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Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness: 2012 Year in Review
This year has gone by so fast, but so much has been accomplished! Thank you for your continued prayers and support during these past 2 years of ministry here in ABQ. God is truly blessing our efforts here! God has truly been at work in New Mexico “Moving the Mountains” in 2012! We are grateful for the work of Operation Rescue and the ministry at Project Defending Life. Your faithfulness and encouragement over the past two years has been a huge blessing! We also want to thank Pastor Eric Lamb and everyone from Calvary Chapel of ABQ who have stepped up in a big way in 2012. We would also like…
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Let’s Strive to Take Radical Steps of Faith in 2013
Two years ago, Tara Shaver and I (Evangelicals) stepped out in faith to work with Project Defending Life (PDL) a Catholic Pro-Life Ministry in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Director of PDL, Fr. Stephen Imbarrato a Roman Catholic Priest took a step of faith as well! We are told in Scripture that you can tell by the fruit borne, what is of God! Over the past two years we can say with absolute certainty that God is definitely blessing our steps of faith! Here is a short list of what God has accomplished in just two years in New Mexico: ~We maintained a peaceful, public, and prayerful presence at all three…
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January 2013 Newsletter: 2012 Year in Review
We have learned that ministry is simply planting seeds. Seeds of service, prayer, and conversation. These seeds take root and open a person’s heart to receiving the salvation that God provides. Sidewalk counseling has helped us realize this. Success can’t be determined by the number of lives saved, but by the opportunity to touch hearts, pray with these families, and pass on real help. This is Grace and Love, in a bag! This is the gift bag that we give to the women who come and go from the late-term abortion clinic Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) in Albuquerque, NM. Inside is info for PDL, Care Net, post abortion help, and…
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Faithful in Defending Life
This originally appeared at Stand For Life This also appeared in the New Mexico Breeze titled, “Faithful in Defending Life.” This article was written by a UNM student for one of her classes where her assignment was to highlight an individual. A faithful volunteer and good friend of ours recommended that she focus on Bud Shaver. Even though she encountered criticism and animosity at times from her teacher and from abortion clinic workers, she persevered. We commend her for sticking it out. It is not easy to stand for Christian values in the UNM environment. The following is first her assessment of the difficulties she encountered and then her paper…
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Can Women Trust Planned Parenthood With Their Healthcare?
By, Tara Shaver Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, but for those of us who have a moral objection to abortion, we are told not to oppose Planned Parenthood altogether because they provide other “essential healthcare services for women.” However, Planned Parenthood has made national news recently for covering up child sex trafficking, botching 18 abortions in 2012 alone (including the death of Tonya Reaves in Illinois), and Planned Parenthood has come under fire after they claimed to provide patient mammograms to ensure continued funding from the U.S. government, when in fact they do not. Tara Shaver has obtained public records indicating an active lawsuit filed against Planned…
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The Greatest of These Is…Love
By, Bud Shaver You never know what to expect on any given day, today Tara received two calls. One was from an active duty Albuquerque, Detective and the other was from a Sidewalk Counselor in San Diego, California. During the past 5 years in full-time Pro-Life ministry we have had our run-ins with law enforcement, some of which highlight their failures. Today, however Tara received a phone call from an active duty detective which highlights all that is noble and praiseworthy! In our ministry we deal with the “hard cases” and this one was no different. A girl had been raped and the police actually went with this girl to…
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December Newsletter: The Fruit of Our Labor!
At the end of November, we were able to see a glimpse of the fruit of our labor here in New Mexico. Last October, Tara filed 11 medical board complaints after obtaining 911 calls in a public records request. One of those calls documented a 35 week abortion that had gone seriously wrong and the outcome was a woman with a ruptured uterus. The patient had actually had a previous C-section which increases the risks during an induction abortion. To make matters worse the medication used to increase contractions in labor were overused during the abortion and led to the ruptured uterus. We don’t even know if the woman lived…
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Press Conference Thursday, November 29th at 10:00am at the New Mexico Medical Society
Press Conference Thursday, November 29th at 10:00am at the New Mexico Medical Society November 29th, Albuquerque, NM- The New Mexico Medical Board is acting on complaints filed by Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life and Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue by holding a hearing for late term abortionist Shelley Sella on Thursday, November 29th. Medical Board documents state that Sella violated the standard of care by conducting the dangerous 35-week abortion in a clinic setting instead of a hospital and gross negligence by disregarding the patient’s history of a previous Caesarean Section delivery. A Caesarean Section weakens the uterus, increasing the risks of rupture during subsequent labors. Sella is also…
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Happy Thanksgiving From New Mexico!
