After 25 years and over 50,000 dead babies, why haven't they given up?

 For over 25 years ever single day, with no exceptions,  that the Rockford abortion mill has been open to murderGod's children in the womb, pro-lifers have been standing outside to offer love, help, and support to mothers in need.

 For every single day of the well over 10,000 days the Northern Illinois Women's Center has been in business to end the lives of children, Christians have been praying for the lives of those children to be spared from a brutal, pain-filled death.

 For all the millions of dollars the Rockford abortion mill has made for the men who own and run, it pro-lifers have cheerfully given countless amounts of their time and money to help mothers in need through baby showers, paying rent, gas, and electric bills. 

 They have helped mothers find jobs and homes.  They have bought diapers, formula, cribs, clothes, and car seats.  But most of all, they have been open and loving friends for mothers in need.

 For all of the grotesque displays mocking God and ridiculing human life put up in the windows or coming over the loud speakers of the abortion mill, these peaceful, pro-life Christians seem to come out in greater numbers to witness to the love of Jesus Christ and dignity of every person.

 They just don't seem to give up.

 What Kind of People are these Pro-Life Christians who don't ever seem to lose hope or stop loving?  Jesus Christ has the answer.

 Jesus said, "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit."

 Because Christians have worked in union with Jesus Christ, their prayers and presence at the Rockford mill have borne the fruit of saving thousands of babies from the abortionists' deadly hands and saved countless women from a mother's worse nightmare - the death of her child.

 Jesus said, "You are the salt of the earth."

 Salt preserves life.  The prayers and presence of pro-life Christians in Rockford preserve the presence of goodness and life in the heart of a culture of death.

 Jesus said, "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden."

 In so many ways from lifechains, to Face the Truth tours, to billboards, to prayer services, to web-sites, and in dozens of other ways, Rockford pro-lifers continue to shine the light of Christ, truth, and life on the evil of child-killing at 1400 Broadway.

 Jesus said, "Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink."

 Rockford pro-lifers have brought the love of Christ to those thirsting for life. In this long battle against abortion,  they have learned that the only place to go to be refreshed, strengthened, and renewed in faith and love is to Jesus Christ.  He is our life and our hope.

 Jesus said, "Set your mind on God's Kingdom and justice before everything else, and the rest will come to you as well."

 Every prayer and action of the Rockford pro-life community is meant to bring justice and love to those who are denied the most basic of human rights.

 Jesus said, "Stand up and walk."

 Jesus in healing the lame tells them to "stand up and walk."  Through loving the unborn in the image of Christ, pro-lifers have seen mothers strengthened to stand on their own - and we have seen their children grow and walk.

 Jesus said, "Enter by the narrow gate, wide is the gate and broad the road tha leads to destruction."

 Pro-life work is often difficult and full of disappointments.  Christ has taught us to chose the more difficult path that leads to eternal life.

 Jesus said, "Happy the servant who's master comes home and finds him at work."

 Pro-lifers have learned that overcoming evil takes years of prayer and hard work.  We will be at prayer and work, serving our Lord and His people until our Master's return.

 Jesus said, "Always treat others as you would like to be treated."

 The unborn person in the womb is treated like the slaves were or the Jews in the concentration camp.  Pro-lifers are treating them as they must be treated - as daughters and sons of God.

 Jesus said, "Not everyone who says 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my heavenly Father."

 Rockford pro-lifers don't just say they support Christ and life. 

To the best of their ability, they do the will of God the Father by sharing the suffering and persecutions of "the least of His people."

 Jesus said, "Take heart my child, your sins are forgiven."

 We have seen and experienced our own sins being forgiven and the sins of those who have repented of abortion washed away by the love of Jesus Christ.

 Jesus said, "Follow me."

 It is the only goal of Rockford Pro-lifers - following Jesus.

 Jesus said, "As for you, even the hairs of your head have been counted. Do not be afraid."

God knows every intimate detail about every child who dies in the Rockford abortion mill.  The pro-life community of Rockford by it's love comes to know and be a part of the short life of every child who dies in the mill.

We know and love these mothers and children.

 Jesus said, "Do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Fear him who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell."

 The Rockford pro-life community constantly prays for the abortionist, the workers, and the mill owner who stand in danger of losing their souls.

 Jesus said, "No one is worthy of me who does not take up his cross and follow me."

 After 25 years of struggle against the forces of death that drive abortion at the Northern Illinois Women's Center, we have come to learn that it is the cross of Jesus Christ that is our only hope.

 Jesus said, "To receive you is to receive me, and to receive me is to receive the one who sent me."

 Whenever we pray or work for the life of one child facing death in Rockford, we are receiving Jesus - eternally.

 Jesus said, "Anyone who gives so much as a cup of cold water to one of these little ones will not go unrewarded."

 Rockford pro-lifers work desperately to give life to every child facing death in Rockford.  Whatever will come of this, we leave in God's hands.

 Jesus said, "Happy are the eyes that see and the ears that hear."

 Truly happy are human beings when they can see the love God has for them and for every human person.

 Jesus said, "Whoever humbles himself and becomes like this child will be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

 Rockford pro-life Christians have fallen on their knees in trusting prayer for years and will continue to do so in childlike faith.

 Jesus said, "See to it that you do not despise these little ones.  They have their Angels in heaven who continually look on the face of my heavenly Father."

 Pro-lifers join God's Angels in looking with love on all children and all persons in need.

 Jesus said, "Many who are first will be last and the last first."

 The children who are shamefully killed inside the Northern Illinois Women's Center are the last in this life to receive their rights and protection.  In heaven they may well be the first.

 Jesus said, "Whoever wants to be great must be a servant."

 The pro-life Christians of Rockford imitate their Savior in their willingness to serve those  society considers unworthy.

 Jesus said, "The stones the builders rejected have become the cornerstone."

 The mothers and children rejected and abused by the Rockford abortion establishment have become the cornerstone of many a pro-lifer's heart of love.

 Jesus said, "Love the Lord your God will all your mind, all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.  And love your neighbor as yourself."

 For a pro-lifer in a city that has killed 50,000 of its own children, it takes a heart, mind, and soul united to Jesus Christ to gain the strength to love our neighbor as we have been loved by God.

 Jesus said, "Love one another as I have loved you."

 The sidewalks in front of Rockford's killing center have held thousands and thousands of Christians praying for life in the last 25 years.  As Christ has shared our suffering by the cross,  pro-lifers share Christ's suffering at the "foot of the cross" in Rockford.

 Jesus said, "I am the Resurrection and the Life."

 Those who die with Christ will also rise with Christ.  So many babies have been killed at Rockford's mill by those who mock God, but the faithful love and witness of the pro-life Body of Christ in Rockford has united all those martyred at the mill to Jesus Christ.

 Jesus said, "Well done good and faithful servant."

 Even though we are unworthy servants, we place our hope in the saving power and love of Jesus Christ.

 What you have just read is a small portrait of the pro-life women, men, and children of Rockford who have stood at the gates of the hell of abortion in Rockford.  In so many ways and so many places, they have been the hands and heart of Christ to His suffering children.

 May God bless them forever.