CALM AFTER THE STORM

Hello everyone,

Life at PRC has been a little calmer after the storm of preparing for the banquet for so many months.  However, our appointment book is still nearly full and we are seeing new women each day that we do intake, and we are seeing lives changed through our Earn While You Learn and Bible Studies.

Praise God for a client who prayed to receive Christ on Thursday of this week.  What a joy it is to see the smiling faces of the women and girls as they share their decision to trust Jesus as their savior and to make plans to follow Him.  These women and girls are not abandoned after their decision.  They are given the opportunity to have a church visit them.  They are asked to attend our Bible Studies and Earn While You Learn Classes, where love and encouragement abound from the facilitators and the other members of the class.

Two weeks ago we had an abortion minded client.  She saw abortion to be her only option.  After coming to

us and speaking with a counselor and coming back last week for an ultrasound, she stated after leaving the ultrasound that she has definitely decided to not have an abortion.  She was worried about how her family would react, but because of the baby she saw moving around in the ultrasound she would consider placing her baby for adoption.  We are praising God for this dear mother and will continue to pray for her to make good decisions.  She signed up for the EWYL classes.

Attention all volunteers

Volunteer appreciation is set for May 21.  It will be a fun bar-b-que at the home of Sonja Seidler in Breakfast Point.  Come ready to play some games and get to know the other volunteers and staff at PRC.

The Spring Social Services Bazaar put on by the Big Bend is May 13 from 10-2.  The PRC will have a table set up there and will need help manning it.  These are great opportunities to get the word out to the community about what we do here at PRC.  Please help if you can.  If you cannot help, please remember to pray.

PRC Needs

We have several new wonderful volunteers at PRC.  However some are still training, some are still finding their place and dates that work best for them.  We are so thankful for all their help.  We do still need help on Tuesdays.  We need a receptionist and a Client Assistant.  Please pray and ask God if this ministry is where you should commit to Him some time, energy and abilities.  This is a ministry and although we call them volunteers, those who come to this place are ministers of God. 

We are always trying to find new and better ways to serve our Savior here at PRC.  We are changing a couple of directions here at PRC.  One is the way we work to reach the youth.  We want our youth groups to know about us and to come along side of us to help.  Instead of education on abstinence only, we will be requesting their help to reach their peers about abstinence, STDs, and teen pregnancy. 

Another new direction is the way we speak with the abortion minded client.  We want the scared mother to see that God loves her very much.  We have in the past tried to focus  on her and her needs, but we must try harder and one of the ways is to share the well-known pro-life verses from Psalm 139 which not only shows this mother how much God cares for her unborn, but that He cares for her and has chosen her to bring life into the world.

I challenge everyone to read Psalm 139 with the mother in mind.  I believe like the scared mother to be, we will all see things a little differently when we get a glimpse of just how much God loves each of us.

God is sooo gooood all the time!!!

“I am so glad that our Father in heaven tells of His love in the Book He has given, wonderful things in the Bible I see – this is the dearest that Jesus loves me.

O if there’s only one song I can sing when in His beauty I see the great King, this shall my song in eternity be: O what a wonder that Jesus loves me!”

I am so glad that Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me; I am so glad that Jesus loves me, Jesus loves even me.”

Phillip P. Bliss, 1838-1876