Encourage awareness of birthdays by participation in "Pennies for Life" where people give the number of pennies equivalent to their age.

Have a diaper derby/shower for your local Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC). Involve area churches by having a contest with a "Dipe Wipes" trophy for the church that collects the most diapers! (The "trophy" is an empty dipe wipes container mounted to a plaque.)

Leave a baby bed up for a month at church ("Christmas Crib") and ask for donations for a local CPC. (Blankets, diapers, baby clothes, whatever people want to give.)

Sponsor a "Walk" or "Bike" For Life or participate in an existing one in your area.

Have a dessert auction after a worship service with the proceeds going to a local CPC.

Give each Sunday School class an empty gallon milk jug nine months before Life Sunday and challenge the children to fill it with pennies (full jug is supposed to weigh the approximate size of a large newborn). Each month, they will keep track of the "baby’s" progress (size, weight, length & activity) through pictures brought in by the teacher. The children may "name" their baby. If the class fills more than one jug, they will have twins or triplets! The babies are to be "born" on Life Sunday.

Ask farmers for a row or two of sweet corn for the local Lutherans For Life (LFL) chapter to pick and sell for profit.

Get used water baby bottles from area hospital OB departments. Give bottles out in Sunday school and collect money for an area CPC or whatever the need might be.

Raise money to purchase ultrasound machine for a CPC.

Host a pie/ice cream social after local sporting and music events.

Hold a Christmas cookie sale – attach pro- life Bible verses to the cookie packaging.

Hold a baked potato dinner and auction – give proceeds to a local CPC or for an LFL project.

Sell Mother’s Day flowers/corsages and Father’s Day cookies to raise funds.

Make use of Thrivent matching funds on special projects.

Sponsor a group, garage, rummage, or bake sale and put a pro-life tract in each shopper’s bag. Proceeds could go to a local CPC, a hospice unit, or other LFL projects.

Take a door offering at church for special "Life Projects."

Have a "Bottles for Babies" contest. Hand out 4 oz plastic baby bottles to any one in the congregation that wants one to fill up with money. (These bottles would be washed after the contest and given to a local CPC.) Attach a tag to each bottle that states what organization in your church you represent or want to represent (i.e. Choir, Sunday School, LWML, Youth Group, Adult Bible Class, Church Council). After one month the bottles are returned and money tallied. A coffee hour is then held to award prizes (candy) to the top group and individual highest totals, then the most pennies, most nickels, most dollars, etc. – a very successful way to raise funds for your local CPC and have great fellowship within your congregation at the same time!

Write newspaper editorials informing the community about any life topic.

Place a "Healing Hearts" ad in your local newspaper or on your local radio/TV station by simply using the following text: "For confidential post-abortion referral, counsel, and reconciliation, call Healing Hearts at 888-21-STORY".

Erect a pro-life billboard.

Publish a pro-life newsletter.

Write letters/call congressmen, state legislators, and other government officials.

Pay for pro-life ads in your local newspaper.

Place a pro-life ad on a city bus.

Put local media on the "LifeDate" mailing list.

Organize a letter writing campaign.

Speak to your neighbors on a one-on-one basis about their ideas on cloning, embryonic/adult stem cells, etc.

Compile a list of e-mail addresses of friends/neighbors. E-mail them life- related messages periodically ... once a week or more frequently if "things" are happening faster.

Have an information/exhibit table at a local mall or community events.

Work county fair pro-life booths.

Take pro-life materials to jails – place items in their libraries.

Enter a pro-life float in a parade(s).

Encourage pastors not only to speak out from the pulpit on life issues but also to sponsor a pro-life forum/panel to educate parishioners on the life issues. The panel could include a doctor/nurse, lawyer, pastor, and a CPC staff person. Invite the community to attend as well.

Produce and distribute Spanish pro-life materials where needed.

Speak to church groups and community organizations about the ministry of Lutherans For Life.

Hold a public debate in defense of pro-life issues or support organizations capable of doing such.

Organize groups to participate in "Life Chain" events and/or the "March for Life" in Washington, DC and have a time of fellowship afterwards.

Sponsor a candlelight memorial service in front of the church.

Distribute "Precious Feet" pins to all new mothers in the county.

Prepare posters or half-page flyers that can be posted in your church or placed on a table for people to pick up and read.

"Man" a display table once or twice a year (or quarterly) at your local church. Have interesting materials/displays and be there to answer questions or give information.

