Roe vs. Wade Anniversary Jan. 22; Timely Book Tells Former Abortion Advocate's Story of Changed Life, Hope, Healing

ON ROE VS. WADE ANNIVERSARY, FORMER ABORTION ADVOCATE TELLS STORY OF CHANGED LIVES, HOPE AND HEALING
Expert Pat Layton’s Book ‘A Surrendered Life’ Offers Help for
Woman and Men Struggling With Post-Abortive Trauma

SurrenderingtheSecret.com

TAMPA, Fla. – Jan. 3, 2013 – As the 40th anniversary approaches of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion, author, speaker and post-abortion trauma and recovery expert Pat Layton offers practical help for affected women and men in her new book, A Surrendered Life—Finding Freedom, Healing and Hope After Abortion.

“I know firsthand the destructive effects of abortion on women, men and families,” said Layton, who has been helping people deal with abortion since 1986. “A Surrendered Life shows, through my own story and God’s story in the Bible, that help and hope is available to everyone.”

Layton’s eight, biblically based steps for dealing with emotional, physical and spiritual post-abortion trauma come from personal experience. Since the 1973, Roe vs. Wade decision an estimated 55 million unborn children’s lives have been claimed by abortion . . . one of those unborn children was Pat Layton’s. A 23-year-old, soon-to-be-married single mom found herself pregnant, underwent an abortion, suffered immediate life-threatening physical complications and later life-devastating emotional effects. At age 30, and a new Christian, Layton found help, hope and healing through the Bible, through sharing her secret and finding forgiveness.

From CrossBooks, a division of LifeWay, A Surrendered Life adds a vivid personal dimension to Layton’s exploration of practical biblical principles dealing with abortion. It forms a companion to her Bible study guide Surrendering the Secret also from LIfeWay. The works are timely and vital. Consider the following facts on the wide effects of abortion:

Since Jan. 22, 1973, and the Roe vs. Wade decision, an estimated 55 million abortions have taken place, now averaging almost 1.5 million abortions a year.
It’s estimated that 43 percent of women under age 45 in the U.S. have had an abortion.
SOURCE: Abortion Data from Reports of the Alan Guttmacher Institute: www.religioustolerance.org/abo_fact3.htm

92 percent of woman experience emotional deadening after an abortion.
86 percent of women deal with post-abortion rage.
Over half suffer from nightmares or feel suicidal.
SOURCE: Medical Report/Women’s Health/Abortion … Is There a Connection? noelinfo@noelforlife.org

There have been more than 100 million parents of aborted children since 1973, many suffering silently with emotional pain and shame.
Layton is an experienced voice on the subject of abortion and its effects. In speaking, interviews and A Surrendered Life, she brings a compassionate, knowledgeable perspective to a powder-keg issue, and offers understanding, hope and help.

Layton’s book also is the basis for an online reality TV series about an abortion recovery group of women going through the Surrendering the Secret Bible study, called Surrender the Secret, which will air its first episode on Jan. 22. (www.knocktv.com/surrenderthesecret/preview)

About Pat Layton
Speaker, author and ministry leader, Pat Layton writes for newspapers, blogs, newsletters and ministry media, including Lifeway, Focus on the Family and Proverbs 31 Ministries. Layton founded and leads Life Impact Network and hosts Imagine Me . . . Set Free women’s conferences at churches and other locations nationwide. A member of the American Association of Christian Counselors, she served on the Florida Governor’s Media Service Review Team for the Abstinence Education Plan and Governor’s Partnership for Adoption. The Florida House of Representatives recognized Layton with the Promise of Excellence award.

For more information, visit: SurrenderingtheSecret.com

A Marriage Conference Where the Whole Family Is Invited (Even the Kids)

ASHEVILLE, NC, Oct. 17, 2011 To attend the average Christian marriage conference, Mom and Dad have to hire a babysitter.

By contrast, at the Gospel-Centered Marriages for a Glorious Church conference coming up October 27-29, Mom and Dad are encouraged to bring their children with them to learn about marriage together as a family.

Despite its unique vision, 2,200 have already registered to attend this near-capacity event located at the LifeWay Christian Conference Center in Asheville, North Carolina and organized by the National Center for Family-Integrated Churches (NCFIC). Remarkably, 65% of the attendees are 25 years old or younger.

Committed to proclaiming the sufficiency of Scripture for church and family life, the NCFIC believes that marriage is the one neglected area that, at least sometimes, should be inclusive of the whole family.

"This gathering is designed to bring parents and their children together to consider the biblical doctrine of marriage in order to prepare the rising generation for gospel-centered marriages," said Scott Brown, the director of NCFIC. "One of the reasons that marriages are in trouble today is that parents did not instruct their children, from their years as toddlers, about marriage." Amazingly, one of the messages is entitled, "How to Prepare Your Two-Year-Old for Marriage."

And, now, thanks to modern technology, Christians from across the country can virtually attend this life-changing marriage conference. Registrants can watch live-streaming video of the 10 keynote addresses and receive downloadable audio for all 27 messages.

Brown's vision for this conference is that it is a place where the attendees stand together to instruct the rising generation about marriage and teach them the way in which they should go (Proverbs 22:6).

He said, "I pray that everyone there will use their time wisely and teach their children personally, by discussing, reviewing, repenting, and memorizing together the things that God has in mind for marriage."

Twenty-seven messages will be delivered including:

· What the Gospel Has to Do With Your Marriage?

· Friendship in Marriage

· Courtship Catastrophe Mitigation

· How Fathers Qualify Suitors

· Do We Have Our Cart Before Our Horse When It Comes to Love?

· Sexual Intimacy in Marriage

· What Is the Role of Romance and Emotions?

· Church Life that Prepares Young People for Marriage

Paul Washer of HeartCry Missionary Society, Doug Phillips of Vision Forum Ministries, Scott Brown, Kevin Swanson of Generations with Vision, and Dr. Joel Beeke, President and Professor of Systematic Theology of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary will be the keynote speakers.

One of the critical messages of this conference is that the gospel is meant to be the center of marriage.

Another is that when you have weak marriages you also have weak churches. This is important to the organization since NCFIC is dedicated to the building of gospel-centered, biblically-ordered, .

A third message is that families should not be intentionally age-segregated from one another during the instruction of the Word of God. Brown stated, "When Jesus taught, whole families were there. We should do the same."

What's the bottom line at this unusual family-integrated marriage conference?

"It's one thing to believe in the message of the gospel. It's quite another thing to live the gospel in your preparation for marriage and after you are married. Marriage is one of the ways God has designed for the gospel to be displayed. Therefore, every marriage problem and every perversion of marriage is an expression of problems in applying the gospel in our lives," said Brown.

"I hope that each married person leaves this conference with wounds healed and hearts changed. I also hope that each single person departs with a greater vision for the glory of the gospel in marriage. It's time for singles to throw off the bondage of the worldly and bankrupt vision that has so saturated our culture and our thinking. And it's time for a new generation dedicated to gospel-centered marriages."