The 31st annual Poplar Bluff Life Chain event is set for 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, at the Butler County Courthouse.
The first Sunday in October, Life Chain invites churches and others in the cities and towns across North America to stand on a designated local sidewalk and pray for one hour, while holding one of the following approved pro-life sign messages: “Abortion Kills Children; Abortion Hurts Women; Jesus Forgives and Heals; Adoption: The Loving Option; Lord, Forgive Us and Our Nation; Pray to End Abortion; Men Regret Lost Fatherhood; Life -- The First Inalienable Right.”
Life Chain follows a Code of Conduct that respects all motorists and pedestrians, and while Life Chain believes the church must impact government, all political activity is suspended on National Life Chain Sunday.
Locally, for 30 years, prayer warriors have peacefully assembled.
Life Chain realizes deaths from surgical and chemical abortions far exceed the number commonly reported today (about 60 million in the U.S. and about 4.1 million in Canada). Life Chain also realizes that the children die from want of love and that the church Christ founded must provide the love required to end abortion.
Accordingly, participants should seek God for fervent desire to love rejected preborns more intimately and for the willingness to defend them more committedly.
The 2021 Chains will bring the ministry’s total for America and Canada to over 25,000 Chains since 1987, and no illegal act by a participant has ever been reported to Life Chain’s national office. We thank God for that blessing and for His protection of millions of participants through the years.
For more information contact Cassie Willey at 573-429-1824 or go online to www.LifeChain.org or www.LifeChain.net.