Have an information/exhibit table at a local mall or community events.

Work county fair pro-life booths.

Put up a cross display. Forty crosses – each representing a million deaths. If you don’t have the yard space at church, cut out paper crosses and display them inside (on the narthex walls).

Go to where the people are already gathered (district/regional assemblies, church services, Sunday schools, county or state fairs, youth group meetings, secular events where you can rent a display table area). It seems we spend lots of energy trying to gather people together to hear the "For Life" message rather than going to them where they are already gathered!

Lay a wreath of flowers in front of abortion clinics.

Use posters on fetal development to teach about the sanctity of human life. (Order "Little Sweet One" poster set from LFL.)

While making a presentation, have 40 balloons popped, one every minute . . . representing the 40 million babies killed by abortion.

Support speakers and have regular educational events for families on all life issues.

Bring the "Touch of Life" fetal models with you to family reunions, on vacation, Bible Camps, etc. Then just take them out to powder (clean) them, and soon you will have a crowd of kids/adults around you asking about them!

Teach your children about abortion.

Teach your children that life is precious from conception to natural death.

Teach your children sexual purity/chastity.

Talk to family and friends about what God’s Word says about life issues.

Speak the truth with Love.

Provide altar flowers dedicated to mothers (Mother’s Day) and give them to moms after church service has ended.

Have your adult and/or children’s choir sing "God Knew Your Name" during the worship service. Have the lyrics printed in the bulletin.

Place a white flower in chancel/altar when a person is baptized.

Provide life issue (such as LFL’s "Life News") bulletin inserts for your congregation.

During worship services display banners designed as crib quilts which can later be donated to CPC’s.

Have a "Celebrate Life" service on March 25th (The Feast of Annunciation).

Make a Lutherans For Life banner for church.

Distribute "God Loves Life" music cassettes and sheet music.

Produce and distribute local Father’s and Mother’s Day bulletin inserts.

On Life Sunday celebrate the baptism of all children baptized since the previous year’s Life Sunday. Each family gets a letter of invitation prior to the Life Sunday "celebration."

Run for political office.

Vote for pro-life candidates.

Write letters/call congressmen, state legislators, and other government officials.

Find out what your candidate’s position is on abortion.

Provide candidates with information on life issues.

Organize a letter writing campaign.

Participate in your district’s political caucuses.

Organize groups to participate in "Life Chain" events and/or the "March for Life" in Washington, DC and have a time of fellowship afterwards.

Once "educated," offer to facilitate a Bible study on one or more life issues in your congregation or, simply, provide life materials to your church’s Board of Education.

Speak to organizations in your congregation – short presentations of 15 to 20 minutes. They may extend the time with Q & A.

Volunteer to serve on the Human Care Commission in your District or Human Care Board or Committee in your congregation.

"Man" a display table once or twice a year (or quarterly) at your local church. Have interesting materials/displays and be there to answer questions or give information.

Sponsor "Creation" events by utilizing speakers, videos, book giveaways, etc.

Using the model of Titus 2, host a small group of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters at a "tea room" or in your home to discuss Biblical womanhood, purity, and love for God’s gift of life. (Pertinent LFL resources are available.)

Using the model of Titus 2, host a small group of grandfathers, fathers, and sons in your home or in the youth room at church to discuss Biblical manhood, chivalry, and protection of human life. (Pertinent LFL resources are available.)

Place a small tract rack with tracts on chastity, post abortion healing, etc. in the restrooms at church.

Review a pro-life book for your church newsletter.

Design a pro-life page for your church newsletter. Include quotes and facts as well as suggested LFL tracts, videos, Bible studies, and curricula.

Pass out LFL membership brochures as congregation leaves church. Have LFL chapter members do this so it is more like a personal invitation. Encourage membership in LFL.

Host a Mother/Daughter tea and have a female Christian medical professional speak. Show the video "Ultrasound – A Window to the Womb."

Host a Father/Son event and have an environmentalist speak about how male animals care for their young. An outdoor/ nature theme could be incorporated.

Hold a class for parents of preschool children at your church to include your pastor discussing baptism, Sunday school, and other opportunities for Christian education and family ministry. A Christian financial planner and a Christian psychologist could also be very helpful speaking to the class.

Put Life materials in the church library (videos, books, cassettes).

Submit monthly articles for your church newsletter.

