This is the time that many of us see as the season to focus on giving.
Interested in helping to save lives through helping girls and women who face crisis pregnancies?
Here is how the cause I'm raising funds for, works. Save the Storks is a public charity that exists to partner with and empower pregnancy resource centers to expand their lifesaving work. The Storks do these things through providing pregnancy resource centers with grants, mobile medical centers that make them more accessible to more women, and are always developing more high-tech ways to empower pregnancy resource centers to save more babies through helping more pregnant girls and women in crisis. The above photo, and the other photos in this post, are just one example of a pregnancy resource center which has expressed a desire to access a "Stork Bus" (a mobile medical center) to enhance the many practical things they do to assist pregnant women in crisis, and thus empowering many of their clients to choose life for their babies.
Here are what pregnancy resource centers are, for all of those aong my readers who may not be familar with them. That is nothing against you, for our media seldom cover these centers, and it is doubtful that many caring professionals may not be aware of them to be able to recommend them to you. In fact, the media tend to cover these centers only when there have been complaints that they use deceptive or misleading tactics to get clients in their doors. I'm sure that some of these accusations may be true, as these centers are staffed by imperfect people like you and me. In general, though, the evidence for these centers is that they do lifesaving work in many different ways, with often limited resources. Unlike Planned Parenthood facilities, these centers do not get government funds or fat grants from big-name celebrities. They normally depend on many smaller donations from faithful, generous donors, as well as from life-affirming private businesses.
These pregnancy resource centers provide alternatives to abortion. All their services are free and confidential. They typically provide counseling, pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, maternity and baby clothes, diapers, toys, prolife books, Bibles, post-abortion support, adoption referrals, parenting classes and support, physician referrals, social services referrals, and other referral services. They do not, however, perform abortions or abortive drugs, or referrals for them. These centers, however, can do even more when they are given grants, mobile medical centers and more. But none of that can be done without funding from us who care about pregnant women in crisis, and their babies.
The photos you see here are only a sample of pregnancy resource centers that Save the Storks exists to empower and extend the lifesaving services of. Many on their staff have been touched in some way, themselves, by abortion. Typically and tradionally, girls and women have had to find these centers on their own. "Stork Buses" bring these centers to them; these mobile medical centers are placed at places where abortion-vulnerable women are most likely to be found, especially at Planned Parenthood facilities or at college campuses. Statistically, over three out of every five women who get on these "Stork Buses" choose life for their babies.
It is now Thanksgiving. Will you give pregnancy resource centers, and the pregnant women in crisis they serve, reason to be thankful for you and your help? You can! Click here to see how you can help!
Blessed Thanksgiving,
Lisa DeSherlia
The above photos are provided courtesy of Mary's Pregnancy Resource Center, a nonprofit I'm not a partner of or affiliated with.
