Thanks for Your Help!

Hey Y'all!

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped with this year's Voices of the Innocent project. Whether you sent a letter, prayed about V.O.T.I. or both, your support is greatly appreciated! But please keep in mind, we're not done yet! Let's keep on praying about these letters. Pray that God will use the letters to touch the hearts and lives of other people. Pray that the editors will feel compelled to publish the letters. Pray that God will lead people to read these letters. Pray that God will use these letters to change people's hearts and lives. Get my point people? Yeah. We need to pray! :)

Have a wonderful day....and remember....keep on praying!

--Emily--

USA TODAY

Hello Everyone,

I want to apologize for not updating the blog sooner.  This new school year has been keeping me rather busy...but, I do have some information concerning our new campaign, so listen up! :)

This time, we are asking letter writers to send their pro-life letters to the USA TODAY (their letter plicy can be found here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/How-to-send-letters-to-USA-TODAY.htm ). Our current sendout date is February 14, 2012.  I will let you know if this date changes.

Please be praying about this project.  Continue to pray that God will be glorified and people will see the truth about abortion.  Please also pray that God will bring many, many people to be part of this project. 

If you plan on writing a letter, please let me know! I would really love to know how many letters will be going out, so please tell me if you're going to send a letter! 

Remember to check out our Facebook page.  You can find it at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Voices-of-the-Innocent/177964268906636 .

Thanks everyone!

God bless,
Emily

Current Volunteers

God is really working in Voices of the Innocent!  We are now up to 16 volunteers, and I am simply thrilled about this!  I thought I'd share the list with y'all...if you'd like to see your name on here (which we would too!:), just drop us a comment or email us! Those with the "Rebelution" beside it in parentheses responded to me off of the Rebelution forum!

-Emily G.

-Olivia B.

-Debbie L.

-Marta L. (Rebelution)

-Jennifer G. (Rebelution)

-Olivia C. (Rebelution)

-Mary R. (Rebelution)

-River B. (Rebelution)

-Jordan H. (Rebelution)

-Michael S. (Rebelution)

-Annabel Z. (Rebelution)

-Riley S. (Rebelution)

-Kim Z.

-Brad (Rebelution)

-Tabitha H. (Rebelution)

-Abigal M.

As always, we're excited about the numbers we're seeing, but we're really interested in seeing this list grow!  Please continue to spread the word!

--Emily--

Update, Announcement, Requests!

Hey Everyone!

Hope y'all had a happy Thanksgiving!  Olivia's post on Thanksgiving and finding joy in it was really thought provoking and made me thankful for her writing abilities! :)

We're excited about the responses we have received.  Just this weekened, we added 2 more volunteers to our list.  We're now up to 13 people!  Anywhere close to the 200 we're hoping for? No, not yet!  But we're making progress!  Please continue to spread the word to your friends.  A way you might do this is by sending out our link (www.voicesoftheinnocent.blogspot.com) in an email to everyone in your address book.

Also, I'd like to let y'all know that V.O.T.I is now listed on http://www.prolifeblogs.com/.  I applied for listing on here some time ago, and never received a response from them.  I had practically forgotten about them when I received an acceptance email today! :) But anyhow, we're now on there, so hopefully, they'll direct some more readers to the blog!

I thought it be cool if everyone sent in the name of the newspaper that they were sending their pro-life letter to.  Please leave the name of the newspaper that will receive your letter here on the blog in a comment or email it to us. We’d enjoy hearing from y’all, so please try and do this for us!

--Emily--

 

Just Two Little Request......

Hey everybody!!

I know that in the past, Emily, and I have asked that you spread the word about the blog to ANYONE you know!! And both of us are overjoyed with the response that we have gotten ALL over the world! :) It is extremely encouraging!! But we just want to remind, and ask our readers, again, to please keep spreading the word!!

We also just wanted to update you on the number letters that we have so far (or will be receiving). God has led 10 people to write letters!! Again, Emily, and I are overjoyed!! But we will be even more overjoyed if you commit to writing a letter, too!! :)

Sooo.... we ask that you spread the word, and commit to writing a letter!! And we trust, and pray that you will be led by God to do these two things!!

Thanks for all the encouragement!! :)

~Olivia~

I'm Waiting...

I'm waiting, I'm waiting on you Lord, though it is painful...patiently I will wait! I will move ahead, bold and confident-taking every step in obedience.

--While I'm waiting! I will worship while I'm waiting! I will serve you while I'm waiting! I will not fail! I'll be running the race, even while I wait!--

I absolutely love this song! It reminds me that no matter the circumstance, I must be worshiping, serving and following Jesus. The path the Lord has chosen for me may be painful at times, but I must always remember the prize I am running for-and that I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me; because of this truth, it is utterly impossible for me to fail, as long as I keep my eyes on the KING!

I've been waiting for the Lord to work with V.O.T.I.-and I believe that He is and will continue to do so! We haven't had a huge amount of people commit to letter writing (yet! =D), but God is leading people to become involved with our ministry. It's exciting to see God at work, and I am praying that He continues to move!

God bless!

--Emily--

Making some Changes...

Hi All!

Just wanted to let y'all know that we are changing our letter send out date from October 15 to February 14, 2011 (this date is up in the air...nothing is set in stone! :D). I wanted to make this change because I feel like I need more time to reach others about "VOTI". I recently applied for membership on the Rebelution forum and was approved this Saturday (yay!), so I'm hoping to use my time on their to spread the word about our mission. I submitted my project idea to the head of the abortion section of the forum, so, we'll see!

I've had several people comment (not just on here, but in general), telling me that "VOTI" was great, but they didn't give me definite commitment on writing a letter. Please, please let me know if you are willing to write a letter. Just knowing that you're going to write a letter would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOO encouraging! So let me know! ;D Also, please remember that when you do write a letter (which you don't have to until February of '11), please email a copy of it to us (voicesoftheinnocent@gmail.com).

I was also wondering if anyone would be interested in helping update the blog...as you can see, it doesn't happen very often, and was thinking/hoping with another brain involved, we could produce more posts, reccomend more links and such. If you would like to help, just comment or email (address above). When/if you feel led to comment/email about this, please tell us why you would want to and how you think you would be able to help. I'm not requesting a certain # of words essay, but I would like to know why you're interested in helping. =)

Thanks everyone!
--Emily--