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This week we welcome back a special guest on the Mary's Touch program: Abby Johnson has always had a fierce determination to help women in need. It was this desire that both led Abby to a career with Planned Parenthood and caused her to flee the organization and become an outspoken advocate for the pro-life movement. During her eight years with Planned Parenthood, Abby quickly rose in the organization's ranks and became a clinic director. She was increasingly disturbed by what she witnessed. Abortion was a product Planned Parenthood was selling, not an unfortunate necessity that they fought to decrease. Still, Abby loved the women that entered her clinic and her fellow workers. Despite a growing unrest within her, she stayed on and strove to serve women in crisis. She soon was saved by Side Walk Angels who hel  ped Abby get out of where she was working. Today, Abby travels across the globe sharing her story, educating the public on pro-life issues, advocating for the unborn, and reaching out to abortion clinic staff who still work in the industry. She is the founder of And Then There Were None, a ministry designed to assist abortion clinic workers out of the industry. To date, this ministry has helped over 150 workers leave the abortion industry. Abby lives in Texas with her husband and five precious children. Author of UnPlanned is the story of Abby Johnson's journey from director of a local Planned Parenthood center to advocate for "the other side of the fence." It's harrowing and heart-rending, an up-close-and-personal encounter with the inside workings of an organization made up of many people who truly do want to help women. The journey Johnson makes involves a change of heart that spoke to the path I took from pro-choice to pro-life. I found, within these pages, an experience common to many, one that travels from both one spectrum of belief to another, but also one that finds maturity and hope instead of despair. AND now her book is turned into a movie and in theaters in the Spring https://www.unplannedfilm.com/ 

This weekend we are re-airing a wonderful story on Mary's Touch Radio Program.       Rebecca Frech is a devout Catholic wife, mom of nine children...two saints...seven in training. She is an avid political junkie, able debater, aspiring home-maker, amazing friend, homeschooling guru, a writing addict, public-speaker, a CrossFit coach, managing editor for The Catholic Conspiracy, regular contributor for the National Catholic Register, and an advocate for staying true to the person God created you to be. She shares her Catholic journey growing up, feeling left out, angry with God, and the miracles of novenas - Our Lady Undoer of Knots. Rebecca is the author of "Teaching In Your Tiara - A Homeschooling Book for the Rest of Us". Teaching in Your Tiara is a soup-to-nuts homeschooling book that walks you through the first years - deciding that home education is right for your family, choosing the right curriculum, understanding learning styles, not raising socially awkward kids, maintaining your own identity, and more.  She has another book soon to be released "Can We Be Friends"; tackles the issue head on, taking a fun and honest look at friendship: why we need friends, where we find friends, and even when to let friends go.

This week we will rerun a special military story on the Mary's Touch Radio Program that listeners have requested: Colleen Saffron shares her story about her walk of faith, how she stays positive,  how she chooses joy over depression, and how her husband Terry was given a second chance and what it means to them. Colleen has been married to Terry for over 27 years and a military wife/caregiver for 15 years. Terry was wounded in 2004 in Iraq within 6 weeks of deployment, he was injured and developed PTSD.

This weekend we have TWO special guest on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program.   PART II.    *We have two back to back riveting shows with Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the best friend power American screen writer and director duo team behind #GodsNotDead and the recently released #UnplannedMovie... men of faith, character, conviction, boldness and under Mary's grace- you will not want to miss these TWO shows with men who know the power of God and His hand in their lives. *In 2008 they dedicated their efforts exclusively to faith-based movies.   *Both Catholic Knights of Columbus who share their life stories. 

This weekend we have TWO special guest on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program.   PART I.    *We have two back to back riveting shows with Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the best friend power American screen writer and director duo team behind #GodsNotDead and the recently released #UnplannedMovie... men of faith, character, conviction, boldness and under Mary's grace- you will not want to miss these TWO shows with men who know the power of God and His hand in their lives. *In 2008 they dedicated their efforts exclusively to faith-based movies.   *Both Catholic Knights of Columbus who share their life stories. 

This weekend we have a special guest on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program.      * Bonnie Engstrom is a cradle Catholic and stay-at-home mom. She married her dashing husband in 2006 and they now have seven children: one in Heaven and six more wandering around their house, probably eating pretzels found under the couch. Bonnie lives in central Illinois, loves the Blessed Trinity and gets excited about baking, music, film adaptations of Jane Austen books, and the Chicago Bears. She blogs at  A Knotted Life.   * Bonnie shares her devotion to the church and Our Blessed Mother Mary. * She is a devotion writer for Blessed Is She; co-host of the now retired Visitation Project radio show; and host of the Sheenazing Blogger Awards.