Working Together to Build Up Fathers
Last month, seventeen men from around the country gathered at Care Net's headquarters to explore new ways to reach and equip expectant fathers. Representing nine pregnancy centers and their partner churches, this group is on the forefront of a growing movement that...
Becoming the Dad God Desires
Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.2 Corinthians 5:5 When Demetri and his wife entered the baby boutique at Women's Hope Medical Clinic, tears filled his dark, brown...
Boots On the Ground: The Difference a Pastor on the Premises Makes at a Pregnancy Center
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. Job 42:5 ESV Jennifer Shelton stared into the empty office spaces across the hall, her mind spinning with the possibilities. "Lord, what do You want me to do with this?" she whispered, even as...
Solving the Life Support Puzzle: How Care Net’s and Love Life’s Missions Fit Together
He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love. Ephesians 4:16 NLT My small group members and I were stumped. After completing the...
Common Ground for Life: The Brockert Brothers Harness Political Differences to Unite in Life
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Galatians 3:28 The Making Life Disciples small group members were agitated. For weeks they had met together on Wednesday nights to go over the...
Faith Rising: A Teen’s Growing Passion for Life
...Speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its...
Wonderfully Made
In 2019, members of Church for the City approached the Pastor and church leadership team with a request to establish a prolife ministry. "We wanted to take a stand for life and put our commitment to the sanctity of life into action within our church and community."...
The Prince of Peace and Our Politics: Healing Our Divide
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." - Jesus (Matthew 5:9, NIV) In the evangelical, pro-life culture I serve in, I have some of the best of friends. Politically, we don't always see eye-to-eye; in fact, sometimes it can seem like...
Heaven’s Proud Reward & Crown
"But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, because we wanted to come to you"”I, Paul, again and again"”but Satan hindered us. For what is...
Surprised by Life: Shanshan’s Story
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:19 "This isn't part of the plan," Shanshan shook her head in disbelief as the realization of her pregnancy dawned....