Hey everyone!

There is something that has been burning on my heart the last couple of weeks , and I thought I would share my thoughts with you! If you were unaware, Faytene is hosting a massive prayer event on Parliament Hill this August 23rd and I think that everyone in Canada should attend!! Not should attend, must attend!

The reason I say this is because, I feel, we are in one of the most crucial times this nation has ever seen. James Goll recently released a prophetic word that we are in a three year window of mercy and if we seize this moment, it will shift us into a 10 year window of mercy.

We know that prayer is one of the most effective tools we have and we know that prayer changes and shifts atmosphere's and nations. Many times throughout the bible God used men and women has intercessors to shift the impending doom upon their people and their nation. What if Esther said to herself, well someone else can do this, I don't think I am called to this. If she did this, a whole nation, a whole people group would have been wiped off the planet. What if God is calling you to come to TheCRY and your one prayer, your one voice was the one that would shift things and abortion would see the end of its days.

I continueally think of "Horton Hears A Who" by Dr.Zusus where little jojo who was playing with his yoyo was the only one not speaking up, and yet he was the one who let out one "yelp" that saved his entire community from being destroyed. We need to be like the sons of Issachar who know the times and the seasons, and we are in a season of mass prayer and fasting that will shift nations.



I want to share with you what I felt back in 2006 when TheCRY was being held. I was living in BC at the time, and i was 21 years old and an intern at my church when I heard about TheCRY and something rose in my spirit that said I had to be in Ottawa for this event. I didnt know why but I couldn't drop the feeling that I had to be there. So I asked everyone in my church if they wanted to come with me and no one wanted to come with me. So eventually, my youth pastor and I joined another church from Chilliwack BC and we headed out to TheCRY. I always had a love for Canada, and I always loved prayer, but after TheCRY things inside of me shifted and I have never been the same since that day.

So this is it, if you love your nation, if you love this generation, if you just love Jesus, you need to be at TheCRY! Money is not a limit, time is not a limit, the only limit is how much you want to see this nation change. Join us on August
23rd in Jacques Cartier Parc/Parliament Hill for a history making, nation shaking good time.

- Tamara Crampton

What is Operation MOCO? by Sarah

With the exception of people who may have been out of the country for the past month, most Canadians are aware that Henry Morgentaler was awarded with the Order of Canada on July 1st, 2008 (Canada Day). The Order of Canada is the highest honour that a civilian can get in Canada- so basically, if you are made a Member of the Order, Canada is giving you a huge stamp of approval for the things you have contributed to culture or society in Canada.

If you don't know who Morgentaler is, let me briefly explain what all the fuss is about. Back in the 1960s, Morgentaler was thrown in jail for performing illegal abortions. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the judges there found that a certain section of the Criminal Code that required women to have a panel of doctors approve their abortion was unconstitutional and it was struck down. The Supreme Court then told Parliament that they were responsible for creating a new CONSTITUIONAL law restricting abortions.

The problem was, Parliament never did it.

And so, by an unfortunate accident, and by breaking the law, Morgentaler got all restrictions taken off of abortions.

This means a 12 year old girl can get an abortion without her parent's knowing, and without anyone explaining to her what an abortion is, or what it could possibly do to her (make her suicidal, depressed, have nightmares, make her infertile, cause cancer, etc.) It is ridiculous to think that a girl who is not allowed to vote, drink, drive, consent to sexual activity or get a body piercing or tattoo can make an informed "choice" about abortion. She can't even go on a FIELD TRIP without her parent's consent.

Nonetheless, for some reason this accident in the judicial process has been credited to Morgentaler as a "life time contribution to health care and women's rights" and he will be presented with the Order in the next coming months if the Governor General does not change her mind and revoke the decision to award him.

Not only that, but the Nomination Committee had to break a bunch of rules to award him. First, they went to democratic vote instead of unanimous consent to silence the voices in their committee who were opposed to honouring a mass murderer. Second, they considered him when they previously rejected other nominees such as Margaret Somerville for being "too controversial" because of her conservative views on same-sex marriage. Third, when word had gotten out in the spring of 2008 that they might be considering his nomination there was such an outcry from Canada that there was an announcement from the Governor General's office that he was not and would not be on the nomination list. Basically, they lied.

