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Bev Ehlen

Sep 28 2020
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Event: October 3 Prayerfest at State Capitol

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Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Missouri invites you and your family to come to the Missouri State Capitol on Saturday, October 3, for the Missouri Prays Prayerfest when God’s people will assemble in public prayer. Our guest speakers will be prayerfully focusing on 2 Chronicles 7:14 as it relates to praying for our local communities, state, and national leadership.

This incredible event is hosted by Vanguard Marriage and Family Advocates, Jerry and Kate Angelo.

Event Details:
Date: Saturday, October 3
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Please arrive early due to parking and security checks at the Capitol.
10:00 a.m. – Prayer walk throughout the capitol building (meet in the Capitol Rotunda at 9:45 a.m.)
11:00 a.m.  – Main prayer event in the Capitol Rotunda.
Location: Missouri State Capitol, 201 W Capitol Ave, Jefferson City, MO 65101
Registration: Click Here for FREE Registration for Missouri PrayerFest 2020

Special Guests and Prayer Leaders

  • Secretary of State of Missouri – Jay Ashcroft
  • Missouri House of Representatives – Mike Moon
  • Missouri House of Representatives – Tim Remole
  • Executive Editor of Pathway Magazine – Don Hinkle
  • Concerned Women for America of Missouri – Bev Ehlen
  • Capitol Commission of Missouri – John Battaglia
  • Family Research Council – Howard Boyd
  • FREE International – Andrew Dawson
  • 40 Days for Life – Kathy Forck
  • Capitals Prayer Tour – Mike McGee

Special Musical Guests: Kathryn Fergerson and Silas Brown

I hope to see you on Saturday, October 3, at our State Capitol!

“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have

Bev Ehlen
State Director

Sep 23 2020
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October 10 Event: Understanding Gender Identity Issues From a Biblical Perspective

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Concerned Women for America of Missouri is hosting Jim Venice, Founder and Director of Pure Heart Ministries, a sexual purity ministry to those in the greater St. Louis area, as their guest speaker for the Second Saturday in October. Mr. Venice will help attendees know how to react to those who are deceived and caught in the world of sexual brokenness – homosexuality, gender identity disorder, porn addiction, etc.

Event Details:
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2020
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Location: The Pillar Foundation, 15820 Clayton Rd., Ellisville, MO 63011

This event is free, and registration is not required.
Women, men, and teens are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Download the event flyer for additional information.

Sep 10 2020
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Event: David Barton – America’s Historian – Coming to Springfield

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Join us Saturday, October 3, in Springfield, Missouri!

Are you concerned about what we see happening around our country – the social unrest, tearing down of statues, the increased efforts to rewrite America’s history?

At this critical time in our nation’s history, we invite you to hear David Barton, who has been named “America’s Historian.” David will share the historical perspective of our freedoms and the role God had in creating our great nation. David will share the historical perspective of our freedoms and the role God had in creating our great nation. David will also talk about the cultural clash happening in America and how we as Christians can respond in love to the world around us.

Click here for more information and to view and print the flyer.

Event Details:
Date: Saturday, October 3
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location: High Street Baptist Church, 900 N. Eastgate Ave., Springfield, MO 65802
RSVP: This event is free, but registration is required to accommodate social distancing. Register here.
A love offering will be taken.
Questions? Contact Haven Howard at 417-263-0425 or [email protected].

Sep 08 2020
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October 4 Events: Life Chain – Several Locations Around the State

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[click here for flyer]

What is Life Chain?
It is a peaceful, positive, prayerful witness against abortion. Come, let us seek God’s divine intervention for the healing of our country.

Who Should Attend?
Those who are willing to defend human life against abortion. Bring the family—including a lawn chair for the elderly. Our community needs to know that its citizens support the sanctity of human life.
Go to lifechain.org for more information.

Will Signs Be Provided?
Life Chain participants will be given signs that display the following:
“Abortion Kills Children”
“Jesus Heals and Forgives”
“Abortion Hurts Women”
“Pray to End Abortion”
“Adoption, the Loving Option”
“Lord, Forgive Us and Our Nation”
“Life-the First Inalienable Right”

Where Are the Missouri Locations?

Warrenton
West Side Hwy 47 between Veterans Memorial
Highway and Main Street
Contact: Bev Ehlen
636-932-4496 or [email protected]

Branson
76 Country Boulevard
Contact: Carolyn Lilley
417-337-3001 or [email protected]

Contact Bev Ehlen for events in other areas around the state.

Aug 31 2020
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Election 2020 Voter Registration – A Question for You

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Does your church conduct voter registration efforts?

As Christian believers, it is our privilege and duty to carefully and prayerfully choose our spiritual shepherds to guide, lead, and reveal Biblical Truth to us for our protection and well-being. Likewise, as Christian citizens, it is our privilege and duty to carefully and prayerfully choose our leaders in civil government for our protection and well-being.

The first step in choosing leaders in civil government is a small one – registering to vote! Sadly, about half of U.S. churchgoers are not registered to vote. Millions of believers are forfeiting their privilege to have their voice, the Christian’s position, heard on a variety of issues that directly impact our society both morally and spiritually. In Missouri alone, it is estimated that there are over 100,000 Christians who are not registered to vote.

