Our client, a young woman named Maddie, came to us for a pregnancy test. When Maddie learned the results were positive, she told our director about circumstances in her life that might pressure her toward abortion. Our director asked, “Maddie, may I have your permission to read a verse of scripture about how both you and…

There are people who have been supporting pregnancy center ministries for decades so those facing unintended pregnancies can rightly find life-affirming help. These supporters hope for a day when abortion facilities no longer exist because there is no market for them. But that is not the case. Yet. There are people who…

  Imagine a couple sitting in one of our client education rooms. They had taken a home pregnancy test but didn’t quite believe the positive results, so they came to us.  Our test was also positive. They are normally a talkative pair, but now they are both stone-quiet as they process the fact that she really is pregnant,…

There was a private, world-changing conversation that happened between Jesus and John the Baptist. God lets us in on it in Matthew 3. Jesus had come to the Jordan River to be baptized by John. But John – having special insight into who Jesus really was, could not make sense out of why Jesus was coming to him to be baptized.…

We recently met with a woman who wanted to be a babysitter at one of our local centers. She and her husband are recent empty-nesters, and have been rediscovering who they are and what God has for them in this next phase of their lives. The woman said, “I had been reading an issue of “God Stories” for devotions and…

It seems to be a pretty common tendency for people – when they’re facing really tough situations - to throw their heads back and look upwards with the thought “what am I going to do now?” or “why in the world is this happening to me?”  Think about it. When you’ve faced a difficult time in your life, have you…