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	January 20, 2009 .................... LCMSNews -- No. 6

>Get 'March for Life' news online Thursday

Even if you can't travel to Washington, D.C., for the "March for Life"
on Jan. 22, you can still get up-to-date information and insights from
marching Lutherans through online coverage by LCMS World Relief and
Human Care, at http://www.lcms.org/marchforlife .

The Synod's mercy arm will join the thousands expected to gather in the
nation's capital for the annual pro-life rally, including LCMS President
Gerald B. Kieschnick, Lutherans For Life Executive Director Dr. James
Lamb, and Maggie Karner, director of Life and Health Ministries with
LCMS WR-HC. Videos, pictures, and audio interviews with Lutherans from
across the country will be posted and updated online throughout the day.

The online coverage is an opportunity to join Lutherans as they take
part in a full day of march activities. Those events begin with an 8
a.m., LFL-sponsored worship service at Immanuel Lutheran Church,
Alexandria, Va., where Kieschnick will deliver the sermon, titled
"Weeping for Her Children," based on Matt. 2:13-20. LCMS WR-HC also will
cover the noon, pre-march rally at the National Mall, where Kieschnick
has been invited to offer the opening prayer. The actual march is
expected to begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Mall and end about 3 p.m. at the
Supreme Court building.

Lutheran pro-life leaders have called participation in this year's march
especially important, as pro-choice advocates intensify efforts to
eliminate protections for the most vulnerable in our nation -- from
conception to the grave.

Rev. Matthew Harrison, executive director of LCMS WR-HC, expressed his
hope for accomplishing pro-life goals. "The value of human life animates
all we do at LCMS World Relief and Human Care," he said. "I am proud of
what our staff has accomplished since the Synod formally gave us this
task (of providing pro-life leadership). We will move confidently into
the future, bearing witness to the world, for the sake of the Gospel,
and for the least of these."

The March for Life observes the anniversary of the Jan. 22, 1973, U.S.
Supreme Court's "Roe v. Wade" decision legalizing abortion in the United
States. To learn more about LCMS World Relief and Human Care, visit
http://www.lcms.org/worldrelief .

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