Open House Station Seven: The Pro-lifers’ Portico
Station Seven is our last stop on the open house tour of the Institute’s headquarters. This post builds upon the previous post on Station Seven. Read that post here:
Open House — Setting up Station Seven
This is the northwest corner of the Institute. Note the new ceiling tiles. Note the banner that hung in the front window throughout advent. It now hangs in the front office.
What a different message than that which greated those who entered the building when Susan Hill and George Klopfer held court over little lives and God’s people from the same location.
The frame on the left contains the final station in the open house walk through.
It reads as follows:
The Pro-lifer’s Portico Project
of the Donegal Corridor, LLC
The chimneys on this building must be repaired or removed. The bushes in front of the building are slated for removal. The concrete in the front of the building is in need of repair. Pro-lifers have spent countless thousands of hours counseling, praying and even sitting-in near the front door of this building.
The Donegal Corridor, LLC, in conjunction with the Raphael Division of the Institute, plans to harmonize the above statements in one fine work of art that memorializes the pro-life movement in Fort Wayne.
This plan is the Pro-lifer’s Portico.
Once completed, this front porch area will be a patio of inscribed bricks fashioned out of the chimneys. Each brick will be inscribed with the name of a pro-life individual or family that stood against the child killing that took place in this building in the years between 1977 to 2007.
The Donegal Corridor is using this project to raise monies for the much needed repairs to this building. Pro-life families whose member or members have stood against child killing on Webster Street are asked to pledge moneys toward this project. Once the pledges are met the chimney bricks will be inscribed and set in place as a silent memorial to faithful pro-life witnesses.
The suggested pledge amounts are as follows:
* The one percent of fees pledge: Pledge to pay off one percent of the amount of the legal fees that the Rescue Defendants were ordered to pay to the abortionist operating out of this building back in 1991. This one percent amount is $616. More on the quite symbolic nature of this amount is available upon request.
* The one percent of income pledge: Pledge to donate one percent of your household income for 2008 to the Donegal Corridor, LLC and a brick will be inscribed with your family name and set in place.
Donations to the Donegal Corridor, LLC are not tax –deductible. Other items in this building of historic interest are available for sale to support the mission, including some of the steam radiators. See John R. Brown for details. If you wish to take part in this program but lack the funds see Bryan J. Brown for an alternative program toward the same end.
