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Church Instructions

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We have two options in front of us:

1. The status quo. The churches of Michigan continue to "live" with thousands of children being murdered yearly until God destroys us in judgment.

2. Repentance and stopping the killing. The church needs to come out to the streets where these children are actually murdered and peacefully present the Gospel of Jesus Christ until every child is protected by love and by law. Praise God for sidewalk counseling, street preaching, crisis pregnancy centers, and pro-life educational efforts!

We can constitutionalize the personhood of all children this year in
Michigan. If we turn in over 317,000 valid signatures on July 10th, our
proposed Constitutional Amendment will be on the ballot for the election
November 7. If we simply get 4,000 volunteers to serve as church contacts
to each gather 100 signatures, we are done. During the campaign phase,
church contacts will coordinate voter registration drives, education about
the Personhood Amendment, and get-out-t he-vote drives.

Here are the simple instructions for collecting signatures from
churches:
1. Become familiar with the petitioning instructions about accuracy
issues.
2. Ask your pastor/bishop/elder/priest if he would be willing to preach
about the sanctity of human life and encourage the whole congregation to
sign and circulate Personhood Amendment petitions.
3. Give him a copy of Cal Zastrow's "An Open Letter to the Church Shepherds
of Michigan" and "A Pro-Life Sermon"
If he agrees, wonderful! Please do it soon, in February. See if you
can have the petition drive for two Saturdays/Sundays in a row. Ask for one
Sunday in June so the snowbirds get to sign.
4. Get plenty of copies of the petitions, or make your own. Check each
blank copy for accuracy before circulating. Get many cardboard clipboards
to put petitions on. Cut the cardboards one-half inch bigger than the
petition on all sides and use rubber band s to hold the petitions on to the
boards. Set up tables by the exits and:
-Ask every adult to sign on the page for the county they are registered to
vote in.
-Ask the unregistered ones (who are eligible) to fill out a registration
form.
-Ask everyone to take a blank petition or two with them and get signatures
from their neighbors, relatives, and co-workers.
-Ask everyone to sign up to be a volunteer for petitioning at special events
like picnics, festivals, parades, farmer's markets, and weekday events like
in front of busy post offices. Forward their names, phone numbers, and
e-mail addresses to the office in Lapeer.
-Give out extra cardboards with petitions to all who will take them.
-Give out copies of our Personhood Amendment fliers to everyone and
encourage them to make copies and distribute.
-Sign the bottom of finished petitions and promptly mail them in.
-Do not leave them unattended on a table or announcement board. It would be
voter-fraud for anyone to sign the bottom as a circulator that did not
witness the signatures.
-Ask everyone who signs if they know anyone else who would might be
interested in coordinating efforts in their churches. Yes! It is best for
Aunt Amelia in Almira to get a cheery call and request to help from her
nephew Norbert in Naubinway. Relatives and friends inviting other
relatives and friends to help out will be the key to success.
-Ask small business owners if they will circulate the petitions in their
offices, stores, or factories. Ask them if they do so, if they would please
contact us and allow us to put their businesses on our website as a
participant.
-After you get the petitions going in your church, ask the leader if he will
send out e-mails, or make calls to other ministers that he knows, inviting
them to get the petitions going in their churches.
-Ask the leader if your church can be listed on the website as a
participant.
-Instruct everyone who takes blank petitions how to fill them up correctly
and complete the bottoms as circulators before mailing them to Lapeer.
Having individuals mail them to Lapeer is very important.
-Be sure to thank everyone who participates.
-Look ahead for events to petition at. Call your church friends and
volunteers to go petitioning with you. Perhaps someone from your church
will treat the petitioners to pizza after the local parade is over and your
team collected hundreds of signatures.
-You can mention that we needs donations in order to cover the costs of
printing and mailing the petitions. Donors need to make checks payable to
Michigan Citizens for Life, send them to the office in Lapeer, and include
their address, occupation, and employer. Donations are not tax deductible.
-It would be helpful if you went through the church directory and called
members who weren't at church if they would please sign the petition the
following week and circulate some as well. Bring petitions to church every
week so you can catch visitors or occasional attendees when you see them.
-Perhaps your church would be interested in mailing petitions and
instructions along with a regular church mailing. Great! If any funds are
spent on promoting the petition, those are in-kind donations that must be
reported to us. Perhaps the church can also send out e-mails promoting the
petition drive while linking to our website.
5. Try to bring a van or bus load from your church to the victory march in
Lansing on July 10th when we sing praises to Jesus and, Lord willing, turn
in more than enough signatures.


If your pastor/priest/bishop/elder does not want the church to participate
in the petition drive, you can still be your church contact and ask all
members to sign and circulate petitions. Simply carry your petitions with
you and ask friends before and after meetings. It may help if you call them
beforehand and ask them to sign when you see them.

AN OPEN LETTER TO CHRISTIAN SHEPHERDS  

(click here for printable version)

To the Christian Ministers of Michigan
January 30, 2006

She fumbled one question. Fox News asked one of our media volunteers,
Mrs. Judy Zabik, a pointed question. They wanted to know why it has taken
us thirty-three years to introduce such language. Here is our language on
the ballot-access petitions to amend the Michigan Constitution:
Section 26: "The right to due process, whereby no person shall be
deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law,
guaranteed in Article 1, Section 17, and the right to equal protection of
the law, guaranteed in Article 1, Section 2, vest at conception." Section
27: " A 'person', for purposes of the Constitution and laws of the State of
Michigan, exists from the moment of conception."