And so 4MY Canada has launched Operation MOCO; Morgentaler Order of Canada Outcry. Last week the LARGEST touchtone telephone poll in the HISTORY OF CANADA found that 56% of Canadians do NOT agree with Morgentaler's Order of Canada.

The game plan for Operation MOCO is to write, call, email, or send a postcard every other day to the Nomination Committee, the Governor General, the Prime Minister, and your Member of Parliament UNTIL the Order is revoked. Visit 4mycanada.ca/MOCO.html to find the contact information for the MOCO target list.

Since the beginning of July, 9 Members of the Order of Canada have returned their Order in protest. This has NEVER happened in the history of the Order. No one has ever returned their order voluntarily. And for the first time in decades, the abortion debate is back on the table in Canada... even making the cover of Maclean's magazine.

Now is the time to make your voice heard! The abortion debate is now open and if we seize this moment with persistence, we WILL see abortion laws changed in Canada. 60% of Canadians want restrictions on abortion, and 56% of Canadians do not think Morgentaler is a hero.

We actually are a majority. It's time to let Parliament know it.

Annnnd... exciting news! MOCO is on facebook and is over 15,500 members! Come find us :) Search "Oppose Morgentaler's Order of Canada" and stay up-to-date on Operation MOCO and other initiatives that are raising a voice against Morgentaler's Order.

Hey,

I'm Jonathan, another one of the new interns this summer. If you are here reading this, good job! It means that you are actively involved in getting informed and changing the nation. That's awesome, and I encourage you to keep up to date with all the MyCanada initiatives, such as Operation M.O.C.O, the postcard campaigns, and talking to your local MPs about some of the bills and issues that concern you. Tell all your friends, the more people involved, the better.

I think that it is so easy to not do anything, especially when the summer ends and life gets back to normal. But it is so great that you are on here, right now, getting involved. Think about the current state of our world today. Cool? Not really. But we could change all of society's junk. Seriously. Think about what would happen if everyone who cared about injustice and about all the filth that's around us today took a stand and did something. We would literally change the nation. You wanna see change? Make it happen. Get together with people you know, and get involved in some way. Definitely attend The CRY, for starters. But don't just whine about how hard life can be in this society, how hard it is to stay pure, complain about endless problems, etc. It can always be like that, or, through a generation which takes a stand, it can never be like that again!

Bless you guys and thanks for your prayers,

Jonathan

Hey There,

My name is Amy and I am a 4 My Canada intern. It is awesome to be here, and I am learning how important it is to pay attention to what is happening in our Government. I must admit I never really paid to much attention to the Government before.

I would like to encourage anyone that hasn't paid much attention to our Government because they didn't understand or see the importance of it to visit our website www.4mycanada.com. Get informed with what is happening in our country. If there is something that is happening in Canada, a certain bill that sparks some fire in you, do something with that. All the information is on the website on how you can have a voice. Let's not take our democracy for granted, use the voice that you have been given.

If we all work together Canada can continue to be the Best Canada it can be!!

Amy

Hi there. My name is Sven, and I am a MY Canada intern.

As a 21 year old young man, I feel that I carry the voice and the heart of the young men of Canada. I want to express simply, that as young men, we do have a say on the issue of abortion in Canada. I also want to say, that we do care about this issue, even though it seems like guys up until this point, have stood in the shadows of the Life Issue. The Issue of Life is no longer a Women's issue.

I would like to encourage all the men, young and old alike, to actively and practically get involved with this issue, that is by no means dead. I feel that this fight for Life will not be won, unless or until men step up and take their STAND.

Honorable Women of Canada, please forgive us.

As you can see from the dates on the posts below, we have not kept this blog super active. (This is because we send most of our updates out through our mass eblasts, see http://4mycanada.ca/E-mailArchive.html for the archives.) But, GOOD NEWS, we are going to make this blog active again throughout the rest of this summer!

