Baby Saved At Planned Parenthood! Officer Bealls, Why Do I Always Get In Trouble For Recording? And More From This Week's Ministry

Hi everyone,
The last two weeks have been busy with street preaching. We have been preaching in Camden, Rockland, and Portland. We found out we really like a spot near the Rockland post office. No one has given us any problem for standing there either time we went and the post office is busy with a lot of people to see and hear us. There is also a bank across the street along with a large parking lot. So far we have only been there twice but we may go back some other time.

Daddy has been preaching on everything from abortion, Mary and finding out she was pregnant with Jesus, to the conversion of the Saul of Tarsus. And no matter where he starts he can always get to the Gospel!

When we are in Rockland and Camden not many people stop and talk to us. One day we did an abortion sermon in Rockland at Chapman Park right near Main Street. We had one lady come up and ask us about war in other countries where innocent women and children were murdered and how people who approve of that are sometimes against abortion. I told her that murder is wrong in every circumstance. But I also told her that no one is "innocent" before God because we have all sinned.  The woman then walked away telling us that all babies who are a aborted go to Heaven and if they lived they would have a chance of going to Hell. For all Calvinists out there you can see the problem with that. But that is another discussion.

One day we preached outside the local High School were I would be going in the next year or so if I was in Public School. We did not talk to many people but we also got there late when some students had already left. We took out our booklets from Human Life Alliance about the truth of Planned Parenthood. We also took our "Everyone Worships Something" tracts.

On Sunday we went out in town with a large group of friends and sang Christmas carols and read Scripture and then Daddy preached. It was great to have friends join us for street ministry! Usually when we are around our own home town we are by ourselves.

Other than that one woman who talked with us about abortion, pretty much no one has talked to us any time we were preaching in the towns around us. In Portland however, that is another story.

In Portland we no longer have a police officer sent out to stand on the sidewalk with us every Friday at Planned Parenthood. Those who have been reading my blog for awhile know that there used to be a police officer sent out to stand on duty at Planned Parenthood. I have now been assaulted a couple times in the last 2 months. I wrote to the chief of police saying that either he should continue sending a police officer out to the sidewalk or I may just have to start calling 911 when things like this happen.

This week I was assaulted by a young woman who was trying to defend Planned Parenthood. Sadly she was very deceived and tried to deny the fact that Planned Parenthood practices dismemberment of babies. We have a huge graphic sign out on the sidewalk,(thanks to EndAbortionNow,) when we showed it to the woman she claimed that we made it up. She also said that Daddy is against women's healthcare, even though half the babies that are aborted are women! Since they are not born yet I guess their health and well-being do not matter in her opinion. And that does not include the fact that abortion is harmful to mothers! Now who is really against "Women's healthcare"?

The lady talked for a little bit and when she was leaving we told her that the deathscorts were still standing for murder. She then came back and after a minute held up one hand and with the other hand she blocked my phone, which was still recording video, and pushed the phone towards me. She almost touched my nose pushing my phone and then touched my scarf. I asked her not to touch my phone and Daddy told her that if she did we would call the police. She looked at me with a facial expression that pretty much said "poor little girl" and then laughed. What the woman may not have realized is that Daddy caught the whole incident on his body camera. The funny thing is, both Daddy and Brian had body cameras on. She did not touch them only my phone. You can watch the video of the interaction and assault here. (Warning: the videos have a graphic sign in them.) Please be praying for this woman's salvation!

Do any of you have a strange relationship with a deathscort? If so please write it down in the comments section, I would love to hear it! I have a really weird relationship with our deathscort/police officer at Planned Parenthood. Officer Bealls used to come as a police officer but now she is a deathscort. I walk up on Friday mornings and she is standing there in a pink vest as a deathscort and we greet each other and sometimes we talk together. She acts as though she likes me. Most other deathscorts will not even say "hello" to me let alone have a conversation. I am actually able to talk with her and she will take a letter from me that has Bible verses written in it. This Friday as she was leaving she even let me take a picture with her! Please be praying for her salvation and for me as I continue to talk with her!

Officer Bealls after she got off duty at Planned Parenthood.