Over the phone, I assured Judy that she did well. It took me less than
one second to know my response to that question: "I REPENT! I beg
forgiveness from Jesus, the millions of murdered children, and their
mothers, for waiting so long to go after the root!"

After thirty-three years, after over forty-five million murdered
babies, it is way past time to stop the killing. Can you imagine the
Americans coming up to the Dachau death camp in 1945 and trying to regulate
it? You do not "regulate" the murdering of innocent people, whether it be
by gas chambers, machine guns, or surgical suction machines. You shut them
down! Any "law" that recognizes the "right" of a mother to murder her son
or daughter is immoral. Any "law" that allows a mother to murder her baby
after she does A, B, or C, is not good enough!

In less than ten weeks in 2004, the churches of Michigan gathered over
500,000 signatures to place on the ballot the Marriage Amendment. Ten
weeks. 500,000 signatures. We won at the ballot. Now, we have twenty-two
weeks. Some of the same leaders and county coordinators are volunteering to
get the Personhood Amendment on the ballot this November and shut down
child-killing. We simply want to end the fatal discrimination against
children. Let's protect every child by law and by love while simply
recognizing their humanity and extending to them the same rights that our
Constitution recognizes for bigger people.

We praise God for educational and mercy ministries like "post-abortion"
counseling and pregnancy resource centers. We praise God for the peaceful
Rescue movement and street ministries. We praise God for shepherds who
compassionately bring wounded sheep to the Savior for repentance,
forgiveness, and healing. A truly compassionate shepherd not only patches
up ravaged sheep, but he protects sheep from the wolves in the first place.
Yes! He takes his staff and beats the wolves to jelly! The demonic
spirit of murder is like a wolf that kills almost one-third of American
children. Shepherds, it is time for us to arise together and peacefully stop the
slaughtering to prevent the wolves from killing the lambs! Being pro-life doesn't save any babies - acting pro-life does.

One of the leading legal-advocacy groups in the nation is the Thomas
More Law Center in Ann Arbor. They are now preparing for the court fights
that this amendment will provide. Currently, there are no pending court
cases in America to challenge the tyrannical Roe v. Wade decision. We want
one. We are picking this fight. Our language is right. The lawyers are
ready. The time is now.

Can we count on you to lead? Will you lead your sheep in prayer, in
preaching and educating about the sanctity of human life? Will you act
pro-life by getting enough signatures to force the people of Michigan to
deal with the truth of the humanity of prenatal children?

In order to stop the killing of children, we ask you to:
PRAY against the spirit of murder. Pray against the lies that call
murder, a  "choice," or "a surgical procedure," and "removal of pregnancy tissue."
Pray against the apathy that allows over 4,000 children each day to be
slaughtered.

PREACH Jeremiah 1:6, and Psalm 139. Proclaim
that the same Greek word for Jesus in the manger is the same as the one for
Jesus at conception. Show from science that each person is fully human,
fully alive, at conception and that the only thing added to any of us since
then is nutrition. Preach about the Good Samaritan and loving your
neighbor. I recommend that you have a member of your church who has been
forgiven and healed from her sin of murder get up in church and share her
testimony. Ask her to tell how horrible murder is, what it did to her child
and to her. Most importantly, have her tell how Jesus forgave and cleansed
her after she repented. There are tens of thousands of hurting parents in
Michigan who need to be confronted with the law and grace of God so they can
be redeemed. We can provide such guest speakers if you don't have know of
one in your church.

LEAD by signing the petition and inviting all Michigan voters to sign and circulate  petitions. Lead your people in peaceful prayer, evangelism, sidewalk-counseling,
and picketing in front of these death camps. Look in your yellow pages
under "Abortion" and you'll see maps right to the places. Find a volunteer to 

serve as your "church contact" for the petition drive. They can learn the technical

details of the petition. They can organize volunteers to collect signatures from all attendees at church for two weeks in February. They can organize members to

find volunteers to get the petitions going in other churches. They can get a list of volunteers to call to go petitioning at local festivals, parades, ball games, events,
etc. They can coordinate a schedule so someone from your community is
constantly in front of the local court house, post office, or busy public
sidewalk with petitions. For those of you in rural areas, your church
contact can line up volunteers to attend and petition the crowds when they
all come together for the sled-dog race or fireworks display. (See church
contact instructions on our website). 

Would you please call or e-mail us and allow us to put the name of your church on our
website as a participating church? If so, click here.  Please help to recruit others and mail out petitions and instructions. Apply your pro-life doctrine and position papers by passing resolutions supporting the campaign.

Lastly, would you consider receiving an offering for Michigan Citizens for Life? (You can
make your own photocopies of the petitions and distribute them, but please
send us a note with how much you spend on copying and postage so that we
can report that as an in-kind donation. All churches can participate in
ballot issues, but we are not a tax-deductible organization.)

As the Lord blesses the effort and enough signatures are collected,
please plan to come to the praise and worship gathering in Lansing on July
10th when we turn in the completed petitions. 

Thank you for your prayerful consideration.
May we love God, may we love our neighbors enough, to make the murdering of
children unthinkable and unavailable in our land again.

I am praying and preparing for national Revival,

Cal Zastrow