Abortion Clinic, Social Workers Pressured Teen Into Abortion Without Parental Consent
Plus: Revival spreads to middle school campus and a brave pastor stops armed robbers with prayer
A Virginia abortion clinic and local social services are facing a lawsuit after allegedly pressuring a teenage girl into aborting her baby without parental consent, even when the girl expressly wanted to keep the baby.
Bristol Women’s Health in Bristol, Virginia and the Dickenson County Department of Social Services are facing $15.4 million in damages over the suit, which was filed by the parents of the young mother.
They say that their daughter “intended to take her child to full term and intended to deliver her baby at the appropriate time” but was talked out of it after repeated attempts to do so by the clinic and social workers.
The teenager, who was 15 at the time “remained upset throughout the process, and initially refused to cooperate with any abortion” before she “was persuaded to abort her baby,” the lawsuit stated, as reported by WJHL.
Link: Abortion Clinic, Social Workers Pressured Teen Into Abortion Without Parental Consent
As Christian colleges have seen waves of revival inspired by the ongoing event at Asbury University in Kentucky, one Christian middle school recently saw students compelled into a similar worship event, in which several young men and women made professions of faith.
The gathering came as Grace Christian Academy of Knoxville in Tennessee was holding its annual Discipleship Days event, which aims to see students “enriched by God’s Word, grow in love for Jesus, and put their faith into action.”
A spokesperson told The Christian Post that following last Friday’s planned worship service, several students “felt compelled to continue.”
“Leadership pivoted any planned afternoon activities and allowed students to lead one another in song and prayer. This led to students repenting, confessing and seeking Christ,” the representative said.
Upper School President Angie Nordhorn said that “God can speak in showers or waves, and at last week’s Discipleship Days, He decided to flood our campus with His presence,” according to the statement from the school.
“As a tenured member of the GCA community, I only remember one other time, in 2010, when we experienced a profound demonstration of the Holy Spirit,” she added. “I pray that the Lord will continue to flood our halls with His presence. Discipleship Days is only a ripple in the ocean of what can happen at GCA.”
Link: Tennessee Christian Middle School Sees Revival, Commits to Discipleship
A congregation in Ferguson, Missouri appears to have managed to stop an incident of armed robbery with the power of prayer, and the leadership of a bold, ex-police officer pastor.
“I immediately just had the hairs on the back of my neck I’m like, 'OK, something’s about to happen,'" Pastor Marquaello Futrell, who served in law enforcement for 10 years, told KSDK of the moment when a suspicious man entered the building during services last Sunday.
Shortly afterwards, four masked men who appeared to be armed came in.
“Me being a former police officer, I immediately noticed their waistbands, I’m like, 'There’s something there,'" Futrell explained. A congregation member said they saw one of the men drop a gun at one point, confirming the pastor’s theory.
Not wanting to frighten his congregants, Futrell continued with the service as he worked quickly to make sure the police were contacted and the children were moved to safety. He suspected armed robbery, and so also made sure the men’s faces would be recorded for evidence.
The brave pastor later began to ask the men what their names were, and their reason for being in the church for service.
“Who sent y’all here?” Futrell asked them. “Y’all just saw the church and decide to come? Talk to me.”
At this point, the pastor began to urge his congregants to praise God for the men’s presence with them that day, making clear he knew what they were up to but was confident the Lord would turn it around for His glory, which appears to have been exactly what happened.
“I said, praise God that God sent them in here. That what the devil meant for evil, you messing with a Marquaello Antonio Futrell,” he said.