Church Instructions

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 [link and printed out so
hardcopies show it].
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.

Paid for with regulated funds by Michigan Citizens for Life
PO BOX 1090
Lapeer, Michigan 48446
(810)441-5309
MC4Life@safe-mail.net
www.MichiganCitizensForLife.net