Recently, I was invited to go along with my daughter, son-in-law, and their oldest children (girls ages 7 and 5) to see a 3-D ultrasound of the next baby. This will be our fifth grandchild, and I was excited to catch a glimpse of her several months before the anticipated due date.The improvements in...

When you think of rural America, you think of slower living, friendly neighbors, and tight-knit communities. While all of this is true, rural America now has one other distinction—a tragic and frightening one—methamphetamines. These drugs, unlike all of the others, started and took hold in rural com...

I recently went through an interesting process with my mother. She was doing some estate planning and wondered what would be the best way to choose which organizations she should include in her charitable giving. My mother is a faithful believer who is very interested in being a good steward of the ...

Forgiveness is an issue for each person who comes into one of our centers, as it is for each one of us. We struggle to forgive others, and we think we need to forgive ourselves. Primarily, we need to know God's forgiveness and that the basis for forgiveness is the grace of God in Christ Jesus.One of...

"Hello, please come in." As you greet the client and her friend, you remember the call that initiated this appointment and the peculiar circumstances surrounding this pregnancy—rape and maternal epilepsy—with a strong insistence that "abortion is the only answer." During the intake session, one pers...

On Sanctity of Life Sunday, January 16, 2005, a group of people gathered at the National Memorial for the Unborn in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to worship the Lord and to remember the millions of babies who have died because of abortion. At the end of the service, our new book, Empty Arms, was introduce...

A typical day as a crisis pregnancy counselor may be something like this: wipe the sleep out of your exhausted eyes, make a cup of coffee, sit at the feet of Jesus to get refreshed, shower, dress, put on your make-up, and go off to the center.After arriving at the center, you hug a few ladies, have ...

Providing medical services to abortion-minded and abortion-vulnerable clients has proven to be an effective way not only to serve the needs of these women, but also to empower them to choose life. Through medical services such as ultrasound, these women are introduced to the humanity of their unborn...