This past week we have seen eight clients who come for
pregnancy tests or to sign up for EWYL. Many
new clients came to class on Tuesday evening with a total of eight women and
two men.
Sometimes I wish we could get inside the minds of these
clients and know exactly what their intentions are about their spiritual life
and the life of their babies. Of course
this is impossible; we can only go by what they tell us. I say this because of the eight we saw last
week we know for sure that one of them was abortion minded, but have suspicions
about others. Only God can know for sure
and we pray He will intervene and bring life out of the turmoil these women are
experiencing. We are, however, praising
God for one who prayed to receive Christ and signed her name to our Wall of
Life.
These decisions to trust Christ too cannot be examined or
tested to know if they are “for real.”
They can again be taken to the one they professed to follow and ask Him
to take control. We urge them to get
involved in a local church and even ask if we can have one contact them, but
again, ultimately we must leave them in God’s hands. He is big enough to care for those He loves
and we know He loves these women.
Summer is upon us and
the warm dry weather has attracted many vacationers to our area. A group of teen agers came last week to
clean. They raked leaves, washed window
sills, and dusted and vacuumed the inside.
Thank you goes out to the kids who came for Extreme Summer and gave to
help PRC.
Summer has also given
many of our volunteers and clients time away from the daily activities. Our appointments are remaining average, but
our volunteers are not. We are needing
some help on
A summer newsletter will be going out, hopefully before
school starts again. With this
newsletter we want to target the students and ways we can reach them with
information about our Center. Making
efforts to reach the individual school counselors to see if they have our
information is going to be our next step.
If you can help in this area, please let us know.
If I can get a little personal, I want to share a couple of
feeling with everyone out there. This
ministry is near and dear to my heart. I
want God to richly bless this place, even after I am gone. I believe that is why God reminded me, (just
yesterday) that the most important way this ministry can march into the future
is by getting the word into our churches.
Many times I have said the world is not going to help us, we must appeal
to believers who are sitting in the churches on Sundays about our mission to
share the Gospel and save babies. These
are the people God can inspire and motivate to help in this work. So, please be praying about how your church,
and the churches of your friends and neighbors can do more than ever before to
further this work.
Usually we wait until later in the year to start planning
for Sanctity of Human Life Sunday in January, but beginning in July we will
begin our church contacts and start setting up dates for a speaker to share
what God is doing at PRC. This is not
only an appeal for help, it is also an offer of a way everyone can be involved
in missions right here at home. Please
pray about this with me.
Our last Volunteer Training went very well. With a
total of seven of us in attendance we were able to
This brings me to another point that I hope does not offend
anyone, but may I just say the work done here at PRC, whether by a volunteer or
a paid staff member is considered missionary work. Just as a foreign missionary or missionary
family is called to the mission field, so are those who serve in this place
“called” by God. Just as a foreign
missionary must leave everything behind and follow Jesus to a new field, so are
those who serve in this ministry.
Sometimes we are called to leave our job, our homes, our comfort zone, and
yes even our families, trusting God to be with them while we are away. Oh,
don’t get me wrong, I am not advocating abandonment, I am saying; however,
missionaries are called to sacrifice while they minister. The same goes for home missions. Are you
called to be a home missionary? Please
pray about it.
Beach Center update: At the new beach location we have had two
EWYL students and one EWYL sign up who will begin classes this coming Monday
evening. The satellite center is getting
off to a slow start, but we are still in the process of getting the information
out that we are there. Please visit our
facebook page and share the information there so all who see your page will
know “PRC is now at the Beach”
“What is more, I consider everything as loss because of the surpassing
worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all
things. I consider them garbage, that I
may gain Christ.”
Phillipians 3:8
