom or family, especially one with a young baby, bottles, diapers, formula. Also don’t forget these families need support for a while. A lot of groups and organizations focus on pregnant moms and very young families and often they phase out or age out of help early within the first year or two.
 
This depends on the culture at your university, but if you are interested in getting other students to think, I would strongly suggest creating posters, info boards, etc. with information on pregnancy and fetal development, as well as abortion. I find that graphic photos harden hearts or frighten people away, but a person who is genuinely interested will read text with non-threatening pictures.

Make sure the information is solid and presented in as non-biased a way as possible. You can say the information was compiled by the name of your group on the board, but otherwise make it about the information, because it speaks for itself. It doesn’t have to be displayed in an overly emotional or graphic way, because it comes off as negatively biased - that’s what makes it easy for pro-choicers to reject (I used to be one and I used that rationale all the time to avoid confronting the truth).

Of course, your university culture has to be such that you could make a few of these and they’d all instantly be destroyed. That, of course, is known to happen. It’d be really great if you could put up such a display right under some pro-choice commemoration (one of the more ghastly displays at my school was a row of coat hangers above the entrance to our dining hall…it would have been nice to have pro-life info contradicting that myth right underneath!)

It’d also be cool if you could get a local pro-life doctor who knows his/her stuff to do a lecture about it. Of course, any event that provides food will bring people. 😛
 
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