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 ====== PBS100Y: The Mission ======
-FIXME lots of content is already very polished here https://utsfl.ncln.ca/2015/10/01/the-context-reaching-out-to-a-wounded-campus-in-response-to-an-emergency/
+<note>Largely based on the 2015 UTSFL introductory meeting: https://utsfl.ncln.ca/2015/10/01/the-context-reaching-out-to-a-wounded-campus-in-response-to-an-emergency/ </note>
 FIXME General outline:
   * Inspiration re: //why are we here?//
+    * Open with a testimony of someone who changed their mind on abortion in your community
 > "There is a difference between passive goodness and active goodness, which is, in my opinion, the giving of one's time and energy in the alleviation of pain and suffering. It entails giving out, finding out, and helping those, who are suffering and in danger, and, not merely in leading an exemplary life in a purely passive way by doing no wrong." - Nicholas Winton
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       * Facing the victims
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+OR Canada150 video: https://vimeo.com/349086213
   * The woundedness of our culture
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       * Your high school, where students are beginning to face the choice of abortion...
       * Your city, where individuals every day are at best ignoring abortion--and at worst, considering it or planning it.
+  * Strategy: A Vision Zero for the abortion rate
+    * Goal: Our mission is to make abortion unthinkable in our community
+    * ETK Plan
+      * The vision is an abortion-free Canada, bringing the abortion rate to 0
+      * In order to do this, we need three complementary efforts
+        * Pastoral: make abortion //irrelevant// by providing support
+        * Political: make abortion //illegal// by changing the law
+        * Prophetic/Educational: make abortion //**unthinkable**// by educating the public and changing hearts and minds
+          * The success of the pastoral and political arms depend on the success of the educational, because unless we change hearts and minds on abortion, we won't have the votes to pass pro-life laws, and people won't accept support through a difficult pregnancy instead of simply choosing abortion
+          * That's why our focus is educational: to make abortion unthinkable
+    * Mission: Our job is to do our local part to end the killing — to make abortion unthinkable in our community
+      * We need to make abortion impossible to ignore, engage in regular, engaging and visible outreach that will reach //everyone// in our communities
+      * We need to present clear reason (human rights apologetics) and compelling evidence (AVP) so that we can actually change hearts and minds
+        * Our job is not simply "raise awareness" or "win" arguments, but to change hearts and minds
+        * Our job is not to gather pro-lifers in a room to play volleyball or have pizza together, but to go out and engage a pro-choice culture in our community and to shift the culture in our community against abortion
+      * We need to be efficient and effective, focused on presenting the best evidence possible in a way that will reach the most people, fastest
+        * We can't just squirt a watergun at a wildfire, we need to employ serious street-tested apologetics and time-tested strategies of successful social reform movements of the past
+      * This is why we need to reach everyone in our community with **human rights apologetics** and **abortion victim photography** in order to **make abortion unthinkable** in our community
+        * HR apologetics: share the HR argument and a testimony from your community
+        * AVP: we are employing the strategy of successful social reformers of the past, like the British abolitions, the National Child Labour Committee in the US, or the American civil rights movement
+    * Theory of Change: Working backwards from the goal
+      * //Everything// that we do is in the service of this mission, working backwards from the goal
+        * In order to make abortion unthinkable, we need to make abortion impossible to ignore and reach everyone with AVP and human rights apologetics
+        * In order to reach everyone, we'll need to employ regular, engaging and visible activism
+        * In order to run regular activism effectively, we'll need to make sure that our team is trained and equipped for effective outreach — this is the focus of our meetings
+        * In order to have a healthy team, we need to build a sense of community and become friends — this is why we hold regular socials
+      * Everything that we do is in the service of the mission of making abortion unthinkable in our community
+      * This is also why we encourage people to gain valuable and life-changing experience with pro-life projects outside of our community too!
+        * Promote the Abortion Awareness Project trip in Florida (on the next big upcoming opportunity to get activism experience and training)
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+  * Close with a testimony of a mind changed in your community, and invite people to practice active goodness by getting involved with your group and applying for AAP
 ===== Lesson =====