This week as we were standing out at the abortion mill we had the rare joy to hear that a baby had been saved from death! The father of the baby told us that he had been praying for days and his wife or girlfriend had been late to her appointment. They took her even though she was late but she did not have enough money. I do not know if there was a genuine change of heart for the mother. Brian was there and gave the father contact information and I also had some cards from Redeeming Grace Fellowship in Portland. I do not know if we will ever hear anything else from this couple but hopefully they will contact one of the Churches and receive help and discipleship as they raise this little baby! Soli Deo Gloria!

I may not have mentioned this before but my father has seizures. This week he had one as we were leaving Planned Parenthood. My sister and I helped him to the van and our group helped load the van and such. We were able to help him sit down in the can and he was fine, but Mommy was sitting in the van and saw the face of one of the deathscorts "M". "M" seemed to have genuine concern for Daddy while he was having a seizure. "M" is not usually friendly to our group and is a big supporter of Planned Parenthood. She not only looked concerned but when someone walked into Planned Parenthood she did not even open the door for them which was her job where she was standing. I wrote to her on Facebook to let her know everything was okay and to thank her for her concern and to tell her we love her. Maybe God will use this situation to help us connect to "M". You can see the video of the whole incident here. Please pray for "M"!

After abortion ministry we went to Wiscasset where Mommy stopped to feed the baby (who is four months old today!) Most of us just stayed in the car but Daddy got out to do a video. Some of you may have seen that earlier this year my family had some issues with the town of Wiscasset. The chief of police did not like where we were standing and thought we might block access to the handicap parking space by Mommy standing with the two little ones sitting in a stroller with some signs up against a tree. This week in Wiscasset the sidewalk was cleared but the handicap access was blocked with snow. In the place where Mommy was standing that in June supposedly could have blocked access to the handicap spot now has a snowbank blocking it. A snowbank is not conducive to wheelchair access last I checked.

After Daddy took a video showing how the town was not handicap accessible he got back in the van. While all 8 of us were sitting in the car we noticed someone really close to the back of our van. We realized that they were using their finger to write in the dirt on the back of the van. Daddy and I got out with a camera and asked them what was going on. They said "We wanted to know if you were vegan". On the van we saw written "R U vegan?" We have a sign on the side window that says "May the Lamb who was slain receive the full reward of His suffering!" I guess they did not understand that the "Lamb" is Jesus Christ. Anyway after they were asked not to touch our van the one lady said that she was going to do it again and wrote a "peace" sign on the back. We called the police and the women got in their car and left. The police showed up and after talking for awhile and sorting out some confusion as to what had happened, the cop said he would try to call the women whose license plate number we had given them, and then he left. The funny thing was we had written on the window with white markers. The women only wrote with their finger in the dirt. The officer was confused and thought that the women had decorated the entire van with white chalk markers! I would not have stopped the women if they were writing Bible verses on the van! After having some trouble with the town of Wiscasset in the past it was nice to have a good encounter with the police department.

Over all we have had a good week of ministry and look forward to more opportunities to share the glorious Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the following weeks!

With love in the Lord,
Virginia

Quick Update On The Police In Portland, And What My Life Was Like Growing Up. With Lots Of Pictures!

Hi everyone,
I will not write about everything that happened at Planned Parenthood in Portland yesterday but I did get an email that I wanted to write about. Back in June a Portland police officer, Eric McCusker, ordered that I must stand arm's length away from a Planned Parenthood volunteer. When I did not immediately obey he asked Daddy to tell me to step away from the volunteer and told Daddy that I just kept stepping closer and closer. Daddy then asked if there was a law that said that I could not stand on a public sidewalk since that was where I was standing. Officer McCusker said that it was disorderly conduct and said "I will absolutely enforce it, whether you want me to use your child to do it or not." I wrote to the chief of police and got a letter back telling me that they were starting an internal investigation with the officer. I was involved in the investigation and was interviewed at the police station. Just yesterday I got an official letter from the chief of police that stated that the complaints against officer McCusker were sustained and that the officer will be disciplined by a week off work without pay and that the officer is also going for more training. We are glad that justice has been served! Sadly a lot of Portland police officers are not appropriate in performing their duties as a law ENFORCEMENT officer. They may know the law but they do not always enforce that law the right way. Thankfully Portland police chief Michael Sauschuck and others higher up in the force are very good at taking complaints against officers seriously. If for some reason Portland police does not deal with something that needs to be addressed, we have an awesome team of lawyers who can help us out.

