Dorothy Booker requests prayer for Vera Johnson her mother , sister and family. Vera's sister Joyce died suddenly last night at work.

When they reached the hospital the doctors informed Vera her sister was already deceased.

**Update**


On Tuesday evening March 4th. from 7 - 9 pm there will be a memorial service to honor of our friend Pat Jasinski who died on Thursday February 21st at 2:45 pm.

Pat volunteered at Gateway in Elizabeth for many years doing office work.

She helped at our walk for life at the table stamping the papers of those who made their laps around Warinanco Park.

Pat was a fighter who fought colon cancer for about three years.
Pat leaves a son, Leon and a daughter, Leslie.

A memorial will be held at
Elizabeth Towers
315 W. Grand Street
Elizabeth,NJ 07202
Tuesday Evening 7 - 9 pm
MARCH 4, 2008

If you need directions please feel free to call Joan Vitale at Gateway at (908) 353-0604
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Pat Jaskinski goes Home
to be with her Lord


At 2:40 pm today Patricia Jasinski went Home to be with the Lord. She leaves a son and a daughter. We will post information on the memorial service when it is made available.




Here is a quote from Joan Vitale, associate director at our Elizabeth site:

"I have to say that she really loved serving the Lord here at Gateway. Whenever I called upon her she was here. The Lord has here now but the memories of her life are in my heart .."


We would heartily agree. Pat (for many years) was Gateways Walk-a-thon "stamper' . She faithfully stamped in each walk card and passed on her smile (and some water) to the weary walkers.

We will greatly miss her.

Abortion and Suicide

British Woman Committed Suicide After Abortion of Twins Over Extreme Grie

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 21, 2008

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- A British court held a hearing yesterday on a case of a young 30-year-old woman who committed suicide after the abortion of her twin babies. Emma Beck left a suicide note and said she faced such an intense period of grief afterwards and regret over the deaths of the babies that she killed herself "to be with them."

The court heard testimony that Beck asked doctors for help prior to the abortion but that no one was able to meet with her and they gave her the number of a counseling service.

Officials went ahead with the abortion even though she said beforehand that she had second thoughts.

Weeks later, following the abortion, she hung herself at her home.

According to the London Daily Mail newspaper, the note she left read:

"I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum. I told everyone I didn't want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies - they need me, no-one else does."

The Daily Mail reported that Sylvia Beck, Emma's mother, told the court that Emma was never given a chance to se ea counselor and only had the abortion because her boyfriend didn't support having the babies.

"I want to know why she was not given the opportunity to see a counselor," she said. "She was only going ahead with the abortion because Ben did not want the twins."

"I believe this is what led Emma to take her own life," Beck added. "Because she could not live with what she had done."

News of the suicide comes weeks after a new study published in the journal BMC Psychiatry which found that women who have abortions typically experience high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The study appeared in the July 2007 issue of the professional psychological publication but it only received publicity recently.

The research involved 155 women from South Africa who had abortions and were evaluated one month and three months afterwards.

Approximately 20 percent of the women had post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms just one month later. The results led the authors to note that "high rates of PTSD characterize women who have undergone voluntary pregnancy termination.

Looking at the women three months after the abortion, the number of women experiencing the PTSD symptoms increased 61 percent.

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If so, would you call our Baby Bottle Coordinator, Marisol Rodriguez at: 908-578-4150 or 973-586-2651, or simply email her at: Rodrife@aol.com

Devoy, our sonographer in Elizabeth, requests prayer:

Please pray that a 19 year old girl will not abort her baby.

Name: Leasha, 19 yr. old., pregnant with a 21 weeks old baby, a boy...

The baby is active, sucking his thumb, you can see the heart, femur bone, fingers, arms, legs, etc...

The baby is perfect for his age. She was surprise that she is pregnant since she has her regular menstruation according to her.

Since, it's over 20 months, she is afraid that clinic will not abort the baby. She is also afraid of her Mom.

She said that she is in college.

When I scan her just to check if her urinary bladder is full, which is routine for checking Pelvic, I see a head.

At 21 weeks, it so big that it occupy the whole screen.

Please pray for her salvation and that she will not make this mistake and will be guilty all her life.

Thanks,

Deovy...

Ps: please note that I limited her information and the place for confidential reasons... Thanks...

You are cordially invited to the

Gateway Plainfield opening reception

Stop in to see our newest location

A light lunch will be served

Saturday, January 26, 2008

11:00am – 1:00pm

Prayer dedication

promptly at 11:15am

705 Park Avenue Plainfield, NJ

RSVP (973) 399-8378

email: dean@gateway.org

Directions to Gateway Plainfield

705 Park Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 07060

Take Route 22 West through Union, Springfield, Mountainside and Watchung. Continue traveling on Route 22 West to the Somerset Street exit. Follow signs to ‘The Plainfield’s.

Somerset Street becomes Park Avenue at the intersection of East Front Street. Continue to corner of Park and 7^th Street. Scott Drugs is prominently on your left. Gateway shares the Scott Drugs parking lot.

Jeanne Wells Wright went to be with her Lord this past Friday, January 4th.

Jeanne, along with her husband, William, have been supporters of Gateway for many years.

Their son, Jon, helped put together the newsletter and computer ministry of Gateway.

Jon's wife, Libby, was a counselor for many of the early years of Gateway's existence.

The family has put together a memorial website for Jeanne http://www.jeannewellswright.com/and requested that in lieu of flowers, gifts be made to the Gateway ministry.

May Our Lord be honored.

Jeanne A. Wright
WRIGHT Jeanne A. Wright Wife, mother, sister, 83 Jeanne A. Wright, 83, of West Caldwell died in St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, on Jan. 4, 2008. Funeral service is private. Please refer to www.jeannewellswright.com for an interactive story of Jeannes life. Arrangements are by the Farmer Funeral Home, Roseland. Jeanne was the wife of 60 years to William G. Wright; mother of Kip, Jon, and the late Joel Kevin Wright. She had three sisters and three brothers, and was the grandmother of five grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations to The Gateway Pregnancy Center, 960 Springfield Ave., Irvington, N.J. 07111, would be appreciated. Published in the Star-Ledger on 1/6/2008.