This whole week has seemed like one great big history lesson to me. We have over the past few days driven about 26 or more hours in total in order to make our way from Las Vegas, Nevada to Jackson, Mississippi. We made our way in our faithful Sprinter stopping in Albuquerque, NM first and then in Dallas, TX the next night. We were greeted at both places with awesome host homes who provided so graciously for us with food and a bed to sleep in (It’s always a joy to have a bed to sleep in when you’ve been traveling or working all day). So Sunday morning after going to church and a quick lunch we packed up and headed towards Jackson, MS. We were thankful to have a host homes with the Moore’s in Dallas, but were super excited upon reaching our desitination in Jackson. We were immeadiately welcomed into Vince’s host homes house by Roy who started giving us his life story of his work in both the pro-life movement and the civil rights movement.
Apparently Roy was arrested and in jail with Martin Luther King Jr and was in jail with him when he wrote the Birmingham letters! I mean how awesome and cool is that! If only I knew the amount of history that was about to hit us in the face upon arriving in Jackson. Our host homes were made up of many people who had participated in Operation Rescue sit ins at clinic entrances before the FACE act was signed into law. These people would take their weekends off and drive hours and hours to an abortion mill where they would gather and sit in the entrance to the abortion mill as long as they could. Of course the police would then come and cart them off and they were usually in jail for a few days or so, sometimes a few hours, and sometimes weeks.
I’m honestly in awe of these people and the sacrifices they’ve made just to protect the unborn, I hope to be as bold and passionate as they are one day. Roy’s story was pretty amazing, his wife Beverly is actually a former abortionist who realized the error of her ways and turned herself around and opened a very successful OB-GYN practice later on. She’s not retired as well as Roy and they both work tirelessly to educate others on the horrors of abortion and it’s terrible effects on young women. We were graciously welcomed for dinner by Pro-Life Mississippi on Monday night, which was awesome there were so many passionate people there. Lots of older women who had such concern and love for the young women who were being misled and given abortions every week.
We held a candelight vigil there at the last remaining abortion mill in Mississippi on Monday night, how powerful to be joined in prayer with all those pro-lifers and get to write messages in chalk to the young women on the sidewalk.One of our host homes we had a older couple named Harriet and Bill, they were awesome! Harriet had done many rescues in her younger days, and Bill her ever faithful husband would drive her to them. He wasn’t one to participate in them but would follow her and then wait for her if she was arrested. It was one of the most darling stories I think I’ve ever heard.
There were overall lots of powerful stories from each of our host homes, lots of reasons that I would love to stay. I think I can safely say that I hope I’ll be visiting soon again, to learn more history and to join with the Mississippi pro-lifers in hopefully one day shutting down that last remaining abortion mill!
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