This is our awesome summer team. Faytene (Picture Above: red-T on the bottom left) and the six interns that have joined us. They are amazing and so we have asked them to post some 'thoughts' on this blog throughout the rest of the summer. Stay tuned to hear, from their perspective, what is happening in the capital of Canada and throughout the nation.

Pictures from the Josiah Team, Nov. 25-30th - Meetings with MPs and Senators

Polite Canadian
Robin-Lee Pereda
August 23rd, 2007

They say I’m a polite Canadian-
Let me tell you some reasons why.
I give a friendly smile to my neighbor
and directions to a passer by.
I help with the highway cleanup,
Into the recycling bin it goes.
Helping to save the environment-
There’s holes in the ozone you know!

They say I’m a polite Canadian,
but there’s a price I’ve paid.
Too often my voice hasn’t been heard,
so from our nation’s roots we’ve strayed.
Our founders had the ten commandments
posted proudly on their walls.
Now our children barely know them
Have they heard of them at all?

They say I’m a polite Canadian,
but I question if it’s true…
I’ve sat back too long & watched-
now it’s time I got a clue.
A melting pot of all Nations
they say that we’ve become.
But lets not forget our foundations-
The righteous roots from which we come.

They say I’m a polite Canadian,
so I suppose that’s my excuse why
I haven’t bothered to take a stand-
instead I watch the innocent die.
Murder shows up in so many ways.
Abortion- legal & on demand.
Pop! Bang! Shoot another one.
Pedophiles killing innocence in our land.

They say I’m a polite Canadian.
I guess what should I care
if they re-write the dictionary-
just a few changes here & there.
Like the word marriage-
which used to mean a man & wife.
Beside “discipline” let’s erase spanking-
you'll scar your kids for life.

They say I’m a polite Canadian
so I think it’s about time
that I stand & take back ownership
of this great nation I claim as mine.
It’s time to put those 10 commandments
back into their rightful place.
Let’s get on our face to repent before God-
seek His wisdom & His grace.

They say I’m a polite Canadian.
Today I take a vow.
A watchman for this nation I’ll be,
though I may stand against the crowd.
Pushing on for righteousness & truth
my song will ever be
resounding from the east to west
“Oh Canada, I stand on guard for thee!”

There has been tons of other activity this summer as well - sorry - we often forget to blog it :). A group of hard cores in Coquitlam had a 7 night prayer siege leading up to the CALL -- it was a powerful time. The CALL itself was also huge. You can get a fuller report in our e-mail archives on the site. Here are a couple picts from it. Powerful

We love it! People are rising up all across the nation to connect with local MPs/MLAs to share their hearts with them on the issues they care about. We often foget to take our cameras but this time we didn't. This is the Vancouver team after a great heart-to-heart with Penny Priddy in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver.

Go hard guys!! .... and keep going

4MYC Leadership Team

This is a very 'interesting' e-mail that we just got in from one of our members. I am amazed these days at how many young women have been coming up to me and telling me of disturbing experiences they have had that are similar to this. Very recently I had a young woman share with me that when she found out she was pregnant, she was in her doctor's office and he presented to her the 'choice' of abortion. She told him that she did not want to go that route. He proceeded to agressively council her to abort her pregnancy. She again explained that she wanted to keep the baby. After this he referred her to a psychiatrist who proceeded to 'pressure her' to have an abortion. I was amazed. This girl is level headed and has her head screwed on right. Her testimony (and a few others like it that have been shared with me since) give pretty strong evidence that the pro-choice stance is not always one that is encouraging our young women to make their own choices....wow.

Here is the e-mail we just got....

"I wanted to share something with you about my experience surrounding the abortion I had. I am not going to explain too much.. just what is in my heart as relevant to share with you.

