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City of Roseville to Foothill Community Church…Temporary Signs on Front Lawn Are Not Legal…….Removal ordered

This temporary sign and two others which were placed on the massive front lawn of Foothill Community Church, 200 Cirby Way in Roseville, CA were ordered to be taken down by the city of Roseville. In two letters addressed to Pastor Jim Carmichael, Pastor at FCC, the city advised that the signs were in violation of current ordinances regulating the posting of signs in the city. At the time the signs were put up it was not know that such temporary signs violated any laws. The strict enforcement of this ordinance would ban Summer Vacation Bible School signs. As it turned out the letters from the city came in one day after all but the sign shown on the left had been taken down at the conclusion of the one week display. Pastor Jim will work with other churches in the area for a change in the ordinance. Many churches, schools and businesses utilize these temporary signs on their property for special events at various times in the year. We have to believe that the city will accommodate such temporary use of such signs.

Roseville Police Officers Threaten Arrest of Sidewalk Counselors and Catholic Prayer Team at the Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Located in the Sunrise Office Park

Early on Thursday Feb 23, Sohlnet sidewalk counselors arrived at the Roseville Planned Abortion Mill located in the Sunrise Office Park, 729 Sunrise Blvd. where we have been peacefully sidewalk counseling for four years. We prayed and then moved into locations where we could best hand out literature and speak to those entering the mill. We were later joined by the Catholic prayer team that prays in a nearby location but not on the parking lot or other areas used by the mill. As Sohlnet counselors began to hand out literature, two Planned Parenthood (PP) “escorts” who regularly do their best to discourage anyone from taking our literature or speaking with us, presented each of us a document while photographing us and making notes on a clipboard. The document purported to have been prepared by the Sunrise Office Park Owner’s Association. It did not bear a name or signature of anyone.

Sohlnet sidewalk counselors and the Catholic prayer team were all given a copy of the document and photographed by the escorts. When I directed that we would not honor the document unless it were presented by an official of the Sunrise Office Park Owners, PP personnel called the Roseville Police Department (RPD) and requested that all of us be removed from the park. Three RPD units and officers arrived and conferred with the PP medical personnel shown in this picture. RPD officers then had the female (doctor?) seen in the photo on pg. one, tell each of us that none of us or our cars could remain on ANY of the park grounds, or face arrest. When Bud tried to explain to the officers that no one from the Sunrise Office Park Association had presented us with the order as required by law, the officers would not listen and threatened arrest of anyone, including even those not on the PP use area, with arrest.

In the past RPD officers have been polite, would listen, and acted professionally. Unfortunately these two officers were abrupt and would not listen to our request to have a Sunrise official verify the validity of the Notice. The Notice cited Roseville Municipal Code 11.20.110 and California Penal Code section 602.o. We decided to avoid unnecessary arrest and we all moved out to the public sidewalks on each side of the entrance to the Sunrise Office Park where prayer and proclamation continued until after 10:00 A.M. (Please see Bud’s comments below).

For the second consecutive year this Project 33 impacted the city of Roseville and the surrounding areas. Our theme for 2006 was taken from Pr. 32:6, “Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appropriated to die.” More than

50 men, women, teens and children turned out at Foothill Community Church on Jan 15^th to put up the 940 crosses on the massive front lawn of Foothill Community Church in Roseville. These folks represented ten churches and four different prolife organizations.

During the week long display of the field of crosses, many came to pray, weep and mourn for those lost to abortion genocide and to call our community and nation to repentance for our involvement or indifference to the ongoing bloodshed in our land. Foothill Church also hosted the Friday evening Memorial Service attended by about 200 people and a youth event on Saturday attended by about 250 teens and college age students. The Memorial service was clearly a movement of prayer, worship, hope and healing. Pastors from several area churches led in scripture reading and prayer. KFIA talk show host Joe Pursch broadcast his show live from the church. Many thanks to Pastor Jim Carmichael of Foothill Community Church and Dean Lauer of the Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center for the great job they did for this event. Throughout the week long display of the crosses prayer and security teams were on duty at the crosses 24 hours a day. Volunteers for this duty came forth from multiple churches and prayer intercessors from the area.

ROCK CHURCH OF ROSEVILLE INTERNS EXPERIENCE PROJECT 33

It was very impactful when we went to pray for Project 33 at the church. It opened my eyes to realizing how much of our generation is missing - Shauna Anderson

It was an overwhelming day. I had never been exposed to such graphic photographs and facts about abortions. It moved me intensely. I am encouraged about the powerful impact the Silent siege had in our Community. I am believing God to move mightily - Rachel Parrott

There was a moment when I looked and saw a lady with a rose. She walked through the rows of crosses, and stopped at one in the middle. She placed the rose in front of it, kneeled down, and began to weep. She then gained her composure and left. That impacted me so much, because when someone makes a life-changing decision like that, it sticks with them forever. You can not just shake something like that off. So I was very impacted. I was honored, in a way, to be able to attend the Project 33 convention, and be part of it. - Whitney Hallmark

YOUTH - REDEEMING THE ABORTION GENERATION

The Saturday youth event met with the theme “Redeeming the Abortion Generation.” Attendees gave worship to our Lord in music led the Cornerstone Christian School Praise Band. They then heard keynote speaker Michael Spielman, 29, founder of Abort73, a Christian prolife webpage tell how as a young and active committed Christian he could not remember hearing anything about the abortion issue in church or in discussion among his fellow Evangelicals. When awakened to the issue, Spielman left his regular employment to begin fulltime prolife ministry with the Center for BioEthical Reform. Chantelle Gordon, a Christian raised in the church, brought many to tears as she gave testimony of how she walked out a Sacramento abortion mill after hearing the prayer and singing of Sohlnet sidewalk counselors outside. Two women gave moving testimonies of regretting their abortions. Many thanks to the great contributions of both Teens for Life and Cornerstone Christian School for making this event a success.

Photos: Above: Michael Spielman Below left: Brandon Narramore of Rock Church and Bound for Life Below right Cornerstone Christian School Teens and friends

GAP News: In February we took our Genocide Awareness Project to College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA where we teamed up with area prolifers and Pastor Clenard Childress Jr. (wearing "Abortion Is Genocide" shirt) spending two days on the campus changing hearts and minds.