Save the date! January 19: Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (NC East and Micah Movement now call Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, Red Sunday.)
Every year in the United States alone, more than one million babies are aborted. Statistics show that 50 percent of U.S. women who obtain abortions are younger than age 25, and at current rates, nearly one-third of American women will have an abortion.
Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, January 19, 2014, is a day to celebrate and focus, instead, on choosing life.
Because all human beings are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) and are “fearfully and wonderfully made,” (Psalm 139:14) abortion grieves his heart. God, the Creator of the universe, deeply values human life and it says so in his Word:
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! (Psa. 139:13-17 NIV).
The Wesleyan Church supports the sanctity of life and those who choose to trust God despite unlikely odds. January 19, 2014, marks Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, an event observed the third Sunday of every January. Wesleyans are encouraged to observe this day on which many take a stand for human life.
Read what The Wesleyan Church says about the sanctity of life.
Pictured: model of 12-week fetus
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