When I was in the pre-op room I know that I heard the still small voice of my conscience. I also know that something was trying to speak to me during the time I found out that I was pregnant and the day I went to the hospital. I had a gut feeling I should not go through with it. Anyway, when I tried to tell my "friend" that I wanted to change my mind she did the opposite than support me. She went to get the nurse and they gave me something to sedate me. ( Ahh.. I hate this part of it the most - please forgive me). I tried to tell the nurse but I wasn't strong enough to stand up to both of them. I took the drugs and was so whacked out by the time of the abortion that I could not even think straight, never mind resist even though I did not want to do it.

I want people to know what I went through so they know how to pray and to find strength and ecouragment not to do it.

I am very sorry that I had the abortion and that I did not stand up to them when they drugged me up." Cindy (Grimsby, Ontario)

Here are some more amazing e-mails from youth in our network sent their MP about C-22:

Dear Mr. Goodyear

I am 15 years old and concerned that the age of consent is still 14. I ask you to support Bill C-22 and raise the age of consent to 16. This will give some protection to the youth who are vulnerable to sexual exploitation from so many different sides. Also, it will give protection to all other kids of that age.

Thank you for your consideration on this issue.

Sincerely,

Louisa

*******

Dear Mr. Goodyear;

I was recently at a youth conference and the issue of raising the age of consent was talked about. I think that it is important that the age of consent be raised. Supporting Bill C-22 is critical. It will help ensure that many more kids at risk are protected from sexual predators and will make for a stronger Canada in the future.

Thank you for all the good work that you are doing as our representative in Parliament.

Respectfully,

Tereza

Here are some e-mails that were sent into MPs from youth that were present at the Justice Committee when Faytene presented regarding C-22. They are powerful. They just cc'd us on them so we wanted to share them with you too!

"The age of consent is 14 right now, and I'm 14, and some of the people there said that all people around my age have sex. That's not true, because my friends wear purity rings, and some of us made a commitment to abstain from sex. I know that's not everyone but those people in there, didn't think of people like me and my friends.

I can vote at 18 and have sex at 14. Let's say you were running for Prime Minister or something, and I had sex, what would be more effective to this country? My vote? Or my sex life? I think that the age should be higher, from 14 to 16 is good and all but let's raise our standards a little higher, and say 18." - Maddy

"I am 13 years old and will be turning 14 next month so this meeting pertains to me and I would like to share my opinion with you. I want the age for consentual sex to be raised from 14 to 16. I don't think that trying to give children more education about sex in school will make that much of a difference in whether they have healthy sex with someone or not. I know that for me personally I learned about sex from my parents and from different books, not from school. Most kids don't even listen in school when they are being taught about sex because it is really awkward for both them and the teacher.
Until I attended this meeting I did not know anything really about the age of consent or even that there was one. The reason why most kids don't tell adults or even their friends about having sex is not because they think that they will get in trouble with the law. It is because they feel enbarassed and shameful about what they did." - Raelynne

AGE OF SEXUAL CONSENT

We have been getting some very powerful e-mails in from a bunch regarding C-22 (raising the age of sexual consent from 14 to 16). This one is extremely powerful and we wanted to share it with you too. -- 4MYC Team

"...Heres what I would like to say to our Federal government concerning Bill C-22.....As a 17 year old Canadian, I believe that Bill C-22 is very important to protect the youth of our nation. I find it sad to think that when I walk through my halls at high school, most students aren’t really protected of sexual predators under currant Canadian legislature. I can easily admit that at the age of 14, I probably could’ve been easily been manipulated or pressured, especially with the internet opening tons of new doors to sexual predators. When I was 14, a friend of mine who was already 15 at the time, spoke to a man a couple times in a chat room. However things didn’t end there, this man then stalked her and one day attempted to abduct her. Fortunately, there were people near by and she managed to get away. This hurts it’s me know to think, that this man could have raped my friend and probably could’ve gotten away with it. My friend was 15 but wasn’t really more mature then me but unlike me, she wouldn’t have been protect under current legislature. So basically I am pleading that the government to increase the age of sexual consent to 16, so that I can walk through my halls at school and know that at least half of the students are protect of sexual predators."

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