Ellie heard about Align through a friend and came to us to learn parenting strategies for her young children. Her relationship with her husband was rocky and she confided that she often felt disconnected from both him and her children. In a unit called Words Matter, Ellie learned about the importance of the words parents…

Jana was looking forward to her baby’s arrival. She had come to Align when she first found out she was pregnant, and now she held a certificate of completion from our Pregnancy and Birth course. She also looked forward to receiving a new crib—our reward to her for successfully completing those classes. Before she…

Sometimes in pregnancy center ministry we get to spend a single precious appointment with a client. Other times, we get to walk with a client for a year or more… and we get to see wholesome changes in their lives. Take our client, Amelia, for example. Amelia came to us for a pregnancy test and ultrasound. She had suffered…

The young mom sitting in front of our director was set on having an abortion. She wasn’t sure if she was pregnant from her boyfriend or from a recent assault. She blamed herself for the assault and was sure her boyfriend would think it was her fault, too. She was homeless and living out of her car, then she lost her…

When Hazel first came to see us, she had a 10-month-old baby and was pregnant again. We noticed she took a bunch of the free baby food we had in the lobby. She later shared that she was homeless—that she and her baby had been sleeping on a friend’s sofa. She’d been trying not to feed the baby too often because she…

We love celebrating Father’s Day—not only to honor and encourage all the new young dads we get to serve, but also to applaud the noble fathers parenting daughters who are of child-bearing age. There’s one particular dad I have in mind today… the dad who came along with his daughter to her ultrasound appointment with…