Pray For Our New Mayor
After a woman delivers a baby, what then? That’s where Birth Choice Centers step in. As “pro-lifers,” we are not merely “pro-birth,” and then leave the mom to herself. We want to be a part of helping entire families.
Our new Temecula mayor—Mrs. Jessica Alexander—is the director at our Birth Choice Center, and has served our community in this way for years. I met her a couple of years ago here when she attended our Scrooge play. Back then, she had just won reelection to City Council, and this year she is becoming our mayor as our city rotates through mayors each year from the elected council.
You can read online how she stands in the face of opposition, even proposing that Temecula become a sanctuary city for the unborn. This earned her national attention in 2022—mostly negative, sadly—but I appreciate her bold stand for life!
When we pray for her, pray for boldness and encouragement. Reach out to her. Volunteer at Birth Choice Center. Do you have a way to serve our community? Perhaps this could be it.
There are so many important things to do. We must be about our Father’s business. We must be reaching souls for Christ.
Some are doing that at Camp Pendleton, or through our public schools, or through Saturday outreaches.
How are you doing it?
We are allowed to be Baptist and still be friendly with others outside our church! We’re not in a gang.
When organizations are meeting a need in areas where we are not—particularly in areas so directly tied to preserving life—I do not want us to become so isolated that we retreat to an ivory tower of “holiness.” One can legitimately feel so “holy” that they separate too much from the world and remove themselves entirely from the world. That can’t be right.
We are in the world, but not of the world. We are a boat in the water. Problems do come when water is in the boat, but that’s why we regularly meet together and examine ourselves! That’s part of why we have church, to edify and admonish one another.
In other words, yes, be separated from the world. But also, work in the world and be a light for Jesus Christ. We work with the Navigators organization, for example, in order to further the Gospel on Camp Pendleton. As a volunteer for the Navigators, or Good News Club, or Birth Choice Center, we are not putting a wholesale stamp of approval on everything they do.
But I say with Jesus in Luke 9:50, “Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.”
Yes, be strongly Baptist. I’m writing a book about that right now, and my last book touched on that, too. We’re solidly separated from the world.
But also, be aware of “friendly fire.”
I love our mayor and I want us to pray for her. I’d love for us to donate some funds to their cause, not as an ongoing missions investment (they’re not planting churches), but as a way to support their efforts for LIFE.
Also pray tonight for the rest of our City Council:
- Brenden Kalfus (current mayor)
- Matt Rahn (Mayor Pro Tem)
- Zak Schwank
- James “Stew” Stewart
-Pastor Ryan