Access Clinic, Downers Grove, IL

[mom23]

Every Saturday morning from 5:30-6:30 AM, a group of about fifteen men and women, including two priests, meet to pray at Access, 1700 75th St. in Downers Grove. It is just East of the 355 expressway, on the North side of 75th Street. If you're ever able to join us, we'd love to have you! We would also welcome additional sidewalk counselors. We currently have three, one who is there from approx. 5:15 a.m. to 6:45 a.m., and two who come from 6:45 a.m. to approx. 8:00 a.m. We could definitely use more help! Thanks!

[Jerry Vilt]

40 DAYS FOR LIFE !

2010 Fall Vigil

September 22 - October 31, 2010

Be involved !

http://40daysforlife.com/downersgrove

[Jerry Vilt]

40 Days for Life - national
DAY 15 3/3/10
http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=687
David Bereit

A young woman walked up to the 40 Days for Life vigil
outside an abortion center in Austin, Texas recently.
She signed up to join the others in prayer … and
then immediately sat down on the sidewalk and started
to cry.

One of the volunteers stopped praying for a moment to
approach the young woman, whom she had never met before,
and asked her if she needed a hug. This volunteer
assumed that the thought of what was going on inside
the abortion facility had simply overcome this woman
and brought her to tears.

But that wasn't the case. To her surprise, she found
out this young woman was crying for another reason.

"I'm pregnant right now and don't want to be," she
said. "I've already had four abortions.

She said she didn't have an abortion scheduled. "But
I keep feeling this huge temptation to just go to an
abortion clinic, pay my $400 and get it over with.
I came to the sidewalk to pray, and to be around
people who are like-minded as I am."

The young woman told one of the sidewalk counselors
that she was twelve weeks into her pregnancy. She had
already been to a pregnancy resource center, but was
still a mess emotionally.

She had become a Christian, she said. "But with this
pregnancy, I just feel so depressed. I'm living in a
women's shelter, and the last thing I want right now
is to be pregnant."

The sidewalk counselor took her to dinner, and they
sat and talked for hours. "As they developed a long-
term plan to get this young woman the help she needs,"
said Elizabeth McClung, the local 40 Days for Life
coordinator in Austin, "she said something that should
serve as an encouragement to every single pro-lifer
who has ever thought about going to pray at an
abortion facility."

"If you guys weren't out there praying," this woman
said, "I would have pulled up to the facility, sat in
my car for hours on end — and ended up going inside
for a fifth abortion. Since you were on the sidewalk
praying, I knew I could find comfort and support
there, so I went there to cry instead. Thank you for
being there."

"HER STORY IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE AS TO WHY WE NOT ONLY
PRAY FROM HOME AND FROM CHURCH, BUT WE ALSO GO PRAY AT
THE VERY PLACES WHERE LIVES ARE BEING HURT AND TAKEN,"
Elizabeth said. (caps. & underlining mine)

She is now on a path to healing from her previous
abortions, finding a job and taking her pregnancy one
day at a time. And, Elizabeth said, "She is not going
to have another abortion!"

Please pray for her, and for all who are desperate to
break out of that cycle of abortion.

[Jerry Vilt]

NOTICE:

A couple of storefronts to the east of "Access";

WOMAN'S CHOICE SERVICES:
630-261-9221

"Real Options" "True Choices"

1640D 75th ST
Downers Grove IL 60516