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Welcome to Mississippi Right to Life
NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE CONVENTION
The annual National Right to Life convention will be held July 3-5 2008 in Washington, D.C. Not much information has been released about speakers yet, but this convention always has good teaching by some of the best experts in the various pro-life areas. On July 6 a seminar on the health care crisis will be held, open to all who attend the convention, with a $25 fee that will cover the lunch and snacks provided. For information on fees and hotel reservations go to www.nrlc/convention/index.html. We will provide more information on speakers as we get it. If you have never been to a NRLC convention, make plans to go. You will find the best quality information and training available on a variety of pro-life issues as well as meeting a variety of pro-lifers from around the nation and world. Please contact the MSRTL office at 601-631-4098 for more information. We are trying to get a group to go together to this exciting event.
MISSISSIPPI STUDENT TO COMPETE IN NATIONAL COMPETITION
Abel Nicholas, 17 year old home schooled junior from Corinth, will represent Mississippi at the National Right to Life Oratory Contest this summer. This is the first time Mississippi has had a teen to compete, although President Barbara Whitehead has previously judged the event. The competition will be held July 5 during the National Teens for Life Convention.
Abel, one of three children of Mr. and Mrs. Blake Nicholas, participates in the Heritage Christian School in Florence, Alabama, where he is also involved in 4-H. He is an active member of the Foote Street Church of Christ where his father preaches. Abel is involved in Lads to Leaders/Leader-ettes, a youth program designed to teach young men and women to hone their skills and become great Christian examples. He has won or placed every year in the “Winners’ Circle Speech” competition at the Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes National Convention for the past eight years. Winners’ Circle is limited to those who have won previously in the regular competition. He has also won numerous awards in the Mass Media Audio Speech, Video Speech, and Article categories with this group.Abel performed at “Stone Soup”, the state storytelling festival for South Carolina. He won the “Have I Got a Story” 4-H competition for the state of Alabama and the “Best Overall Speech” for the Woodruff Tri-County Cooperative in Woodruff, South Carolina. A volunteer counselor for Palmetto Bible Camp, he is also a site leader at Regional Work Camp, a program where youth repair and paint homes for the poor, disabled, and elderly in the Corinth area and participates in Mission Mississippi, an outreach program to southern Mississippi. He has written a chapter for a teen book entitled, “Boys to Men”. His hobbies include playing guitar, football, eating pizza, and watching old movies.Above his love for speech, Abel loves life. Because of this love, he has a desire to speak for the unborn who have no voice. While discussing this, he said, "Life is of great value. To disregard it is to disregard the effect that just one life can have on the world."
ORATORY CONTEST
National Right to Life is holding it’s annual oratory contest at the convention in Washington D.C. on July 5, 2008. Contestants get to this contest by winning their state contest. MSRTL has not participated in this before, but several people have expressed interest in attending. A participant must be a high school junior or senior as of February 1 and the speech must be 5-7 minutes in length. For a complete list of the rules, please go to www.nrlc.org/oratory. If you know of someone interested in participating, please contact MSRTL at 601-631-4098 or at the e-mail link on this website by March 15.
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