Conducting voter registration in your church is one of the most significant ways to encourage your fellow members to be good Christian citizens. According to the IRS, church voter-registration drives are well within the 501c3 guidelines, and even encouraged, as long as they are non-partisan.

Doing a voter registration drive is not only a service to your members who are not registered to vote but also for those who have moved since the last election and need to update their address for voting. You can also help parents help their children who are away at college to vote absentee. Every time you hold a non-partisan voter registration drive, it is a reminder to the members of your church that voting is part of their Christian life.

Action Needed
Consider being a Voter Registration Coordinator and conducting a non-partisan voter registration drive at your church. We have everything that you need to host a voter registration drive at your church, including a letter to your pastor!  Click here and scroll down the page for voter registration drive resources.

We suggest hosting voter registration efforts at your church these weekends before the November election: September 26-27 and October 3-4. These are the weekends before the last day (October 7) that a person can register to vote or change one’s address. If your church is not comfortable with you having a voter registration table because of COVID-19, consider offering to put information together that can be posted on the church website.

Pray: Pray that your pastor will be receptive to your request for holding a non-partisan voter registration at your church. Consider contacting our office so that we can be praying as well.

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (Galatians 1:9)

If you have any questions, please contact me.

In Truth and Righteousness,
Bev Ehlen
State Director
[email protected]

Aug 23 2020
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September 12 Event: Missouri Special Session 2020 General Assembly In Review

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Concerned Women for America of Missouri is hosting State Senator Andrew Koenig (R–District 15) as their guest speaker for the Second Saturday in September. Sen. Koenig will speak on the 2020 legislative session and the special session. Attend this meeting and you’ll walk away informed and ready to take action!

Event Details:
Date: Saturday, September 12, 2020
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Location: The Pillar Foundation, 15820 Clayton Rd., Ellisville, MO 63011

This event is free and registration is not required.
Women, men, and teens are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Download the event flyer for additional information.

Jul 27 2020
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Amendment 2 – Medicaid Expansion of Eligibility Is Wrong for Missouri

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There will be a proposition on the ballot statewide on August 4, 2020. Amendment 2, which will greatly expand the eligibility to qualify for Medicaid. Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) recommends a NO vote on the amendment for these reasons:

  1. Amendment 2 seeks to add to the Medicaid rolls persons between ages 19-64 who are childless and have household incomes at or below 138% of the federal poverty level. This could very well cut the services for Missouri’s most vulnerable citizens who need access to critical health care services due to the increased number of individuals who would qualify for Medicaid in Missouri should the amendment pass.
  2. Amendment 2 would greatly increase the number of young adult women who would qualify for Medicaid payments for “morning after” pills. One federal Medicaid regulation provides for mandatory Medicaid payment of prescription drugs or devices “to prevent implantation of the fertilized ovum.” The federal Medicaid statute compels states to fund family planning services in their Medicaid plans for women of child-bearing age, including minors who “can be considered to be sexually active” and “desire such services and supplies.”
  3. The more Medicaid is expanded, the more taxpayers’ money is paid to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. There have been numerous federal court decisions that have declared a state may not exclude a provider simply based on the scope of the services it provides. Our own Missouri Supreme Court issued such a decision earlier in July.

Click here for CWA of Missouri’s explanation of Amendment 2. Click here for the wording of Amendment 2.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

“Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering! Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!”

Psalm 82:3-4

In compassion,
Bev Ehlen
State Director

Jul 09 2020
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Event: David Barton – America’s Historian

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Join us Saturday, July 25 in Branson, Missouri!

Are you concerned about what we see happening around our country – the social unrest, tearing down of statues, the increased efforts to rewrite America’s history?

At this critical time in our nation’s history, we invite you to hear David Barton, who has been named “America’s Historian.” He will  share the historical perspective of our freedoms, the role God had in creating our great nation, and how we as Christians can respond in love to the world around us.

Click here for more information and to view and print flyer.

Jul 05 2020
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Missourians: Did You Know We Had a Pro-life Win?

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I wanted to pass along a piece of good news. Last month, Missouri won another victory for life when a federal court rejected a lawsuit from the Satanic Temple, challenging the state abortion informed consent law. In the lawsuit, the Satanists claimed the pro-life law saving babies violated their religious beliefs.

You can read here about the court decision.

No action is needed except to thank our God for Missouri’s pro-life Attorney General Eric Schmitt and his office and their competent defense time and time again concerning our good pro-life Missouri statutes regarding abortion.

Join me in proclaiming Psalm 100: “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.”

If you have any questions, please contact me.

In gratitude,
Bev Ehlen
State Director

Jul 05 2020
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Pro-life Missouri Taxpayers Were Just Delivered a Blow

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Missouri Supreme Court Overturns Law Blocking Taxpayer Dollars to Abortionists.