I decided that this post I will share a little bit of what my life was like growing up. I will warn everyone now that it was not a normal childhood! When I was 6 years old our family had 3 children with another on the way. We had friends who moved into a camper to do ministry. We followed their lead and got a small camper packed up our house and went on the road. We did not know that the next few years of our lives would take us all over the country. We also did not know that the next few years of our lives we would be traveling missionaries. But God had plans for us and by His grace that is what we became, a missionaries on the road!

These are some of the girls of the family that we went out on the road with. They now have a couple more kids and so do we! We are not so young anymore. No we are not all sisters.

Throughout our years on the road we worked with many different Churches and with other families and groups. I have a lot of pictures from our years on the road and figured I would share them here. I know my post will look really long but the pictures do not help that any.

I said that we moved into a camper when I was 6. We went to Ohio to work with a trucking ministry there. This is one of the chapels that Transport For Christ uses.

We decided not to work with the Truckers Chapel long term but God still had work for us even if it was not with the truckers. In the next few years we would be everywhere from California, Texas, Kentucky, Kansas, Florida and more! After a while living in our first camper, which was tiny I might add, we moved into a bigger camper. We bought our 12 passenger high top van back around the start of our ministry and it is still running today! Yes, it has tons of miles on it, but it still runs and it still has Bible verses on it. "Old Faithful" is still a silent witness to the Gospel.

On the silver van pictured we still have the sign on the back window but we changed the one on the front window. If you ever want your car decorated with Bible verses I suggest Watchman Gospel Signs.

Our first camper was a fifth-wheel and was 24 1/2 feet long. It was kind of small but we made it work for awhile. The next camper we bought was much bigger! The next one was 31 feet long, HUGE! 6 people lived in that camper for 2 years. Camper living that is the life! Or Key West Florida that was amazing!

One of the groups we worked with was the GNOM team. (Good News On the Move) It was a group of young men from around the country who would travel in their sprinter sharing the Gospel around the country. We would also help the team with what we called the "Surge". We would go to a certain town and knock on every door in town. We would pack door hanger bags to leave at the houses as well. We would hold meetings and children's clubs and talk to the pastors in town. Surge week was a big outreach for us. People who were in charge of coordinating would show up at the town weeks in advance to get everything ready for the Surge. And if you want a door hanger bag for every house in town, depending on how big the town was you could pack a lot of bags! We would have packing parties to get them all ready. They would also rent out gathering places to hold sermons every night. It was a big deal!

 Okay, so we were not serious all the time! We have a Wii Fit Plus game so we had some fun! The back of someone's head that you see in the top picture is J.B. holding my brother Samuel, then Josh, you can see part of J.J. sitting on the couch, Caleb is sitting next to him, the other Caleb is playing, then my older brother Nathaniel, myself, and Ian. Naomi is sitting on the floor.

Note J.B.'s face in the background of this picture.

In the picture below ministry partners John and Justin and Jimmy Sanders from GNOM packing door hanger bags

Eric Smith is the one on the ground talking to the men. He is from the GNOM team.

Below is a picture of one of the GNOM teams in front of their sprinter. Where did we get the idea to decorate our van with Bible verses? GNOM!

The bottom picture is at our friend's house. Their house is where we held our Church meetings as well.

For awhile we lived in Georgia. We actually stayed there long enough to find a house to rent. For our family that was a LONG time to stay in one place! Usually we just stayed in the camper. We did not bother with renting a house unless we were staying for awhile.

Below is my friend Kayla and I together. I think we were at a conference at Myrtle beach when the picture was taken. Her family is the one whose house we meet at for Church services.

Another place we did ministry was Kentucky. We lived up on a farm that our friends owned. They gave us a spot to park our camper so we were happy. We worked with Bluegrass Bible Fellowship while we were there. For Christmas one year we built a giant gift box to put on top of a trailer as a float in the parade. The Christmas outreach was just one of the ministries we did there. GNOM also did a Surge in Kentucky one year.

