Quebec Life Coalition

Is your congregation one that defends life? Is your congregation a hope-filled Christian community that is willing to build a Quebec that welcomes life instead of destroying it--that wants a Quebec that is truly prosperous, just and peaceful?

You and your congregation can help build a culture of life in Quebec by partnering with us in one or more of the ways described below:

1. By formulating, during your celebrations, prayer intentions that speak to the issues of life and family, or by mentioning life issues during your sermons or homilies. We at Quebec Life Coalition have resources to help you formulate sermons and prayers that address life issues.
2. By making our monthly newsletters available to your congregation, and by inviting the faithful to read them. We will gladly supply your church with a monthly batch of newsletters at no cost to you.
3. By participating in our public witness activities:
   1. The 40 Days for Life vigil is an international event that takes place twice a year. Since its founding in 2007, it has electrified the pro-life movement (see included flyer). This is an activity that encourages Christians to be true to their calling; it will help the members of your congregation to mature in their faith.
   2. The annual March for Life, which is normally held at the end of the second week of May, is a positive, festive event with many thousands of participants, which will allow your congregation to realize that it is not alone in defending solid Life-affirming values.
   3. Life Chain is a yearly event which is held once a year in as many as 1450 cities all over North America. At each location a group of people, located in a public area, pray for the end of abortion for 90 minutes, and thus form a link in a prayerful “Life Chain” that spans the continent. This simple and effective prayer campaign is also easy to organize.
4. By inviting a Quebec Life Coalition representative to your church to speak about life issues. These presentations can be done after the service, on Saturday afternoons or on a weekday night. Often, believers have good values but have trouble defending these values or even putting them into words. These presentations will equip the faithful in your church and enable them to defend their values in the public square.
5. By “adopting” an abortion facility. Every major city in Quebec has one or more abortion facilities. Montreal, for example, has 21. Chances are that you will find an abortion facility not too far from your church (we have a map that indicates the location of every abortion facility in Quebec). By adopting an abortion facility, you pledge to come out with some of your congregation and pray near that facility as much as possible (once a month, once a week, or even every day). We at Quebec Life Coalition have all the required material: Prayer cards, Bible quotes, signs if you want them, and the phone numbers of the more reliable pregnancy help centres, etc. This activity saves babies and helps parents and abortionists by brining them the compassion and healing of Jesus Christ, right outside the abortion facility.
6. By organizing a Respect Life Weekend – we propose the weekend that is closest to March 25, which is 9 months from Christmas—but any other weekend would do. We furnish the materials (flyers, etc.) and offer step by step instructions on how to make the weekend a success. This is a great first-time pro-life activity for your congregation, and can incorporate many other activities and ideas listed on this suggestion sheet.
7. By participating in our fundraising campaigns:
   1. Coins for Life: We come to your church once or twice a year and distribute to the faithful plastic containers which they bring back home and in which they deposit any loose change they may have at the end of each day. They then bring back to church their full containers, which we pick up when there is a good number of them to collect. This campaign is easy to run and reminds the faithful on a daily basis that they are committed to protecting Life at all its stages.
   2. Real estate for Life: By informing the congregation, by way of the weekly church flyer or by some other means, of this initiative that allows one to give to Quebec Life Coalition without it costing one a cent (see included flyer), you are demonstrating to the faithful that we advance the Kingdom of Heaven by all our actions, and not only those actions undertaken during the time we are at church.
   3. Spaghetti dinner / Corn Roast / Benefit Concert / Pancake breakfast, …all these are great ways to address difficult life issues in a warm, friendly setting.
   4. A special collection: Once or twice a year (say, on the Sunday nearest to the 25th of March—9 months before Christmas) and on Father’s Day, a special collection can be undertaken to support Quebec Life Coalition and / or other local pro-life organizations.