This was the first year I got to attend the annual March for Life in Olympia, and I hope it is the first of many more to come! It was so encouraging to see so many people take a stand against abortion and for women! I drove up with Josh and Susie. It was even nicer to be there with friends!
As we stood and waited, large groups and entire buses of people started showing up…
There were so many groups of young people and young families there!
Then we lined up and started to march towards the steps of the capitol…
The steps were just about filled up by the time we got into sight…
There were about 6000 people at the march! We filled up the steps of the Justice Building as well!
We opened in prayer (a violin solo of “Our Father”) and then heard from several of our state’s pro-life legislators, including two democrats. One of the last speakers was a representative from Tacoma (I think?) who had an awesome testimony of how he came to be pro-life just last year before the vote on the abortion mandate and how God cured him of cancer! It was a fantastic reminder to be praying for those in our government!
Afterwards, people from each legislative district went to their representatives’ offices to tell them that we were there for the March for Life. Our group also stopped and prayed for our three representatives. Awesome!
We learned a lot for next year: don’t pay for so much parking, bring notecards to leave with the reps, wear super comfortable shoes, have red roses, make our own signs and come with a van full of people!
The steps were just about filled up by the time we got into sight…
There were about 6000 people at the march! We filled up the steps of the Justice Building as well!
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