Pro-life Missouri taxpayers were delivered a blow on Tuesday, June 30, 2020, when the Missouri Supreme Court ruled the Missouri General Assembly unconstitutionally stripped Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

The court’s decision stated that the Missouri General Assembly violated the Constitution when lawmakers blocked Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. The Republican-controlled General Assembly’s budget-writing strategy has defunded the organization more than $1 million since 2018. In the 6-1 high court decision, Judge Zel Fischer was the only one siding with the state in the case.

Read the court decision.

Please pray for mothers who are facing “unplanned pregnancies” and feel their only choice is to end the life of their child. Please pray women who find themselves in crisis pregnancies will find help at a Christian- based Crisis Pregnancy Center where they will not only receive the emotional and financial help that they need but have the Good News of the Gospel shared with them.

“He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.” Proverbs 17:15

Peace in Him,

Bev Ehlen
State Director

Jun 25 2020
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July 11 Second Saturday Meeting: Update on Missouri General Assembly

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(Click here to view and print flyer.)

We are honored to have Sen. Bill Eigel speak on what was accomplished during the abbreviated 2020 Missouri legislative session. He will also address the expansion of Medicaid that will be on our August ballot.

Sen. Eigel is a United States Air Force military veteran of eight years and has owned a small business in St. Charles County for more than 10 years.

After leaving the service in 2006, Sen. Eigel purchased St. Louis Skylights, a small residential and commercial remodeling company. Despite the challenges of the economic recession in 2008 and 2009, Eigel took his company (and affiliates) to be one of the fastest growing skylight installation companies in the country.

Sen. Eigel was elected to the Missouri State Senate in 2016.

Sen. Eigel lives in Weldon Spring with his wife, Amanda, and their two children.They are all members of St. Joseph’s Catholic Parish in Cottleville, Missouri.

 

 

May 22 2020
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Missouri: Great News to Report!

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Thank you! Missourians spoke up and the
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services responded.

As you recall, earlier this week, I sent an alert asking you to speak out on the attempted power grab by Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS). We just got word, the Department of Community DHSS has withdrawn the emergency amendment that was put in place, and will withdraw the 19 CSR 20-20.050 at the end of the public comment period! Thanks be to God!

“For You, O Lord, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.” Psalm 92:4

A special thanks to those who prayed and took action by sending a letter to Adam Crumbliss, Director, Division of Community and Public Health of the DHSS.

Gratefully yours,
Bev Ehlen
State Director

May 21 2020
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Mail-In Voting: Contact Gov. Parson and Ask Him to Veto SB631!

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Please contact Gov. Mike Parson and ask him to veto SB631, which allows mail-in voting for the 2020 August and November elections.  The conference report on SB631 was passed on the last day of the session with the ballot integrity protections stripped from the bill. SB631 disenfranchises Missouri voters by providing new opportunities for vote fraud.

Contact Information:
Office of Governor Michael L. Parson
P.O. Box 720 / Jefferson City, MO 65102
Phone: (573) 751-3222
Online email form

Here is the statement issued Friday by Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft opposing the final version of SB631, which allows mail-in voting without ballot integrity protections.

Jefferson City, Mo. — Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft issued the following statement in regard to Senate Bill 631:

“Over the past few months, I have been working with county clerks and legislators to create bi-partisan legislation that would enable Missourians to vote safely and securely in view of Covid-19 concerns.  I supported HCS for SB 552, because it allowed marginal expansion of absentee voting with safeguards of notarized ballots and a sunset clause. The bill also provided for a photo ID requirement, which Missourians overwhelmingly approved in 2016.

“The legislators in conference stripped the safeguards and voter ID from SB 631. Without the agreed upon safeguards, I have grave concerns that this bill will make voting less secure and jeopardize the integrity of our elections.”

Please pray before you call Gov. Parson. Please pray for the integrity of our elections in Missouri, that each person who is eligible to vote and wants to vote will vote.

“But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens” Exodus 18:21.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Gratefully,

Bev Ehlen
State Director

May 20 2020
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Missourians: Speak Up for First Amendment Rights

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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has proposed amendment 19 CSR 20-20.050 to obtain the authority to enact emergency rules and therefore, control the activities of Missourians even when no state of emergency is declared. The DHSS director, or someone authorized to do so, would have the power to declare another “pandemic” and suspend our constitutional rights as they see fit.

Action Needed
Contact the director of the Missouri DHSS if you do not support this proposed power grab. Comments must be submitted in writing to the address below and must be received by May 30, 2020.

Adam Crumbliss, Director
Division of Community and Public Health
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
PO Box 570
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0570

Sample letter:
Dear Mr. Crumbliss,

I am writing to oppose the proposed amendment to 19 CSR 20-20.050.

Sections (3) and (4) would give an unelected person the power to declare a statewide pandemic, close public and private places indefinitely (including schools and churches), and limit the size of public and private gatherings.

This violates the First Amendment rights of the people to peaceably assemble and a person’s right to exercise one’s religion.

Please withdraw the proposed amendment.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

Your name and address

Please pray as you write your note to Mr. Crumbliss. Pray that our first amendment rights will be honored by the Missouri DHSS.

“No weapon that is formed against you will prosper …” (Isaiah 54:17)

If you have any questions, please contact me.

In Truth and Righteousness,
Bev Ehlen
State Director