1. Research the abortion facilities in your area and find out the days and times they schedule abortions. Schedule your Christmas Caroling Outreach on a busy day during the time when most of the women would be arriving at the abortion facility. Survivors normally schedule two mornings in December and visits 3 to 5 abortion facilities in the Los Angeles area on each day.
2. Promote the event in your community. Invite your friends, youth group, family members - invite your entire congregation. Recruitment Handouts and Church Bulletin Inserts are available for you to duplicate.
3. Involve your local youth groups and churches and ask them to collect baby items for the gift baskets. The bulletin insert includes a list of suggested baby items needed for each basket. Put out a large decorated box for collecting the donated baby items for several weeks before the event.
4. Order the recommended literature for the gift baskets and sidewalk counseling during the event (see Literature - What and Where to Purchase). If the abortion facility is in an area with a large Hispanic population, make sure to order Spanish literature too.
5. Recruit song leaders. Print songbooks. (see Printable Resources)
6. Purchase any items not received from donations and supplies for assembling baskets and abortion facility staff gifts. The dollar store is a great place to pick up many of these items. In addition to the items listed on the Church Bulletin Insert, you will need the following:
7. Plan a get-together to assemble the gift baskets and wrap the abortion facility staff gifts. The Los Angeles abortion facilities are very busy and we average ten to fifteen baskets per abortion facility scheduled. Items recommended for the baskets are included on the Church Bulletin insert.
- Place crumpled tissue paper at the bottom of each basket before the baby items.
- Include the "Early Human Life" card with the baby items.
- Wrap each basket with cellophane and ribbon so that the baby items can be clearly seen in the basket.
- Hole punch and attach with ribbon the "Before It's Too Late" brochure and personal gift card with your local crisis pregnancy contact information.
- Wrap the gift and Christmas candy for the workers in cellophane or cellophane gift bags.
Equipment and Supplies:
- Video camera/still camera
- Sidewalk counseling literature, "The First Nine Months" literature
- Gifts for abortion facility staff
- Signs (if you use signs, we recommend not using graphic signs for this particular event)
- Caroling Songbooks
At the meeting location:
- Introduce event leaders.
- Open with prayer.
- Define event to participants including: attitude of event; who, why, where; instruct how to deal with angry people, abortion facility staff, police, etc.
- Introduce the song leaders and distribute songbooks.
- Assign camera and video detail (be discreet with camera so as not to intimidate women receiving gift baskets), sidewalk counselor(s) and 2 people to deliver gifts to the abortion facility staff.
At the abortion facility:
With gifts in hand, approach the abortion facility doors while singing carols.
Have your designated gift bearers enter the facility to deliver the gifts to the abortion facility staff while the remaining carolers continue singing. The gift bearers should be cheerful and pleasant even if the staff is not. They are there to deliver Christmas gifts and share the love of Christ. Designate someone to hold the door open during the entire time these people are inside the abortion facility. If the people delivering the gifts are asked to leave the facility, they should leave immediately.
Continue singing Christmas carols and watch for women approaching the abortion facility. When someone approaches the facility offer them a basket. Only one person should try to engage them in conversation, preferably the designated sidewalk counselor. If the sidewalk counselor is engaged somewhere else, then somebody else should step up to talk to the woman. Every woman who enters the facility should be offered a gift basket and life saving information.
Pray at each abortion facility at the conclusion of singing carols.
Other Options:
The Pro-life Action League has their version of Christmas caroling called the "Empty Manger" Caroling Day, in which they bring an empty manger in front of several abortion facilities in the Chicago area and sing Christmas carols. Last year they had 150 people in attendance.
For the past eight years the Survivors have sung carols and delivered gifts to over 70 locations in the Los Angeles area. Not only do we deliver gifts with the Christmas story to abortion facility staff, but we also deliver the gift baskets to the expectant mothers inside the waiting room as they wait to kill their pre-born child. If your group is interested in hand delivering the gift baskets to the women waiting inside the abortion facility as part of your caroling outreach then please contact Survivors for more specific instructions and counsel from our experienced and knowledgeable leadership.
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