Earlier this year, we released an important new short film called Making and Multiplying Disciples for Life: The Story of First Baptist Orlando’s First Embrace Pregnancy Center.
If you have not yet done so, please take 13 minutes to watch it at the link below. I promise, it can transform your understanding of Pro Abundant Life ministry!
At First Orlando, their pregnancy center, situated on the church’s campus, is woven into the disciple-making life of the congregation. Anxious, fearful women and men receive compassion, practical help, and a clear pathway into a loving church family. This displays the power of why the Gospel and the Great Commission belong at the heart of any response to abortion . . . And why Care Net holds that it belongs there every time.
First Orlando demonstrates what happens when a life-affirming church moves beyond saving babies and focuses on building strong families too. Through Bible studies, mentoring, and their “Hope” program that connects clients to Sunday services, the church helps mothers, fathers, and children encounter Christ, grow in faith, and experience authentic community. This aligns with Care Net’s emphasis on engaging both mothers and fathers, encouraging marriage, and forming households that reflect Christ’s love so that families can experience abundant life, not just a life spared from abortion.
Your partnership with Care Net fuels more than “crisis intervention”; it encourages other churches across the country to think and respond to the life issue like First Baptist Orlando is doing. You help more churches and centers work together so that life decisions receive long-term “life support” through the body of Christ. Your gift transforms communities, one family at a time, with the hope and abundance found in Jesus.
Please watch the short film about First Baptist Orlando here: care-net.org/church.