FIRST WEEK

Happy New Year.  I hope your Christmas and New Year was filled with many blessings.

This first week back from the holidays has been filled with mixed emotions and excitement at what the New Year will bring.  With a total of 13 appointments seen this week we can say it has been very interesting, and filled with praises and prayer needs.  Two new additions to the kingdom of God were added and signed their names to the Wall of Live.  One mother changed her mind about abortion, but is still in great need of our prayers.  Please pray that she will make the correct decision about the future of herself and her baby.

The clients are always our first priority, but this has been an extremely busy week because we are getting ready for Sanctity of Human Life.  This coming Sunday there will be two churches who will have our speakers come to their pulpits and share.  Over the next few weeks there will be approximately 23 more churches who have graciously invited us to speak.  Please be praying for our speakers and for every person

who receives information about us. 

Over six thousand bulletin inserts are being handed out at these churches.  Yes that is correct 6000.  It has been a big job getting them printed, cut, and prepared for each church and we are not finished yet.  We still have several thousand to complete this coming week.  So if you have some time to spare come help us stamp envelopes, stuff envelopes, print and cut these inserts.  We have been fervently praying that each hand that holds one of these inserts will be touched by God to take a step to stop abortion and to help pregnant women and their families.

Volunteer training is set for Saturday, February 20.  It will be from 8:30 – 4.  This is an opportunity for the new volunteers to learn and all present volunteers to be refreshed and renewed about this ministry.  All volunteers are urged to attend.  This will be a new format for our training where we will be breaking up into workshops for specific areas of service.  We are expecting many new volunteers as a result of the awareness that occurs during our Sanctity of Human Life month.  Volunteers are needed in the areas of receptionist, counseling, nurses and clerical work.

The MOPS yard sale that benefits the PRC will be held on Saturday, March 12.  All kinds of items are welcome. Please let us know if you need to bring them early, we will need to store them until the event.  If at all possible, please hold them until the week before the sale.  Thanks so much to MOPS for doing this every year.  This is a great boost to our budget.

Speaking of our budget, we are still looking for donations to go toward the purchase of our new ultrasound machine.  You can donate at Go Fund Me or through our website at www.anotherheart.org or through Paypal.  We should be finalizing the purchase in days ahead.  Please pray about this large purchase with us that God will bless this machine and that many babies will get to live as a result of it.

The banquet date of March 31 is just around the corner and much will need to be done to get things ready for it.  We will have our next planning meeting on Jan. 29 at 8:30.  Interested in being a part, please come to the meeting. If you are interested in hosting a table, please call or email and we will be glad to get you signed up.  Great news about the banquet – we currently have three very nice door prizes donated.  Ladies tell your men folks and men take note – this year’s banquet will be all about the men and how they can help in this ministry.

I would like to take this opportunity to make a shout out to our new Bible Study teach, Kathy Johnson.  She is doing a great job and we are so glad to have her on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.  She is a very busy lady, and we so appreciate her taking the time to help in this area.  I would also like to welcome back Miss Beverly who has had knee replacement surgery and dis climbing the back steps like a teenager.

I was reminded this week that every one has a story.  If you would like to share you story of abortion, adoption, or an answered prayer please send it to us.  We would love to read it and share it with others.

Have a blessed and worshipful weekend.

God is soooo gooood!

"Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you." — 1 Peter 5:7
It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel—"HE careth for me." Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight which your Father would not feel. What seems to you a crushing burden, would be to Him but as the small dust of the balance. Nothing is so sweet as to "Lie passive in God's hands, And know no will but His."
Charles Spurgeon, Jan. 6 Morning reading