Have an annual soup/sandwich supper on Life Sunday and invite a speaker, sing songs/ hymns, and have a prayer vigil.

Provide life issue (such as LFL’s "Life News") bulletin inserts for your congregation.

Sponsor an annual "Resurrection Workshop" at your church. This workshop led by your pastor will let participants share their wishes concerning their will, funeral, and burial arrangements. Have LFL materials concerning end-of-life issues available for the class. Participants may also fill out and sign a notarized form that states their desire to have pastoral care until life’s end. This has shown itself to be important for dealing with situations where the spouse or children are unbelievers.

Your local LFL chapter/Life Ministry Coordinator team could computer generate their own pro-life Christmas cards and give one to each family in the congregation using the church mailboxes or send out with the church newsletter.

Establish a positive pro-life bulletin board at church with simple pro-life messages and cartoons. This could be set up in the fellowship area where lots of folks will see it. Keep it current.

Speak about the ministry of Lutherans for Life at your church’s new member orientation activities.

Sponsor Lenten soup suppers for your congregation.

Sponsor a Mother’s Day breakfast.

Show the video "For Life" (available through Lutherans For Life) to church groups.

Host a coffee hour after worship and distribute pro-life/LFL materials.

Speak to church groups and community organizations about the ministry of Lutherans For Life.

Place LFL’s "Life Quotes" in your congregation’s weekly bulletin and/or monthly newsletter.

Put LFL tracts in your church or tract rack.

Give life issue and/or LFL chapter report at congregational voters’ meeting.

Set up a "Life" Christmas tree in a prominent place.

Sponsor a candlelight memorial service in front of the church.

Sponsor a creation seminar or evolution/ creation debate.

Hold a "Celebrate LIFE!" party.

Start a chapter or LMC column in your congregation’s newsletter.

Provide copies of "LifeDate" for members of your congregation (if applicable, affix a sticker or card saying: "Courtesy of _________________ Lutherans For Life" and list meeting times and contact people, etc.)

Post baby/baptism pictures on church bulletin board.

Encourage a study of Genesis and God’s plan for families.

A small Christmas tree is placed somewhere outside the sanctuary, along with red hearts on ornament hooks. Anyone who has lost a child through any means (abortion, miscarriage, illness, etc.) has the opportunity to write the child’s name on a heart and hang it on the tree, offering a private prayer.

Offer to lead Bible studies on life issues.

Make laminated crosses for Mother’s Day with pro-life Bible verses on them.

Find out if your congregation plans to observe a "Sanctity of Human Life Sunday."

Place flyers at church or give to friends/ neighbors/acquaintances when congressmen and congresswomen should be contacted regarding bills in the House of Representatives or the Senate.

Support Christian Medical – Dental Society medical students, etc. with speakers, funds, and encouragement.

Give Christian Medical – Dental Society students pro-life Bible materials, pocket Bibles, etc.

Host an "in-home" Bible study on life issues. Provide time for prayer, discussion, and fellowship.

Invite people to attend LFL State Conventions as a group.

Raise money to send local LFL members to the annual LFL convention for more training.

Adopt a Seminarian.

Hold a "Pastor’s Breakfast" – distribute information about Lutherans For Life (If pastors do not come, hand-deliver the information to them and encourage them to speak out about life issues from the pulpit.)

Offer scholarships to students to attend the National Lutherans For Life convention.

Hold a workshop on life issues for Sunday school teachers.

Encourage your pastor to apply the Law and the Gospel to all life issues.

Give a list of community pro-life speakers, services, and organizations to your pastor.

Encourage people to visit with their grandparents and other older people. Help them to learn and appreciate the wisdom that comes from living many years.

Support pro-life teachers and administrators by sending cards, offering encouragement, and providing them with pro- life resources.

Let pro-life folks know about LFL resources and tell how they can get them.

Sponsor a creation seminar or evolution/ creation debate.

Promote the "Adoption Option" with seminars, workshops, or informational brochures.

Distribute "A Lutheran Catechism on Abortion and Life."

Distribute copies of "Abortion and the Message of the Church: Sin or Salvation?" available from national LFL.

Start a Lutherans For Life chapter.

Sponsor a Mother’s Day baby shower for a local CPC.

Learn more about adoption as a loving alternative to abortion.

Be a member of Lutherans For Life and read the materials you receive from LFL.

If you are computer literate, subscribe to e-mail services that give life issues synopses on current issues (e.g. infonet@prolifeinfo.org; www.nrlc.org; www.christianliferesources.com).

