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Life Chain of South Brevard County, Florida
(Melbourne, West Melbourne, Palm Bay, and the beaches)
Updated September 25, 2009
Exciting News! Life Chain South Brevard has a new website. Please visit at www.lifechainbrevard.com
The new site will have the most current information on Life Chain Sunday 2009 in Melbourne, Florida. We'll phase out this
website soon. Thank you to the web master who created this Life Chain site to bring awareness of life chains to east Florida.
A big "Thank you! for everyone who participated in the 2008 year's Life Chain! Preliminary tally showed about 450 people coming out to show our support for the unborn. That's down a little from last year, but with the heavy rain in the morning that's a pretty good showing.
The Life Chain of South Brevard County, Florida, will be held again on Sunday, October 4, 2009, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. We will, as always, gather on U.S. 192 in Melbourne to silently, prayerfully, and peacefully show our support for the innocent unborn babies. Hundreds of Life Chains are held on the same day across the nation with thousands coming out to support the unborn. For this one special hour, we put aside any political, ethnic, and denominational differences we may have, in order to concentrate on what unites us, namely our support for God's innocent unborn babies and their mothers. So come join us October 4, 2009!
To download a full-page flyer or two half-page flyers suitable for printing (and spreading the word to everyone you can about the Life Chain!), just click on one of the images below. The flyer will open in a new window:
Here are some pictures from the 2008 Melbourne/Palm Bay area Life Chain:
(Click on thumbnail to view full size)
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We have an approximately 5-mile chain mapped out through the heart of Melbourne's busiest thoroughfare, New Haven Avenue (U.S. 192). We are hoping to make this year's Life Chain bigger than ever. Participants are reminded that this is a peaceful, prayerful, and silent activity. Please maintain a quiet vigil and do not respond to hecklers. Thank you and God bless your efforts.
Congratulations to the ten churches that have demonstrated enough past support or enough pledged participants to qualify for their own sections of the Life Chain! Life Chain participants from these churches should click on the map icons above their church in the following (west-to-east) table to find their designated locations. Those from other churches should join the Life Chain in the vicinity of the Melbourne Square Mall. Maps will open in a new browser window.
NOTE: These maps are subject to change, so check back often!
Click here for a complete 5-mile map:
Important: the coordinators for each church should click on the button below for information about what they need to do before, and on the day of the Life Chain.
Here are the totals from the past five years of Life Chains:
| Year |
Total |
| 2003 |
235 |
| 2004 |
136 |
| 2005 |
198 |
| 2006 |
384 |
| 2007 |
498 |
| 2008 |
448 |
The Lists
(If you don't see your church listed here, challenge your congregation to qualify for the lists next year!)
South Brevard Life Chain 2008 *TOP TEN* Churches (with apologies to David Letterman):
| 2008 Place (2007 Place) |
Church |
Total |
| 1 (1) |
Holy Name of Jesus |
80 |
| 2 (4) |
First Baptist of Palm Bay |
64 |
| 3 (3) |
St. Joseph |
52 |
| 4 (2) |
Our Lady of Lourdes |
37 |
| 5 (5) |
Ascension |
31 |
| 6 (8) |
Palm Bay Baptist |
26 |
| 7 (7) |
Immaculate Conception |
23 |
| 8 (-) |
Calvary Chapel |
18 |
| 9 (6) |
Community Bible |
15 |
| 10 (tie) (-) |
Christian Life Fellowship |
10 |
| 10 (tie) (-) |
First Baptist Cocoa Beach |
10 |
| 10 (tie) (-) |
The Mission |
10 |
South Brevard Life Chain 2008 *TOP FIVE* Churches in percentage increase from 2007 (3 or more participants both years):
| Place |
Church |
Percent Increase |
| 1 |
Palm Bay Baptist |
73 |
| 2 |
Pentecostal Lighthouse |
67 |
| 3 |
First Baptist of Palm Bay |
49 |
| 4 |
Immaculate Conception |
35 |
| 5 |
St. John the Evangelist |
20 |
Please feel free to contact the Life Chain Committee with any questions or suggestions! Here is our E-mail address:
LifeChainSouthBrevard@yahoo.com
Links for more information:
http://www.nationallifechain.org National Life Chain -- Manuals, Publicity, Materials, Press Releases
http://lifechain.net Where all the other Life Chains will be held across the nation
http://www.nrlc.org National Right to Life -- Tirelessly working to protect all human life
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