 This is my dad with one of his best friends, Jesse Everling. They were also our neighbors twice when we lived in Kentucky. When we were in the camper and when we went back a few years ago we rented a house right next to theirs.

 This is the Church we worked with in Kentucky, Bluegrass Bible Fellowship

One time in Kentucky we met at a hotel for our meetings. 

This was the giant Christmas float that we put together. Romans 6:23 written in huge letters on the side. 

What was life like on the road? Well lots of driving! Good thing my siblings and I liked each other!

While my family is Maine we still joke that our home is actually Key West, Florida. We lived there for 8 months and absolutely loved it! We would move back there if we could. We made a lot of friends there. We lived for awhile at 720 Southard St. Which was also the chapel in town. Later we moved to Cudjoe Key. We had a house there right on the canal. With a screened in back porch off the second story, jellyfish and other animals in the canal and plenty of coconut trees it was really nice.

 This is 720 Southard street otherwise known as the chapel or for us it was home for awhile!

This was the back porch of our new home on Cudjoe Key. Yep, I liked those days.

 In Key West if you are truly a Key West native you are a Conch we did not meet that qualification but we liked pretending we were real conchs.

 Ever seen a real cruise ship? Not those little fake ones that only hold less than 200 people. I mean a real cruise ship. These things are huge!

 In the front of this picture you can see Jase with the bandanna and Blue next to him. And if you didn't tell there happen to be 2 cruise ships in this day. In Key West they have what they call sunset celebration every night for 2 hours before sunset and 2 hours after sunset. Cruise ships have to leave before the sun goes down so that everyone can have a good view of the sunset without a huge boat in the way. Every night there are street performers and a few times a week one of our friends "Bible Bill" goes out to do a paintboard presentation and preach. We made friends with a lot of the performers such as Jase and Blue. 

 This is Bible Bill (center) and Tim (Right) One of Bill's paintboards is in the back.

 This is "Blue" He was one of the street performers. He did juggling and rode a unicycle. Not a baby unicycle but a real one. Like 9 feet tall.

 This is David and Tobin, or the "Flash" They juggle flaming torches around a kid's head. Somehow I got picked for that routine. But I made some money on the deal so I was okay with it.

 This is Jase with his baby unicycle, only like 7 feet tall. He also did juggling and such.

 This is Johnny or "Dr. Juice" He is an acrobat. He does his show at Mallory Square. When we were there he did his show in the same place. He actually had a spot on the bricks that was a different color because of how he kissed it every time he did a show. Okay let me explain kissing the bricks. He did "dips" he would put his body in the shape of a "C" kind of like he was doing a hand stand but then he would use his arms to do a push up type thing. Every time he went down he would kiss the brick.

 This is Adrian. He was the barker for the local "gentlemen's" club. Daddy actually wrote a tract for the strip club. Adrian actually made it so that Mommy could go in when there was not really any business to talk to the women and give them a rose. That is when our family started "Precious Jewels" which is now the name I put on tracts to give to the women going in to the abortion mill. For those who are freaking out right now, Mommy went in to the strip club. And the women in there were better dressed than the women of the street outside. We are not crazy we just found a way to show God's love to these women and took the opportunity to do so.

 For those of you who like pictures of Key West without a bunch of people in the way, here is Key West.

This is Michael. He was a local homeless man we became friends with. For those of you who think we are strange for being friends with the street performers and the drunks, the barker for the gentlemen's club, and the homeless. These people still need the Gospel and we are the light of the world. Matthew 5 does not say "You are the light of the world, except to those people who seem really evil and too far gone." We are the light of the world. No exceptions! Share the Gospel with everyone! These people are human beings just like us. The only difference is our position in life and God's saving grace. Without God it could be us sitting in their position today.

This is one of our kids club. Our friend Lucy is the one teaching.

This was another kids club we were part of here in Maine. This is the chapel that sent out my family as missionaries. 

This is kind of related to ministry. This was a picture of my baptism. It was in my grandparents back yard. Which is now my backyard. 

Well that should be enough pictures, and writing, for now. I like to write a lot don't I? And my love for pictures does not help. I hope this is just a glimpse into my life growing up. Lots of ministry and lots of God's grace and mercy! Soli Deo Gloria!

With love in the Lord,

Virginia