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Harmony Ierley, photo available at www.hh76.com/photocd
All you need is love...
More than just a lyric from a 1960s pop song, it pretty well sums up what it takes to get involved and stay involved with CPC/PCC ministry. A love for an unborn baby is what usually tugs at our heartstrings and motivates us to action. But beyond that, as Christ works a work of grace in our hearts, comes a love for the person carrying that child—the woman in crisis. I never cease to be amazed at both aspects of this love as the volunteers, staffers, and board members who carry them out in the context of CPC/PCC ministry both here and abroad manifest them.
Sometimes that Christ-modeling love continues to be made known after the child is born as staffers keep in touch with the mother and her child if she has chosen to raise the infant herself. At other times, it is a following of the child alone as he or she is placed with a loving family through adoption.
Recently I talked with a woman, a nurse, who had heard me speak back in 1995 about our family's struggle with HIV/AIDS. She and her husband had chosen to adopt two HIV-positive babies. One survived for about a year and a half. The other made it a bit more than four years. As the woman told me her story, I could sense both the love and the loss she had known. As someone who lost a 16-year-old son to pneumococcal meningitis in 1995 after a short 30 hours of illness, I grieved in my heart with her. Yet daily we hear of stories of abortions and of people who feel like the withholding of love for the unborn is what they need to do or must do.
I pray God will never allow our hearts to be so calloused as to deny their plight or renege on our obligation to be as Christ to them. We hope you enjoy this issue of ATC. Let us know if we can help you in any way.
Jerry Thacker, Publisher
jerry@rightideas.us
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