Our family would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! We have so much to be thankful for but are especially thankful for the prayers, encouragement and support that have come from you this year! We are thankful for… God faithfully bringing forth fruit from this ministry. He deserves all the praise. There is so much happening right now in Albuquerque that is bringing us closer to seeing this city become abortion free. In fact on November 29th and 30th the first abortionist in New Mexico will be held accountable for a 35-week abortion that landed a woman in the hospital with a ruptured uterus. Abortionist Shelley Sella will have…
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PRESS RELEASE: New Mexico Abortionist Faces Discipline for Botched 35 Week Abortion
By, Operation Rescue November 12, 2012 Albuquerque, NM – Acting on complaints filed by Operation Rescue and Project Defending Life, the New Mexico Medical Board (NMMB) has filed a Notice of Contemplated Action alleging gross negligence against late-term abortionist Shelley Sella during a 35-week abortion that landed the woman in the hospital with a ruptured uterus. “Shelley Sella has a long and sordid history. We have been looking forward to the day when she would be held accountable for her abortion abuses. That day has finally arrived,” said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue. The abortion took place on May 12, 2011. Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life…
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November Newsletter: The Calvary Has Arrived!
The Calvary Has Arrived! This month, the 40 Days For Life campaign was out in full force! We are so pleased that during this campaign Calvary of Albuquerque stepped up in a big way. On October 31st, one of Calvary’s designated days to pray at Planned Parenthood about 30 people came to stand for life. Calvary of ABQ also has their own Christian radio station 107.1 KNKT, and Peter Benson who hosts ABQ Connect aired his show on location at Planned Parenthood on October 31st and interviewed Bud along with some other local pro-life organizations including: Care Net, Birthright, New Mexico Right to Life, and Aspen Project-an adoption agency. (Peter…
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ABQ Connect Live (1 Hour) Broadcast For 40 Days For Life
(Peter Benson interviewing Pastor Eric Lamb) On October 31st, one of Calvary’s designated days to pray at Planned Parenthood about 30 people came to stand for life. Calvary of ABQ also has their own Christian radio station 107.1 KNKT, and Peter Benson who hosts ABQ Connect aired his show on location at Planned Parenthood on October 31st and interviewed Bud along with some other local pro-life organizations including: Care Net, Birthright, New Mexico Right to Life, and Aspen Project-an adoption agency. Listen to the entire (1 hour) show here: http://www.knkt.com/abqconnect_player.asp?id=1383 (Click on 10/31/2012 ABQ Connect)
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The Calvary Has Arrived!
Calvary Chapel ABQ in New Mexico is stepping up in a big way. Pastor Eric Lamb shares his vision and motivation behind the Pro-Life Movement “9 Months.” This movement is bigger than Calvary Chapel ABQ and must be achieved by the Christian community standing together and utilizing our collective resources to oppose the injustice of abortion and minister to the women and couples in need.
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INSIDE THE HEART OF A PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST
(Image by: ~hellosunshine19) This originally appeared on Tyler Ellis’ blog btylerellis.com “Tyler Ellis is a College Minister at the University of Delaware and author of Question Everything. His blog is dedicated to exploring the challenge of knowing God and helping others do the same.” Bud and I have been roommates, groomsmen, and friends for more than a decade now. We went to Bible College together years ago and later got to do ministry together in Arizona. It was in Arizona that Bud and his wife first got their feet wet volunteering in a pro-life ministry. Since then, they have become full-time missionaries. They currently live in Albuquerque, NM and work…
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God Empowers And Uses The Broken
By Bud Shaver As we step out in faith onto a sidewalk outside an abortion clinic I am continually amazed and inspired. I am learning more about God’s ability to move through his body and his power that is exercised through prayer. This week on Wednesday, the first day of 40 Days For Life, there was a larger than usual presence of people united with a common love and urgency to minister to the women, babies, and families going into the late-term abortion clinic Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO). My friend and faithful pro-life advocate Lorenzo reminds me every day that each day is new and that each person we encounter…
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Welcome to, Eden
Tara, Tirzah, and I welcomed Eden Shaver into our family Friday, September 7, 2012 at 1:23am. He was 7lbs exactly and 20 5/8 inches long. He was born at home (our plan). Mom and baby are healthy and strong and doing well. We had wonderful help from a midwife and another doula/midwife in training. Thank you for your prayers, they were powerful and effective! We have truly been blessed by this precious gift, sent from above! Our hope is that Eden will live his life to be a blessing in this world by advancing God’s kingdom and serving others. That is what Eden’s name represents. Eden was where God created…
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Sept. 2012 Newsletter: Ignorant & Idiotic…Modern Day Fools For Christ
This month we learned that as we step out in faith, God can use us to Light Up the Darkness and deal with people’s brokenness, those who are carrying heavy burdens. We can represent Jesus to them as he says “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28) As we lead them to Jesus…He will do the rest! Thanks for your continued prayers and support! Prayers can move mountains, so please continue to keep us in your prayers…and let us know how we can pray for you! The Calvary has arrived…Literally Calvary Chapel, ABQ! Simply Being Present Is All…
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In Light of the Empty Sidewalks, History Will be the Final Arbiter!
