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Crossroads update: the Rocky Mountains, a totaled car, and love and sacrifice on the prairies
BY THADDEUS BAKLINSKI
Fri Jun 17, 2011 13:05 ESTComments (0)Tags: Abortion, Canada, Crossroads
One of the Crossroads walkers finishing up the night shift greets the sunrise somewhere in British Columbia.
Photo: Mark Pinto
SOMEWHERE on the prairies, June 17, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canada Crossroads pro-life walkers have made it through the Rocky Mountains and are now wending their way across the vast expanse of the Canadian plains, sharing their message of life.
Walk leader Michael Hayden, who participated on the walk last year as well, said the first two weeks of the journey through British Columbia were filled with beauty and graces, but also with physical hardship and serious mishaps.
“It has been hard getting into the swing of walking 25-40 kilometers a day,” Michael wrote on the blog where team members post periodic updates of their experiences.
“Many of the members of our team are blistered and sore and two of them have blown out their knees, but like true heroes they continue on without complaint. … God’s grace is with us and is driving us on with the prayers of all of you and your support. We unite our suffering with the unborn who are suffering in their violent death of abortion.”
But it is not only physical hardships that are threatening to throw the team of young pro-lifers down. “Our work has not gone unnoticed by the old devil downstairs!” said Michael. “Our RV is continuously in need of small repairs and our support vehicle was crashed into by another vehicle trying to switch lanes on our way to a parish - the same parish that we had such a hard time getting to last year.”
Hayden reports that the vehicle was totaled, but nobody was hurt. “All of these incidents can be very discouraging coupled with the exhaustion of our walk,” he said.
“And yet,” he continued, “it became clear to me WHY we have been getting so much heckling.” Hayden says that he found out that last year when the Crossroads team spoke at the church that they were traveling to when their car was hit, a girl heard the Crossroads talk and changed her mind about aborting her child. Now, said Hayden, “there are two known ‘Crossroads Canada Babies’ that the lord has saved through our work.”
lifesitenews.com/news/crossroads-update-the-rocky-mountains-a-totaled-car-and-love-and-sacrifice
BY THADDEUS BAKLINSKI
Fri Jun 17, 2011 13:05 ESTComments (0)Tags: Abortion, Canada, Crossroads
One of the Crossroads walkers finishing up the night shift greets the sunrise somewhere in British Columbia.
Photo: Mark Pinto
SOMEWHERE on the prairies, June 17, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canada Crossroads pro-life walkers have made it through the Rocky Mountains and are now wending their way across the vast expanse of the Canadian plains, sharing their message of life.
Walk leader Michael Hayden, who participated on the walk last year as well, said the first two weeks of the journey through British Columbia were filled with beauty and graces, but also with physical hardship and serious mishaps.
“It has been hard getting into the swing of walking 25-40 kilometers a day,” Michael wrote on the blog where team members post periodic updates of their experiences.
“Many of the members of our team are blistered and sore and two of them have blown out their knees, but like true heroes they continue on without complaint. … God’s grace is with us and is driving us on with the prayers of all of you and your support. We unite our suffering with the unborn who are suffering in their violent death of abortion.”
But it is not only physical hardships that are threatening to throw the team of young pro-lifers down. “Our work has not gone unnoticed by the old devil downstairs!” said Michael. “Our RV is continuously in need of small repairs and our support vehicle was crashed into by another vehicle trying to switch lanes on our way to a parish - the same parish that we had such a hard time getting to last year.”
Hayden reports that the vehicle was totaled, but nobody was hurt. “All of these incidents can be very discouraging coupled with the exhaustion of our walk,” he said.
“And yet,” he continued, “it became clear to me WHY we have been getting so much heckling.” Hayden says that he found out that last year when the Crossroads team spoke at the church that they were traveling to when their car was hit, a girl heard the Crossroads talk and changed her mind about aborting her child. Now, said Hayden, “there are two known ‘Crossroads Canada Babies’ that the lord has saved through our work.”
lifesitenews.com/news/crossroads-update-the-rocky-mountains-a-totaled-car-and-love-and-sacrifice