Bay City Baptist Church of Green Bay, WI

Every life is precious because we are all made in the image of God...

On Sunday, we will celebrate the Sanctity of Life. This Sunday also marks the 39^th anniversary of the devastating Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion or in other words, the legalization of murder. Society continues to play down conception and the fact that “the mass of cells” are actually human life, a life that God has created.

Bay City Baptist Church supports Baptist For Life Wisconsin. B.F.L.W. is a soul winning, pro-life organization made up of Bible-Believing, fundamental separatist Baptist churches and individuals. The Wisconsin ministry was founded in 1990 as a service and resource ministry of Fundamental Baptist Churches that are burdened to become active in the pro-life movement. Their program consists of organizing, motivating, and educating local Baptist churches and individual members to help minister to women who have had or may be considering an abortion. There are four B.F.L.W. pregnancy Care Centers in Wisconsin.

Speaking of pregnancy centers, I ran across this story that was told by professor Pete Tigchelaar of Calvin College as reported first in the Calvin News, on Dec. 18, 2003.

   Tigchelaar tells that he had used a plastic-encased, 3-month-old fetus in his human biology classes. In 2002, a visit from a young woman showed him that the fetus was more than a good educational tool.

   “The young woman told Tigchelaar that a generation earlier her mother had been a student in one of Tigchelaar’s biology classes. Unknown to Tigchelaar this student was three months pregnant on a day he had shown the class the fetus with its tiny fingers, facial features, eyes, outline of a liver and other human features.

   “She had already visited an (abortion clinic),” Tigchelaar recalls the young woman telling him, and was told about the “product of conception” and “contents of the uterus” that she had within her. She was advised to have an abortion and had one scheduled for the following morning.’

   “But after Tigchelaar’s class she realized she had more within her than a ‘product of conception.’ And she canceled her scheduled abortion, continued with her pregnancy and eventually delivered a healthy baby girl.

   “I am that girl,” the student then informed a stunned Tigchelaar. “Thanks for saving my life.”

   “Tigchelaar, at the time, was amazed, speechless. He remembers in a halting voice telling the girl simply that she was beautiful.“Even now,” he says, “I can barely tell the story without breaking up.” Yet tell it he does.

You can see how important our support is. On Sunday, we will take a special offering to help the vital ministry of Baptist For Life Wisconsin. Please look into the eyes of a child, a gift from God, and give generously.