Read magazine articles, books, etc on life issues.

Wear "Precious Feet" or "Precious Hands" pins and be prepared to answer when people ask about them.

Use positive pro-life address labels and stickers on all your personal mail. Use pro-life checks to pay bills, buy groceries, etc.

Thank your pastor for delivering a pro-life sermon.

Send Christmas or birthday cards with a pro-life message.

Give a "Precious Feet" or "Precious Hands" pin to a confirmand with a pro-life message.

Bring the "Touch of Life" fetal models with you to family reunions, on vacation, Bible Camps, etc. Then just take them out to powder (clean) them, and soon you will have a crowd of kids/adults around you asking about them!

Participate in your local LFL chapter and keep in contact with local Lutheran pastors and congregations.

Run for political office.

Read and study God’s Word and pray!

Wear pro-life T-shirts.

Put a pro-life bumper sticker on your car or a static sticker on your car window.

Support hospice care.

Talk to your doctor about abortion and euthanasia.

Join Lutherans For Life.

Subscribe to pro-life publications.

Learn how you can help women and men who need ministry after an abortion.

Publish a pro-life newsletter.

Keep informed about your church body’s stand on life issues and share with members of your congregation.

Serve as a "sidewalk counselor".

Peacefully picket/pray/handout LFL materials in front of an abortion clinic.

Sponsor a needy child through World Vision, Child Reach, etc.

Know why you are pro-life.

Financially support pro-life efforts.

Be ready for opportunities to witness. Keep pro-life tracts and leaflets in your purse, briefcase, or car.

Come to an LFL convention.

Don’t assume the "experts" know more about the fundamental issues than you do.

Become informed and talk about the scientific and medical facts regarding fetal development.

Speak the truth in Christ-like love.

Speak of Christ’s forgiveness and the power (by the Holy Spirit) to live a new life.

Have the youth sponsor a "dresser drive." The congregation is asked to fill a refinished dresser (located at church) with new or "gently used" baby items to be donated to the local CPC.

Sponsor a needy child through World Vision, Child Reach, etc.

Let Lutheran schoolteachers and administrators know you are willing to speak about life issues.

Provide "Life" curricula to Lutheran and non-Lutheran Christian schools.

Make sure sex education classes in local high schools hear the chastity message – encourage equal time!

Turn VBS week into "Celebrate Life" week! Make use of LFL’s "chapel talks" for opening devotions. Adapt the curriculum God’s Gift of Life for daily lessons. Instead of making crafts to take home, have the students create items for moms and babies in the congregation or for a local caring pregnancy center. Set up an LFL display.

Equip teens to "speak up" for life and practice purity by using the "Dare To Choose" curriculum in high school Bible class.

Make up "Student Pro-life Packets" for youth in your congregation who want to write a paper, do a debate, or speak on a life topic in school. Separate packets might include information on fetal development, abortion and its consequences, cloning, or euthanasia.

Show the video "Life is a Class Project" to your junior high and high school youth groups.

As part of a Christmas program, have children bring in a new baby gift (clothing, diapers, toy, or formula) as a gift for Baby Jesus. Donate these gifts to a CPC or a needy family within the community.

Give each Sunday School class an empty gallon milk jug nine months before Life Sunday and challenge the children to fill it with pennies (full jug is supposed to weigh the approximate size of a large newborn). Each month, they will keep track of the "baby’s" progress (size, weight, length and activity) through pictures brought in by the teacher. The children should "name" their baby. If the class fills more than one jug, they will have twins or triplets! The babies are to be "born" on Life Sunday.

Plan and hold a youth seminar on chastity.

Hold a Life Sunday coloring contest for kids.

Offer scholarships to students to attend the National Lutherans For Life convention.

Hold a "Children’s Day/Kid’s Day Picnic" with fun, games, and food - all with a "Celebration of Life" emphasis.

Sponsor a "Life Awareness" pro-life speech/ essay/poster contest and hold an awards banquet.

Purchase fetal models for use in high school science classes.

Send care packages to college or service bound young people. Include pro-life brochures, names of local churches and, if possible, names of LFL members in the area.

Have a chastity chapel service at a church or school.

Sponsor a mentoring project (2 or 3 times a year) by distributing prayer packets to the congregation to pray for their teenage members. Each member who takes a packet commits to praying for their teen for three months and sends them notes of encouragement.

