Events

Dear Friend of Life,
Chattanoogans for Life will be holding it's eighth Annual Prayer Chain for Life to encourage people of faith to pray for the sanctity of ALL life from the moment of natural conception to the point of natural death. We would like to invite you and your congregation to join us in a SILENT prayer chain on Sunday, October 3, 2010 to pray that the culture of death that surrounds us today will be replaced with a culture of life.

We will meet in front of the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church (501 S. Moore) for an hour of SILENT prayer. This ecumenical prayer hour will begin at 3:15 P.M. and end at 4:15 P.M. We hope that our prayer chain will stretch for a mile along Moore Rd. Please join us as we storm the gates of heaven with prayer and make a positive statement to the community regarding our belief that all life is a precious gift from God. Every person who receives this gift has responsibilities toward God, self, and others to make sure that society, through its laws and social institutions, protects and nurtures human life at every stage of its existence.

This is a demonstration of PRAYER FOR the culture of life! It is not a protest against any individual life issue. Prayer is the foundation of all that we do in defense of life. Our joint prayer efforts will change hearts and lead us all from the culture of death toward a culture of life. We will provide a sign for you to hold while you are praying: no others are permitted. We look forward to your participation!

For more information please contact: Chattanoogans for Life (290-7314)

Sincerely,

Cynthia M. Kedrowski

With Dr. Alveda King and other pro-life leaders.

Bishop Robert Baker of Birmingham endorses the Freedom Rides (pdf)

Proclaim Freedom for the Unborn -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

Friday, October 15
7:00 pm: Rally - Assembly/Concert (Location to be announced)

Saturday, October 16
9:00 am: Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood: 710 Cherry St.
11:00 am: Pro-Life Freedom Ride Campaign Caravan Departs Knoxville for the National Memorial for the Unborn - Chattanooga


"My Uncle Martin had a dream that Protestants and Catholics and Gentiles and Jews would join together and sing the age old spiritual 'Free at Last.'" We will be singing and praying on the Pro-life Freedom Rides. We urge all people of good will to join us as we link the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th Century to the heart cry for life in the 21st Century." – Dr. Alveda King

Dr. Alveda King, who is a full-time member of the Pastoral Team of Priests for Life and niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., will be leading “Pro-life Freedom Rides” in the coming months, building on a method that the Civil Rights Movement used effectively forty years ago.

In that movement, thirteen individuals boarded a bus in Washington DC in 1961 and headed for New Orleans. Their intent was to test the enforcement of a Supreme Court decision the previous year that outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting areas of bus terminals that served interstate travelers.

That one ride led to dozens of others in various parts of the country, with hundreds of people getting involved.

Now, Dr. King and the team of Priests for Life believe it is time for a "Pro-life Freedom Ride," a peaceful, visible expression of the commitment of people around the country to work for freedom for the unborn. The rides will choose cities with strategic significance for the movement. While pro-life activists ride the buses, all pro-life people nationwide will be invited to participate simultaneously in concrete activities that will call for freedom on various levels: freedom from the lies that permit abortion, freedom from the despair that leads to and follows abortion, freedom from the fear that keeps people from fighting abortion, freedom from the political oppression that robs the unborn of their rights before the law.


Become a Freedom Rider! -- Join us on FaceBook! -- Call Us 1-888-735-3448!

The Annual March for Life on the sad anniversary of Roe vs Wade is January 22, but this year it falls on the week-end so the March will be held on Monday, January 24, 2011.

Join thousands of others at March for Life on the sad Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. We will take 2 buses from East TN to Washington, D.C. We plan to leave on in the evening, January 22, 2011,

depart immediately after the March and arrive home around 5:00 A.M., January 25, 2011. Please keep checking the website as the plans get finalized and to sign-up.

Cost of the trip is only $60, and includes all meals.

This is a contest open to ALL high school students. Each participant will research a life issue, then prepare and present a 3-5 minute speech to a small panel of judges. The speech can cover any life issue, but must address only one. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top finishers.

Contact: Frances King 423-842-1647

The prayer service will be held on Friday afternoon at the Memorial for the Unborn. The banquet follows later that same evening.

If you can help in any way, please call us: 423-290-7314

For YouTube videos from past Respect Life Banquet's click here.