Stories From Hell's Hill: The Beginning | Scott Hord

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And all those things came together in that moment to where I realized, okay, I'm called to do something in this fight against abortion.

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The abortion mill was located on a hill, and I would soon find out that that hill would be called

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Hell's Hill. In 2014,

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I attended a pastor's conference. As we were walking down the street, I saw a lady.

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She was praying on the sidewalk. I thought to myself, well, this is interesting. She's praying. We're going to lunch.

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I wonder why she's praying. And I went to the woman, and I asked her. I said, ma 'am, I see that you're praying here.

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I'm sorry to bother you. Can you tell me why you're praying here? And she looked at me, and she said, they abort babies here.

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It hit me really hard, really heavy. And it would be a year later that I would be in a

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Starbucks dealing with anger, just struggling to see with everything that was happening in our culture, there was a lot of racial tension.

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And I began to pray in a Starbucks one day, and I asked the Lord, would you remove this anger?

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Would you take it from me? And he didn't do anything. And so I pleaded with the Lord, and actually became somewhat charismatic and threw my hands up in the air.

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And I said, Lord, would you take this anger and take it from me, but give me something in return?

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And in that moment, when I lifted my hands up, the Lord took that anger, and he replaced it.

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And I felt like he spoke two words to me in that moment, and the words were, engage abortion.

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And that was a year after the Louisville incident. In the meantime, between Louisville and that Starbucks moment,

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I would hear a church apology. I'd hear a pastor, Jeff Durbin, began to talk about the abortion ministry and what they were beginning to do.

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And all those things came together in that moment to where I realized, okay, I'm called to do something in this fight against abortion.

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It was that morning that I didn't know where abortions were happening in my town of Nashville, Tennessee.

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And so I Googled abortions, and I found two locations. And one of those locations was about 20 miles from me, and the abortion mill was located on a hill.

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And I would soon find out that that hill would be called Hell's Hill. And I didn't really know what was going on.

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I didn't know what to do. I was actually fearful. I knew that I was called to go and pray.

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Actually, I wanted to play it safe. I just wanted to sit in my car and pray and kind of watch from afar.

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That day, I pulled up to the abortion mill, and there was a woman there with her daughter, teenage daughter, maybe 12 or 13 years old, and they were engaging people outside of an abortion mill.

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A lot of people, probably 20 or 30 cars, were in the parking lot that day, and they were engaging people.

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The mom got distracted that day, and the daughter was left alone on the street, and she was engaging people.

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And in that moment, a young man walked up to the young lady and began to engage her in a hostile way.

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I knew that I had to do something. As a man, I was called to protect that young lady, so I got out of the car and began to engage this young man and deflected his anger from her to me.

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And for two hours, I engaged this young man. He threatened my life. He made lots of threats towards me, but we had a lot of good conversation, and at the end of the two hours, his girlfriend aborted his son or his daughter.

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I left there that day. I remember it was my first day. I went to the gas station. I remember pumping gas in my car, and I looked at my hand, and my hands were shaking, and I prayed that day.

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And I said, Lord, is this what you've called me to do? And he said, Yes, I've called you to rescue babies.