Everyone is invited to our next meeting, this coming Monday, December 1st, at 11:00 am, at Leatherby's Creamery, 2333 Arden Way, Sacramento.  This meeting will focus on Outreach and Education plans to raise awareness of what this "choice" really is, while also inviting the Sacramento community to join us in prayer and fasting next spring. 

Please email Assistant Director, Louise Maestretti, if you are able to attend, so that we can make restaurant arrangements and have ample copies prepared.

As the "40 Days" mission is "to bring together the body of Christ in a spirit of unity" for conversion of our nation and an end to abortion, we are inviting prolife Priests, Deacons, Clergy, Sisters, Protestant Pastors and Elders, Knights of Columbus leaders, Mormons and Seventh Day Adventists who worked hard on Prop 8 passage, representatives from various ethnic Christian churches such as the Korean Catholics who will be going on a bus to the Walk for Life for the first time, the Eastern Orthodox Church, African American Pastors, Russian Christians, Spanish speaking Christians, even our Jewish brothers and sisters, to all join together, UNITED for the Sanctity of Life, no longer divided by denomination, language barriers, or political party.   Members of this council would lend their endorsement/support to "40 Days" and give administrative guidance to the leadership as we plan our upcoming vigil in hopes of graciously inviting all of God's children to participate in the Sidewalk Ministry, helping  women choose LIFE for their unborn child.  Nominations for this Council are welcomed and appreciated; so please bring names and contact information to Monday's meeting.

Over 25 buses from Sacramento will attend the West Coast Walk for Life on Saturday, January 24th.  Therefore, we need to have a "40 Days" spokesperson on each of these buses to invite participants to join us in prayer at the sidewalks in front of abortion facilities here in our community.   Just think if each bus has 50 people, times 25 buses, we could easily invite 1,250 prolife people to the sidewalk!  We are also planning to contact hundreds of churches in January/February, sharing prolife information and inviting them to join the "40 Days".  Some people are interested in walking door-to-door in neighborhoods near the abortion facilities to raise awareness, others plan to have life-affirming educational displays in local malls, etc, so please come to Monday's meeting if you would like to be a part of creating a Culture of Life here in Sacramento, "365 Days for Life". 

We will soon need $197 for "40 Days" registration and incur copying expenses for our flyers and educational material. This email goes out to over 1,500 prolife supporters, mostly in the Sacramento area, but some across the nation.  Rather than try to squeeze in a fundraising event this busy time of year, if even 100 people donated $10 each, which seems like a small token of "Thanks" for the many blessings we have all received, we would have enough money to fund our entire Lenten vigil.  Pastor Stoos, who freely provides our "Before You Choose" informative brochures,  has graciously offered to serve as our Treasurer again, offering his Cherish California's Children organization for tax-exempt purposes.  In the spirit of Thanksgiving, if you would like to support the "40 Days for Life" with even a small donation, checks can be made payable to:

Cherish California's Children, Inc.
4246 2nd Avenue
Sacramento, CA  95817-2119

Please include "40 Days for Life" on the memo-line of your check donation.We THANK YOU very much for your prayers and support!

Marie Leatherby sends this Good News: Sacramento has been blessed to have Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity Sisters come and work among our community's poor.  Their new home on 39th Ave needs some work before they will be able to live there, from larger construction projects to smaller things such as painting, cleaning, gardening etc. Any and all help would be appreciated!  It is such a joy to have the opportunity to work among the Sisters and see their way of life.  The work will commence shortly after Thanksgiving.  If you are interested, please email Marie with your contact information and what you would like to do to help. Marie and her brother, Alan Leatherby,  will be organizing volunteer teams over this next week.  Contact Marie here.   She looks forward to working with many of you in doing our Lord's work!