Host a parent-youth seminar on "Lust or Love."

Model your faith to younger people.

Support a "Students For Life" group at an area high school, college, or university.

Sponsor a pizza party for high school youth and discuss life issues.

Speak the truth with Love.

Encourage youth and others to speak out on abortion in their schools, churches, and communities.

Sponsor an activity to help young people empathize with the elderly and disabled. (Put Vaseline on glasses, put stiff gloves on hands, etc.)

Find out what is being taught in your schools on life issues.

If Planned Parenthood is in your school, ask for equal time to offer a pro-life perspective.

Support Lutherans For Life’s Campus Life Project.

Give Easter baskets to teen moms. Include baby toys, personal items, perfume, soaps, Christian symbols, and literature.

Give "new mother bags" (daily devotions, Bible, LFL brochures, cosmetic items, etc) and quilts and layettes for teen moms to a CPC.

Speak to teens about the gift of sexuality and the beauty of chastity. Write a letter of encouragement to sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, neighbors, and godchildren.

Purchase an ad in the annual LFL Convention book.

Hold a public debate in defense of pro-life issues or support organizations capable of doing such.

Organize a a group and take turns praying outside an abortion clinic during business hours.

Hold a Christian Wills and Estate Planning Seminar. (A planning outline is available from National LFL.)

Become a Lutherans For Life’s Life Ministry Coordinator (LMC).

Support an adoption service agency.

Help pay for an adoption.

Distribute "Precious Feet" pins to all new mothers in the county.

Set up a "baby barrel" to collect diapers, clothes, and toys for babies and young children in your congregation.

Sponsor a "Single Parents" Christmas party.

Send care packages to college or service bound young people. Include pro-life brochures, names of local churches and, if possible, names of LFL members in the area.

Have the youth sponsor a "dresser drive." The congregation is asked to fill a refinished dresser (located at church) with new or "gently used" baby items to be donated to the local CPC.

Help purchase an ultrasound machine for a local hospital or CPC.

Give a book scholarship for a graduating mom going to college.

Volunteer to serve on the Human Care Commission in your District or Human Care Board or Committee in your congregation.

Attend a national LFL convention and give a brief report after you return. Have tapes of presentations available.

Volunteer at the local Crisis Pregnancy Center.

Provide respite care for parents with disabled children and single parents. (Provide a meal, mow the lawn, baby-sit, etc.)

Sponsor a Mother’s Day baby shower for a local CPC.

Have your LFL chapter sponsor a servant event where members hire themselves out for a day (at no charge) to the disabled, elderly and/or shut-ins to do yard work, household chores, run errands, etc.)

Help out new parents. Take a meal and/or arrange a "play" time with siblings of the newborn baby.

Visit shut-ins (whether they are elderly, sick, or just lonely). Go as a family if possible. Give them a goodie basket with a pro-life message card. Or, send them a note letting them know they are special.

"Adopt" an abortionist or Planned Parenthood official and pray regularly for him/her.

Support hospice care.

Volunteer at or establish a help hotline for those in crisis.

Make baby afghans for CPC’s.

Give infant hats - crochet or knit – to hospitals for "preemies."

Begin a Christian Brother or Sister program.

Begin a one-on-one program with nursing home and hospital residents – visit residents once a week.

Sponsor a prayer chain.

Check the handicapped accessibility of your church facilities.

Sponsor a "harvest or food drive" – distribute food to local food banks or needy families.

Hold a "Work Day" at a local CPC.

Investigate starting an abortion aftermath/ post-abortion syndrome support group.

Start a "Caring Corner." A donation is given to a family or individual who is in a life crisis with an immediate monetary need (for example: food, health aids, pregnancy needs). Recipient eligibility will be decided by the local LFL chapter. Any eligible needs are to be brought to the attention of a local chapter member.

Offer your help to a single mother, parents of a child with disabilities, or a family struggling with the death of a loved one.

Give a witness to chastity and marriage.

Help young moms and dads with parenting skills.

Help a single mom through labor.

Offer your own special gifts or skills to a pro-life effort.

Pray for those in a crisis pregnancy.

Buy/collect baby food for new mothers.

Withdraw support from organizations or businesses that fund pro-abortion agencies.

Give out baby blankets to newborns in your congregations.

Offer aid and comfort to those who are grieving the loss of a child (SIDS, illness, miscarriage, abortion).