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Program to Help Churches Reach Out to Moms
Care Net has created a curriculum to train churches to help pregnant women.
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New Program to Help Churches Reach out to Moms
A new curriculum from Care Net provides training.
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Education: Abortion advocates often accuse pro-lifers of caring only for the baby and not the mother.Nothing could be further from the truth.Pregnancy centers and other organizations and churches do offer help to pregnant women, to empower them to choose life for their children, offering assistance throughout the pregnancy and beyond.Now Care Net, one of the largest networks of pregnancy help centers, has launched a new program to |
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train and prepare churches to offer help to pregnant women.54% of women having abortions identify themselves as Christian, and 40% of post-abortive women were attending church regularly at the time of their abortion. The Catholic Church has the Gabriel project to reach out to women in problem pregnancies, but few Protestant churches had similar programs. And so Care Net has developed Making Life Disciples, a 6 DVD curriculum with leader’s and participant guides. (1)
In urban areas, there is a high concentration of abortion providers and abortions, and few pregnancy centers. In areas where pregnancy centers are found, they often primarily serve non-church-going women. Making Life Disciples can serve as a bridge so that churches and centers can support each other as they both work to support women in making the choices for life. For more information about Making Life Disciples, go to
www.makinglifedisciples.org. (1) For more information about the Catholic Gabriel Project, go to
www.gabrielproject.us.
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http://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/30/think-churches-should-do-more-to-stop-abortion-this-new-program-will-help/
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Prayer:
Dear Father God, please bless the efforts of all who seek to help women to resist the temptation of abortion. Help women who receive help, either through Christian pregnancy centers or Christian churches, come to know your love for them through the love shown to them by your people. Help every Christian church to respond to the call to reach out to women in their community who are afraid, alone, and in need of loving and non-judgmental support.
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Action: Ask at your church if there is a program to help pregnant mothers (and the fathers) to resist the temptation of abortion. Find out about your local pregnancy center and talk to them about how your church can partner with them. While pregnancy centers are set up for specialized services such as options counseling and free ultrasounds, churches are more equipped to provide a community of support and long-term discipleship. |
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