Drive-by Prayer Vigil

"If Drive-by Guns can Kill, then Drive-by Prayers can Heal!"

14-Month-Old Sentenced to Death:

Refused to Eat; Showed Disrespect

When I heard the recent news of the brutal death of 14-month-old Lilliana Goodmann, I immediately recalled 3-year old TaJanay Bailey who was brutally beaten November, 2006, and died at the hands of those who were divinely assigned to love her. TaJanay had been previously removed from the care of her birth mother due to neglect, however returned to her care resulting in her eventual death in the presence of one who was responsible for giving her life. Both TaJanay and now Lilliana are the innocent victims who, by nature, are made to trust and find safety and security in the care of their first love: their mothers. Unfortunately, in both cases, it was a live-in boyfriend who participated in the destruction of two beautiful baby girls who never had a chance to become young ladies and nurturing mothers themselves. Two live-in boyfriends who had not made a commitment to the victims mothers, so why be surprised when their fatal actions show no commitment to their offspring.

It's frightening to think that young perpetrators have moved from the streets into the cribs of the innocent. I would have to believe that somewhere in the perpetrators' lives you will find a history of abuse (a generational curse) which has silently and systematically made its way down to its latest victim. While we're focusing on the horrific acts of these young perpetrators, they are steady producing babies who are being trained in the school of perpetration without ever signing up for the class. And today we witness them graduating and carrying out what they've learned before they even reach full adulthood. Somehow we've got to reach them before class is dismissed; before they are given the rites of passage into a destructive world that finds its satisfaction in claiming another victim and producing another perpetrator. Baby Lilliana was sentenced to death with the following charge: she refused to eat; she disrespected. When was the bar raised on the death penalty, and when were executions carried out in the place where love and care used to reside?

It's time for the church to arise and reintroduce Sunday School with a new focus in mind: reprogram the innocent who are forced to watch and learn from illegitimate parents who have approved their own curriculum and teach it in a place we used to call "care." It's time to take a stand and present godly morals and family values that produce life; countering the lessons that are leading our young down a pathway of destruction.

Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6

True enough, parents have the first responsibility for raising their children the right way, however, where parents are failing the church is responsible for succeeding. Our success is found in Jesus Christ and somehow we've got to get them into His hands before they fall in the hands of another.

Join us this Saturday as we declare Peace in the Streets, Safety for our Families, Life over Death, all in the Name of Jesus Christ who came to give us Life in abundance!

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Prayer Vigil scheduled Saturday, March 28, 2009

Lilliana Goodmann (14 mos)
2100 Westlane Rd.
12:00pm

Eric Espinoza (27)
E. 38th & Franklin Rd.
1:15pm