Walking Together Through Loss
October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month, and I invite you to enter into this conversation with me. I’ve shared some helpful resources for pregnancy center clients or churches ministering to those facing loss. Please be advised that this story contains...
Coming Back from the Fire: Life Choices Restored Less than Two Years Later
Shortly after the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe, Life Choices in Longmont, CO, fell victim to a devastating act of vandalism and arson on June 25th, 2022. As one of the first pregnancy centers targeted in response to the ruling, their ordeal was...
Men Form a Safety Team for Local Pregnancy Center
When the nation was waiting to hear if Roe was going to be overturned, Care Net's President & CEO, Roland Warren, advised affiliate pregnancy centers to consider a "Watch and Pray" initiative that would allow men to come to the pregnancy center throughout...
Honoring the Legacy of Karen Roseberry
On January 12, 2024, our hearts mourned the loss of a remarkable leader in the Pro Abundant Life movement. Karen Roseberry, the dedicated Executive Director at Care Net's Women's Resource Center in Lancaster, California, graduated from her earthy home to her...
One Man’s Journey to Healing After Abortion: A Testimony from a Care Net Affiliate Leader
One of the biggest blessings that has come out of the growth of Care Net's Abortion Recovery and Care ministry in the last couple years are the stories. Through conference sessions, recovery leader trainings, the creation of our new online facilitator training...
From the Attic of a Pink Building: Fatherhood Programming 1999 to 2024
Nothing. That's what we had when we naively started a men's ministry. No curriculum. No resources. No videos. No money in the bank. No space in the building. Not even internet service. There wasn't a pregnancy center in Dayton, Cincinnati, southwest Ohio, northern...
Brokenness to Beauty: Juniper Glory
My story begins in December 2020, a few days before Christmas. As we all know, 2020 wasn't the easiest year for anyone. My own life had taken on a darkness in many forms around me; but this December, this Christmas season, in the midst of that darkness, I was...
What Do They Really Hear on the Phone?
On October 23, 2023, Angela Harders posted a TikTok video answering the question, "What's one small unimportant decision that you made that changed the whole trajectory of your life?" In this nearly five-minute video, Angela describes how one call to a pregnancy...
How a Men’s Center is Changing the Game in the Pregnancy Care Movement
"Show me a neighborhood where fathers are involved, and I will show you a neighborhood that is thriving." Since the opening of Alpha Men's Center in June of 2021, this quote has become a rally cry for Alpha Grand Rapids (AGR). According to the National Fatherhood...
Helping Patients Navigate an Unplanned Pregnancy
This article originally appeared in the fall 2023 edition of CMDA Today, the quarterly publication of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations. It is reprinted by permission. For more information, visit www.cmda.org/cmdatoday. It was a busy morning, like every...