By Bud Shaver – Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness (This post originally appeared on www.standforlife.net) Injustice taints and forever mars the ability to play the moral card. History records and reveals to the world what was done on behalf of those forever scarred. When you think of a father convicted of a heinous sexual crime that he did to his child, we don’t really care if he provided food, shelter, a good education, or even brought that child to church. One act of injustice forever mars his ability to claim that he was a good father. When you think of Christians who lived in the deep South in America…
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We Are At War…Not Against Individuals, But Against Pretensions!
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood…We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God!” Eph. 6:12; 2 Cor. 10:5 (No audio, If you doubt we are in a battle for hearts and minds…Check this out!) “We see [Jesus] who abhors both passivity and violence and teaches us a new way forward that is neither submission nor assault, neither fight nor flight. He shows us a way to oppose evil without mirroring it, where oppressors can be resisted without being emulated and neutralized without being destroyed.” ~Shane Claiborne (You can watch portions of our actual conversation and see how we eventually found…
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Showing Christ’s Love Saves The Unborn And Comforts Those In Need
By Monte Harms- standforlife.net This originally appeared on Stand For Life I am standing in front of an abortion facility to be a defender of the unborn. A woman goes in to have an abortion and totally ignores those standing on the sidewalk. Sometimes her boyfriend, father, mother, or friend who brought her will be verbally combative with the defenders. It’s spiritual warfare at its core. Part of my human nature urges me (unsuccessfully, I might add) to say or even yell: “You do know you’re killing your own baby.” “Are you out of your mind?” “Who in the world would kill their own baby?” … or tell the boyfriend…
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Ignorant & Idiotic…Modern Day Fool’s For Christ
By Bud Shaver Today (August 23, 2012) out at UNM abortion mill UNMCRH, a guy came over to state how ignorant, idiotic, down right evil it was for us to be out in front of an abortion clinic. I asked him “Why?” He went on to say how hypocritical Christians are and he had his list of course! I told him “How about I concede everything you just stated about Christians, and allow me to ask you…How is it, that you are anti-war, anti-death penalty, anti-violence, pro-social justice, but you support the most brutal form of violence…abortion? Abortion has killed more people in our country than all the wars, violence,…
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MAKING FRIENDS WITH OUR ENEMIES!
In the widely-viewed film 180, there is a young man named Steve with a Mohawk, tattoos, and piercings. He is also very fouled-mouth, anti-God and anti-Jewish. The first reaction to him might be is that he is a kook or “those atheists are so weird and rude.” By the end of the interaction with 180’s creator Ray Comfort, it is obvious Steve’s heart has been softened and he states that he will think about reading his Bible. Pro-life activist Bud Shaver demonstrates often how to respond to someone who states they are pro-abortion, anti-God, or just does not want Bud to be in front of the abortion facility. He…
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Pro-Life Missionaries are Pushing Back the Abortion Cartel in New Mexico
By, Cheryl Sullenger- Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue Bud and Tara Shaver need our support to continue their life-saving work in the Late Term Abortion Capital of the Southwest Albuquerque, NM — Bud and Tara Shaver are full time pro-life missionaries in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their ministry encompasses its name, “Prayer and a Pro-life Witness.” As former Operation Rescue interns they have learned proven strategies to close down abortion clinics. Since arriving in Albuquerque in July 2010 they have begun to implement those strategies by stripping away the layers of the abortion industry and by educating the public with the truth about abortion. When the Shaver’s arrived in New…
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MAKING FRIENDS WITH GOD-HATERS!
This video footage was taken on August 8, 2012 out at Late-Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women’s Options www.lateterm.com This was this woman’s (and children’s) first time peacefully witnessing and offering help out at SWO! What an introduction to the hostility intolerance, and hatred from the “Pro-Choice” community! This guy admitted to being post-abortive. He was carrying around all this baggage, abortion does not just effect women and children…it also effects men! We eventually found common ground and we actually became…friends! (This is just some excerpts the actual conversation was over an hour long!) Also, there were two babies and two women saved from the horror called abortion this day! One…
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August 2012 Newsletter: We Are Ending Abortion, One Woman, One Child, One Day At A Time!
