Our world is a connected place. People form families, have children, create networks of relatives, and on and on the relationships go. It is quite likely that those whom you do serve will know others whom you could serve. In order to reach those new clients, you need to have an active referral progr...

Kathleen: Today will be different. After all, it isn't everyday you decide to kill your child. I honestly believe there is no other option than to abort my baby. I already have three small children, and my youngest is so colicky. Now I'm pregnant with the fourth and sick all the time. I just lie aro...

Housing is often one of the highest needs for clients who are homeless or in dangerous living environments. However, there are many less obvious reasons a client might benefit from a maternity home setting.One of the keys to having a strong pregnancy resource center is the ability to coordinate the ...

PHOTO BY TOM WEIGANDMany centers are acknowledging frustration over the fact that their ministries are becoming more social welfare agencies than cutting edge forces to reduce abortion.During the past decade, pregnancy help centers have reported that they are seeing fewer abortion-minded women annua...

You have seen it in counselors, in volunteers, and in helpers—the people who want to help, who want to minister, who want to reach out. Perhaps, you have seen it in yourself. Even as you see their love, you detect some other element in the background—a power, a motivation, a craving. For good or bad...

Every pregnant girl knows the ultimate prevention method for pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) is abstinence. All the condoms and vaccines in the world can never be as effective as a simple, but determined, "No."Although the basic message is plain and simple, this solution works best ...

New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia, San Diego, Houston, Phoenix—some of the most populated cities in our country. Combined, their populations top fifty-five million. Imagine the loss if those fifty-five million individuals were never able to mark ...

(as told to Helen Grace Lescheid, reprinted from With magazine, April/May, 1998)Everybody at the mission base crowded around the team that had just returned from an outreach on the streets and beach. "Great stuff!" "Awesome!" "What happened next?" You could feel the excitement in the air. As usu...