More students at CSW

Yesterday at 5pm I did a little training for a big batch of Students who will be with us at the UN this week. There must have been about 50 people presents. There were several instructors and we should have a big impact at the Commission on the Status of Women this year.

The Patriarch and Matriarch of the ProLife NGOs at the UN

Yesterday evening I had supper with my great friend and colleague Jeanne Head. She has poor health now.

Please pray for Jeanne.

An American at the UN

The week at the United Nations was one that I will never forget. It was a week full of learning, growing and meeting people from across the world.  The week started with listening to various countries give their opinion on women rights, a topic that is very close to my heart.  It was so wonderful to hear people across the world come together to work and encourage empowerment for women.

                The United Nations fails to realize that abortion does not empower women. It takes away the most fundamental human right, the right to life. It was disheartening to hear a group of people fight for equal pay, equal opportunity and education for women and in the same speech speak of taking away the rights of the unborn. Women are not empowered when we are taking away the rights of others, we do not need to leave children without choices to have our own.  Why are the children’s lives not being fought for? They are being fought for, by Peter Smith and many others from all over the world. It was so incredible to see Peter speaking to Muslim women, Catholic Priests, Mormon leaders and many more. All of these people came here to fight for life. It was a beautiful and unique opportunity to be so united with people of so many backgrounds.

                A surprise that I learned was truly how political the UN is. There were so many deals off to the side and nobody to hold these diplomats accountable. I quickly became aware that the people of these countries had no idea what their diplomats were speaking about and fighting for. Some at the United Nations see abortion as a fundamental right. The powerful countries see abortion as a fundamental right.  It is the powerful countries that are constantly bullying the poorer and smaller countries into their beliefs. They seem completely closed to any dialogue that speaks about giving rights to the unborn, as though it is a preposterous and obsolete thought.

                Thankful is the word that I would describe for SPUC and Peter Smith’s presence at the United Nations. To know that life is being fought for and there are people that are not going to give up is such a comforting thing to know. I am so thankful to be a part of this experience, learning all that I did and meeting all the people that I was fortunate enough to meet. I am proud to say that I was part of the presence fighting for life, the fundamental right of all humans at the United Nations.

Katherine Beck is a senior at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.  She has been volunteering at pregnancy centres since she was seventeen and her passion is helping women and their unborn children. She volunteered at SPUC in London, England and has also spent time in Washington, D.C interning for the pro-life movement.  After graduation Katherine plans to work full time in the pro-life movement fighting for the civil rights of the unborn as well as the rights of women.

CSW

Negotiations begin today at 10am New York time. Please pray for the pro-life/pro-family delegations to do a good job.

CSW

 Well here I am in Conf room 2 for the second day of CSW. I am probably the only non-feminist here in the room.

There are a lot of speeches going on of dubious value.

The main document will be negotiated , on Thursday.This document is titled :

Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the

 Millennium Development Goals for women and girls.

This document has 22 references to "reproductive " matters , "sexual" matters 43 times , sexual orientation twice and gender identity two times. There are 6 references to " diversity " which is a cover for LGBT issues.

Please pray that a reasonable document will emerge by the end of next week. .

Commission on Status of Women ( CSW )

Here we are at the CSW again. I have a student with me this week , Katherine Beck , please see opposite.

The document being negotiated over the next 2 weeks is about , " Challenges and Achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for Women and Children."

This is just a vehicle to promote abortion and anti-family things.

Please pray for us these next two weeks.

Church birthday

Last week-end was the 125th birthday for my church , New Prestwick Baptist Church. We had a nice meal together on Saturday evening .

On Sunday we had a guest preacher Rev. Martin Allan who was excellent.

On Tuesday I train down to Reding , to speak in a Church there then back home Wednesday.

I Saturday I head off to New York for another UN meeting , Commission on the Status of Women , for 2 weeks.