Events

On January 15th, 2012, the Charismatic Episcopal Church celebrates the Feast of our Lord the Giver of Life.

John 10.10 reads, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.” On this coming Feast Day, the Church proclaims that it is in relationship with the Risen Christ so that men and women may find true life. Because Jesus not only gives abundant life, He alone is life. (John 14.6)

John 10.10 also reminds us that the Church is in a spiritual war. This scripture tells us, particularly those of us in the North American Church, that the battle line is drawn between a post-modern, hedonistic, consumer driven, materialistic, contraceptive culture of death and the liberating, restoring, reconciling, eternal Gospel culture of life. This is an ancient spiritual battle that has crossed time and space, and it will be waged until our Lord – the giver of life – finally comes again to fully establish His Kingdom.

As you read this letter, thousands of babies will be murdered in the womb of their mothers. Thousands of women and men will remember today as the day they aborted their child, and they will be scarred for life–physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Why are these children murdered? Because the enemy is waging a battle, and he has argued very effectively that poverty is a result of giving birth to children. There is just too much life. If we had fewer children, the argument goes, then we would have less poverty, less disease, and less hunger. Abortion is aimed not at the rich, who have all the resources, but at the poor.

This is just as true in the the United States as it is anywhere else. The African American community, for example, is disproportionately targeted by the abortion industry. Since 1973, over 25% of the black population has been exterminated by abortion. Today, almost as many African American babies are aborted as are born, making it three times more likely for a black baby to be killed in the womb than a white baby. In fact, In the last 30 years, more than twice as many African Americans have died from abortion as from AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer and heart disease combined.

The abortion industry seeks to convince women and men, especially those who are impoverished, that their life would be better and easier without children. That is why Planned Parenthood operates the largest chain of abortion clinics in the United States with 80% of them placed in minority communities. And African American women, though they only make up 13% of the American population, have 35% of all abortions, earning the US abortion industry more than $16,000 an hour for the killing of African American babies.

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International ProLife Youth Conference Day 1

 

Credit: Jill Nance / The News & Advance

LYNCHBURG,VA – Bishop Philip Weeks places his hands on the arms of the chair and leans down to face his wife, June. “Do you love me?” She continues singing the soft, garbled song that only she can understand. “Fifty-six years tomorrow is our anniversary. How about that?” He leans closer and smiles. She smiles. “She’s the nearest thing to perfection that I’ve ever known,” said Weeks, as he sits on a small couch across from June.

When he looks at her, he still sees the feisty woman he had to ask four times to marry him before she finally said, “yes.” Love is blind. Alzheimer’s and dementia slowly swept that June away years ago, taking first her memory, then her daily walks and now her speech.

Weeks, a missionary priest for decades, retired from his role as a charismatic Episcopal bishop in 2005 to care for June full time in their Lynchburg home. Today, 10 years after the first diagnosis, June has vascular dementia and Lewy Body Dementia, a unique disease with unique symptoms such as hallucinations and a decline that is anything but gradual.

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CEC for the Life of the West, based in San Clemente sponsors 2 powerful youth events

All Night Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood

Fr. Steve Powers writes, “I was amazed to see 22 zealous Pro-lifers, from ages 13 to 71, gather at Planned Parenthood, 700 Tustin Avenue, on the night of August 21; and later even more humbled to see 16 of them brave enough to stay until 5:30 AM.
We began the night with prayer and worship, while holding Pro-life signs on the public sidewalk. As the night progressed, the acolytes began setting up for the Memorial Mass. Before we started, I looked up and saw the moon in a perfect half, one half brightly glowing and the other half dark and black. The Lord spoke to me saying, ‘ you are all exactly where you should be in this gap of time. You are exactly in the middle, dividing day and night, separating good and evil, and being a moral witness to mankind.’
As the acolytes continued to ready the table for Mass, I waited and prayed. When it was finished, and I began the Mass, the Lord prompted me to look at the time; it was exactly 12:00 midnight. The Lord spoke again, saying, ‘you are exactly were you should be, dividing the day from the night.You are standing in the gap, pushing away dark evil and bringing in the light of Christ. You are being a witness even in the dark of the night’, pronouncing that a new day has dawned for those lost in the dark. The old day has passed and the new day has begun.”

Sidewalk Counseling and Witnessing at Family Planning Association and Spectrum Center

by: Gavin Harris

On September 10, 2011 a small group of people from the CEC4life of the West, led by Fr.Steve Powers, gathered together at an FPA (Family Planning Association) clinic to side-walk council. Also joining us in witnessing was a group from Calvary Chapel who joined later in the morning. During the time spent at the clinic it did not just rain, it poured. But, even under these conditions, God’s children from three years old to fifty years old stayed and protested against the daily slaughter of the innocent. That day at the clinic, at least a dozen were lost. For that dozen that lost there lives by deceit, one lived. Thirty minutes ago a husband had dropped off his wife at the clinic. Upon returning he stopped next to Fr. Steve, and said, “We’re not doing it.” As we rejoiced over the saved life a cry when up saying “It was the stork!” Everyone agreed that the stork was a sign from God. Before leaving the clinic our group gathered in front of the building and preformed the liturgy for the pre-born, praying for those twenty who lost their lives that day, and all those who came before them. The Holy Spirit was so strong that the clinic workers actually closed the blinds of the windows in an attempt to hide from the power they felt.

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