Simply Being Present Is All It Takes To Save A Life… This month God used our prayerful pro-life witness at the abortion mill’s and as a result, there were several turnaround’s and we were able to speak with/help numerous people. It always amazes me how we can light up the darkness by being present at the abortion clinic for women in their darkest hour and share with them life-affirming alternatives! How else will they know?! While we wait and pray for the Supreme Court and for our own state legislators to end to abortion…we are ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time by serving and by…
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The Mainstream Media Publicizes The Truth About Abortion
By, Monte Harms- Stand For Life (This originally appeared on www.standforlife.net) In the last week a truck with photos of the truth has been getting a fair amount of publicity in Albuquerque. Local ABC affiliate KOAT-TV aired a story about the “truth truck” that has abortion photos on its side. Pro-life activist Bud Shaver drives the truck around town and parks it across the street from the late-term abortion facility, Southwestern Women’s Options, while he is peacefully counseling women and men at SWO. The story prompted radio talk show host Scott Stiegler to devote two hours of his show the following day to listener’s reactions to the truck and the…
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Billboard Calls Albuquerque the Late-Term Abortion Capital
Graphic anti-abortion billboard drives around town. Report originally appeared at koat.com (Complete report including video footage!) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Report by By Anna Velasquez koat.com An anti-abortion activist has taken his message to the streets and highways of Albuquerque with a rolling billboard that displays graphic pictures. Bud Shaver drives around a truck with huge, larger-than-life pictures of dead fetuses from what he said are late-term abortions. “This just shows what abortion is,” Shaver said. “It shows the reality of what abortion is. It also restores meaning to the word abortion.” The billboard also declares Albuquerque as the nation’s late-term abortion capital. “As far as late-term abortion is concerned, Albuquerque…
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In The Midst Of Chaos…A Moment To Hope!
By Bud Shaver Today (July 3rd, 2012) after spending several hours at Late-Term abortion mill (SWO) in Albuquerque, NM reaching out to abortion minded couples and just being ignored or angrily “flipped off!” I drove the Truth Truck back to where it is stored and then headed to Project Defending Life (PDL). After being there for a while taking care of business and speaking with volunteers I headed out the door. As I was leaving I just glanced over and saw a couple being helped by our Gabriel Project volunteer and I sort of recognized the couple but in the moment, couldn’t remember where I had seen them before…That is…
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Making Friends With Our Harshest Critics…Fellow Christians!
Sometimes our harshest critics are fellow Christians! We are not here to make friends, but to save lives! Our ministry is Christ centered and Grace Filled! Please be gracious to us! We do save lives and change minds…everyday! We are always effective…Each and every-time we step out in Faith! Yes, we have seen the “Mountains Move!” Also, check out this post: Making Friends With Our Enemies!
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Simply Being Present Is All It Takes To Save A Life…
By Bud Shaver Today (June 27th, 2012) I was able to talk to a woman who had pulled up in another car, but was sitting in a car that was parked at late-term abortion mill Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO). She told me that her daughter was inside, but that she had changed her mind and was not going to have the abortion. I shared with her about the resources we provide at Project Defending Life (PDL) and encouraged them to go to PDL. She asked me to wait and share this information with her daughter and she went inside (SWO) to get her. They both came out and the daughter…
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Baby Saved Twice In One Day At Two ABQ Abortion Mills!
By Bud Shaver Truth is stranger than fiction! Today at Southwestern Women’s Option’s (SWO) lateterm.com in Albuquerque, NM sidewalk counselor Bobby Coffman Jr. was able to speak with a young father whose girlfriend was already inside the abortion center. Bobby was able to share his own testimony of losing two children and was able to connect with this father in a personal way. Bobby asked me to share all the resources available at Project Defending Life (PDL) which I was able to do. This couple was from Ohio and had only been given information about the Late-Term abortion mill…thanks to Bobby and his wife Collette’s faithfulness God was able to…
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Making Friends With Our Enemies!
By Bud Shaver (This article originally appeared on Standforlife.net) Today (Friday, June 1, 2012) as I was reaching out to abortion-minded women at the late-term abortion mill, Southwestern Women’s Options (www.lateterm.com), I was confronted by a young man who was very angry! I was as close as you get to being violently assaulted. He cursed me and asked me what I had to say about it. I told him God Bless You and if you want to talk rationally about the situation we could. He left just as quickly as he came, cursing and flipping me off as he left! This does not happen as often as one may think,…
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MAKING FRIENDS WITH OUR ENEMIES!
In the widely-viewed film 180, there is a young man named Steve with a Mohawk, tattoos, and piercings. He is also very fouled-mouth, anti-God and anti-Jewish. The first reaction to him might be is that he is a kook or “those atheists are so weird and rude.” By the end of the interaction with 180’s creator Ray Comfort, it is obvious Steve’s heart has been softened and he states that he will think about reading his Bible. Pro-life activist Bud Shaver demonstrates often how to respond to someone who states they are pro-abortion, anti-God, or just does not want Bud to be in front of the abortion facility. He has…








































































