A small, but we trust growing, group of students at Geneva College rep resents the school in taking a stand for the sanctity of human life created in the image of God. The group is the LIFE. group, asserting that Life Is For Everyone. The group, being advised by Byron Curtis, assistant professor of biblical studies, has involved itself in such events as the local Life Chain and the national Right to Life March in Washington, D.C.

At the Life Chain in October, over 20 Geneva students joined Beaver County right-to-lifers in lining the main street of downtown Beaver, Pa., to engage in silent prayer and to hold up signs in protest of infanticide to he read by passing traffic. In January, eight Geneva students attended the March for Life in the U.S. capital. They gathered with hundreds of thousands of people to speak out against the atrocity of abortion as they marched the path toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

The LIFE, group’s final event for this year is this month as they display 4,000 crosses on the college lawn representing the memory of the number of infants killed every single day in America by abortion. This is a staggering fact that is made real to the college and the community as the crosses are displayed near a high-traffic area.

Some might wonder why a group would involve themselves in this specific cause over all the other causes that scream for support. Professor Curtis asserts that “it is the single most important civil rights issue in Ameri can politics. More importantly, it is the single most important moral issue in American society and one of the most important matters of public witness for the American church.”

As the faculty advisor for the group, Professor Curtis sees a need not only to support the pro-life cause himself but also to see Geneva students supporting the cause. “Geneva is too much a cloister,” says Curtis. “Our LIFE group helps turn Geneva students to a need that is a national, regional, and local issue.”

“I am pro-life, and I like supporting a group in which we’re standing up for what I believe,” says our group treasurer, Stephanie Reid, a Reformed Presbyterian freshman from Pittsburgh majoring in communications.

Stephanie and others are thankful for the opportunity that the LIFE. group gives to he involved in activities to advance the cause of the unborn. Involvement in this group helps teach college students how to speak out against what they believe is morally wrong. It discourages the apathy that college students too often fall into, and encourages them to look to the needs of others—in this case, the unborn. The legalized killing of infants is an atrocity that society has be come too comfortable with; it does not shock people as it should.

Psalm 139 says. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb… When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.” We praise God for the gift of life, and mourn for those from whom this gift was sinfully taken. Who is man that he should designate the time for life or death?

The LIFE. group is thankful for the opportunity at Geneva to testify to such things. Please pray for the efforts of the group’s members as they heed God’s command in Proverbs 31:8-9: “Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously. and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”